The Reluctant Grownup – Page 212 – Growing old gracelessly.

Tears of a Clown

I had to cancel my first trimester ultrasound today, and it hit me harder than makes sense. I was startled by my tears. I felt like an idiot standing outside…

November 28, 2009

Domestic Bliss

Saturday Morning Meal Planning

Here we are again, back around to another weekend. The little one is squirming around happily in my abdomen, my middle child is snoring happily in his bed, and my…

August 10, 2013

Travel

Citizen of the world

On my graduation application: Hometown (to be printed in commencement program): ____________________ I never know what to put for these things. Luckily nobody cares.

January 15, 2012

Just . . . Blah.

RG / January 29, 2009

Oh January. January, January, what are you doing to me? I think January 2009 will go down as one of the most stressful of my adult life. It’s winter, too, which doesn’t…

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Life Seems Rough . . . And Then Somebody Gets Arrested

RG / January 28, 2009

An employee of mine has been sentenced to 7 years. It’s all a matter of public record, but I won’t share his name or crime. Just that I liked him, he was a…

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Acrobatics

RG / January 28, 2009

Yesterday we were chillin’ in the cramped confines of our “office” – which is really a tiny bedroom that has the tv, computer, a bookshelf, and a couch squeezed into it, leaving almost…

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Taking a Sec from a V. Busy Day to Say . . .

RG / January 27, 2009

. . . I just caught a look at myself in the bathroom mirror at work, and my biceps are ridiculous. Seriously. Anybody want to challenge me to an arm wrestle? Who knew…

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To Write A Personal Statement

RG / January 26, 2009

When I was fourteen I had to overcome a painful shyness. . . Er. No. Erase. Begin again. The year traveling in Australia is one I class as the most .…

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