The Reluctant Grownup – Page 236 – Growing old gracelessly.

Hope

It’s a bleak time of year, it’s a bleak news cycle, and I need a little sunshine. My newest niece is a ray of sunshine, of course – I cannot…

November 18, 2015

Alabama, Lawyerin', New Orleans

Sunday Morn

It is Palm Sunday. Each Palm Sunday and Sunday-before-Christmas, our church hires a huge orchestra and they accompany our choir in a service-long musical extravaganza. No sermon, no Bible readings,…

April 1, 2012

Wonder Women Posts

I Wonder Whatever Happened to My First Love?

He was half Asian, half Caucasian – his hair was thick and black and curly, his eyes were a mysterious blue gray. He spoke with an almost British diction and…

April 23, 2007

I Drink Your Milkshake

RG / August 15, 2008

Because it’s Friday and my brain-juice is on E . . . And because it is a phrase that makes my husband laugh . . . I’ve decided that all of…

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Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

RG / August 15, 2008

Just over the last week, you have been insatiably hungry. Baby boy, you are eating more than a one year old – 8 ounces in your bottle, every 2.5 hours. You spit lots…

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Upcoming Project for Your Reading Pleasure and My Own Sanity

RG / August 12, 2008

For your reading pleasure, you will soon be finding out AAAAALL about the plenty-thousand locales that Patrick and I are looking at for next year’s move. In brief: The husband has been…

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I wonder why politicians always seem so immoral?

RG / August 11, 2008

It makes me heartsick to see another woman standing by her skeezoid man, in the press at least, while he warbles on about narcissism and power and temptation (and frankly – do any…

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Having Faith by Sandra Steingraber

RG / August 10, 2008

It’s hard for me to review this book, for two reasons. Reason number one – my kid is crying for my attention right now. Reason number two – I’m still trying to figure…

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