Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • The ever evasive aim to get into a flow is looking to be within arm’s reach these days. We had a quick trip up to France to see friends and are back now with no more out of town visits until mid-May – well, M is away for a night, but that’s just fine. 😅 This means that perhaps I shall get myself posting here again with fewer white spaces on the calendar.…

  • Spring has sprung. The sun is shining with a blue sky that holds big puffy clouds as they float above. Birds of unknown varieties and quantities sing their songs as some, like the swallows, nestle into their homes making room for the coming babies. The lizards and bugs have also come out to play. The brown is turning to green or pockets of color while buds give a hint of more to come.…

  • The other day, I messaged with a writing adoptee friend as part of our regular check-ins with each other. She replied back that my list of goals and activities for the next two weeks made her exhausted reading it, to which I laughed. For me, it didn’t feel like much. When one lives with a high-octane, super-charged speeding bullet train partner, anything else that anyone who is not him does may be considered…

  • The week has flown by. I suppose not arriving home until Monday helps with that, but also it’s been a flurry of catching up on things. Now that it is Friday, I feel as if I’m approaching being caught up even though my body is not sure. Physically, I’m a bit out of whack. My hips are misaligned causing some problems with my back, which also affects my neck and shoulders. My sciatica…

  • Family. Such a loaded and complicated word. So much is wrapped up in this two-syllable (or three if you enunciate it fully) word. When you’re an adopted person, this word has even more implications and nuances. We are told that we are lucky because our family “chose” us. Or, as in my case, I feel privileged to have a family that I call mine. Still, the subtle subtexts of my relationship with and…

  • About to head off home for the next week or so, but wanted to get a post out to maintain a sense of normal. So, back to previously scheduled programming on health – my health. This post, I’d like to talk about fibroids. If you’ve never heard of these lovely items in the human body, let me give you a brief. More properly known as uterine fibroids, they are non-cancerous growths that develop…

  • Well, I hadn’t planned to fly home so soon but when you lose someone who was truly larger than this life, it feels right to go be amongst those who also loved him and got to be touched by his light while he walked in our time and space.  He always made time to come see me or ensure we got in a visit whenever I was around. So, I’m glad I got…

  • Generally, I have grown up with the idea that our health matters are something private. We don’t talk about them with other people outside our family and even within the family, we might not talk about it in too much detail unless asked specifically. When my grandmothers were aging and deteriorating in their health, I wasn’t around much. I was in my early 20s living my life as is normal. However, when I…

  • This was a planned holiday for months as a nice way for the family to get together. It was sponsored by my parents for my brother and my niece, and subsidized for us. Never mind that the travel time in both directions was long and arduous, I mean, we were going to Hawaii! Despite M being grumpy about more travel after our year of over-flying, I was looking forward to spending some time…

  • *Trigger Warning – if you’re weak or easily offended, don’t bother reading this post. It won’t help you.* Life on a schedule may seem too constricting to most, but I challenge anyone who says that to a comparison on productivity, satisfaction, and contentment levels. If you, reader, say to yourself, “Well, of course, if you’re on a schedule you’re going to get more done, but it’s not for me.” My reply back, is…

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