The Reluctant Grownup

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Tex

    This guy turned one on Friday.  In what I suspect will be typical of this Gulf Coaster’s birthday in years to come, his birthday celebration was actually a…

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February 2, 2015
Categorizing Things is Overrated

Jack – or Jacqueline?

When confronted with a delicious and beautiful infant of indeterminate sex (see picture above), a passerby who wishes to compliment the baby has several choices confronting him/her.  He/she may:   (a) avoid pronouns;…

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June 10, 2008
Categorizing Things is Overrated

Summer, in All Its Glory

We were sitting in front of the t.v. fanning ourselves at about 7pm tonight when suddenly everything clicked off.  The power was out.  Woe.  I thought fearfully of a night…

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June 7, 2010
  • Three Days – A Look Back Part II

    RG / August 28, 2008

    TWENTY TWO: I celebrated my 22nd birthday on the continent of Australia.  I cannot remember a THING about it, but I know we were in the Sydney area.  We must have gone out…

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  • Four Days – A Look Back Part I

    RG / August 27, 2008

    I have four days left of my 20s.   Let’s take a look back at the last decade of my life (wavery dream sequence begins):   TWENTY: I got drunk for the first…

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  • I Wonder What the Goofiest Piece of Clothing I’ve Ever Worn Was?

    RG / August 25, 2008

    My last two years of college were fun years. After my initial two years of being a complete and total dork-sans-social-life, I relaxed. I decided that reading only 20 pages of my 22…

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  • One Sentence Story – The Whale That Died

    RG / August 25, 2008

    The problem with being a mother is that I don’t have enough milk to feed every hungry baby, and every hungry baby is mine just as he is mine, no matter what the…

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  • Merced, California

    RG / August 24, 2008

    So, here is how these are going to go.   I’ll list the town and state, but not the name of the school Patrick is looking at (just to protect from possible online…

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