Middle-aged Maverick

Tag: life

  • 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.… →

  • Recipe for Life (part 2): Optional Ingredients

    Inspired by my previous post today, Recipe for Life, I’ve decided to add on to the original “recipe” I shared. I thought of some optional “ingredients” that have helped me have a good life lately. I’m sharing them now as inspiration for your own “recipe”. What I shared was only the basics–pets, a home, good… →

  • Recipe for Life

    What’s your favorite recipe? There are so many recipes available out there. Believe me, I know. My husband has 72% of the world’s recipes stored on these shelves in the hallway next to our kitchen. He’s got books with cocktail recipes and beer recipes, along with food of all types. Not pictured is his binder… →

  • 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… →

  • In the Blink of a Year (part 2–the “aftermath”)

    Yesterday I posted a series of pictures and screenshots that chronicled my year as the “acting administrator” of the school where I had been a teacher for 18 years. The stress and anxiety I endured during that one year as administrator was obvious in the selfies, the screenshots of inspirational quotes, and the random other… →

  • In the Blink of a Year (part 1–the “before”)

    Given today’s prompt about habits that bring you joy, here’s another one that I thought of. I really enjoy scrolling through the pictures on my phone. I take a lot of pictures and screenshots of things that I like, or speak to me in some way. I have pictures on my phone going back to… →

  • Who Me?

    How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you? What an interesting question today. We described ourselves in general recently. Now we have to do it without someone seeing us? Well, my description last time is pretty relevant to this given that I don’t think I used sight-based traits in my description. For… →

  • Resurrecting a “Dinosaur”

    The daily prompt today is about bringing back a dinosaur. It’s the exact same one we had last June or July—seriously, I went back and looked. My answer back then was a triceratops because my name is Sarah and the ‘cera’ in triceratops sounds like my name. However, to answer the question again, I’m pulling… →

  • Oh How it Flies (the sequel)

    Yesterday, the prompt asked what makes us lose track of time. I wrote about getting lost in a good book, talking to my sister, and writing. This afternoon was the perfect example of all three of those things coming together to make me lose track of two and a half hours. I had lunch with… →

  • What It Feels Like

    Last weekend I had terrible anxiety. I had anxiety about things not even directly related to me, such as a meeting my husband had coming up at work. I cried randomly and for no reason. I had a hard time enjoying myself at a baseball game we went to on the 4th of July. I… →