Tag: memories
member name: Sandy F.
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June 17, 2007 04:04 AM EDT --
My father, Alvin Ross Gillett, was born in 1920 and died in 1944. I never really knew him except for what my mother told me. He quit school at 14 when his father's neck was broken in an . . .
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August 27, 2007 01:35 PM EDT --
In my town there is a Farmer's Market on the Tri-County Fairgrounds every Saturday morning beginning at 9 am during the growing season. From two to six vendors set up tables and cash boxes . . .
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November 30, 2007 07:19 PM EST --
Wait! Oh, wait just one moment, she said.
I so wanted to dance a bit more.
The clock struck and she ran
losing a shoe and
unfinished dances
kisses untasted.
That waltz music sang in her . . .
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December 09, 2007 04:02 PM EST --
It was December 15, 1991 . My daughter and her husband had just lost the baby they hoped would complete their blended family. . . .
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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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September 02, 2007 01:48 PM EDT --
It was on this day in 1945 that Japan formally surrendered to the United States, marking the end of World War II. It was a gray, overcast day. The surrender took place on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, . . .
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June 11, 2007 10:05 PM EDT --
Among my most precious keepsakes are two small dolls, with porcelain heads, arms, and legs, and hand-made bodies. Despite sewing all her life, Great Aunt Hattie was no seamstress. . . .
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June 21, 2007 06:53 PM EDT --
My family fell easily into gathering on the front porch every evening after the supper dishes. I was eleven. It was the summer of 1951, after our New Mexico home was completed. We left a soft light burning . . .
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December 09, 2007 03:54 PM EST --
My Christmas Wish
One year, if time is kind to me,
I'd like to decorate a tree for Christmas
Resplendent with all the things that never break
Nor fall, . . .
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January 07, 2008 08:34 PM EST --
In the fading light
of this winter day, I unpack
the first of many boxes
returned after seven years.
The pictures grab me
by the throat, a weak
sound emerges unwelcome, . . .
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May 17, 2009 06:41 PM EDT --
I
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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August 23, 2007 06:59 PM EDT --
Just a block off busy Central Avenue in Albuquerque, with its noisy traffic and hurrying humanity, George Lee found a place of peace and tranquility. The ancient cottonwood trees absorbed . . .
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January 01, 2008 10:11 PM EST --
Perhaps I don't remember the uneventful times that I walked home for lunch, but I remember two really bad times. Once, in first grade, a black cocker spaniel dog menaced me as I . . .
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