The Reluctant Grownup – Page 82 – Growing old gracelessly.

THPR Challenges

*THPR is The Happiness Project Revisited, and in January we have a week of prompts. Here are a few more. These are boring navel-gazing, fair warning: Are You Promotion Focused…

January 18, 2024

Categorizing Things is Overrated

Thrilling Disaster

The Monte Carlo in Vegas has caught fire. From the pictures, it looks as though the very room I stayed in when I was there a couple of years ago…

January 25, 2008

Holidays and Celebrations, Lawyerin'

The weekend was a gift. Saturday – a morning hike down a wide gravel path through woods to a small bayside park. It is chilly. We walk over a boardwalk to the…

February 11, 2015

Apocalyptic Dreams

RG / October 18, 2014

It is 4:30 in the morning, and I have been up for an hour. I was having a nightmare – in the car with work colleagues driving to a client’s site when the…

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October

RG / October 5, 2014

11 years ago this month, I met my husband. (On that day, my friend’s first and only nephew was born – happy birthday Kevin!) We were at his parents’ home in South Carolina. …

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Saturday Morning Meal Planning

RG / October 4, 2014

There’s a bit of a chill in the air, which means one thing around this house: soup-making time! The baby is tooling around on the floor drooling on things, I’m googling Skylanders Swap…

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Breaking the Writer’s Block

RG / September 27, 2014

“You look tired” said the YMCA employee to me, as she passed me on her way up and down the locker room aisles with a broom and dustpan. I am running a comb…

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BIZZY

RG / September 12, 2014

I have literally three minutes here, so I default to my norm: cute kid stories. So boring 4U, so interesting 2ME! Liam moved his (my) ukulele the other day, and said loudly: I…

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