The Reluctant Grownup – Page 98 – Growing old gracelessly.

Thoughts After Two Weeks of Looking Respectable

I have worn makeup and accessories – bracelet and necklace and watch, oh my! – for going on three weeks now, excluding just ONE day in honor of my near…

January 17, 2011

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

Categorizing Things is Overrated, Holidays and Celebrations, Jack, Liam, Parents and Siblings and Cousins, Oh My!

Christmas

We’re rewinding a bit to mid-December, when Jack and I made Christmas cookies. I’d like it recorded here, so I can get my Awesome Holiday Mom points. See, we have…

January 2, 2012

Melancholy

RG / September 14, 2013

I was thinking about him yesterday. No particular reason. I think being pregnant did it, maybe. I’m sentimental enough on the average day, but throw in gestation and I’m pretty much a sodden…

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Coda

RG / September 10, 2013

I got home from Pittsburgh – a 12 hour trip overall, given a long wait time at the airport (not many flights to Mobile) during which I billed some much needed hours. My…

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Thirty Five

RG / September 8, 2013

I turned thirty five over Labor Day weekend. We traveled up north to watch the home team play the first college football game of the season, and it was epic in both…

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Another Open Letter Post

RG / September 6, 2013

So I’m sure you’ve all read that open letter that has almost certainly by this point mortified the teenaged sons of the mother who wrote it (side note – as the kids get…

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Fishin’, and Other Diversions

RG / August 26, 2013

In about a week, I will be an age that rhymes with schmirty schmive. I am way too old to love my birthday but I still do. I occasionally feel anxious about mortality,…

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