Tag: family
member name: Ruth MacGill
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October 28, 2009 04:39 PM EDT --
I had a birthday yesterday, and Penny, my oldest grandchild and her husband Ralph, made it special for me about sundown. They cooked up a meal the likes of which I haven’t had for years. She . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 27, 2006 06:56 PM EST --
Legacy of Mrs. Peckham (reposted)
(I am reposting this particularly for the new group, herstory, and for other of my people who may not have seen it before. You nice people who have already . . .
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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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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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January 03, 2008 01:22 PM EST --
Origins – German-Americans from Russia
Only recently have I developed a real curiosity about my husband's family origins. He said they were Germans who were living in Russia when they emigrated. . . .
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April 14, 2008 08:55 PM EDT --
I just finished a book called, "Eleven Miles South of Half Moon Bay", by Bill Sullivan. It is very well written, and I liked it, but it also disturbs me. The theme and characters . . .
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