Middle-aged Maverick

Category: Random Thoughts

  • Hold on!

    Tonight, my husband and I were watching a documentary on HBO that told of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life just a few years before his assassination. His life was narrated by the people who worked alongside him. One of the major events that Dr. King had gotten involved with was the Vietnam War. He was… →

  • I want to attend the Oscars

    One of my earliest posts on this blog is similar to the thoughts I’m having tonight. The Academy Awards are on tonight and while I have absolutely no desire to be a famous celebrity–I don’t like being the center of attention, even at my own wedding–I still wish I was one, at least just for… →

  • Homebody

    I like being at home. I yearn for the time that I have each night sitting on the couch with my feet up. I enjoy my Saturdays when I have the time during the day to sit. Being that it’s March, which means the school year hasn’t ended yet, most of that time on the… →

  • Random thoughts on fitness

    I’m a little scared to step on the scale. I’ve gained back a few pounds over the holidays and I’m not sure I really want to know if I’ve been successful in working them off. But what I am sure of is that my doctor is proud of me. He said this to me, along… →

  • Packing for the Apocalypse

    It’s Sunday night, and I’m parked in front of the t.v. watching the last episode of The Walking Dead from the previous season. The new season will premiere in less than half an hour. I will admit to not having watched the series from the very beginning, but I have been a fan for the… →

  • Generosity-the knitter’s heart

    She said of me: “you are constantly showing your generosity with all things yarny, and I would lay money down you do the same in all other aspects of your life!” The context of this quote is that I volunteered to knit a lace scarf for a friend that I’ve never met using my own… →

  • Reflections on Pride

    The CBS Evening News just ended and it has left an impression on me. The Orlando tragedy has been the focus of every news broadcast but the reports are all over the place and hard to comprehend all of this information that is thrown into the report. But the 30 minutes of news that I just… →

  • Pause

    Driving home today, I felt myself beginning to fade into a zone of deep thought. I wasn’t really  listening to the radio, though it was on and for a brief moment I was aware that an old Adele song was playing. I had just come from a faculty meeting at school, the last of the… →

  • The Pope and I

    When Saint Pope John Paul the second died, I heard of many people who cried. I was fascinated by that. How could somebody cry over the death of a public figure whom they had never met? Perhaps the fact that at the time of his death, I had only been a confirmed Catholic for a… →

  • The Passage of Time

    Though the number of days in the above picture may be slightly off, considering I saw it on Facebook sometime in the last week or so, one thing is certain, time is flying by. I often see posts on social media from friends with children who are marveling at the passage of time as they… →