The Reluctant Grownup – Page 129 – Growing old gracelessly.

Leftovers

It’s all leftover food, leftover feelings around here. We brought a lot of food home from the wedding, which has helped keep us eating good dinners even though Mama didn’t…

May 3, 2016

Sometimes I Get Hepped Up and Think I Know a Thing or Two

Hot Air

I’m not sleeping. It’s taken me several years to find my rage. As Madeleine Albright famously said – “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and…

November 12, 2016

Holidays and Celebrations, New Orleans

Parades # 5 & 6 – Preschool Playground Parades, and Mama Marches in D’Etat

On Friday morning, Jack’s class had their annual parade at school. Half of the kids decorate wagons with purple, green and gold banners. They dress in their Mardi Gras finest,…

February 20, 2012

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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