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Feb.01.2013
I'm taking a quick break from the marathon blogging month that involved the 31 days in January to make this announcement:
This is Post #100! Woot Woot!
I can't begin to tell you how excited I am about that!
I lost quite a few months of blogging in 2011 because of some serious...
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Feb.01.2013
I got a later start in life than most when it came to love. As a young person, I was reserved, a little aloof to rituals of dating, much more focused on writing and my studies. A gawky teenager with thick glasses, I preferred to read about romance than bother with the mess of...
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May.25.2012
Last night, Midge debuted in her first on stage performance. She and her classmates gathered on stage to present a combination of song, story and unbeknownst to them, comedy.
She was nervous. It was the first time she’d ever been on stage. I sat of course with her brother and...
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Jul.29.2011
"Ch-ch-ch-ch-changesPretty soon now you're going to get oldgoing to get a little older,Time may change me,But I can't trace time..."
I woke up with those lyrics from the David Bowie song Changes, running through my head. Today is Change, Part 2.
My oldest is home for three weeks. He...
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Jun.04.2011
Do you remember when you first fell in love? Or the day you first glimpsed something you knew would change your life forever?
That happened to me two decades ago today. June 5, 1991. My 22nd birthday. Two weeks out of college, I awoke in New York City with a hangover, stumbled to JFK with a...
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Jun.14.2010
During my younger son's graduation from college--during the long three hour ceremony when we listened to an amazing stream of names--my fiancé and I argued about the difference between milestones and rites of passage. He thought that events such as Bar Mitzvahs and graduations were milestones. I...
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Dec.15.2009
I remember when I was in fourth grade we sat in Mrs. Dundon's class figuring out how old we were going to be in the year 2000. I was going to be 30. To my little fourth grade mind that sounded so old. I recall thinking to myself, “I'll be too old to even enjoy it. But maybe at least I'll still be...
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Oct.27.2009
There's little else to be said, except that I'll miss her. More on a happier topic soon.
Greg
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Apr.05.2009
I attended my first meeting of an honest-to-goodness, real, live writers group yesterday — the Writers Club of Pasadena (Texas). Oh, I’ve participated in online writing/critique groups for more than ten years; I’ve been a member of Writing Well, where I’m one of three moderators, for the past eight...
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