The Reluctant Grownup – Page 307 – Growing old gracelessly.

Facebookin'

See my Wonder Women post about facebookin’. Also, how glad will I be when this election is over and the piranhas at work stop circling me and chewing off…

October 27, 2008

Categorizing Things is Overrated

Teeth, By God, He Has Teeth

Last weekend, from September 11-14, you left your mama for the first extended trip. This was an important mission for you, wee man, because a lovely woman to whom you…

September 16, 2008

Categorizing Things is Overrated

June 8

I started this draft June 8 but it got stuck at loading these photos, spinning for an hour, and took 13 days for me to come back. Who knows what…

June 21, 2025

Sonnet

RG / February 16, 2007

I wrote this today for a sonnet competition. It was fun. In dull and muffled light the quiet two Digest the morning cereal and news He, cradling a cup of morning brew She, in his…

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What she said, and what she SAID.

RG / February 13, 2007

Setup: At a bar. There’s Me, there’s She, and there’s He. He and She are engaged. He and I are talking alone for five minutes at the bar. She comes up to us…

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Miles

RG / February 11, 2007

Slam. Shiver shiver, on with the heat, on with the lights. On with NPR, my morning companion. Click the seat belt, shift to Reverse, out the driveway. Ca chunk, ca chunk, the sound…

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Good News!

RG / February 8, 2007

The boss’s wife got some relatively good news with her cancer. Looks like she’s going to be ok, after surgery – they caught it very early. She will have some emotional issues to…

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Gems

RG / February 7, 2007

From the kid I tutor, during yesterday’s session. We are reading through word lists to practice reading, and sometimes his free association comments are true gems: " . . . Slave. Save.…

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