The Reluctant Grownup – Page 167 – Growing old gracelessly.

Ideas about Performance

Bear with me while I go all boring on you here. I’m commenting on another blog – one I love, about ideas, much bigger and more sweeping stuff than…

June 4, 2009

Hello (hello) (hello)

Is there an echo in here? (in here?) (in here?) Anybody there? (there?) (there?) Orientation is ova, homies. It went fine. I was being a snot about it, but it…

August 23, 2009

Holidays and Celebrations, Jack, Liam, New Orleans

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

The other day we put the kids in the car after supper and we drove them through the twinkling streets of uptown New Orleans to marvel at the lights. We…

December 20, 2011

Snap

RG / July 6, 2010

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 has lifted. Weird,…

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The Fourth of July

RG / July 4, 2010

Right now, Jack is sleeping soundly in his room. Liam is hiccuping and flailing in my mother’s arms, as she rocks him in the glider in the corner. The cat is hovering over…

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Joy Comes in the Morning

RG / June 29, 2010

There is a Bible verse I used to love back in the days when I was an evangelical, and though my ardor for daily Bible reading (i.e. self-flagellation and guilt over my not…

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Bundle of Blues

RG / June 26, 2010

We have a lovely apartment, and I’ll be happy to get the hell out of it for more than 20 minutes. Which will happen at some point in the future. I know it…

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Moot Court and Potties and Journals, Oh My

RG / June 24, 2010

I can officially make the following comments: The newborn stuff is SOOOO much easier the second time around. I have almost no anxiety this time, I am managing his feeding better, and I…

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