Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • My mind is overwhelmed with my sudden intake of adoption stories. I was watching the PBS POV show last night and wanted to to watch the other one out but I need a wee break from it. I wrote a review for the documentary “Adopted” and it was found and posted on Facebook. Crazy… should I write more? Maybe… I will think about it. Anyway, I’m exhausted. Each day work takes so much…

  • My dearest birth mother, It’s been 33 years since I last looked at your familiar face, last heard your loving voice, last felt your warm heart beating against mine, last touched your soft hands. It’s been 33 years since I knew safety and trust at my very core. It’s been 33 years since I smiled and laughed without the hidden pain and sadness. It’s been 33 years …. After all this time do…

  • Here are a few writings I’ve been working on: —- Dear Omoni, Where did you go just moments after you left me for the last time? Did you hide somewhere to cry at the loss of your flesh and blood? Or did you hold your head up high and pretend that everything was going to be alright as you walked away? Did you hope that one day you would be able to see…

  • It’s been difficult for me to gather together my thoughts and direction lately. While I’m still working and doing my PhD, I feel as if I’m beginning to straddle multiple worlds and am not yet certain how they are going to co-exist or if they can at all. World 1 For some time, I’ve felt that the time is drawing closer for the right moment to begin to share my story. Since I…

  • Well, for a while I’ve been contemplating really making an effort to make a go at a writing career. In college I began a novel that I worked on diligently every day for a few months and then… life got in the way and I put it aside. Throughout the years I’ve gone back to it, made changes, added, but nothing has come of it. In fact, all I have is a hard…

  • Some time last year a colleague received a copy of this book as a gift from his students. As he already had read it, he offered it to me. I had heard about it and all the hype that surrounded it when it first came out in 2006, but to be honest I was quite skeptical about it. It sounded like some sort of new-age religious/spiritual book that people fell in love with…

  • I end my summer reading update with my favorite book of the summer. It takes me a while to get to anything that is popular or trendy because I tend to avoid conforming to what everyone else is doing at a specific time. However, I can now fully appreciate why everyone was raving about _Three Cups of Tea_ by Greg Mortenson. Mortenson was a mountain climber. A failed attempt at K2 leads him…

  • What a book! Recommended by my BFF to read and part of Oprah’s Book Club, I had recently considered reading this book, but wasn’t sure as I am still not sold on contemporary fiction – though from my summer reads, I’m not sure I can say that anymore! This novel by Kathryn Stockett was a great read. I could hardly stop reading it and that was on my iPad! It had a bit…

  • _Committed_ by Elizabeth Gilbert _Eat Pray Love_ fans may not enjoy _Committed_ as much, but for me in the phase of my life I’m at right now, I thoroughly appreciated Elizabeth Gilbert’s research and discovery on marriage. Taking up where the love story ended in her previous novel, Gilbert shares the struggles she and Felipe face when he runs into trouble flying in and out of the US post 9-11. While there was…

  • James Patterson usually entertains me. Some might not be a fan of his writing or find it quality work, but when I read mass printed paperbacks, I’m just looking to be entertained. So, as another option found on the beach house bookshelf, I couldn’t really pass it up. Patterson has a few serial characters that he continues to develop and one is Alex Cross, an African-American detective with three kids and his grandmother.…

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