Middle-aged Maverick

Tag: reading

  • Everyday Things for Everyday Happiness

    What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness? This prompt sounds familiar yet again, however, my life has been continually changing and getting better so I’m pretty certain that my 5 things today aren’t all the same as the ones I wrote about whenever this prompt first surfaced. I think this time, if I… →

  • Bedtime Story

    Describe one positive change you have made in your life. I have written extensively about all the pretty sizable and positive changes I have made in my life since quitting my job last year. My life since then has been more different than the same. And I am absolutely loving it! I’m working my way… →

  • Lose Yourself

    What activities do you lose yourself in? Not just a catchy song by Eminem. I can easily lose myself in any of my hobbies. Reading is probably the easiest activity, especially if it’s a fiction book. I’ve been alternating between fiction and non. Having just finished a very lengthy Stephen King book, I’m reading a… →

  • Touch Grass

    You know how people online will tell other people to “touch grass”? I haven’t seen it too much, but when I did see it, I had to look it up to see what it meant. From my understanding, it means you’re telling someone to go outside and reconnect with reality. It’s said to keyboard warriors… →

  • A Dog Day

    One of my dogs, Millie, has turned into a teenager lately. I suppose bringing home a new dog in December has changed her attitude. As in, she has one now. She and the new dog, Ethan, are best friends already and were on day 1, but man is she temperamental now! One day a few… →

  • The Adult Reading Rainbow

    What books do you want to read? Easy. All of them! My TBR—to-be-read— pile is quite tall. My husband and I have a weekly routine of going to Barnes & Noble every weekend, usually on Sunday evening after we’ve gone out to dinner. We’ve been doing that for years. I have books I still haven’t… →

  • It’s Not What I Thought It’d Be

    What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time? Is this not the same thing as answering the 5 things we like to do for fun? For reference, check out I’m Not as Old as My Hobbies Seem. That lists what I like to do in my leisure time. But I feel compelled to… →

  • 90s Young Adult Literature for $1,000

    Two things that you should know about me…I’m a 90s kid and I have loved to read ever since I learned how. One of the things on my “After Grad School” to-do list is “read more books” and I must say, I’m knocking that one out of the park. I already had quite a collection… →

  • I could get used to this…

    Grad school officially ended two weeks ago. I sat through a 4 hour long graduation ceremony in which I was jealous of our commencement speaker who passed out five minutes into her speech and got to leave early, albeit carted off in an ambulance. She’s fine by the way. Since finishing that two year jumble… →