Tag: life
member name: Sandy F.
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May 02, 2008 09:00 PM EDT --
We've had a strange spring in Bishop, CA where I live. In late February we had a 10 day warm spell when our trees leafed out and our fruit trees budded for fruit. Sadly, all . . .
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March 18, 2009 03:57 PM EDT --
1. What do you ache for? More kindness from human beings: to each other, to the indigent and disabled, to children, and to animals. We are all connected. . . .
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May 07, 2008 07:14 PM EDT --
Cream-style Corn: A Memory of my Mother
My mother was dying and we had started the sad proposition of hospice care. As a single woman of fifty-six, I worked full time, and . . .
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May 24, 2008 11:43 AM EDT --
Prompt: exactly 100 words "as seen through the eyes of an old lady"
In the fast fading light , I unpack the first of many boxes returned to me after seven years. Inside . . .
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March 19, 2009 03:15 AM EDT --
I will be sixty-nine this year, the age at which my grandmother died in August, 1957.
That fact has me thinking a lot about my grandmother and her death. She went the way we all want . . .
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January 05, 2009 03:56 PM EST --
I just joined a group which asks: "We're through with homework, soccer games, cheerleading practice, PTA meeting and carpool lines. Now what?"
Believe me, you don't want to . . .
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April 23, 2009 12:59 AM EDT --
The breeze rattles the screen of the thirty by thirty inch open window in my bedroom. It is the strange, almost yellow light of dusk. In the distance I can hear thunder rolling in the . . .
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May 22, 2009 10:40 AM EDT --
This is my dad riding a horse he trained. He was twenty and it was 1939 when this picture was taken.
This is the weekend I honor my father's sacrifice in 1944. So many no longer . . .
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May 17, 2009 06:41 PM EDT --
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A Dog Instead
I thought, after a car took Trouble out
and failing kidneys finished Snoopy II,
That a big dog might be easier.
But loving us for ten years was too much
for even a German . . .
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May 26, 2008 02:59 PM EDT --
I had hoped not to know personally anyone who had to serve in Iraq or Afganistan-the fear and sorrow is too great for my heart. I grieve for every one of them and their families as I have grieved . . .
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June 06, 2007 08:57 PM EDT --
The breeze blew softly through the rooms whispering her name in the screening, and against the curtains. She had always opened her homes to it, relished the feeling of openness, clean . . .
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May 26, 2008 05:07 PM EDT --
Good Grief, Charlie Brown! Browsing around Gather today has brought me up short.
In some sectors the sentiment seems to be "Happy Memorial Day."
I guess that goes right along . . .
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