Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • 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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  • Well, our last stop of our Italy trip ended in Milan. We took an early train on a foggy Venice morning to be sure we had enough time to see what needed seeing in Milan. Most people have said it’s not worth a long stop, despite it’s popularity for high-end shopping. However, Milan seemed to be the most advanced and cosmopolitan of all the cities we visited. The main attraction is the cathedral…

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  • We arrived late in Venice, but managed to work out buying a 36 hour transportation card allowing us to use the boats and buses freely during our visit. Our hotel was the Rio Alto, which was conveniently located near the famous Rioalto bridge. Once we checked in, which was a bit of a strange process, we settled in for the night and planned the next day’s events since we only really had one…

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