The Reluctant Grownup – Page 159 – Growing old gracelessly.

February 15

I feel certain that I am live-blogging the end of life as we know it. Isn’t it odd? How one billionaire Nazi South African is strip mining the entire U.S.…

February 15, 2025

Everyday Adventures, I Can Haz Recession Angst, Law School, Lawyerin', Liam, New Orleans, Parents and Siblings and Cousins, Oh My!

Wiggin’

Just this second, I’m feeling overwhelmed and out of control. Oddly, it has nothing to do with the job, which continues to click along at a breakneck pace, taking up…

June 9, 2011

Categorizing Things is Overrated

Gratitude – Scotland Shopping

My happiness prompt today told me to list fifteen people for whom I am grateful, whether I know them or not. I will exclude family members, as they would fill…

June 24, 2023

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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