Middle-aged Maverick

Tag: life

  • Grocery shopping is boring but steak night is awesome

    List your top 5 grocery store items. The prompt is asking about grocery items. I have to clarify here and say that when I go to the store, it is usually Walmart which is more than just grocery. But every time I got to Walmart, I swear I buy a box of kitty litter. I… →

  • Christmas is Weird This Year

    Back in the spring, when I knew I was quitting my job of 19 years and doing…well, I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life at that point. I just knew I wasn’t going to keep being an educator. I wrote repeatedly in my journal about how badly I couldn’t wait… →

  • I’m Just Awesome…Eventually

    What’s the first impression you want to give people? I wish people’s first impression of me is that I’m awesome. They don’t ever get that at first though. It takes me warming up a little bit around people for them to figure that out. My new co-workers thought I was too quiet when I first… →

  • The Joys of Life After Grad School

    You know what’s great about not being in grad school anymore and also not being a teacher? Exactly what I expected and long desired, more time at home to do whatever I want. I’m not worried or anxious about having time on the weekend or evenings to do hobby stuff. I haven’t felt like knitting… →

  • Middle Age Insights: Embracing the Present Over the Past

    Absolutely not! The experiences I have had in my childhood, my teen years, and my 20s are not anything that makes me feel like I want to go back and relive any of it. There was a lull in my 30s where everything was o.k. But honestly, now that I have reached middle-aged status (hence… →

  • The return of high school on Facebook

    In a previous post, I described how I am going back and reading through all of my old journals. There are 38 completely filled up. I’m writing in #39 right now. Yesterday I read volume 7. At that point in my life, when I was filling up #7, I was finishing my sophomore year of… →

  • Daily Prompt Response—Alternative Career Path

    What alternative career paths have you considered or are interested in? Really? This is the prompt I get today? Um…nearly 90% of my posts since the spring have been about my alternative career path. Of course, this random question generator couldn’t have known that and I am always happy to tell anyone who will listen… →

  • Daily Prompt Response—Pride

    What are you most proud of in your life? I like it when people are proud of me, but I have a hard time feeling proud of myself. Of course, I know I can be proud of other things. When I was a teacher, I was proud of the Battle of the Books team I… →

  • Do kids today even know…

    There are two sources of inspiration for this post, which honestly, I can easily turn into a series of posts because I keep coming across things that could fit. The first source is simply that I was a teacher and principal of an elementary/middle school for 19 years. The things that would come up in… →

  • Daily Prompt Response—Work in Progress

    What have you been working on? I’m a crafter, so I could answer this question by discussing the various knitting and crochet projects that I have been working on lately. But they’re not exciting me right now. In fact, I haven’t really worked on them much lately. I could say that I have been working… →