Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • Well, it has been announced officially – President Trump – will lead our country for the next four years. WTH???? When he announced his candidacy, I honestly thought it was a joke. It appeared that all throughout his campaign, he felt the same. No one that I know ever imagined that it would ever become a reality that he would step into the White House. Yet, today, the democratic process has proven that…

  • In light of the soon to be barrage of news reports on today’s election results, I thought I would write a little post about words. It is a title and topic that came to mind a while back, but I had not quite decided what to say. In considering the past 18 months of campaigning by our two party leaders it is an interesting matter – how words are used. The United States is…

  • As the weather is cooling down now in the UAE, more and more activities are happening outside. I have written before about my running group I joined filled mostly with moms, but they accept this non-child lady. 😉 Anyway, a while back one of them asked me why I do not sign up for a 5k or 10k run now that more and more of them are coming up here and in other…

  • It is always amazing to me how long it takes to recover from busyness, travel or any upset to a routine. I often wonder if it is an age thing or if it is perhaps more of a statement on the toll of having structure; in other words, perhaps life should really be a bit more carefree if it is such a struggle to get back ‘on a schedule’? For someone like me,…

  • It is a new month, new moon (by a day or two) and lots of “new” going on around here. October ended with a bit of craze, but it was good to highlight some of the areas in which I need to be careful to not get burnt out with all that I am doing. This past weekend was my second-to-last yoga training weekend. We only have one more in 2.5 weeks and…

  • It has been a busy couple of days. So much so that I totally forgot about writing yesterday – also because my “screen time” routine has been unsynced due to my usual locale for such work being out of Internet commission. 🙁 Being the creature of habit and liking things to be “perfect” that I am, makes adjusting to slight changes such as this rather difficult. I have already shared how bad I…

  • I realized that I have never really explained properly here what I have chosen to do with my life since quitting. I think I said I would update later and then never did as our lives have been on a bit of a roller coaster since I quit working full-time. Therefore, let me explain. Although I have never truly wanted to run my own business, I have always wanted to be free from…

  •   _The Bamboo Stalk_ by Saud Al Sanousi The October Book Club for AWN is this book. We meet next week to talk about it, but I thought I would go ahead and write about it here now that it is fresh in my mind. Unlike last month’s title, this one was so easy to read and quite enjoyable. Although not exactly another uplifting story (what is with the selections???), it was closer…

  •   _King Leopold’s Ghost_ by Adam Hochschild Last month I joined the Book Club of the AWN (American Women’s Network) where I have been spending a lot of my time being active in meeting people and other things. While I never in my life expected that I would become a “book club lady”, I did decide that I was going to try new activities in areas that I am both interested in and…

  • We are on the verge of insanity, of normalcy, of living, of dying…. This morning I went to have my medical done, which is one of the last major hurdles before my residence visa gets issued. I am not allowing myself to get excited just yet, but it does mean that we are nearing the point where life just might – just might – start on the path to normal again. 😀 There is…

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