Tag: life
group name: thefamilydiner
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April 21, 2006 06:54 PM EDT --
I Wonder
Another sleepless night has fallen upon my restless soul. I listen to the rumbling of distant thunder amidst the silence I sit in. I wait for my mesmeric Anna to come home at her 2am curfew . . . more
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April 28, 2006 01:02 AM EDT --
1. I lost 5 pounds. In the last month, alone. Without trying. I ate three meals a day, at least I think so. I don't rightly remember, actually, between the cups of coffee I drank staying up half the . . . more
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April 06, 2006 08:21 AM EDT --
It's funny what an effect those words can have on you. I expect them from my daughters and my mom. It is understood. They had better miss me, or else!
I have never been one to cultivate many friendships, . . . more
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May 04, 2006 09:06 PM EDT --
When I was in college, when I felt self-indulgent and wanted to write, I would say 'I'm feeling mossy.'
It was an oblique reference to Walt Whitman. More mundanely, I was feeling creative. . . . more
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April 16, 2006 08:37 AM EDT --
My girls were young, preschool age, and we had experienced a lot of loss by that time. It was the transient kind of loss, divorce, living with their grandmother, then moving out on our own.
We were brave . . . more
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June 26, 2006 12:10 AM EDT --
In the circuitous way of life, I have wandered back home. In reviewing the things in my life that I wanted to change, it became clear there was one change that was completely within my power. In the five . . . more
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May 21, 2006 01:45 AM EDT --
Men's list here.
1. Maureen Sullivan Stemberg, for starting all manner of things Beatific…
2. Beryl Singleton Bissell, for "The Scent of God."
3. Hannah Dreyma, . . . more
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May 21, 2006 01:49 AM EDT --
Women's list here
1. Ed Nudelman
2. Ludolf
3. George Corneliussen
4. Ron Hall
5. Nathan Schauer
6. KR Craft
7. John . . . more
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March 09, 2006 08:57 AM EST --
I know this site is primarily for prose, poetry , and images. But this morning what I have are lyrics. George's story of the road guitar gave me the impetus to get out and check out a local . . . more
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March 14, 2006 11:48 PM EST --
While I take the time to feed a colony of perfectly sane feral cats - I've noticed that the wild strays are oddly free of neurotic behaviors.
This leads me to believe that our cats pick up all their . . . more
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July 29, 2007 04:06 PM EDT --
What thing do you want to buy, but you could live without, yet probably will buy anyway?
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June 26, 2008 01:42 AM EDT --
It was not until my mid 30's that I discovered I could cook. There were a few dishes that I would prepare, recipes that had come to me from my father, but I'd had enough disastrous experiences . . . more
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March 01, 2007 12:29 PM EST --
Arguments by media gurus regarding the ‘war on terror’ and how the U.S. can ‘win’ it, assume that the U.S. is fighting a genuine war in which it . . . more
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May 24, 2007 09:40 AM EDT --
(Cross-posted from my blog...)
For as long as I can remember, I've dreamed of "the writing life." I've had this vision - spending my days spinning stories, creating characters, . . . more
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July 13, 2006 02:27 PM EDT --
"So, I'll call you tomorrow after I am coherent," she says.
"Are you ever coherent?" I retort.
"Not most of ever..." She was already losing coherence, due . . . more
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July 28, 2006 09:03 PM EDT --
I don't believe in wishing my life away, but this has been one heck of a week and I'm glad it's over. I'm not complaining. Life has a way of sending these curved balls our way and it seems . . . more
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May 09, 2006 02:17 PM EDT --
The Dangers of Smoking While Gathering
Since I have become an official gatherholic I am sad to say my smoking habit has increased dramatically. I can't really explain why. I think part of the reason . . . more
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November 27, 2006 12:02 PM EST --
Last Christmas I walked outside to wish my next-door neighbor a loving holiday. I saw him out my living room window standing beneath the twisted pine. Don leaned on the curb as if some invisible force . . . more
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April 18, 2006 11:25 PM EDT --
I was reading another Gather posting by a nice young man named Joshua. In one of his comments he made reference to being open to anyone's single daughter. He seems like a nice enough guy, but rather . . . more
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April 23, 2006 09:48 AM EDT --
My brother is the quiet type. That might be because he came along just over a year after I was born, and I started talking quite young. There probably weren't a whole lot of waking hours left in a . . . more
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