Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • Well, I was waiting for the next season of Serial to come out, so when M mentioned a new season was available, I immediately checked it out.  However, it is not actually a new season of Serial itself, but a spinoff called S-Town. The Serial season is in production still, so will have to wait a bit longer, but S-Town is an interesting story so far.  There are 7 episodes and I have…

  • __Station Eleven_ by Emily St. John Mandel This book hit the popularity scale a couple of years ago, but I have been a bit slow with reading what is popular. Mostly I have been reading from the AWN Book Club list, but as I was away on holiday, I thought that I would expand. 😛 It is an interesting story of a pandemic that basically ends the world as we know it. A…

  • No matter how much fun or at home one is made to feel on holiday, there is still something sweet about coming back to the place where one calls “home”.  As an expat for most of my life, I generally define home as “where my stuff is”. The phrase of “home is where the heart is” seems a bit too cliche for me…😜 Still, home now includes where my hubby and kitties are.…

  • Pictures say it all… ~T 😀

  • In Japan, the best seasons are the fall and spring. These are the times of the year when you can be outside and enjoy all that the flora can offer around town. Or, many people take special trips around this time.  The spring offers views of the famous cherry blossoms where you can see people sitting under trees having picnics or drinking parties. This is known as hanami – looking at flowers. While…

  • It has been an amazing time spending it with my 11-year-old godson. He is really a good kid and his parents have done a fantastic job with him so far in teaching him to be a responsible little person. He has a lovely personality and no doubt will become a wonderful young adult. Still, I have come to reaffirm that kids for me, might have been okay until the pre-teen/teenage years. I most…

  • Well, I have kept this quiet until the interview was done and until I felt a little more certain about the possible direction. The former is probably about there while the latter will have to wait until some kind of response is received. Still, there is a slight possibility of a job in Japan. I was not sure about doing the interview until I arrived, though I had done a Skype interview beforehand.…

  • Our last half-day in Kyoto was a cold and wet one. We put on our Oregonian minds and endured the rain drops enough to do the short walk along the Philosophers’ Path (哲学の道哲学の道) where we reminisced about the old days when J and I created our own pronunciation of philosophize to philoSOPHisize because we had trouble saying it correctly. Now, it will never be said properly…. 🤣😂 The Path leads to the Silver…

  • Nearly another 20,000 steps saw us with a “lighter” touristy day…. We decided to head out to Arashiyama since J had never been out there and it had been quite a while since I went out that way. It is not far outside of the downtown area and E was super excited about the train as it is some kind of special one – afraid it was lost on me. 😉 Arashiyama is…

  • It’s been many years since I made a visit to Kyoto again after living there for three years in 2001-2004.  Sometime ago I made a short visit as my first time back since my divorce. I wanted to remember my love for the city outside of the time being unhappily married during those years.  Now, I am back again wishing my new hubby was with us, but loving the trip down memory lane…

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