Tag: living
group name: writerscove
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February 02, 2007 10:03 PM EST --
It takes a lot of courage, gumption, resourcefulness, and risk tolerance to leave your home country behind, defy the rules, and make your way into America. It takes tremendous work ethic to start with . . . more
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January 28, 2008 01:22 PM EST --
After the services, dead but not dead, I sat in our only armchair with my hands holding either arm. The upholstery was green tweed. Or big blue flowers on beige. Or brick-red . . . more
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March 08, 2007 11:57 AM EST --
My husband worked hard all his life. He worked as a machinist. He also worked at General Dynamics where the tanks for war are made. He worked where the occupational hazards were very dangerous to the health. . . . 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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April 02, 2008 09:45 PM EDT --
According to a special on ABC-TV this week, there is a place in the United States where, for a price of $70,000, you can have your body cryogenically frozen when you die. They drain the body of blood . . . 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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April 02, 2008 07:25 PM EDT --
This week on a Barbara Walters special, she explored the idea of longevity. There is a scientist who is trying to isolate a chemical from red wine that could help us live to 150 years old. . . . more
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February 01, 2007 12:43 PM EST --
I overheard a couple of guys talking by the bus stop this morning. (No exaggeration, I'm quoting directly.)
Man #1: "What did you think of that big snowstorm we had yesterday?" . . . more
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March 08, 2007 11:11 PM EST --
It seems the number one complaint these days is smoking vs. anti smoking. Oh how horrible we smokers are who dares to light up and pollute the air.
Well speaking of polluting lets check out a few things . . . more
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January 29, 2007 04:01 AM EST --
There was a time When the sun-
And the flower
That laid below,
Lived in perfectly
Veracious congruity
The sun beaming its love
Upon . . . more
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June 03, 2008 07:03 PM EDT --
( This article was published over a year ago, shortly after Stephanie Moore died, when I didn't know many people on gather. Several friends asked me to republish it. )
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February 04, 2007 05:17 PM EST --
Inside Out
Best Year of My Life
To Err is Human, to Forgive is Divine
By Mary Tucker
Alexander Pope first . . . more
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January 22, 2007 02:40 PM EST --
In the dead of night when all was calm
I was taken by surprise by a sound.
I arose from my bed to find the source,
And commenced to looking around.
The bewitching hour was upon us
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January 22, 2007 11:45 PM EST --
A stairway leading nowhere
that's how it looks, so it seems
What lies ahead beyond those steps
An empty expanse of dreams?
It is dark ahead, do I dare
To wander off above . . . more
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January 26, 2007 06:41 PM EST --
Once, a long while ago,
It was so dreary.
Life wasn't worth living,
I became so weary.
Then came a light,
Glowing just ahead.
Toward this light
I was led.
The light was you
Your light . . . more
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October 06, 2007 10:20 PM EDT --
The constant creaking that attended
her last years is lost to me.
I was two--
maybe a few months over--
when the motion stopped.
But I have pictures of a little me on
her legs in a rocking chair . . . more
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January 20, 2007 07:26 PM EST --
Cast a dark, foreboding likeness of a soul
in shifting curves of bending light
upon which the evening takes its toll
hidden deep within the densest night.
It finds its way through corners of thickened . . . more
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January 17, 2007 04:28 AM EST --
This last year
Has been my worst.
I have visited places
In my mind
Throughout my being
And within my soul
That I never knew existed.
I have been intensely sad
Profoundly lonely
Empty.
So . . . more
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March 02, 2007 03:24 PM EST --
It has been said that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and I have found that this is mostly true. There seems to be a magnetic pull when I see a garage sale sign. I rarely stop anymore, . . . more
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March 02, 2007 04:18 PM EST --
Alexander Pope first penned the words, to err is human, to forgive is divine, in 1711, as part of the famous text, An Essay on . . . more
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