Woohoo! I actually have been stalking you and wondering what happened. 🤣 i did wonder if your mom's passing had spurred some of it. But when i listen to you and Kyle on your podcast, it mostly sounded like you wanted to enjoy some time at the beach. Cheers to that! 👙🍹🌴
It is lovely to hear from you! Hope you are ok in light of hurricanes etc etc. Look forward to more pilot posts and whatever. Xo Long Lost Awesome Dawn (I am off all SM these days so I am waaaay out of the loop.)
I just love reading your writing, Meg! This 46 year old Gemini is all in for a life pivot! My husband and I are actually in the middle of scouting out places to move to in the next few years! So glad to hear you are doing well. ❤️
My midlife pivot was buying a farm in the country! I love the reframing of the midlife crisis. As we age, we can just see things more clear and that is a gift. My uncle once told me that college was wasted on the youth. At the time, I scoffed but now I realize what he means. I’ve aged and discovered so many things about myself. Like if I wasn’t a nurse, I’d go to collage to be a million other things. Anyhow, I digress. I miss your musings and your voice!!!!!! Anxiously awaiting the day you might pick up a mic again. Your awesomeness made my Saturday morning today.
I will also affirm that I most definitely did the social media hunt to see if there was some unspoken situation that pushed you all to move. And… happy to see that it looks like goodness and hope (not scandal!) that sent you to Florida. All the best!
Moved from Maryland to Las Vegas and traded the minivan for a Tesla!
Also traded elementary classroom teaching for elementary physical education. Y’all I get paid the same to teach kids to play! Still a difficult job with insane amounts of paperwork but soooooo much less consuming and I get to go to work in leggings and sweatpants!
I have been wondering how you guys have been! Glad to hear y’all have made moves that feel good and true to what kind of life you want to live! So far my midlife crisis has brought me a divorce (a happy one) and a move to an apartment downtown. Excited to see where the next move takes me!
Glad to find you on Substack! My midlife pivot is unapologetically protecting my peace. For me, that meant going no contact with an immediate member of my family of origin. And then not letting the rest of my family guilt me into giving this person access to myself or my kids.
Meg, so happy to read an update from you! Thanks for sharing these words with us. I imagine your mom is SO proud of the pivot you've made. I hope your kiddos are all doing so well.
And until reading Dawn's comment below, I don't think I realized that Awesome Today was still happening! I may need to go binge a few episodes.
I am so sorry about the hard things that happened to your mom (and all who loved her). Such hard changes to absorb. But I love the idea of pivoting as a positive thing. I think it might be the key to a happy, healthy life. Because things change, and if we can't change with them, we lose so much that is good about living. (Speaking from experience; did a big scary pivot in my early 40s, and then another in my late 50s. Hmmm...I'm thinking now that all pivots have some element of fear in them, don't they? But so worth it.)
My father died of complications from diabetes at 58. I had just turned 21 years old three weeks earlier and was on my final semester of my undergraduate college degree. The world changed for me forever.
Now I am two years away from that milestone age myself, and it haunts me, this fear that I may not make it past it. Like him, I also have diabetes, and live with chronic stress. I could, should take better care of myself.
Woohoo! I actually have been stalking you and wondering what happened. 🤣 i did wonder if your mom's passing had spurred some of it. But when i listen to you and Kyle on your podcast, it mostly sounded like you wanted to enjoy some time at the beach. Cheers to that! 👙🍹🌴
It is lovely to hear from you! Hope you are ok in light of hurricanes etc etc. Look forward to more pilot posts and whatever. Xo Long Lost Awesome Dawn (I am off all SM these days so I am waaaay out of the loop.)
I just love reading your writing, Meg! This 46 year old Gemini is all in for a life pivot! My husband and I are actually in the middle of scouting out places to move to in the next few years! So glad to hear you are doing well. ❤️
My midlife pivot was buying a farm in the country! I love the reframing of the midlife crisis. As we age, we can just see things more clear and that is a gift. My uncle once told me that college was wasted on the youth. At the time, I scoffed but now I realize what he means. I’ve aged and discovered so many things about myself. Like if I wasn’t a nurse, I’d go to collage to be a million other things. Anyhow, I digress. I miss your musings and your voice!!!!!! Anxiously awaiting the day you might pick up a mic again. Your awesomeness made my Saturday morning today.
I will also affirm that I most definitely did the social media hunt to see if there was some unspoken situation that pushed you all to move. And… happy to see that it looks like goodness and hope (not scandal!) that sent you to Florida. All the best!
Moved from Maryland to Las Vegas and traded the minivan for a Tesla!
Also traded elementary classroom teaching for elementary physical education. Y’all I get paid the same to teach kids to play! Still a difficult job with insane amounts of paperwork but soooooo much less consuming and I get to go to work in leggings and sweatpants!
I have been wondering how you guys have been! Glad to hear y’all have made moves that feel good and true to what kind of life you want to live! So far my midlife crisis has brought me a divorce (a happy one) and a move to an apartment downtown. Excited to see where the next move takes me!
Glad to find you on Substack! My midlife pivot is unapologetically protecting my peace. For me, that meant going no contact with an immediate member of my family of origin. And then not letting the rest of my family guilt me into giving this person access to myself or my kids.
Meg, so happy to read an update from you! Thanks for sharing these words with us. I imagine your mom is SO proud of the pivot you've made. I hope your kiddos are all doing so well.
And until reading Dawn's comment below, I don't think I realized that Awesome Today was still happening! I may need to go binge a few episodes.
Love to you!!
Oh friend!! We have hoursssssss of chitter chatter with all kinds of things we’ve been up to!
I am so sorry about the hard things that happened to your mom (and all who loved her). Such hard changes to absorb. But I love the idea of pivoting as a positive thing. I think it might be the key to a happy, healthy life. Because things change, and if we can't change with them, we lose so much that is good about living. (Speaking from experience; did a big scary pivot in my early 40s, and then another in my late 50s. Hmmm...I'm thinking now that all pivots have some element of fear in them, don't they? But so worth it.)
My father died of complications from diabetes at 58. I had just turned 21 years old three weeks earlier and was on my final semester of my undergraduate college degree. The world changed for me forever.
Now I am two years away from that milestone age myself, and it haunts me, this fear that I may not make it past it. Like him, I also have diabetes, and live with chronic stress. I could, should take better care of myself.
It’s such surreal realization, isn’t it? Sending a warm hug across the miles, friend.