The Reluctant Grownup – Page 163 – Growing old gracelessly.

What is Love?

The cat, running wild, runs down the hall, ramps off the washer, and leaps into the air before flipping around and scrabbling in the opposite direction across the wood floor,…

August 7, 2006

Categorizing Things is Overrated

Capitally Booooring

Attending a conference by the "Maximize Your Human Capital" consulting group here in town – oh, that phrase "Human Capital," how it makes me feel like I’m the villain in that…

August 6, 2008

Categorizing Things is Overrated

P.S. Numbers

I now officially weigh more than I ever have in my life. I’m very proud and relieved that this did not occur until the second trimester. To give a frame…

November 5, 2007

Yen

RG / September 10, 2010

I page through pictures from a trip we took to Missoula four years ago. Or was it five? In them, I am four/five years younger – two children lighter. I do not yet…

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Plop

RG / September 9, 2010

I keeled over. I am the Maritime Journal’s bitch. My eyes are red, my head is swimming, and I’m 81 footnotes into a 212-footnote article edit. BLARG. I’ll be glad when it’s tomorrow,…

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They Say It’s My Birthday

RG / September 1, 2010

Still sick. Still busy. Too busy to write much. Except – Happy Birthday to me! I am taking a few hours out of my day this evening to do something as yet unnamed…

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A Missive from the Diseased

RG / August 30, 2010

It’s the beginning of a very busy week, and I have just caught a terrible cold. Both boys have it, too. The only thing sadder than an exhausted toddler half-heartedly crying in the…

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The Nearness of You

RG / August 23, 2010

Today was my first day of school, and thus I spent the morning hugging and how-was-your-summering and feeling moderately smug superiority directed at the panicked 1Ls milling about. And all through the day,…

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