Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • _I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban_ by Malala Yousafzai Some months back, my friend P asked me if I had heard about this girl in Pakistan who had been shot and then taken to the UK for treatment. I had no idea, of course, given that I pay almost no attention to the news. P continued to follow the story, but I had…

  • It started last night as I was preparing for my interview coming up today. I won’t talk about that much here until afterwards. In any case, I was going up and down in my planning and thinking. Then, I went out last night and never got into the groove…. My experience with taxi drivers while riding alone in this country continues to be one I need to avoid. It wasn’t so much anything…

  • _A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle)_ by Ursula K. Le Guin Back in the days of L, I first heard of Ursula Le Guin. I had never heard the name before although she is apparently well-known amongst young adult readers. It must have been in a time that by-passed me…. Since I do occasionally like a fantasy novel, I put her on my someday reading list. Then, recently a colleague was talking…

  • _Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption_ by Laura Hillenbrand Somehow this book got lost in my reading posts, which is funny because it came back into my life after having read a while ago. Laura Hillenbrand tells a biographical tale of Louis Zamperini, an Italian American from California who becomes an Olympic miler and goes off to the war in the Pacific. It is almost impossible to believe…

  • So, yesterday, I did not actually get my morning task done. Sometimes I get really side-tracked. I did do other things; I’m just not sure what that was overly productive. Now that I’m a bit freer with my time and trying to get myself back into the PhD work again, I spend more time thinking. As I keep thinking about stuff with R, I swing back and forth from it’s a great thing…

  • Need to spend some time actually planning out my blog posts. This will not only help with making sure I post regularly, but lay the groundwork for the other blogs that I would like to get started – no more talk, must do! So, that’s a task for today’s list. 😀 -T

  • Wow, it’s been a rough few weeks…. Aside from my personal life dramas, I took on a book to summarize in late December and it kicked my arse. I thought it would take me two weeks, but three weeks later and barely within the deadline I finally got rid of it. I will do some make-up posting later of these books, but for now I’m just happy to be free of that. Hopefully,…

  • to get this book project finished TODAY!!! 🙁

  • I may not be getting enough sleep these days… This morning, my alarm went off and I kept sleeping for another hour. I might have kept going had something not fallen to startle me awake again. Hm…will have to think about this, but time to start the day!

  • For a while I have been following this website, Mind Body Green,  on FB, thanks to my friend P. Most of the articles are very interesting and are featured in the different categories – your mental health, your physical health and your eating health. They keep you interested by recycling the same posts now and then with different titles. My crazy yoga teacher said something interestingly true last night. We know how to…

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