Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • It just came to my realization that I have not made a single posting about my pottery hobby on this blog. It seems hardly possible considering how much of my life is spent on pottery and what it means to me to be able to do it regularly here in Abu Dhabi. I first started pottery back in Japan when I lived in Kyoto. I needed to find something creative to do with…

  • Back in the days of C, I was introduced to this old improv British comedy show – “Whose Line Is It Anyway?“. Though not generally a big fan of comedy and it has taken a number of years to appreciate British humour, I have slowly come around to certain aspects of it and most especially I do enjoy improv shows of any kind as this is where I believe talent comes into play.…

  • There is so much that I want to write about that I hardly know where to begin. I will have to make a list of posting topics that go with pictures of things that I have done. Even though I haven’t been posting regularly and been fairly anti-social, I have still surprisingly been doing things. For today, this is it because I don’t have my list at the moment. However, I want to…

  • It has been a long journey the past six to eight months. In some ways I wonder where the time went and who that person was living my life during this time. Now that I am on the way back to being me, but a renewed me, I realize just how much I needed to go through this phase and am grateful that it wasn’t a longer episode. Lemme ‘splain…. Sometime late last…

  • I try to understand I try to empathize I try to rationalize Yet, my words get twisted Yet, my voice gets lost Yet, my heart gets pain How can it be – This change? This stranger? This feeling of loss? The more I try, the less I sleep The more I think, the less I understand The more I rationalize, the less it makes sense My love is the same My passion is…

  • _Love In the Time of Cholera_ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez This book has been talked about and put on the top of ‘must-read’ lists since it came out. Marquez has been touted as a beautiful and amazing writer. Due to all this fuss, I have generally avoided reading his works. (Yes, I have some issues….) However, when I was in the library at work, I saw it and thought since it was free…

  • _Savage Inequalities_ by Jonathan Kozol Back when I was in grad school, I heard a lot of talk about the works for Jonathan Kozol. He had also just come out with another book at that time, but as I didn’t have time to do much pleasure reading at the time, I just kept the author’s name in my head. Somehow I picked up a used copy of this book, and have had it…

  • A month has nearly passed since I last posted. One would think that I’ve actually been busy or something, but the truth is that I’ve been busy avoiding everything. On the positive side, work has been pretty good this year. I’ve managed to get along with all my students and really start to know them with genuine interest instead of confusion or feigned interest. Also, I’ve been lucky enough to have a couple…

  • _Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging_ by Eleana J Kim I found this title off of another adoptee’s blog who had written about it and said that it was the best intellectual presentation of the situation for the first few decades of adoptees who have now grown up and are raising their voices about their feelings and experiences of being Korean, but not Korean. My response to the book…

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