51 years ago…51 years to go… It has been a wonderful year Graduate school and Grandchild…another college graduate and more trips to the beach. I have to say, this was one of the most fun years of my life. Couple things you should know about being 50…your body starts to betray you…keep moving get healthy […]
2019 #HalfCenturyLife #Aries
2018 was a year of change, a year of firsts. My life moved towards the future, a different life than what I imagined; a new beginning. This was a year to continue my education, open my heart, celebrate a milestone, and become a grandmother. An Aries year to reset my opinions, goals, and perceptions. A […]
Grandmother Hood #halfcenturylife #makingmelinda68 #hoods #parenthood
It is a strange thing to see your baby girl pregnant. It seems that I have been waiting forever to be a grandmother. Now back in AZ for the gender reveal it is all coming into focus. I can trace my life backwards to my decision to leave Omaha to enroll at Roosevelt University in […]
Day Two of my #halfcenturylife #passportgoals
So day two I am leaving Spain from Tarifa to Tanger Morocco. I have to say reflecting on my life, I wouldn’t trade the first 50 years for anything to come. A life unexamined is a life not lived. This is what drives me to travel, to reflect, and to remember to let go of […]
Finding The World #’hoods #passportgoals #halfcenturylife
I wanted to be a Foreign Service Officer. That was my goal. I wanted to see and be in the world. I started my college life in political science and discovered the world. Around my sophomore year I decided that I wanted to have a global life. Being raised in a military family, I was […]
Raising Grown Ups #halfcenturylife
#RaisingGrownUps #MakingMelinda #HalfCenturyLife #next’hood Raising Grown Ups turned out to be more difficult than I expected, yet I am satisfied with my efforts. I remember learning that I was pregnant and crying for three straight days. I had ruined everything, I had let everyone down. Those were my first thoughts, then I got scared. I […]
On Love, lessons from 50 #MyProtector #beingloved
I found this canvas in an antique shop in Houston’s Montrose neighborhood. It stopped my heart. This is how I see myself. This is who I am at my core. But the picture can be interpreted differently from my view. This is a mother protecting her son, a sister protecting her brother, a wife protecting […]
Making Melinda 50 #halfcenturylife #newhood
Making my 50th year….. I turn 50 this year. It is an interesting number, half century and all that. It is also the first time that I have had to reflect on my life, a serious agonizing reflection. For the last 15 years I have raised three beautiful intelligent compassionate ambitious successful children. My […]
Presidential…
I find myself wondering what this means to me. As I listen to our current president call democrats treasonous because they choose not to applaud during his State of the Union. Does this mean that Republicans were treasonous when they didn’t applaud Pres. Obama during his State of the Union address? If Donald Trump didn’t […]
#NolansinNola
October 30 was a special day for us. We married our baby girl big sister to Nolan Ryan. Ryan became family in 2006 while he and Blake were freshmen in high school. I had a thought then, but didn’t hope to much that they would remain together. My grandparents were married until death, over 70 […]