The Reluctant Grownup – Page 137 – Growing old gracelessly.

Deja Vu

Three nights before my son Jack was born, I clambered up to join my husband in our full bed. We had propped the laptop on top of our chest of drawers…

June 6, 2010

MILP Roundups

MILP #270

Attorney Work Product had it!

September 25, 2012

Categorizing Things is Overrated

Is this TMI?

I left my moo-cow machine at home. First time, in six months – I guess it was bound to happen eventually. As Patrick rearranges his schedule to drive up here…

November 6, 2008

Censored

RG / October 4, 2011

Oh man, lots of things on my mind, most of them improper for public consumption. The emotional load has been heavy lately, for a number of reasons, mostly related to extended family troubles…

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Rosh Hashanah (& Some Other Things)

RG / September 27, 2011

Happy New Year to all you lovely Jews out there! (Do I have any Jewish readers? I don’t know. But having a Jewish bestie in law school keeps me plugged into the big…

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Whiling Away the Day

RG / September 25, 2011

The cat is sleeping in a pile of clothes. Clean clothes, formerly folded, but now kneaded into a kitty nest for her. In the next room, pictures of her as a new kitten…

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Journal Woes

RG / September 20, 2011

I’ve been editing an article for my school’s journal. It . . . isn’t an awesome experience. It involves lots of late nights (early mornings, to be technical), getting cozy with the Bluebook…

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Nine One One, One One

RG / September 11, 2011

Every single remembrance of nine eleven that I have ever read, I swear, begins with a description of the sky. Clear. Blue. Perfect. Cloudless. Cerulean. We expected some kind of warning. Mother Nature’s failure…

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