About Me

Welcome my fellow opinionated person! Do you find yourself sitting back and letting others speak their mind while mumbling under your breath your opinion to what’s being said or done? I’m Buddy Wilson, and I’m an avid mumble maker.

I spent more than thirty-seven years working for the government. I retired a few years back and with that came a different perspective about a lot of things. Politically speaking, I’m an independent thinking centrist that tends to lean fiscally conservative, but socially liberal. I think there are more of us out there than you might think. I like to say I’m the one the two major parties are always courting. Those die-harder’s are already locked up, but the reality is that neither major party can win on their own, so they work very hard to bring those of us in the middle to their side. In recent years, with the absurdity of this new age of polarizing ideologies, has left a wasteland in the middle filled with people lost and feeling they don’t belong. What is absurd is that they goad us via shame, guilt, violence, disinformation, and too many issues blown out of proportion. They try to swing the middle to the far right or left when they should be moving to common ground and building a platform we can all stand on. It seems a an uphill climb to a lost battle, therefore, I cuss both sides under my breath and pray that someone will finally make sense of it all. Outside of politics, I must seem like a pinball to observers. However the bouncing around makes sense and feels right. Whether I’m cooking, shooting, hunting, fishing, gardening, sports, wine tasting, or enjoying the finer points of micro-brews, I find interest in so many things that often I find myself begging for simplicity. Oddly, I hate chaos, but it seems my life is in a constant state of it.

I have five kids and eight grandkids. Three from my first marriage and two that I have adopted as my own with my second marriage. All in their thirties and have families of their own. In retirement, this becomes your single biggest TV-drama series. With the advent of Portal TV and a 82″ screen, it becomes bigger than life, and with each kid or grandchild being a new episode with plot lines, pitfalls, twists and turns, all for our viewing pleasure and sometimes not.

We love retirement and although we are in weird times of COVID and the chaos of politics and cultist leadership, we truly and without any doubt, live for the moments of seeing our kids and grandkids. We are renovating, landscaping, and travelling for years and, like a lot of retired folks, somehow we’re still bored. Work was my social outlet for thought-sharing and the interaction satisfied me enough that I could go home void of the days events. We do fine between us, pretty much as any successful married couple in their sixties would do, but we both decided there was something missing. For Jen, it was her creative outlet. Her mind reels with creating and she opened and eventually closed an online store of her goods. Now she has turned to blogging the creative recipes of her lifestyle. I’ll shamelessly plug some link in somewhere whenever I figure out where and how that works. For me, it was sharing a thought, giving advice, finding a solution to a problem, and being part of a team, and sometimes the go-to guy.

What to expect…one might say nothing. This keeps the expectations low and easy to meet. I haven’t decided how I want to receive feedback or if I do at all, but I’m sure I will get it. Whether it is just a comment or if it will be open blast session when I cross the line for someone or maybe hit a nerve via the comments at the end of that particular blog or I might give an email address and ask you to write me. I’m sure it will happen and with that, I do not apologize for how I feel, and I don’t expect you to either. I, also don’t give a rat’s ass as to whether you think I’m wrong, that I’m going to hell, have no idea what I’m thinking, etc. Having fun with those that feel they must sit in judgement of me, well that is the side I actually love the most. I do all participate and come to have fun. In the end, I do have the big edit button and I control content. I do enjoy hearing from someone that differs in opinion and is willing to explain why. I find that refreshing, especially if it comes from some effort of thought and isn’t from some sheepish fellowship of following blindly without foundation. Eventually I will touch on a lot of subjects, sometimes daily, sometimes with days in between. But, please come back and spend some time with me. I’ll learn the electronic dressing up for the site along the way and make it more enjoyable.

Thanks for visiting me and please share your story with me. I will provide an email somewhere in here, you know, whenever I figure out where and how.