Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • I am determined to make this the year of writing (among other things), so watch this space as I’ll be posting more regularly. True, I’ve posted this before, but 2020 is the year with my big goals to make some changes regarding work and finances – more about these to come. So, this is just an introductory post of what is to come. Over the next week I’ll be settling back into reality…

  • Every year the discussion about getting shots for whatever flu strand or superbug is out there is had. Every year I swear by the fact I hardly ever get sick and that I have never gotten the flu shot because of it. The fact is, despite what doctors and others say, I do not agree with needing to get the shot at my age. Someone once said that another way to look at…

  • I know it’s been a while since I have written. I kept thinking about sitting down to write a post and then I didn’t. Time passes by quickly whether I am happy or whether I am sad. Time stops for no one. It’s really just a matter of how we spend the time. People go through phases. Regular patterns reveal themselves throughout the year if we take the time to note them. For…

  • There is a thing called personal space. The amount required depends on the person, culture, etc. I have gotten used to having less of it through living in Japan 👥 where this concept is a luxury even if on a person to person basis people would like more of it. The other day, I knew that I had grown in my tolerance for close proximities to strangers when I only momentarily paused as…

  • Eating is one of my favorite things to do. Good food makes my legs move and my body dance. I am also wont to hum a happy tune as I chew and savor a bite of goodness. 💁🏽‍♀️ Some time back, I was talking to someone and relaying a story about an experience eating. As I was telling the story and saying, not for the first time in my life, that I hate…

  • Reading is my joy. Reading is my escape. Reading keeps me sane. Reading is life! In past posts, I have mentioned this first set of three books that were on my read-ar, but as I was thinking that it is probably about time that I update on the other books I’ve covered, I realized just how much I have read since my last proper literary escapes post in February. One way that I…

  • While waiting at the airport with my mother due to our seven-hour delay to get to Mongolia 🇲🇳, I did a lot of people watching. I am always fascinated by behavior whether as a social norm or an individual. Often, I find myself imagining what people are thinking or the background behind their actions. 💡 As we were sitting on lounge chairs to pass the time, people came and went to rest before…

  • It had been a while since Mom and I had taken a mother-daughter trip, so with life starting to return to normal, we made plans to reinstate them. With lots of options, we decided on Mongolia. Many people gave us quizzical looks respectively whenever we mentioned where we were going as it is not a common travel destination – yet. However, this sort of made the journey even more exciting. We booked an…

  • 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…

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