The Reluctant Grownup – Page 297 – Growing old gracelessly.

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…

February 2, 2015

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…

June 7, 2010

Lawyerin'

Solitude

Want to freak yourself out a little? Google “Elisa Lam” and then stay in a hotel all by yourself for three nights. (This is not meant to make light of…

February 26, 2013

Um, Thanks

RG / May 29, 2007

I posted the last entry, then picked up my phone to good news. My hard-working husband had something worked out while I was writing. So, thanks for keeping me afloat again, God. …

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Throw Me a PFD

RG / May 29, 2007

Anybody else drowning today? Nothing’s going right for our little family here lately. Work is a mess – I have spent the last three weeks frantic, heart racing, trying to do a…

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I Wonder Where I Will Live . . . Later?

RG / May 29, 2007

Right now I live in the South. This is a temporary situation. When Darlin’ completes his schoolin’, we will be moving to whatever university requires a stellar specialist in the Political Economy of…

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Protected: Helloooooo Long Weekend

RG / May 25, 2007

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Snapshots from a Pennsylvania Graduation

RG / May 21, 2007

· Folding chairs on a green lawn, 65 degrees and sunny, a perfect graduation day. An American flag whips in the wind behind the podium. My sister, who has begun running daily and…

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