The Reluctant Grownup – Page 159 – Growing old gracelessly.

A Pat on the Monkeyless Back

We’re having a bonfire tonight. In it is going the huge old monkey that’s been on my back since the end of 2004. 2004 was the year that I…

February 21, 2008

Carolina, Everyday Adventures

Welcome to Mayberry

My beautiful fat cat is sitting on her beatiful fat mom’s lap (that’s me), purring and eyeing the 4 squares of Cadbury’s chocolate that I was trying to savor but now…

December 5, 2006

Categorizing Things is Overrated

And Now For Something Completely Different

I was in the lobby of our local urgent care yesterday with an injured employee, waiting to be seen. The lobby was full, with one whole row of seats filled…

March 26, 2008

Peeping

RG / November 9, 2010

I am a peeping Thomasina. I look in people’s windows. Do you do this? I’m not interested in the people – I’d rather they not be there, so I can look more openly.…

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Red Rubber Ball Addendum – Breakup Songs

RG / November 8, 2010

The past post got me thinking about breakup songs. The song I listened to during the breakup memorialized by that post was awesome. It powered me through some workouts. It was not the…

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To Quote Paul Simon – The Morning Sun is Shining Like a Red Rubber Ball

RG / November 3, 2010

In the middle of the night on a day in late June, 2003 – the very same day my now-sister-in-law got married – a relationship ended that I desperately did not want to…

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THREE

RG / November 1, 2010

ONE In the pre-dawn hours of a glorious October day, I got in my car and drove five minutes to the start of my first organized race. And then drove forty minutes looking…

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Listless

RG / October 26, 2010

It’s just one of those days, those days where I have a million things to do but can’t settle on which so I wander around the house wondering if I should train for…

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