Do you know that moment when you catch yourself doing something automatically that you were working towards in your life or self development? A week or so ago, I was in a candle store browsing. I was in a different part of town for the day so indulged in quick walk along the shopping strip. …
Category: Thoughts

The Role Of Libraries In Our Communities
This post contains affiliate links where I will earn a small commission if you make a purchase through these links and will not cost you anything extra. Libraries. Open to all with the possibilities of imagination, knowledge and curiosity. Stay as long or as little as you please. When was the last time you visited …

12 Month Blogging Reflection
If anyone says that blogging is easy, don't believe them. I've certainty placed a lot of pressure on myself to post regularly and it really helped with getting me to write and edit even when I just felt like watching Netflix. I've gone through times when my brain was like a desert to other times …

Juste Un Mot: Becoming
This post contains affiliate links where I will earn a small commission if you make a purchase through these links and will not cost you anything extra. I have recently read Michelle Obama's biography Becoming. She shares her childhood, student years and entering and leaving the White House. What really struck me was her hard …

Discovering Seasickness On My Travels
Travel is great in that it exposes you to new experiences that you wouldn't normally have in your everyday life and takes you to all the far flung places of our earth. It is here outside of our comfort zones, that we discover something about ourselves. I normally don't take ferries in my day to …
Juste Un Mot: The palm oil conundrum
This post contains affiliate links where I will earn a small commission if you make a purchase through these links and will not cost you anything extra. With trying to do my part for our environment and future, I have recently turned my attention to Orangutans. Orangutans are one of my favourite animals of the …

Juste Un Mot: Taking a break
By the time this blog posts gets published, I would have taken 3 days off work this year since Christmas last year. I had changed jobs when the pandemic hit so have still been trying to accumulate annual leave days although at Christmas- there will be forced shut down of the office. Enjoying one of …

Reflecting on my First Solo Trip- Finland
My first solo trip was a while ago now and it was filled with utter excitement. It was to Finland for some research at a local university. At this stage of my life, that side of the world had yet to bleep onto my radar. What made it even more exciting was that it would …

Mexican Food: Cactus (Nopales)
When I recently wrote about my day trip from Queretaro to Bernal, I got a lot of interest about cactus as food. So here is a post dedicated to nopal! There are over 600 varieties of cactus in Mexico and the prickly pear cactus is commonly known as nopal which is eaten. The Mexican flag …
Juste Un Mot: Reusing Old Clothing
Fashion allows for another form of self expression. I like having choices and free styling. I haven't been influenced too much on trends although get so annoyed when I want to buy something but it's not being sold anywhere because it's not trendy at the time. In my last Juste Un Mot post, I wrote …