The Reluctant Grownup

Growing old gracelessly.

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Dispirited

It’s been a dispiriting couple of weeks at work, for various unbloggable reasons.  It’s also warmish but totally overcast outside, which suits the mood.  I’m keeping my door shut today.…

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March 9, 2015
Before I Was A Grownup, Life in Australia, Navel Gazing (and I Don't Mean Oranges)

An American in . . . America

Sometimes, I miss being "The American."   I have lived abroad twice, a year in England and a year in Australia, both in my early twenties.  Living abroad is something…

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October 25, 2005
Categorizing Things is Overrated

Ask and You Shall Receive

Back on August 25th of this year (just three days before I discovered that LIFE AS I KNOW IT WAS OVER), I made a couple of lists of things I…

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November 14, 2007
  • Clouds Illusions I Recall – West Trip Part Four

    RG / August 14, 2022

    Rows and flows of angel hairAnd ice cream castles in the airAnd feather canyons everywhereI looked at clouds that way We woke to a brisk and beautiful Taos morning on June 30, ready…

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  • The Place of Red Willows – West Trip – Part Three

    RG / July 30, 2022

    We woke June 29 in Taos to a clear sky, 52 degrees. The air is different in the high desert of northern New Mexico, the light is different. What a contrast with the…

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  • West Trip – Part Two – Fort Worth to Taos

    RG / July 25, 2022

    Our second day is not our most exciting on this trip – for me it is just a way-station in a corporate hotel to let me get in a full day’s work, and…

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  • West! Part One – Events Make For an Emotional Start

    RG / July 23, 2022

    First – a quick chat about the trip plans. Our itinerary was bound by a few rules: (1) we needed to get our two Boy Scouts to their trailhead in northern New Mexico…

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  • Western Adventure – Prologue

    RG / July 17, 2022

    We have just returned from a three-week-long trip West. All five of us left home June 26, and drove up to northern New Mexico where we left the Prof and Jack at a…

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