Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • “Worrying just attracts the things you don’t want” is a quote I saw either on FB or in one of my readings this summer.  When I took up meditation and mindfulness last year M and I would joke that I was learning to “zen my sh*t”. While I still struggle with this and have off days I can definitely say that my mind has started to make a significant shift from stressing and…

  • _Outlander_ by Diana Gabaldon For the past week or so I have been consumed by this 850-page novel. I came across it on the bookshelf where residents at PR leave unwanted books for others to take freely. Although I already have a long list of books I want to read, including ones I am still reading, I took a few more from the shelf.  Most of the summer I have been needing a…

  • _David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants_ by Malcolm Gladwell Over three years ago, I posted upon hearing about this new title by Gladwell. No doubt, he already has another one out, but I do not yet know about it. 😉 I have really enjoyed just about everything he has written and this one did not disappoint. Gladwell takes this well-known Biblical story and challenges us to reconsider just why…

  • For most of my adult life I have steered clear of politics. I have brief moments in and out where I try to care, but for the most part I find that I get frustrated or depressed from the state of the world and generally am cynical about politicians and the world of politics. Furthermore, I struggle to find anyone in politics to be someone worth respecting or admiring for their presence, words,…

  • My car has cruise control and I use it a lot to avoid getting speeding tickets in the city or on the long endless road from Abu Dhabi to Dubai. Even though I use the cruise control, I still try to stay alert to the cars around me as well as where the cameras are or where the speed limit changes. Therefore, despite having the amazing mechanism of ensuring I stay under the limit,…

  • Day 30:  What talent or skill do you have that you are grateful for? When I first thought about the answer to this question, my mind came up with my ability to problem solve. Generally, I am the one who brainstorms ways to get out of a pickle and then takes action to make it happen once deemed the best choice in the moment. This is indeed a great skill to have especially…

  • Day 29:  What friend/family member are you grateful for today? This is hardly a fair question as someone is bound to be offended if I do not say I am grateful for them. It would be an easy cop out to say ALL of my family and friends, which would be true. However, I am going to risk the offense and focus on the TODAY part of the question.  Today and for the…

  • Day 28:  What small thing that happened today are you grateful for? Well, my day has only just begun as it has been a relatively slow weekend morning start. 🙂 However, I am already grateful for the fact that I woke up on my own – meaning my husband did not wake me up as he usually does – and could get right up. Since getting married I have had to change my…

  • _The Shadow of the Wind_ by Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1 was a book that a student recommended that I read. When she was reading it, I noticed that she was seemingly addicted to it as she was reading it whenever I walked into class or if there was extra time to work on something and she had finished. I noticed just a few days later that she was…

  • _MaddAddam_ by Margaret Atwood The last of the trilogy following_Oryx and Crake_ and _The Year of the Flood_, this one was very disappointing to me. I finished reading it a while ago and am just now trying to remember more than the fact that I was not happy with the ending of this trilogy given how good the first two were. It felt more like Atwood was just trying to come to a quick…

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