Category Archives: Musings
Achieving the Impossible
While browsing my digital photo albums, I came across these pictures and others like it within my annual folders. These images, showing off the skill and patience of my eldest son Ken, speak to me about life and how we … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Writing, Miscellaneous Musings, Musings, Personal Reflections
Tagged Balance, Focus, Life Goals, Motivation, Rock Balancing, Writing
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Identity and Place, A Reflection
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” ― C.S. Lewis The following definition of “third culture kid” (TCK) was coined in the 1950s, but “cross-cultural kid” … Continue reading
Posted in Cross-Cultural Kids, Musings, Personal Reflections, Third Culture Kids, Travel Memoirs
Tagged Adult CCKs, Adult Cross-Cultural Kid, Adult Cross-Cultural Kids, Adult TCK, Adult TCKs, Adult Third Culture Kid, Adult Third Culture Kids, Canadian Academy, CCK, Cross-Cultural Kid, Cross-Cultural Kids, Cross-Cultural Kids in Fiction, Cross-Cultural Kids Writing, Global Nomad, Guyana, Hidden Immigrant, Identity and Place, Ruth E. Van Reken, Saudade, TCI, TCK, Third Culture Individual, Third Culture Kid, Third Culture Kids, Third Culture Kids Writing, Transcultural, Transnational
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Fly Me to the Moon (Weekly Photo Challenge: Boundaries)
When I was a child, I would look up at the night sky and imagine myself to be in the company of Peter Pan, Wendy, John and Michael, escaping to Neverland with arms outstretched, as if flying were the most natural form of transportation … Continue reading
Reflections 2: Self-Editing
These reflections of the mirror-image variety prompted me to consider those of a different nature, which I mused about on this site a few years ago. In an earlier post, I had described my delight in playing with words. … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous Musings, Musings, Personal Reflections
Tagged Photography, Self-Editing
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17 Words That Together, Speak Volumes
“Be / As a page that aches for a word / Which speaks on a theme that is timeless…” © 1973 Neil Diamond, Lyrics from the movie soundtrack Jonathan Livingston Seagull. So often, as writers, we struggle to fill … Continue reading
Remedies for Winter Blues
I’ve never particularly liked the winter season, and in fact, I’ve always been one of those people who dread its arrival every year as the daylight hours become fewer in number. Yet when I observe a duvet of pure white snow blanketing the … Continue reading
Reflections
I awoke this morning intending to write a reflection on a topic that is often in my thoughts, but try as I might, I was unable to find words that would adequately express what is in my heart: there are not … Continue reading
Guyana Diaries
I have many wonderful memories of the fourteen months my husband Dennis and I lived in Guyana, and a few hair-raising ones, too. There was only one highway along the coast in 1967, and for the most part, it was rather flat and straight. Whenever we travelled to … Continue reading
Posted in Guyana Diaries, Musings, Personal Reflections, Travel Memoirs
Tagged CUSO, Guyana, Rupununi, Teaching Overseas, Travel Memoirs
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