The Reluctant Grownup – Page 116 – Growing old gracelessly.

Music City and the desert

I flew from NOLA to Nashville on Monday, November 22 for a week of Thanksgiving cheer, and then flew to Arizona on Sunday November 28 for work. I just got…

December 5, 2021

I Can Haz Recession Angst, Sometimes I Get Hepped Up and Think I Know a Thing or Two

Fishing

When my father started his naval career, a college graduate in the officer’s program, he made $8,280 per year. Adjusted for inflation, that amount would equal $32,706 today. First year…

August 22, 2011

Everyday Adventures, Jack, Law School, Pregnancy Sucks, Dude

Exams, Bouncy Seats, and “Genius Law Clerk” Earrings

Yesterday I took my seventh law school exam, the final one of my 1L year, and it was the worst, most ridiculous, dumbest hide-the-ball piece of nonsense I’ve ever seen.…

May 4, 2010

the end is the beginning

RG / August 15, 2012

My husband’s grandmother passed away. My husband is very private, he reads this blog, and I am not sure how much he’d want put here about this experience. But it feels disingenuous to…

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Bandelier

RG / August 10, 2012

The following morning, the Professor lights the already-built fire (LUXURY), and we listen to New Age Native American flute music, which is sort of unlike us, but perfect in this context. He reads…

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August

RG / August 8, 2012

Waiting for our house to be done. You say our old house is “broken.” We toured the new house, and you were very concerned that there were no potties in it. The other…

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August

RG / August 8, 2012

Potty training started today. You seem to dig sitting on the potty, and you are all about the M&Ms and stickers. I had to make a rule that you sit down for five…

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To Market to Market

RG / August 7, 2012

**Edited to add a bit that I had written before and inadvertently left off, added at the top.*** The next day – what day is it? Saturday? – dawns bright and fair, another…

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