The Reluctant Grownup – Page 129 – Growing old gracelessly.

Mystery Unveiled

There’s a neat article on Atlantic Monthly’s website (and presumably, then, also in the print magazine) all about the reason why certain ingredients in baking recipes have to be certain…

January 18, 2011

Jack, Liam, Navel Gazing (and I Don't Mean Oranges)

Distracted

I just read an article about being a distracted parent. It was a bit overwrought in my opinion – MAN, do twenty first century parents really know how to beat…

February 9, 2012

Categorizing Things is Overrated

Smack Down

Today I made a comment in class that was refuted by a gentleman who declared that "some folks" don’t understand what it’s like in "the real world," but in his…

September 21, 2009

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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