The Reluctant Grownup – Page 83 – Growing old gracelessly.

To Market to Market

**Edited to add a bit that I had written before and inadvertently left off, added at the top.*** The next day – what day is it? Saturday? – dawns bright…

August 7, 2012

Categorizing Things is Overrated

Day Who Effing Knows

This is a rant. This is lots of rants, actually. There are some ranty tangents. I just need to write these out, I need to know someone is reading them…

April 4, 2020

Categorizing Things is Overrated

Schedule Update!

This is boring – feel free to skip – I’m mostly posting for my own reference here. We’ve switched up the schedule and also my jar of slips – there…

March 21, 2020

Three Day Weekend

RG / August 31, 2014

My birthday tends to fall on Labor Day Weekend every year. (My younger sister’s lands on Memorial Day weekend -together, our birthdays bookend the summer). Back in the old school days, I was…

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From the Mouths of Babes

RG / August 28, 2014

I cannot even keep up with constant stream of ridiculously funny things that Liam is saying lately. I find all of this so charming – a large part of it is the perky,…

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Challenge Complete

RG / August 23, 2014

I explain to the boys what we are going to do, and Jack says “Ah. So when we dump water on your head, then the sick people will laugh, and the sickness will…

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Ice Buckets For Josie, Colette, Quinn, Lachlan, Calhoun, and Michael Brown

RG / August 23, 2014

The Professor and I enjoyed a bottle of really good Malbec last night. This morning I enjoyed the presence of my children by my bedside at 5:45. One of those terms “enjoyed” is…

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Robin Fly

RG / August 11, 2014

I grabbed the Economist out of the mail today and flipped quickly to the obituary, like I usually do, and wondered who would be the subject next week, next month. Who is alive…

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