The Reluctant Grownup – Page 170 – Growing old gracelessly.

Summer 2019 Kick-Off – Big Bend Texas!

I married a man obsessed with Texas. For a while he wanted to live there. I’ll admit that sometimes when we drive through the state – wealthy, well-run, vast and…

June 24, 2019

Categorizing Things is Overrated

Heading to Montgomery

. . . so the day has arrived that I travel in my suddenly carseat-less car (the seats below where the boys’ carseats usually are? so gross) towards a large…

July 22, 2012

Categorizing Things is Overrated

A Disconcerting Conversation with a Frenchman

Richard is a former contractor who worked with my company for six months a couple of years ago. He’s a handsome young Frenchman, very charming, very nice, very much a…

November 12, 2007

3 Weeks Old

RG / July 9, 2010

I’m sleepy because of you, my darling, so I’m not even going to attempt to be prosy or cutesy or structured. Stream of consciousness, here we go! Your birth story I’ve detailed elsewhere,…

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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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