The Reluctant Grownup – Page 166 – Growing old gracelessly.

June 22

My guitar teacher quit the music school, suddenly and without warning, a couple weeks ago. I think possibly the day before my lesson? Maybe two days before. (Did I mention…

June 22, 2025

Categorizing Things is Overrated

We Interrupt This Birth Story . . .

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October 2, 2008

Categorizing Things is Overrated

January 9, 2021

Anybody else getting NOTHING done in 2021 so far? My clients are surely like “where the heck is she and why isn’t she answering my emails” but I am very…

January 9, 2021

Gnaw

RG / September 11, 2010

You have hit the drooly, gnawing stage, and it is adorable. You have just learned to bring your hands to your mouth, and you can sort of hold things, so now you sort…

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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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