Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • My little garden has been growing! It seems that the tomatoes thrive the most, followed by the herbs – especially the basil, though today I cut quite a bit of parsley. My carrots have somehow gotten the gist of growing and the leaves are growing, though I’m not sure how the carrot part is doing, but we’ll see how they go. The weather has been heating up around here, so I hope that…

  • There’s something wonderful about having a bit of a sleep-in and then getting up for a workout before the day fully begins, which includes some soaking up the rays. Then, holding a cup of coffee while sitting on the balcony surrounded by homegrown plants, a light breeze passing by and working as the temperature stays at a comfortable 27/81 degrees on a middle of March weekend morning. It is this kind of weather…

  • Started writing through tweeting…these are three of the tweets: 1. The story begins before I was born. But, I can only share where my part begins in an exotic Asian land that remains so to me even today… 2. Even though my part of the story begins in that exotic land unknown to me, blurred memories drift in and out to hint at my strange future. 3. After spending 2.5 years in my…

  • Got woken up at 3.30am by a sleeping giant who thought I was his mortal enemy. Spent time writing a draft for an exam that my colleague completely ignored and thus made his own without discussing or considering my perspective and sent out as his gift to the world as if he is the assessment guru. Receiving a million and one emails that could be done in one go – emails are not…

  •   I always thought that there was no way that I would join another social networking site and most especially I was NOT going to start tweeting on Twitter. Well, I suppose I should learn that eventually anything related to technology will win me over, even if I fight it. What pushed me over the edge to join? When I went to the conference this past weekend, one of the plenary speakers discussed…

  • 37 years old and looking gooood!!! Hard to believe we’ve been friends nearly 16 years – how the good times fly! Happy birthday, hope it is a wonderful one! 🙂

  • So, now that I am ‘free’ish again, I am focusing my attentions on more details of my adoption journey. Thanks to the world of Facebook, I have found a couple more possible people and written them messages. Diane Ehnes – who was my foster mother between adopted family 1 and 2. I found someone who could be her on Facebook and hope to hear something back from her. Then, in my searching for…

  •   After a four-year hiatus, I gave a presentation at this past weekend’s TESOL Arabia conference. My presentation was titled “EFL Professionals’ Perceptions on Research and Leadership”. It was based on research that I had started while in Japan and then received a start-up grant to complete it when I arrived here about three years ago. So, it has taken me a while to get the results out and all that, but it…

  • Nothing like Mother Nature to remind you of how insignificant our lives are in the grand scheme of things. 😀

  • An update on what I’ve learned so far – A woman who lives at the number that was left in the post called me back. She said that Cathy used to live with her, but that she hasn’t heard anything about her for 12 years. She said the last she heard, Cathy had moved to Seattle, WA. Also, she said that she is/was a drug and alcohol therapist. The woman said that she…

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