Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • Disclaimer: only a semi-informed view creating my opinion I’m not a political analyst. I’m not a broadcasting soap-box speaker. I’m not a religious fanatic. I’m not a great conspiracy theorist – though I do love a good theory! In fact, I’m not anybody other than a concerned citizen who has a little bit of knowledge about a lot of things – none of which amount to much. If you haven’t read the Book…

  • I’ve been talking about adding another tattoo for a while and it seemed as if I was just going to talk about it rather than do it. I had some hesitations as the location is known to be one of the most painful places to put a tattoo, and another friend who has done quite a bit of ink work on his body strongly recommended that I reconsider. During lockdown in Tokyo, I…

  • As I cannot breathe through my nose, thanks to allergies, it is even easier to hear me exhale loudly and fully release the dark energies that can easily enter my body and mind. I’m not a shy person, and I have no aversion to speaking my mind. However, what I have realized (again) is that it doesn’t always serve a meaningful purpose to open my mouth or do anything other than smile and…

  • So, the last time I wrote was nearly a month ago; or rather about three weeks already…. My great intentions of writing more for myself have gotten sucked up into magazine work as we are building it up in different ways, work to pay for the magazine, and getting settled into the actual reason that we decided to move to southern France in the first place – the sun and fun! First, an…

  • So, I did it. I submitted an application for a ten-day silent meditation retreat in response to my need and near insanity from being stuck in a small cottage where the walls and doors are more like paper. My introverted self is suffering a bit from the constant sound of my husband’s voice as he works and uses a lot of ‘words’ throughout the day. Even if I put on headphones, I still…

  • It’s the middle of the night. Despite going to bed at my usual time around 9 pm, and shortly falling asleep well before 10 to settle in for my evening slumber, I awoke briefly around 10:30 upon hearing my husband on the phone. It’s not uncommon these days for him to stay up a bit later, or to rise early, for a phone call as his work connects him with people on various…

  • My best laid intentions of writing regularly were thwarted slightly as chaos will always win over even the most orderly of situations. There’s no way to avoid a tornado, you just have to wait for it to pass then pick up the pieces left in its wake. Some might lament at the lack of fairness this presents, or the seemingly pointless effort of trying to maintain order. However, I choose to focus on…

  • It has been ages since I have written about my ‘ups and downs’ as I think that they have been much less extreme since the “new norm” involved being at home more than out. If there ever was a doubt that I am an introvert, I think that the past nine months have wiped away any inkling of that as truth. So, there really haven’t been any ‘downs’ lately. It’s not that I…

  • We had a number of different variation of how my “old man” would ring in the new decade at half a century years old. However, none of those came to fruition thanks to the changes in COVID-19 (shame it was 20, huh?). Even as it was, we were technically in violation of lockdown rules when we snuck over the border to get to Monaco. Since it was a big birthday, we splashed out…

  • Well, well, well, where did the past two months go? In general, not that much has been happening due to lockdown, curfews, and quite a bit of working from home; when I say working…I mostly mean working on The Universal Asian. So, to briefly catch up, here is a brief outline of what we have been doing: freelance work building content for magazine / zoom calls / increasing business aspect exploring different areas…

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