Greetings!

 Good day! For my first post let me reintroduce myself. I started a blog way back in 2009, after the great lay off of the millennium. Seriously depressed and feeling worthless, I found blogger. For many years it was cathartic to share my life, stories, etcetera, etcetera...

So why start again? I have time. I need to find sanity in this f-ed up world. I need to find a way to relieve the chaos out there. This will be my zen garden.

My name is Maggie. I am still Thingy. I was born in the 1900's when spending time outdoors digging holes to China was the norm. We didn't lock doors, knew our neighbors, ate what was served at dinner time. I also lived in a world where white folks locked their car doors if a black man walked by. I lived in the world where nuns rapped your knuckles and no one stood up to bullies.

I grew up with questions. Lots of questions regarding the hypocrisy I witnessed on a daily basis and no one was there to help me understand any of it. Children were seen, not heard. If a nun calls in your parent to tell them, "Margaret's skirt is not pleated. Her hair is dirty and her nails are filthy." Said parent sides with mother superior and shoots laser beams at disgusting offspring who will pay for being such a disgrace. We drive home in silence. He goes back to his bedroom to watch the Chicago Cubs lose another game. My mother starts her night with the pop and slurp of Old Style. 

Somewhere, somehow, I became the outsider. Perhaps because I was shy, I watched rather than participated and learned from an early age not to rely on adults or believe most of what they say. 

I am an atheist, a liberal, a now single woman who loves cats even though I have none. I am living in this very strange world where a rapist can make rules and I'm having a hard time making sense of it all.

This is my quest, to try and find normalcy in a most unusual time in history.