The Reluctant Grownup – Page 159 – Growing old gracelessly.

Thank You For Your Application

They rustle at me from the bin in the corner. They whisper You Aren’t Good Enough. This Was A Waste of Time. Your Children Deserve Better. Be Afraid. You Will…

September 17, 2010

Wonder Women Posts

Just Call Me Wild Thang

This is an easy one. I’d stay in bed until Frog woke up, which is usually around 8. I’d change his diaper, wash his neck and face with a baby…

July 24, 2008

Holidays and Celebrations

To Market to Market

**Edited to add a bit that I had written before and inadvertently left off, added at the top.*** The next day – what day is it? Saturday? – dawns bright…

August 7, 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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