Midlife Musings
Fortysomething. If my life were a TV show, that would be the title, and these are the episodes. Or maybe I am just having an episode.
Everything they don't put in the brochure for your 40s. Work situations that make your blood boil, body changes nobody prepared you for, pop culture opinions held with unreasonable conviction, and the general absurdity of being a grown woman who still hasn't figured out what she wants to be when she grows up. Honest, unfiltered, and occasionally petty in ways that are entirely justified.No Trespassing: A Field Guide to Boundaries
A field guide to setting boundaries with toxic family, from someone who's been overruled, gaslit, and managed by committee. Five rules, zero apologies.
I Like to Walk Because I Can
I like to walk because I can. I see people who can't and I will not take these fully functioning legs for granted. For as long as they continue to carry me.
Love, a Secondhand Emotion
I don’t remember being in love. I was thinking about it the other day, thinking about when the ex and I started dating, and I don’t remember the feeling I must have had of being in this all-consuming passion for another person.
Music Roulette 7 – Reality Sound Bites
Music is a powerful, accessible memory cue. Therefore, I am setting the shuffle loose again for another round of music roulette to resurface my deep memories. This has been helping me recall personal experiences and process the emotions that are clogging my memory storage. Especially since I don’t have my journals on hand for me to scour for memory triggers. Part of a midlife renewal plan, the music based therapy part of my sabbatical. I’m going to let the music do the heavy lifting again. Here we go.
Music Roulette 6 ~ It Was All a Stream
There is a close link between music, emotion, and memory. I recently read somewhere that there is a major link called “music-evoked autobiographical memory”. Who knew my music roulette explorations had a name! And that there were so many studied done on the subject. In that vein, let’s continue digging into my mental archives via a randomly selected song list pulled from all the songs I have listened to and liked on Spotify. In the words of the defunct Navy slogan: Let the journey begin…
