There are 5 entries related to the tag “aging”
Thirty Eight and Eighty Three
I might have been eight or nine, I don't recall (like many things in my life, my past is nearly as blurry and clouded as my eyesight), but I had a book about rocks. I wasn't interested in rocks. I didn't even read (though I pretended I did by buying ...
Merry Christmas (I think)
I'm trying. I really am. I'm telling myself that it's worth it. The tradition. The pretending (in spite of the knowledge of things you wish you hadn't found out about and now it just looms in the future like a giant cloud that will rain suck throughout the coming year, ...
I'm still not made of bacon and other things that may or may not have happened the past 10 years
It has been a decade of firsts for me (and probably many of you). The first decade to be married. The first decade to be a father. The first decade to be a home owner. The first decade to be a full-time laborer. The first decade to not be in ...
Somewhere along the line, I grew up
The problem with aging is that your experiences fill you to the point of apathy. You've seen, heard and imbibed so much of life that the edges become dull. The excitement turns into an unhealthy realism. You begin to form your educated guesses on everything, and lose the joy of ...
Some old communion cups and a coat
Every parent has that moment — they look at their kids and cannot reconcile the layers of images. This child, who once was two years old and barely rambling coherent sentences, now sputters dramatic, pre-teen diatribes about how much you hate them and everything is unfair. They grow up, ...