Middle-aged Maverick

Category: Random Thoughts

  • On Second Thought

    What’s your favorite word? I’m going to contradict myself on this one today. Recently the prompt asked us about a word we would give up. I wrote about giving up the F word. My logic was that Taylor Swift doesn’t use words like that to destroy people with her lyrics, so as a writer, maybe… →

  • An Autumn Masterpiece

    What are you doing this evening? Years ago, my father-in-law put built-in bookshelves on one of the walls of the dining room in our house. Apparently he did that for my mother-in-law. Right now they are a straight from the 70s mauve/pink color, but I’ve always wanted a house with built-in shelves like that. I… →

  • A Summer of Athletes

    Name the professional athletes you respect the most and why. Last summer, I was delightfully unemployed. I had quit my job and it was about two months before I got hired somewhere else. Those two months were fabulous! During my time at home, I became a ‘domestic goddess’ as one friend described me. Our house… →

  • Back to Life, Back to Reality

    What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life? Really?! Another habit question? Oh boy. Can we skip this re-run? I knit. I crochet. I journal. I sit in my favorite spot on the couch every night. I sit under the magnolia tree in my backyard. I used to run. We’ve been… →

  • My Search History—by Middle-Aged Maverick

    What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it? Did the FBI sponsor this question? Probably not. They already know our search history, I’m sure. They would want to know why we were looking up those things though. That is, of course, after the fact. They would want to… →

  • Reel It In

    How would you design the city of the future? Cities of the future are hard to imagine. Actually, not really. We had the Jetsons and Back to the Future Part 2 to help us think of what cities might be like years from now. It’s interesting to see some of the similarities between what was… →

  • The Big M

    What motivates you? A very simple question today and yet, it makes me have many questions in response. The first of those questions is…motivates me for what? What motivates me to get out of bed in the morning? Easy. I have to pee. What motivates me to not get back in bed? I have to… →

  • Movies on Repeat

    What are your top ten favorite movies? I have been asked this question before! Not by WordPress, but by some nosy 8th graders I was teaching one year. I made an honest-to-goodness handwritten top 10 list. It was on an index card that for some strange reason, I kept, but now I can’t find it.… →

  • I Love Words

    What do you enjoy most about writing? There are two things that I really enjoy about writing. I can’t decide which one is better than the other. The first is all about the process. Cue the guy from the A-team who always said he loves when a plan comes together. I love when I have… →

  • Taylor Swift’s Debut Album

    What I’m doing—listening to all of Taylor Swift’s albums in chronological order for the first time. My deadline is October 2nd so I can experience her new album on the 3rd with the rest of her fandom. I finished her debut album this morning. A lot of people on Threads commented that her first one… →