The Reluctant Grownup – Page 121 – Growing old gracelessly.

Coming About

Well, it’s happened. The ship has turned. I can point my bow (stern? port? bow is the front, yes?) towards the future, any future. It is a coping mechanism, a…

January 17, 2010

Holidays and Celebrations

Gobble Gobble

Dinner at 3. I make chipotle smashed sweet potatoes, which nobody likes. My mother calls the peppers chi-polt-ay beans, and we make merciless fun. After, poker chips and beer at…

November 25, 2010

Liam

Snap

And just like that, as of about halfway through the day on the Fourth, I’ve snapped out of it. Still a little bored, still a little listless, but the depression…

July 6, 2010

Splash

RG / May 12, 2012

Whenever it rains in New Orleans, the streets turn into swimming pools. The boys, along with our upstairs neighbor, donned boots and puddle-stomped, while I supervised them and also a morning yard sale.…

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Fin

RG / May 9, 2012

I just finished my very last exam of my life (except for that whole THE BAR EXAM thing – I start the class to study for that on Monday. So like, in four…

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MILP #251, Exams Edition

RG / May 7, 2012

At Today and Tomorrow this week!

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To Throw a Birthday Party

RG / May 6, 2012

I am surfacing briefly, gulping some air before diving back down into the miserable, murky sea of finals week, in order to bring my eldest son’s adoring fans a few pictures from his…

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MILP Roundup #250

RG / May 1, 2012

. . . is at Attorney Work Product this week! At Today and Tomorrow the week after that, and then here!

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