The Reluctant Grownup – Page 131 – Growing old gracelessly.

Carolina, I Can Haz Recession Angst, Like a Horse and Carriage

Throw Me a PFD

Anybody else drowning today? Nothing’s going right for our little family here lately. Work is a mess – I have spent the last three weeks frantic, heart racing, trying…

May 29, 2007

Categorizing Things is Overrated

One Sentence Story – The Deadbeat Husband

Coincidentally – or was it by design? – he chose to leave the country just as it came time to build the baby item registry, leaving her to tear her hair and…

January 21, 2008

Categorizing Things is Overrated

Nerves

6:15 pm, at work. My heart is thumping, sweat is pooling in my bra, my fingers are jittery and throwing out losts off typoss. Why? Oh, just another fun disciplinary…

November 19, 2007

Angry?

RG / January 2, 2012

A couple people asked – on NYE, I drank a lot of wine and wrote something about being angry. I did not remember typing it. I don’t know what I was angry about.…

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Aught Eleven

RG / January 1, 2012

1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before? Wrote a Motion to Sever. (It won!) 2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for…

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It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

RG / December 20, 2011

The other day we put the kids in the car after supper and we drove them through the twinkling streets of uptown New Orleans to marvel at the lights. We pointed out the…

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Christmas Commercialism – DEFENDED

RG / December 19, 2011

I’m bucking the trend and saying yes, I love the buying of Things at Christmastime. For me, Christmas is the “gratification” part of “delayed gratification.” I don’t buy stuff for my kids, myself,…

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IRRITATION

RG / December 16, 2011

Frustrated by a minor situation with a project I’m doing at school. This guy could give lessons in how not to do things. Lesson 1 – do not assign something to a middle…

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