The Reluctant Grownup – Page 287 – Growing old gracelessly.

Jack, Liam

Cute Child Things, August 2013

They had an “around the world” month at daycare, and at the end of the month brought home a “passport” with stamps in it from each country they visited. Liam,…

August 6, 2013

Categorizing Things is Overrated

That Farging Piece of Sharz Murphy and His Goshdam Law

I got an external hard drive for Christmas, something I’ve wanted for a while, and fully intended to back up all of our 4 computers (2 obsolete, 2 current) as…

January 3, 2010

Holidays and Celebrations, Jack, Liam, New Orleans

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

The other day we put the kids in the car after supper and we drove them through the twinkling streets of uptown New Orleans to marvel at the lights. We…

December 20, 2011

WW Post

RG / August 16, 2007

I only have one in me today. Check out my Wonder Woman blog post – it’s about fear, wooly spiders, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, if you can handle it. And also? He sleeps under…

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American Beauty

RG / August 16, 2007

“There’s nothing worse than being ordinary,” says Mena Suvari’s character in the movie American Beauty. This is a shameful fear of mine, but one I can’t deny. I’m afraid of many things –…

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Protected: August 14, 9pm

RG / August 14, 2007

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Boo

RG / August 11, 2007

It’s a hazy, sunless, windless, sticky hot weekend. We’re listless, drifting around the house. I’m taking pictures of nothing in particular. The Professor isn’t feeling well. I’m thinking of ditching him with a bath…

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TGIT

RG / August 9, 2007

Not quite Friday yet, but close enough. These past few days I went to a conference for two days, had a dinner party for my two bosses one evening, and prepped the house…

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