The Reluctant Grownup – Page 159 – Growing old gracelessly.

2021 Recap!

As is my wont, I shall check in on the resolutions I made at the end of 2020. TBH I sort of forgot that I even made any, given the…

December 28, 2021

Categorizing Things is Overrated

Also . . .

. . . weaned. Done. Well, I’m done, though he’s not done protesting. Loudly. At 5am. Where are mah booooooooobs????? Waaaaaaaaaahhhhh. And then he tries to suck on my nose.…

May 12, 2009

Holidays and Celebrations, Jack

To Throw a Birthday Party

I am surfacing briefly, gulping some air before diving back down into the miserable, murky sea of finals week, in order to bring my eldest son’s adoring fans a few…

May 6, 2012

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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