The Reluctant Grownup – Page 129 – Growing old gracelessly.

Holidays and Celebrations, Jack, Liam

Christmas Wrapped Up

Our front door is wide open, letting in the sixty degree air. Liam is rolling around on a pile of blankets I put on our cold tile floor. Jack is…

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December 30, 2010

Categorizing Things is Overrated

From the Brink

We sent Patrick’s mother out on Monday to the Gun n’ Pawn to purchase a means by which to put us out of our misery. Today I can say I’m…

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February 11, 2009

Everyday Adventures

They Say It’s My Birthday

Still sick. Still busy. Too busy to write much. Except – Happy Birthday to me! I am taking a few hours out of my day this evening to do something…

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September 1, 2010

Housekeeping

RG / January 18, 2012

This term is (knock on wood) starting off swimmingly – just like my last term was seeming to go, before I broke my back and knocked my karma out of whack (not to…

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It Still Resonates

RG / January 16, 2012

From MLKJ’s last speech in Memphis: “You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept…

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Citizen of the world

RG / January 15, 2012

On my graduation application: Hometown (to be printed in commencement program): ____________________ I never know what to put for these things. Luckily nobody cares.

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19 months

RG / January 13, 2012

So, firstly, you never sleep, and that really sucks. However. You talk a lot. You sing Twinkle Twinkle Wil Staw, How I Wonder What Aw. Up Abuh Woo High, Wike a Di Eye,…

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PS

RG / January 13, 2012

(After harping on the summa cum laude thing, I feel it’s only fair to admit to you that I barely passed my Masters program. Which was in Shakespeare! Which I loved! And I…

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