Tag: life
group name: artexpo
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October 02, 2007 12:16 PM EDT --
An Unexpected Gift
Lately I have been afraid that it was inevitable that I was going to get up some morning soon and find this ancient computer dead. Since I joined Gather, it . . .
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October 26, 2007 11:39 AM EDT --
***I started writing this yesterday, October 25th- the "yesterday" refers to October 24th***
2 years ago yesterday was the last time I saw my grandmother alive. I had to bring my kids . . .
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November 06, 2007 11:03 AM EST --
Things have not been going well for Sherpa’s family, a large, good-looking and independent couple I have known for about eight years. They have fallen on hard times that have left them virtually . . .
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November 03, 2007 08:50 AM EDT --
There were two of us watching the hours go by last night. One is a man up at campsite number 40 that is situated closest to the BLM wilderness where the trail leaves this horse camp, and winds up into . . .
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November 16, 2007 12:40 PM EST --
As I was donning my jeans and T-shirt for my day’s activities this morning, I got to thinking how fashions have changed since I was a child. When I was born in the roaring twenties, hems had just . . .
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February 10, 2008 01:24 AM EST --
I'm laughing, but it really isn't funny. After about six hours of dosing her dog Bob on tranquilizers, my daughter remembered someone's story about getting his dog drunk to . . .
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October 27, 2008 10:59 AM EDT --
Happy birthday to me!
Happy birthday to me!
Happy birthday lucky me-ee
Happy birthday tooo meee!
I was born in a hospital in Norwalk Conn. 86 years ago today. When I was 4 years . . .
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May 14, 2008 01:11 AM EDT --
Things Worked Out Right - I shouldn't have worried
Two days ago I got a letter from my health provider that my primary doctor was no longer available to me. I panicked and assumed that the Clinic . . .
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August 10, 2008 01:33 AM EDT --
C ajun DUI Don't let anyone tell you that Cajun's aren't smart!!!
Only a person in Louisiana could think of this. From the parish where
drunk driving is considered . . .
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May 03, 2008 12:53 AM EDT --
My Visitor Made it Brief
Several months ago I wrote an e-mail to a man I knew slightly from the Senior Lunch program. He enhances his fixed income with part time software writing, and had moved to . . .
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May 04, 2008 05:22 PM EDT --
Requiem for a Little Sofa
It has been more than a month since a little sofa appeared beside the road by a dumpster not far from this rural horse camp. It was the size of a love seat, but overstuffed . . .
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October 18, 2008 10:09 AM EDT --
I have just read a heart-wrenching story on Gather by my good friend Debbie G. She hasn't been feeling well lately, and this is the first article by her I have found in a long time. It is called . . .
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April 01, 2008 10:35 PM EDT --
I got a call from my doctor today with some really bad news, for me.
It took quite some time with my questions to make sure that I understood right.
I took several tests . . .
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November 13, 2007 09:22 AM EST --
It really annoys me the way a lot of women who work on camera in the TV industry think they have to keep showing teeth all the time they are talking or reporting! I just watched a slim woman, whose clothes . . .
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November 02, 2007 04:20 PM EDT --
Every Thanksgiving, when my children were little we gathered at my mother's. To show our appreciation, we surprised her with a special "apron of thanks." We cut all four grandkids' . . .
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August 12, 2007 06:41 PM EDT --
There are mean people in the world. It would be nice if we never ever had to encounter them, but unfortunately, they seem to pop into our lives without warning. So, my question is, how do you handle mean . . .
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February 02, 2008 02:39 PM EST --
I placed the title in quotes because this is something my father said constantly before he became ill. Now, I find in dealing with his illness that I repeat this often in my head as a mantra when I can . . .
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March 27, 2008 11:34 AM EDT --
Yesterday I Met an Iguana
It's not everyday you meet an iguana, even here on the Mexican border. Yesterday I took my collections of aluminum cans, beer bottles, (other people's, not mine!) . . .
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February 03, 2008 10:57 PM EST --
When I was in high school, I was always in bed at a decent time of the night, though I wasn't bound by any formal curfew. I was a good student, and school started at 7:50 am. I had to be up and ready, . . .
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August 08, 2007 11:24 AM EDT --
Do you ever find that you are the peacemaker in the family or even amongst friends? I think that some of us just naturally fall into that role without ever really asking for it. It can be a very stressful . . .
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