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Hi There!! Welcome to MadMaggie's OOPS! page!!! This is the story of how Maggie went from being a Michigan farm girl - to the captain of a funky little sloop!! (The picture at the left is not my boat - that will be fixed when she is done!!!) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Life is what happens while you are making other plans!!! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I have lived my entire life - "according to the rules". I don't know who made up those rules! But some of us just don't fit into the little boxes that society tries to cram you into!! I was a bank officer who never quite 'fit the mold'. The customers loved me because I was so "off-beat", but the 'Bank' (the powers that be) thought I was not the sophisticated, perfectly groomed and 'aloof' type of individual that they wanted me to be!! Well, to make a long story short - on my 58th birthday, I made a decision!! I had a 10 acre farm on a river in SW Michigan. I was taking care of my mother, my daughter and my granddaughter. My job had just gone to hell - the bank didn't like my 'freewheeling' style; the contractor I was working with went bankrupt, owing me thousands of dollars. Life didn't look like it was going to be all that bright!! So one day, shortly after my 58th birthday - I informed the members of my family that they had to find their own places to live - as I was going to sell the farm, everything I owned and run away!! I had no idea how, where or why - but I continued to give thanks for my blessings, treated other people well, held my head above water and held on!! As it turned out, a friend in Arizona came to Michigan, helped me to rid myself of over 50 years of accumulation of 'treasures'!! I loaded what else I had left into the back of his pick-up truck and headed off for Tucson!!! I dearly loved Arizona in general and Tucson in particular!! But again, my life seemed to be 'in irons' (a nautical term for no wind, not going anywhere!!) While messing around on the computer, OOPS! I met a fella who said "Do you want to sail the seven seas with me?" That's how I got to Corpus Christi, Texas!!! To go sailing!!! I had never been sailing in my life!! Oh, I DID go out one time on Lake Michigan with friends. And I had always had a home on water. I had never done anything in the way of water sports. I had always wanted to travel. So I just held on tight and ran off to Texas!! Well, OOPS! that particular relationship didn't work out the way we had anticipated. But I did meet a young man in Texas who had just purchased a small sailboat and wanted to find someone to help him fix up the boat and go sailing with him. OOPS!'What have you got going on in your life right now? ' Nothing!, I replied!! Well, just as we were really progressing and nearly had the boat ready to splash - he received a business offer that he just couldn't resist. OOPS! Maggie owns a boat!!! OOPS! Maggie doesn't even know how to sail!!! Well, I heard on TV one day - DON'T SURENDER LEADERSHIP OF YOUR LIFE TO THE NEGATIVE FORCES. LISTEN TO VOICES. Well - Maggie heard voices - good and bad!! And I said "What is the worst than can happen?" So, guess what - Maggie is taking sailing lessons! Maggie is hanging onto the dream! Maggie just had her 60th birthday - and she has this funky little boat, is taking sailing lessons and plans to do the unthinkable - one more time in her life!!! That's when friends said "Now I KNOW why you call yourself MAD Maggie!!! | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wish I had something exotic to put here!!! Any takers for a cruise? |
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