Tag: people
member name: Sandy F.
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January 01, 2008 10:35 PM EST --
You know the ones I mean. They can be friends or family--even partners, children, parents, anyone you might trust with your heart. They are those who come in under our radar, . . .
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February 09, 2008 07:46 PM EST --
My mother is dying. Not today, but possibly tomorrow; for sure by next month. We are doing the hospice thing. . . .
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July 23, 2007 07:12 PM EDT --
I'm a bit behind on this because I had company for a few days.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Living most of my days in peace.
What is your greatest fear? . . .
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June 09, 2007 10:40 PM EDT --
Wife Lessons
The lesson I've learned as a wife and mother today is: making Strawberry Jam is not for the faint of heart.
I decide to be the domestic goddess my husband thought he . . .
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June 09, 2007 10:52 PM EDT --
There are . . .
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June 11, 2007 10:30 PM EDT --
Mashed Potatoes and Other Thoughts
I don't eat mashed potatoes in restaurants if I can help it. I never order them and I don't eat them if they are served as a vegetable side. Their smooth, ultra . . .
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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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July 26, 2007 05:07 PM EDT --
What if a woman has promised her husband she will never cultivate her sixth sense, her psychic powers? What if she receives awareness . . .
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May 29, 2007 11:27 PM EDT --
Driving though a tiny farming town in western Nebraska, I saw it there and passed on by. The building sported a new coat of paint, even thought it was sandwiched between an abandoned automobile . . .
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May 30, 2007 05:17 PM EDT --
The first day I arrived in Twin Falls, I was resting in the living room when I noticed something that concerned me. Diablo, . . .
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June 09, 2007 10:29 PM EDT --
It was directly after the second world war, my friend, Sonya, said. She had ridden it out in Holland and then in Germany. She was eighteen when it was over and the hard times, she hoped, . . .
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May 26, 2007 08:35 PM EDT --
I Miss the Little Things
Dear Daddy,
I'm stuck with my four year old
version of you in the moonlight
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April 19, 2007 10:51 AM EDT --
There is so much sadness and trial going on in the lives of everyone I know right now. I'd think it was just my family but friend's families seem to be the same. I'm sixty something, . . .
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May 30, 2007 05:31 PM EDT --
My spirit soars whenever I achieve true communication with another person. That’s why I write—I hope that someday someone will say “your writing touched me and I understand you . . .
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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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April 19, 2007 07:28 PM EDT --
The hardest part of recycling has always been to find a place or places that will even take the saved and recyclable stuff off your hands. We aren't in it for the money, but often there's . . .
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May 30, 2007 05:09 PM EDT --
“Read it again, Gramma,” Emily says.
“Which . . .
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