The Reluctant Grownup – Page 167 – Growing old gracelessly.

April Fools

Yesterday as I was dressing for my morning doctor’s appointment, Patrick screeched my name from the front room. "JESUS, Gill, you gotta see this! Holy COW!" "What, what??" I say,…

April 2, 2008

Categorizing Things is Overrated

Wonder Women

My post for the day is over here. As we get closer to D Day, it becomes less and less possible for me to think of anything except impending parenthood. …

March 7, 2008

Categorizing Things is Overrated

A Pat on the Monkeyless Back

We’re having a bonfire tonight. In it is going the huge old monkey that’s been on my back since the end of 2004. 2004 was the year that I…

February 21, 2008

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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