Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • Having weekends to myself has been the most challenging in terms of how to pass the time enjoyably, but also meaningfully for me. I have loved fireworks since I was little, but in the US we can only enjoy them once a year really. However, it was always my favorite part of the 4th of July picnics that my family would host. Each year, they got bigger and better, but honestly, once I…

  • While some people choose to go into a sauna to sweat out 😥 the toxins in their body, the summers in Japan 🇯🇵 work just about the same when you step out the door. 🏝 The weather has drastically changed from rainy season ☔️ to sweaty season 😓. Although I don’t feel that it is that hot in terms of temperature, the humidity makes the 91 degree F into something in the hundreds…

  • Although I am due to post some full write-ups of my trip to Mongolia with my mother, I thought that I would post at least something just to get myself back into the swing of things. Time goes so quickly that I was shocked 🙀 and dramatically dismayed 😫 to see that my last post was almost a month ago! There are a number of topics for me to cover, but I’ll start…

  • The summer has started off slowly this year, for which I am extremely grateful. The humidity has brought about some interesting skin conditions (I’ll spare the details), but the nice thing is that the nature around us could be enjoyed more. I love the sunny days and try to take advantage when I can. These are just a few images of those moments. 😀 ~T 😀

  • Tomorrow marks my 43rd birthday. In Korea, I guess I would be 44 as they count the nine months of gestation as the first year of life. I generally don’t enjoy celebrating or making a big fuss of my birthday (except for the big ones), but I never say no to a good party. 😉 In truth, it doesn’t matter much how old I am anymore. Some ladies and I joke that we…

  • I feel anxious. I feel happy. I feel old. I feel in love. I feel tired. I feel loved. I feel alone. I feel content. I feel stressed. I feel vibrant. I feel worried. I feel joyful. I feel bored. I feel peaceful. How can I feel all these things at once? The minimizing answer is that I am a woman. The avoidance response is that I am human. The truth… there does…

  • _Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide_ by Karen Kilgariff & Georgia Hardstark So about two years ago, I posted about the podcast My Favorite Murder with these two ladies. In the three years’ time that they have been entertaining me (and many others), they have enjoyed a successful growth with live shows, merchandise, etc. Obviously, when I heard they were going to publish a book I knew that I…

  • Although there were many interesting points that I gleaned from listening to Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide, one of the most salient ones that has stayed with me is about low and high vibrations. Karen Kilgariff tells an anecdote about when she was catching up with her friend whom she regularly met up with to debrief on their lives. It wasn’t out of the ordinary for them to…

  • Although I’m not a sharer of quotes nor do I like to speak in quotes as I’ve written before, I do have some favorite ones to give me perspective on life. One of my favorites is by Marcus Aurelius in his Meditations. Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. My modern interpretation of this is something like: When your tea goes lukewarm, you can lament that it is cold and let it grow…

  • So, it’s been a few days since my last post. It was intentional to be honest. When someone posts all the time or when something becomes too available, the tendency is for complacency and over saturation to occur. Therefore, as I consider how to build readership, but also make sure I have enough content, I decided to give it a few days. It also helped that I have been a bit busy with…

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