Middle-aged Maverick

Category: Random Thoughts

  • Uninspired

    I have felt particularly uninspired lately. I haven’t posted to my social media since before Easter. I have gobs of ideas and things I want to share, but I have no energy to do it. I haven’t even felt like writing lately. I badly need to finish transcribing volume 7 of my journals. Volume 7… →

  • What if…

    5Ws Wednesday When I was a kid, my best friend and I had a thing about asking “What if…” questions. We would never answer the questions, they were more for us to giggle over as we imagined what would happen. For example, “What if you were getting ready to take a shower and you had… →

  • Faye

    Talk About it Tuesday I took my little kitty girl to the vet yesterday for a follow up appointment. She’s doing a little better than she was last week. Eight hundred dollars later and she has two new medicines pumped into her and I have an i.v. bag of fluids I have to hook her… →

  • Catholic Satire

    Movie/music Monday Back in 2000 when Josh and I first got together, we often rented movies from a little mom and pop video store up the street from his mom’s house where he was living at the time (where we now live). One of the movies we rented was “Dogma”. Both of us are Catholic,… →

  • The Air is Clear

    “Something Good” Sunday This week was a long one! I worked a full day yesterday, and that threw off the rhythm of my weekend. But, Josh being as amazing as he is, did all the things yesterday that I normally do on Saturdays…laundry, washing dishes, etc. He asked me before I left what I was… →

  • A Message from the Universe

    Screenshot Saturday I shared this screenshot back in February. When I originally posted this, I reflected on how as a teacher, I tried to do everything. Because I said yes to everything. But now I don’t because I know that what really matters is at home. It has nothing to do with my job. I… →

  • A Teaching Reminder

    Flashback Friday I wasn’t sure exactly what I was going to reflect on for today. It has been another busy day. I went into our new building today to help set up for an event that’s going on tomorrow. While I was there, another employee that works where I now work came in. We were… →

  • My Girl Faye

    What a busy day! So as not to break my streak of daily posting, I’ll make this brief. I’ll pick up my mental health topic I had planned for today next week. I worked today but also had to step out for a moment to take my 19-year old kitty, Faye, to the vet unexpectedly.… →

  • Supervision in a New Generation

    5Ws Wednesday What year did you graduate high school? I never should have asked that question yesterday. My supervisor and the other new person on my team were in the car headed to a work event yesterday afternoon. We got to talking about where we were from and as it turns out, she and I… →

  • Teen Angst and How I Miss It

    Talk About it Tuesday As I have been transcribing my journals lately, I have found myself in volume 7, which takes place in the spring of 1998. I was 15 years old and in the 10th grade then. April was particularly eventful. That month saw me sitting in the back of the school bus with… →