The Reluctant Grownup – Page 148 – Growing old gracelessly.

Holidays and Celebrations, Like a Horse and Carriage

The End

We walked up to the door of our reception, and I started asking around after my family. “Where’s my sister?” I asked – I was really concerned that she be…

December 1, 2006

Categorizing Things is Overrated

He Chose Her

Continued from Charlie and Florence, Mildred and Spider, and Brothers at Last. And in the end, he chose her. In September of 1973, they wed. Cathy was 25. …

March 6, 2008

Domestic Bliss

Sunday Morning Meal Planning – Poverty Edition

For various reasons we have only a couple hundred dollars to last us the month, so this week’s meal involves freezer and pantry raiding like it’s my job. The habits…

September 22, 2013

Between

RG / May 6, 2011

We were down to nursing just once a day, in the morning. He would wake at 4, 5, 6, always early, and I would pull him into Jack’s bed and lay between them…

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Top Five Asinine-Behavior-By-A-Guy Moments

RG / May 2, 2011

I have lots of really awesome and cool men in my life. I also have known a lot of total losers. This post is about the latter. And please – PLEASE – share…

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Initial Thoughts

RG / May 2, 2011

Both the liberal and the conservative reactions to the death of Osama bin Laden are irritating me. We are irreconcilably divided in this country, and it’s never more obvious than taking a gander…

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Birthdays and Easter and Exams, Oh My!

RG / April 30, 2011

4-23-11 Easter Eve I worked most of the day, on a paper. But I came home around dinner time to do some Easter festivities. We dyed a dozen hard boiled eggs. It was…

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Not Waving but Drowning*

RG / April 27, 2011

I’ve gained weight, I’m doughy and pasty, I’m ill, my son’s birthday and Easter were days ago and I have posted nary a picture nor video nor update. Must be exam time. I…

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