Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • So, I’m six days in to the Mindfulness Summit and I’m totally hooked! Ages ago a friend or friends talked to me about my thoughts on meditation and yoga. I thought I wasn’t into it and although I have a belief in a higher being, I wasn’t really going to embrace a new-agey kind of trend. Now…I’m a yoga lover and am becoming a HUGE fan of mindfulness. It’s working already to keep me…

  • My friend, T posted this on her FB page as an event she was planning on attending. I had seen it before on another friend’s post, but had only glanced at it then. So, this time I took a closer look at it. In the past, people have suggested the idea of meditation and tried to explain what it is; however, I have generally chalked it up to a Buddhist idea or some…

  • Yikes! I started this post almost a year ago and didn’t realize that I never really finished it. When I was reading my friend’s blog the other day, it made me wonder if I had ever written about my brief version or not…. Apparently ‘not’ is the answer. So, here it is: Back in my brief stint of writing briefs of books, I was given the ask of writing _The Goldfinch_ by Donna…

  • I was writing in my journal today, which I must say I have been fairly diligent with suggesting that perhaps the ol’ pen and paper might not be dead yet, and happened to read back over the last 18 months. It’s almost hard to remember what my life was like just a year and a half ago. I was in a different and unhappy relationship. I was working on a PhD that I…

  • I always knew there would come a time in my career when I should give up on teaching. I felt that time had come a few years ago, but I have kept pushing on thinking perhaps different levels or different circumstances will make it better. After spending a full semester away from the classroom doing work that I excel at and that truly takes advantage of the skills I have, I felt that…

  • This is another posting about driving – not about my car, though! 😀 Now that I am higher up on the roads and less bullied, I am more aware of other dangers on the road – or rather, give more attention to different bad driving habits. Using cell phones while driving. Although social media has passed around different videos of teenagers texting and driving, or accidents occurring by a moment’s look down at…

  • Everything tends to happen for a reason in life and it generally isn’t until after the fact that we come to understand just what that or those reasons are exactly. Back in May, I bought my ‘new’ LR2 and put my beloved Daihatsu up for sale. I put it on the market for a fairly high price due to the fact that I had taken good care of it with very low mileage.…

  • Back to my updates on summer travels – it is fun to look back at all that I did in such a short time! So, our last stop in Norway was Bergen. We took another ferry from Belastrand to Bergen. It was a fairly chilly ride, so we stayed inside for most of this one. Plus, the joy of seeing the fjords was lessened after taking it all in the day before. Bergen was…

  • Today has been a day of total rest. I even took a nap! Somehow this past week was jam-packed and for me that is never a very good thing as I need down time to recuperate. So, I will try this weekend to also layout a schedule that will work for me on a regular basis. Classes went very well this week. My ‘boys’ are very sweet and overall decent students. It’s just…

  • It’s only week 2 of the semester and everything is starting to speed up…. I am going to have to be careful not to overdo myself as I can definitely tell a major crash could occur…. Everything is good at the moment, thankfully! Although I wasn’t totally enthused to be back in the classroom, I find that I don’t mind it so far. The class of guys that I am teaching are generally…

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