The Reluctant Grownup – Page 162 – Growing old gracelessly.

Holidays and Celebrations, Parents and Siblings and Cousins, Oh My!

The Freezing North

We spent a week at my parents’ place. I worked two of the days – my firm has an office there, which allows me to extend our visits. The two days…

January 13, 2015

Liam

Snap

And just like that, as of about halfway through the day on the Fourth, I’ve snapped out of it. Still a little bored, still a little listless, but the depression…

July 6, 2010

Categorizing Things is Overrated

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

Help Them Help Her

RG / November 10, 2010

I’m in a Domestic Violence Law class this semester, a class that should have the alternate title: The Most Depressing Class You’ll Ever Take.* In short, because I have two exceedingly short people…

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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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