Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • Today’s prompt: What’s your writing snack? Interesting question and not sure I have a writing food. However, a good cup of coffee is a must for my writing sessions. Something about the scent of coffee helps me focus my mind to write. Without it, I feel as if a writing session is incomplete. 😛 ~T 😀

  • Share a photo of your writing space My writing space is almost always in a café – a Starbucks’ one at that. Since most of my adult life has been spent away from my home country, I fell in love with the Starbucks’ experience early on when I felt homesick and craved the essence of America. Sitting in a Starbucks’ café would often satisfy that yearning just enough to keep me going. One…

  • While I’m in the flow…. Favorite motivational quote. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~Aristotle I do not know if this counts as a motivational quote, but it has been one of my favorite quotes since I was in college and fell in love with Aristotle’s teachings. Although in college I really disliked my friends’ elitist attitude as I found it a way of…

  • It seems suitable to kick off May and also restart my concerted effort to write regularly again with a challenge by #whyshewrites – as first noticed by a fellow writer @kamsinkaneko from #theslowpath. I have been meaning to get myself back into the habit, but, well, excuses abound and one thing leads to another so that time passes without me sitting down to the computer and posting. There are pages written in my…

  • As a teen I had no interest in being feminine. Doing so came with the fear that attention of the unwanted kind would be given to me. Previous examples as a child had proven it so. Therefore, my feminine mother was probably frustrated with my tom-boyish ways. However, as I got older and became comfortable with my body and sexuality, I also embraced more feminine activities like wearing make-up, getting massages, and having…

  • This morning, I had the luxury of not having much on my schedule until the afternoon. Although I had initially thought to try a new hot yoga class at my gym, I was not committed to that plan. 🧘🏽‍♀️ So, when I looked at The Power by Rhonda Byrne book, I thought it was as good a time as any to read it. Little did I know that my soul was thirsting for…

  • I have always hated being asked Who inspires you and why? It’s always sounded like a cliché question and a kind of judgment since most people annoyingly say The Dalai Lama or Mother Theresa or some other icon of sycophants’. Sound cynical enough for you? 🤷🏽‍♀️ In my reality and view of the world, I think independence and self-determination includes not looking to anyone else to motivate or ‘inspire’. I believe these should…

  • One of my goals this year is to read more. Though I do read a relatively good amount most years, it is usually done in a binge-style manner on holidays like a plant 🌱 soaking up water when it’s soil is dry. So, to avoid this pattern and to shift what gets inputted into my mind, I’ve made a bit of a reading list based on recommendations from FB friends (thank you!!! 🙏)…

  • Back in the day, I used to really love sumo. I would watch it regularly on Japanese TV as something of an oddity in the culture. My early days of studying Japanese was challenging because I really had no appreciation for much of its culture despite learning the language. Perhaps it was too close to my own unknown mother culture that I thought it a betrayal to both my native and adopted ones.…

  • Sometimes I wish that I had more of a business mind to take my interests and turn them into something that makes money. Or, that at least I had known it was an option earlier in my life. I know it’s never too late and I do have some ideas brewing that could generate income, but for the moment, just read on as I half lament and half feel inspired. 😛 In my…

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