The Reluctant Grownup – Page 44 – Growing old gracelessly.

Freaking Out

Exams in just a few days, but I can’t muster the energy to freak out. I’m barely studying. Check out this first semester 1L! Didn’t take long for the apathy…

December 4, 2009

Everyday Adventures, Holidays and Celebrations, Sometimes I Get Hepped Up and Think I Know a Thing or Two

It Still Resonates

From MLKJ’s last speech in Memphis: “You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was…

January 16, 2012

Categorizing Things is Overrated

Newborn Days

Very dear friends of ours had their first baby today, and 8 hours later they are still having a hard time deciding her name. As I was reading through their…

October 8, 2009

Saturday! Morning! Meal! Planning!

RG / July 8, 2017

The boys are home from “I-luh-rund.” It is very noisy here now. Jack is giving Craig piggy back rides. Liam has spent some quality time with his Skylanders video game. Happiest among us…

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Fourth

RG / July 8, 2017

His little swim things are drying on the back deck rail. I’ve gathered the various sprinkler attachments that I’d put on the hose for him this morning, and they’re in a somewhat muddy,…

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Gratitude & Anxiety, in Equal Measure

RG / July 3, 2017

My week+2 days off is drawing to a close, and I feel (as my title would suggest) both anxiety and gratitude. Sometimes it can be hard to relax, even with a week off, since…

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Phew

RG / June 24, 2017

Welllll . . . it’s been a coupla weeks, let me tell YOU. My notice at work was two weeks long, as is typical. The first week of it, I tried to stick…

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Two of Us

RG / June 10, 2017

Craig is lying, shirtless, spread-eagle on the couch, watching the 2015 Goosebumps movie – which is, as tween movies go, not the absolute worst I will say. Craig is watching it because Jack…

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