The Reluctant Grownup – Page 279 – Growing old gracelessly.

April

Jack got an iPhone. “Wait until eighth” is the phrase (meaning 8th grade), and he is almost there, and we are letting him babysit his brothers for hours now. It…

April 7, 2021

Categorizing Things is Overrated

Tuesday

A road closure/detour (that will last two weeks!) has doubled my commute, so I now drive over an hour each way. Today, as reward for putting up with this heinous…

September 25, 2012

Domestic Bliss, Holidays and Celebrations, Jack, Lawyerin', Liam

Dry Clean Only

I had the delightful pleasure to be picked up by my three boys after work today and then driven to one of the many seafood/river shack dining establishments that grace…

December 3, 2012

DUM dumdum DUM dumdum

RG / October 24, 2007

**The Wonder Women discovered today that they lost a sorority sister this week. Too young, too soon. Send uplifting thoughts to a small wee family in Lynchburg, Virginia that lost a mommy, wife,…

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Anniversary Adventures

RG / October 24, 2007

Pizza and chips. That’s all I want. Morning noon and night. I’m shoving down fruit, choking down peas and broccoli, pinching my nose and swallowing tuna and other fish, but all I want…

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A Sweet Thing

RG / October 23, 2007

I know I’ve got to write about our anniversary weekend . . . but I’ve just been transported to another moment in time . . . and I have to share it. Sweet…

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Hack hack coff coff snort

RG / October 18, 2007

Has anyone heard of a neti pot? I purchased this one today online, because I couldn’t find them in the drugstores here in SmallTownUSA. 7-10 business days from now, if I’m still hack…

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I Wonder Why Misplaced Apostrophes Trouble Me So?

RG / October 17, 2007

OK. Originally this was going to be a rant about how a couple of ladies who frequent the gym I go to never wash their hands after they tinkle. This. Peeves. Me. Off.…

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