Tag: family
group name: writerscove
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January 17, 2007 06:34 PM EST --
Had a conversation with kid #2 today .... she is 21, in college and doing very well, in spite of the fact that for some unknown reason, her student loan for this semester barely covered her tuition . . . more
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February 26, 2008 12:06 PM EST --
I escaped. Left my home and family and responsibilities for a longer than normal vacation in the Land of Sunshine. It's a dream I've had since a fellowship showed me what uninterrupted time can . . . more
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February 01, 2007 10:22 PM EST --
I arrived home, and found a notice in the mailbox: a registered letter awaited me at the post office. My mind raced. Who could it be? A long-lost friend? Did I win something? . . . more
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February 05, 2007 09:54 PM EST --
I once heard a lady say, "Men are such pigs. Women don't have affairs like men do!" Her husband replied, "Men usually don't have affairs with other men." His point was clear. . . . more
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June 10, 2007 02:04 AM EDT --
I must confess I don't feel sixty. I feel like I'm in my early
40s, and a nice lady at a store where I went today thought
I was fifty when I said today was my birthday even though
both my hair . . . more
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March 30, 2007 04:40 PM EDT --
Filled with butterflies and frogs and birds and bees
The bush across the road grew untended until
They came from the city and cut down all the trees
The bush across the road grew untended until . . . more
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February 21, 2007 01:01 AM EST --
Rounding a sharp bend, I startled a covey of grouse in the tall grass beside the trail. Five of them took clattering flight, their wings beating hard against the air. Two cut across the trail in . . . more
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October 16, 2007 06:49 PM EDT --
Another story my Grandma Alice told me about her childhood. Enjoy. ~kate
In the early part of the 20th century, the Mack family lived on what was essentially a farm despite the fact that . . . more
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September 18, 2007 11:11 AM EDT --
My guardian angel is small only ten inches tall
With silky long hair and patches everywhere
Her two inch legs bend at the knee
Her ten pound body full of . . . more
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August 30, 2007 02:12 PM EDT --
As my due date approached, I was both elated and exhausted. Elated because, after three miscarriages (and five years), I was finally going to have the baby I wanted so badly. Exhausted because I was the . . . more
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September 01, 2007 10:01 PM EDT --
One of the hazards of doing genealogy work (aside from getting poison ivy at the cemetery or paper cuts at the library) is digging up the family skeleton. For me it's not a problem. It's those . . . more
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September 08, 2007 11:55 PM EDT --
My Mom is a stalker.
She follows me everywhere I go.
When I’m playing in the back yard, she watches me through the slats on the blind. She thinks I can’t see her, but I can.
She drives me . . . more
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March 21, 2007 04:13 PM EDT --
Subculture Essay (an assignment)
The Online . . . more
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January 17, 2007 12:56 AM EST --
He used to stand behind my mother, making faces, making me laugh when she was scolding me. "What are you laughing at?", my mother would yell. "Ma, he's making me!" "What, . . . more
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February 16, 2007 09:33 PM EST --
The pain, came and went, in the middle of the back
when he rose from bed each morning. "Good morning sunshine"
would softly fall from his lips while thoughts of dropping away,
perched on a . . . more
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September 22, 2007 09:39 AM EDT --
Whoever said, "Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man" was right. I looked It Up and It Was Leon Trotsky
For years I have been trying, struggling, fighting against . . . more
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October 03, 2007 01:54 PM EDT --
I have never used Gather as a forum for ranting, but today I am so angry, I have to let it out somewhere. The longer my mother spends in a nursing home, the more experience I have with the Medicaid system, . . . more
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September 01, 2007 10:59 AM EDT --
It was late September. I had just returned from vacation when the phone call came. A friend and I had visited Seattle, then flown to Juneau to catch an 11-day cruise back to Seattle, stopping all along . . . more
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September 19, 2007 10:58 AM EDT --
I graduated from college in 1967. I didn’t graduate until December because I changed majors in my senior year. I had been studying to be a social worker, but part of my epiphany was realizing that . . . more
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February 02, 2007 06:10 PM EST --
To all those of you who supported me with your kindness and your prayers the past couple of weeks while my mom underwent surgery two remove two brain tumors, I wanted to let you know that we finally got . . . more
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