The Reluctant Grownup – Page 243 – Growing old gracelessly.

What is my problem?

Maybe I’m fratchy because of the heat. Or maybe because we’ve been home several weekends in a row and I’m getting itchy feet. Maybe it’s because someone…

August 21, 2007

Jack

On Being Three Years Old (and Living With Such a Creature)

Three is . . . difficult. Three is anticipating the end of the Sesame Street episode about ten minutes before it comes, and asking incessantly, again and again, if he…

August 18, 2011

Dear Friends, HR Managin', Sixteen Tons

Adventures in Chemotherapy

You know work is bad when you prefer spending the day at the chemotherapy treatment center. My job has myriad, disparate tasks. Myriad. And disparate. And here lately these…

June 1, 2007

Patrick Will Be Pleased

RG / July 2, 2008

In briefly perusing my statistics for who’s been checking me out, I discovered that someone landed here after google searching "deadbeat husbands who do no work." My deadbeat husband is probably at…

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Tale as Old As Time

RG / July 2, 2008

**POSTING THIS TODAY, A DAY EARLY, ‘CUZ I’LL BE ON THE ROAD TOMORROW. APOLOGIES TO WICKED FOR GETTING ALL UP IN YOUR GRILL.** Darlin’s and my beginnings are an interesting tale. The one…

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Mommy Wars

RG / July 2, 2008

So. Any time somebody talks to you about their own life, and you have a parallel experience, you gotta listen to their story and react to it and care about it, rather than…

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I Do

RG / July 1, 2008

Daniel and Elizabeth Berry Rose (that is really her name – delightful, no?) were married by her father on a wide green lawn in the shadow of the Tetons. The eight bridesmaids were…

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A Wyoming Wedding Day

RG / June 30, 2008

The Morning The weekend continued to be disgustingly glorious, with brisk and bracing mornings, sun-drenched and comfortable daytimes, and pleasantly chilly evenings. Patrick and I woke on Monday and jumped right in…

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