The Reluctant Grownup – Page 324 – Growing old gracelessly.

The Question

I was nominated for the senior board of my journal. For two positions, actually, two of four. Clearly I was well regarded during the nomination period. Tonight the elections were…

February 23, 2011

Categorizing Things is Overrated

The Comedy, the Tragedy

Once I wrote an opera. It was the mid 1990s, in California. I was 16. I was heavily involved in my high school theatre program – and the band…

October 15, 2008

Carolina, Everyday Adventures

Welcome to Mayberry

My beautiful fat cat is sitting on her beatiful fat mom’s lap (that’s me), purring and eyeing the 4 squares of Cadbury’s chocolate that I was trying to savor but now…

December 5, 2006

How to Make Me Mad

RG / November 30, 2005

Here is a list of some of the surest ways to make me mad, in no particular order: 1. Chew up my guitar case and all my picks, and make me worry…

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Protected: O Come, All Ye Jobless

RG / November 29, 2005

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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Counting my Blessings

RG / November 23, 2005

When my bankroll is gettin’ small I think of when I had none at all And I fall asleep counting my blessings . . . #1 – My mother – We may never…

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RG / November 21, 2005

In honor of my most recent theatre experience, now ended with much sighing (in relief, in sorrow, in the bittersweet state of mind when the transience of all things art and all things theatre and all things…

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To The People/Cats in My Life

RG / November 18, 2005

To my boyfriend: I haven’t seen you awake in over a week. We’ve talked on the phone a few times a day – which reminds me of the beginning of our courtship…

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