Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • It’s March! There’s only another 10 months to go before 2011 finishes….. Most people say, “I can’t believe it’s already March, this year is going so fast!” But, lately, I’m thinking, it’s only March…but why should I be in a rush for the year to come to an end? More importantly, what are others doing that time seems to be flying by so fast for them? It’s been about four months that I’ve…

  • _Where Men Win Glory:  The Odyssey of Pat Tillman_ by Jon Krakauer   I have realized that it is possible that I am reading to avoid the myriad of other tasks that I should be doing to be more productive towards completing research and professional goals. However, I also consider reading a useful and productive endeavor even if it’s not directly impacting what I should technically be doing. 🙂 In any case, after…

  • He’s a new father. I’m happy for him – really, honestly happy for him. He has a son, which isn’t really important, but it leaves a bit of a sour taste in my mouth that he’s been given an eldest son already. Why should it matter to me at all is the real question? On one hand, it really doesn’t. We’ve forgiven and moved on. On the other hand, clearly it does as…

  • _Into the Wild_ by Jon Krakauer After reading Jon Krakauer’s _Under the Banner of Heaven_, I thought I’d try another one of his recommended novels. This 2007 novel, _Into the Wild_ follows the story of Chris McCandless who walks away from his family, possessions, and way of life in hopes of finding his ideal future. With natural parallels made to Jack London’s _Call of the Wild_, Krakauer retraces McCandless’s journey once he has walked…

  • Like a Choose Your Own Adventure story Every day has numerous possibilities. Sadly, we cannot bookmark a page in life And must make choices Without being able to go back to said point When we find we’ve come to a gruesome end. Instead, we must bravely and confidently choose our path Some with great cynical optimism and others in hopeful pessimism. Our saving grace is that every day begins anew, Allowing us the…

  • _Room_ by Emma Donoghue This was probably one of the most interesting fiction novels that I’ve read in a long time in terms of a unique story from an unfamiliar perspective. Donoghue writes the entire novel from the point-of-view of Jack, a curious five-year-old, who shortly after his fifth birthday has to learn to shoulder a great deal of responsibility and expand his mind beyond his own imagination. Not only is there an…

  • It feels like the past few months have been just a blur in my life. In fact, it’s like I’ve come out of a dream where I was sleep walking through my life. I think for the time-being the worst is over – so let me catch up. My post on depression was me peeking out into the “real” world again only to find that it was still too overwhelming to write, talk…

  • _Cross Fire_  by James Patterson Patterson continues to develop the character, Alex Cross, and his ongoing antagonist, Kyle Craig, in this novel. It has hints of being the last in the Cross series, but that’s just my own opinion. The story starts to get a bit predictable and too convenient from the clues of the crimes, intertwining of different cases, antagonizing between Cross and Craig, and Cross’s own family/love story. While I did…

  • _Under the Banner of Heaven:  A Story of Violent Faith_ by Jon Krakauer This book was a doozy of a tale of the foundations and progress of the Mormon religion. Jon Krakauer writes in an easy-to-read journalistic style telling the story of the beginnings, divisions and transformations of the Latter Day Saints centered around the story of the Lafferty brothers who are supposedly told by God to kill a number of people. They…

  • Okay, so this post is a little bit late, but that’s the way things have been going lately. So, at least this will be written within the first month of the year. 😛 We have survived to experience 1-1-11 not to be seen again for another hundred years. In another 11 years we can see 2-2-22 – that’ll make me in my mid-40’s. SCARY! 😀 Ever wonder why we have a fascination with…

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