Middle-aged Maverick

Category: I Was Thinking…

  • People Change, Get Over It

    Thoughts on Mental Health Thursday I have changed over the past two years. I have written about it extensively on this blog. People change. Not always for the better, but in my case, it was a very good thing. Yesterday, a friend of mine who still works at the place I left two years ago… →

  • Music. Always.

    What makes you feel nostalgic? I’m limited on time today. I’m meeting up with an online knitting friend who is visiting family near where I live. We’re going to visit a yarn store and have lunch. I’m very excited about that. So, with my small amount of time, I’ll simply say that music makes me… →

  • He Took Me Seriously. Again.

    I’m a generally creative person. I knit and crochet. I’m crafty in other ways and other mediums too. But I’m also creative, I believe, in my writing and my husband just enabled me to take my creativity to a whole new level. With my desire to be a published writer one day, I have been… →

  • 5Ws Wednesday–Who am I again?

    Is your life today what you pictured a year ago? This is a perfect question for today. We’re all in the reflective, looking back mode as we get closer to the new year. For me, while my life has greatly changed over this past year, I honestly don’t know if this is how I pictured… →

  • Music/Movie Monday—Identity Theft is not a Joke

    I should add a category to my Monday theme because today, I don’t have something from a song or a movie. It’s from a television show. Based on the title, did you guess what show I’m referencing? If you guessed The Office, you are correct. Specifically this scene, when Jim dresses up as Dwight, in… →

  • Music/Movie Monday—Fancy

    My husband and I were watching the lighting of the Rockefeller Tree the other night. Reba McEntire was hosting and my husband said something that kind of made fun of her music. I don’t remember what he said but it prompted me to explain to him that her songs are not sweet, innocent country songs.… →

  • Flashback Friday—Family & Funerals

    I come from a fairly large family. Certainly not large compared to some other families, but my mother had four brothers and sisters. Each of them had two children, except my mother who had three. That means I have two sisters and eight cousins. Again, not the largest number, but big enough. In 2001, our… →

  • 5Ws Wednesday—Why all the nostalgia?

    I am very much a person who experiences nostalgia frequently. In fact, I have a playlist that’s labeled “high school nostalgia”. I started adding songs to it so that when I’m working on my book, which relies heavily on transcribing old journals, I can get deeper into my feelings by listening to the music of… →

  • Music/Movie Monday—The Wet Carpet Mystery

    With this being the first Monday of December, I tried to think of a good quote from a Christmas movie. I’ve kind of struggled accepting the fact that it is, yet again, the Christmas season. This year has gone by faster than any other year of my life, I’m 100% convinced. I used to think… →

  • 5Ws Wednesday-What’s going on?

    For Wednesday’s, non-WP-daily-prompt post, I think I’m going to throw a W question out there. Who, what, when, where, why…and maybe if I’m feeling spicy, I’ll ask a ‘how’ question. The question on this first Wednesday is: What’s going on? And by going on, I am referring to the social media trend of standing with… →