Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • Having married a Brit, I have become more versed on the English culture and aware of the monarchy. Although I recall the news and interest by members of my family in the royal family when it came to Lady Diana, I have never really paid attention to it. Yet, I will never forget the day that Diana died in Paris as I sat watching in the living room of my Japanese host family.…

  • Where does time go? I know it is such a cliche thing to say and yet we do all always mean it when we say it, right? I do not lament out of age, but out of my desire to always want to be doing more. I wonder where this sense of wanting to do more or needing to feel productive comes from. Is it a natural human need or is it particular…

  • When I lived in Oregon as a young person I would often have a sense of melancholy during the winter or grey sky days. For a long time, I chalked it up to me just being a bit depressive by nature and a characteristic of my more introspective ways. 😢 Then, I heard about this thing called seasonal affective disorder (S.A.D.) or seasonal depression. Although having a label is not necessarily my aim,…

  • Although it was cold last year, I don’t recall us getting any snow in our area. We saw some crazy hail storms and had a few frosty mornings, but no land of white. So, when it snowed earlier this week, it was very exciting! Our house looked lovely and our pups enjoyed their first snow experience. Plus, it was a great excuse to snuggle inside with the fire roaring and there may have…

  • I think of myself as an old-soul. Emotions have never been on the surface for me; thus, the expression of them has always been tame. I greatly dislike a show of emotions to the point that I will cry from frustration at feeling so angry at something or someone, but don’t want to express it. I rarely cry at all unless it is in Sex in the City when Big doesn’t get out…

  • When I was young I thought I wanted to have a huge family. Since I had moved around so much and never felt as if I “belonged” in the sense that people wouldn’t question my roots or right to claim a family as my own, I thought that if I had my own kids I would then obviously have established my place in the world. So, for many years, I imagined myself with…

  • Around the middle of December, I had had enough of a repeated conversation between the man and myself on the topic of money. 💰 Whenever things get heated, he inevitably throws out “well, you could get a job”, which is a rather low blow given that we both know that isn’t exactly true in the conventional sense or the way that I think of having a job. So, rather than repeat our basically…

  • Despite great plans to get myself scheduled and settled, it’s ten days into the new year already and well, as they say… ‘the best laid plans…’. To be fair, I have scheduled myself and made multiple attempts to stick to it. The problem is life and others in my life do not seem to understand or follow my schedule! 🤪 🤷🏽‍♀️ Surprise! Ha! 😅 Really, it is fine. Although I have set the…

  • I wrote this as a draft for another article I was going to submit, but realized it was a bit too personal to share on a non-affiliated space. 🤷🏽‍♀️ There is some repeat from an earlier post last week, but in any case, I thought I’d put it here for record-keeping and, well, this IS an affiliated space for my personal musings. 😝 Also, as this is the sum of my reflections for…

  • Well, we’ve made it another year together! ❤️ I would do it again and look forward to every additional year of our adventurous life with each other. To be sure, there is yet to be a dull moment and while I might like some aspects to be a little less ‘exciting’, I would not change the stories we get to share. So, cheers to many more! 🥂 ~T 🔥🐉♋️

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