Tag: family
member name: Ruth MacGill
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November 18, 2009 01:33 PM EST --
I was brought up to believe that husbands were meant to make all the decisions in the family. Hopefully he would seek the opinion of his wife, but he would be the one to make ultimate decisions.
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June 18, 2009 06:55 PM EDT --
This was never truer for me than a time when I was about 42 years old and had developed a terrible craving for lettuce. When I got home from work I went straight to the refrigerator and broke off a half . . .
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October 27, 2008 10:59 AM EDT --
Happy birthday to me!
Happy birthday to me!
Happy birthday lucky me-ee
Happy birthday tooo meee!
I was born in a hospital in Norwalk Conn. 86 years ago today. When I was 4 years . . .
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December 08, 2006 10:27 AM EST --
Listening in the Dark
A slamming door
And stomping feet,
The peaceful silence broken
Angry yells
“I got you Bitch”,
Crying words are spoken
Soothing . . .
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November 23, 2006 10:46 PM EST --
Well, Just One More Little Helping
How can I even be thinking of another piece of pie? After eating turkey, stuffing, potatoes, gravy galore, peas, sweet potatoes, salad, and fresh made . . .
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December 16, 2006 10:01 AM EST --
A Storm Is Coming In
I meant to wait two days before I fired off another article. I don’t want to ‘run you off’ with too much trivial drivel, and that is what this is going . . .
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December 27, 2006 06:35 PM EST --
Meanwhile - On the Home Front
(Those of you who have read this, please forgive me for reposting. I want some of the newer people in my groups to read it. I had deleted it from Gather, altogether.) . . .
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December 30, 2006 09:43 AM EST --
A Day To Remember
In 1933, I was eleven years old, and I was growing up on a dairy farm in southern Connecticut. Although it was only 65 miles from New York City, it was very countrified as it . . .
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February 10, 2007 01:14 PM EST --
My Dictionary Is Older Than I Am!
I need a new dictionary. I have two, but they won't do. I suppose I could look words up on the Internet, but I don’t because it takes too long.
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March 18, 2007 01:34 AM EDT --
When the Ship Came In
I just read an article written by Julie Counting the Days Laughlin’. Her husband is coming home from Iraq in just eight days. I know just how she feels because I married . . .
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February 12, 2007 12:24 AM EST --
The Taming of Tiger Tom
It is a cold, rainy night and the wind is banging my metal awnings around. I am so glad not to see anymore, the wild, gray tabby cat, huddling pitifully on my windowsill . . .
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February 23, 2007 08:35 PM EST --
I Chickened Out at Nursing
Back in 1940, I flunked myself out of nursing school at St. Lukes Hospital in NYC because I gave Milk of Magnesia instead of mineral oil to a patient. I decided that . . .
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November 28, 2006 07:29 AM EST --
Not Rootless After All
My father bought a farm in southern Connecticut in 1928 when I was six years old. and he sold it in 1941. My childhood was spent on that farm and in retrospect it seems . . .
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December 20, 2006 03:27 AM EST --
My Grandmother Emily
Today, I ran across some big words that needed research to get the full meaning of the article. My thrift shop dictionary, a Thorndike Barnhart, failed the test. There were . . .
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December 22, 2006 11:31 AM EST --
A Trip to the Clinic or, Just When You Think You’ve Got It Made, That Sneaky Christmas Spirit Strikes Again!
Yesterday, I went to our local Indian clinic to have my monthly blood drawing, . . .
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January 25, 2007 01:40 PM EST --
Jobs
I have just launched a new group called, “It’s a Living”. I looked through the list of groups and saw nothing specific about tales of how people make their livelihood. . . .
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January 29, 2007 10:11 PM EST --
Rebecca Hook and her Family
The Hook family moved to the Campo area in 1868, and the family has been an important part of the community ever since, up until her great grandson, Lester Hook, died . . .
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June 14, 2008 12:57 PM EDT --
She joined last fall, but she works on line double shifts doing medical transcription, so she doesn't have much time for anything else. She sort of introduced herself in a comment she made on my article . . .
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May 30, 2009 10:02 PM EDT --
We are still planning to move sometime in July. My daughter Jane looked at some possible rentals when she was in town yesterday. She found several with 2 or 3 bedrooms that will accept our pets. I'm . . .
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December 06, 2006 12:33 AM EST --
I wrote and posted this article two years ago, but Heather M. asked me to post it to her group so here it is again. I think the word 'if' could come out of the title now that . . .
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