Tag: living
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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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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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 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 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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April 03, 2006 03:08 PM EDT --
Health & Fitness
The Facts:
Q: I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life. Is this true?
A: Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that's it...don't . . . more
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October 18, 2007 08:50 PM EDT --
Perhaps some of you will remember that we put up a portable shelter for our mares earlier this summer. Maybe you will even recall how pleased we were to finally have provided shelter for them that would . . . more
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January 18, 2006 02:06 AM EST --
My husband of 20 years talks about getting a divorce.
This is not a new theme, but one that has recurred every few years. It is also something I don't take all that seriously, because he is not a . . . more
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May 02, 2006 09:11 AM EDT --
Like a dandelion to the wind he goes
from hearth to school
come September
youth's first bloom
a tall 5-year-old
last night, his 18th birthday
our son
life of dreams
promised hope
no longer child, but . . . more
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May 14, 2006 08:37 AM EDT --
From the time I was a toddler I assumed that like any woman, I would one day bear children and become a mother. It was a given in the early 1950's when the women's movement was just gearing up . . . more
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December 22, 2006 12:55 PM EST --
As I drove into work this morning, I had to slow to a crawl when escapees pranced out into the street. A medium-sized brindle mutt danced out into the street as his smaller black buddy scurried to catch . . . more
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April 10, 2006 03:07 AM EDT --
Hush Now
Hush now don't you cry
Try so hard and laugh through pain
All will go away
Rollercoaster ride
Emotions come like the tides
Up, down, in and out
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April 12, 2006 01:44 PM EDT --
Were Do We Come From
Were do we come from
Dysfunctional childhood cry
Mad, spitting violence
Soul born into world
Silence leaves one all alone
Sadness sweeps like tides
Abuse and . . . more
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April 16, 2006 09:28 PM EDT --
That's right. A bath. You CAN bathe cats. Cat care books recommend it, but I don't know why. The cat gets wet, cold and meows. You get wet, cold and you howl.
But if you're so inclined, here's . . . more
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August 09, 2006 12:54 PM EDT --
It occurs to me that my outer self is the product of a committee. My hair is straight today, a look achieved with the flat iron my daughter Aspen got me for my birthday and daughter Andi showed me how . . . more
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July 21, 2006 07:33 PM EDT --
Last weekend, my daughter Jamie, and Eric, her boyfriend of five years came to dinner. They were acting a little sheepish., hanging around longer than usual, giving each other sly looks, grinning . . . more
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April 30, 2006 02:19 PM EDT --
Each boy staked out his territory. Two boys on the same turf, fighting for the same bag of drugs.
Mao hooked a left into Cheddar; Cheddar hooked a right and tossed Mao straight to the mat. . . . more
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