The Reluctant Grownup – Page 150 – Growing old gracelessly.

Holidays and Celebrations, Parents and Siblings and Cousins, Oh My!

The Freezing North

We spent a week at my parents’ place. I worked two of the days – my firm has an office there, which allows me to extend our visits. The two days…

January 13, 2015

Alabama, Lawyerin', Like a Horse and Carriage

Happy, Busy

I billed 11 hours today, and after I’ve finished writing this little missive, I will bill a couple more. It is fortunate, then, that I seem to very much like…

October 8, 2012

Like a Horse and Carriage, The Canine

The New Mother

I lose a lot of hair from day to day. It ends up on my clothes, in the shower, in drifts on the bathroom floor. It’s a constant blanketing of long…

August 24, 2007

So . . . Mardi Gras Happened

RG / March 10, 2011

I feel like I’ve been picked up and shaken by that vicious terrier known as Mardi Gras. There are bags under my eyes and the middle toe of my right foot is still…

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Parades, Parades, Parades

RG / February 27, 2011

I’m at school with the car. Jack’s at preschool. Liam is at home with the nanny. The nanny has a noon class, so I have to relieve her at 11:45. Jack needs picked…

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Headdesk

RG / February 25, 2011

I’m in two seminars this term. Seminars require 30 page papers instead of exams, and I prefer papers to exams, hence my choice. In one seminar, our professor required us to have our…

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The Question

RG / February 23, 2011

I was nominated for the senior board of my journal. For two positions, actually, two of four. Clearly I was well regarded during the nomination period. Tonight the elections were held. We each…

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Child of God

RG / February 23, 2011

Liam, my sweet man who gets more delightful by the day (he’s just so UP FOR IT and READY TO GO and EAGER, YOU’D BETTER BELIEVE IT, LET’S GO FRIENDS!)(I think ALL CAPS…

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