Middle-aged Maverick

Category: Random Thoughts

  • Talk About it Tuesday—Friday, October 24, 1997

    I’m very slowly transcribing certain passages from 30 years worth of journals that I’ve written in and kept. In case you haven’t read my earlier posts, this is what I’m doing and why I’m doing it–Journaling for Mental Health: A 30-Year Journey I’m on volume number 5, I think. I’m about to finish filling up… →

  • 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.… →

  • “Something Good” Sunday—Finally Healing

    What positive events have taken place in your life over the past year? There are so many positive events that have happened for me this year. I think all of them revolve around the baby steps I’ve taken to becoming a truly healed trauma survivor. The moments where I have said what I was thinking… →

  • 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… →

  • Who I Am

    Change? About myself? Here’s my answer to that… Not a damn thing. I’ve done enough changing in the past year and a half that I think I’m good for a while. I might like to change my weight at some point. Maybe sooner than later. Mounjaro only takes you so far and then eventually you… →

  • 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… →

  • Talk About it Tuesday—The thumb that almost ruined Christmas

    Keeping with the theme of Christmas this week, my story for “Talk About it Tuesday” takes place a few days before Christmas in 1991 or 1992. This story is also an example of “things my secretary doesn’t know” because it involves the process of locking a car door in the time before key fobs. Which,… →

  • 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… →

  • “Something Good” Sunday: Christmas Jammies

    I was struggling to think of something good from this week for my feel-good Sunday post. There’s actually been quite a few good things this week. I’ve already talked about my tattoo from Friday. That was good, well, didn’t feel good, but the art produced by the pain is amazing. Thanksgiving was wonderful too. The… →

  • We’re All Better With It

    What technology would you be better off without, why? I think all technology serves a practical purpose. And how much we depend on that technology is subjective. Electricity is considered technology and yet, all of us rely on it daily. However, technology such as smart phones and Wi-Fi are things that we could, technically do… →