Middle-aged Maverick

Tag: high school

  • 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… →

  • Damn I’m Proud

    With this question a year ago, I reflected on how I should feel proud of myself but I just couldn’t. The anger of all that I had been through lately was keeping me from feeling something positive about myself. That has changed. And funnily enough, I just became aware of what makes me proud of… →

  • Writing Proof

    As a follow up to my earlier post about procrastinating on working on my book, I would just like to share this “proof of life/writing” post. I have spent the past 2 to 3 hours working on it. I listened to my “high school nostalgia” playlist while I worked: And I noticed myself making this… →

  • Forgiveness

    The prompt today was about grudges. My response was simple…I have grudges and for now, I don’t mind having them. One of the grudges I’m holding onto involves the people who bullied me in high school. I’m grateful that I am old enough to not have had social media when I was going through school.… →

  • Not Happening

    Recently, one of my friends from high school commented on a post of mine on Facebook. She asked if I was planning to go to the reunion in October. This year is our 25th. They’ve had reunions at 10 and 20 years, but now with the 25th, they’re trying to do it up big. My… →

  • THE Shoes

    What jobs have you had? Yesterday I mentioned a pair of shoes that I bought, and how they are a serious blast from the past and how I had to get them. I’m going to work some magic right now. I’m going to turn the question today into an opportunity to talk about these shoes.… →

  • Did I ever tell you…(part 3)

    Yesterday, the daily prompt asked about what we learned in high school. In the spirit of that topic, I present another edition of “Did I ever tell you…?” This one is a high school edition and really, contains a whole list of other things I learned in that era. Did I ever tell you that… →

  • “Let Your Freak Flag Fly”

    Describe something you learned in high school. What I learned in high school?! Oh boy. I feel a whirlwind of snarky comments coming on with this one. High school was not a good experience for me. The combination of trauma I experienced at home made it difficult for me to handle situations appropriately at school.… →

  • Wednesday, May 14, 1997

    What I’m doing and why I’m doing it–Journaling for Mental Health: A 30-Year Journey Well, Jim didn’t come with news of Shannon, so I’m somewhat relieved. I really love him. Speaking of Robert (ha, ha). I actually had a conversation with him. During activity period today, he sat at my lab table. I was so… →

  • Sunday, October 20, 1996

    What I’m doing and why I’m doing it–Journaling for Mental Health: A 30-Year Journey I had gotten a little behind on transcribing my journals into text, hence the delay in getting volume 2 started here. With this journal I had started putting the day of the week that I was writing. For some reason it… →