Tag: life
member name: Ruth MacGill
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October 02, 2007 12:16 PM EDT --
An Unexpected Gift
Lately I have been afraid that it was inevitable that I was going to get up some morning soon and find this ancient computer dead. Since I joined Gather, it . . .
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October 29, 2007 11:36 AM EDT --
I know a man in his 60s who swears he can remember the day he was born. He describes the scene and the people there very convincingly. I was interviewing him about his mother for an article in the periodical . . .
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November 27, 2009 08:15 PM EST --
I almost didn’t choose this book at the library because it sounded too much like a purely woman’s book that would turn out to be too prissy to keep my interest. I usually prefer . . .
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February 22, 2007 06:15 PM EST --
Another Catastrophe Passed On by
I had to give up my seat in front of this computer, and take Smokey Joe to the vet to get his stitches out. That is at least a 120 mile round trip, and Jane couldn’t . . .
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October 02, 2007 05:54 PM EDT --
When Should a Mother Let Go?
I sure don’t know. I have a sixty-year-old daughter, and I still keep poking my nose into her business where it doesn’t belong. And when she takes a rare . . .
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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 06, 2006 08:39 PM EST --
Flaggie’s Letter to His Mother After the Great Chicago Fire Oct. 8, 1871
(edited and reposted)
While rummaging in boxes for pictures, I ran across a copy of a letter written in 1871 by . . .
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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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September 29, 2007 11:16 AM EDT --
Just before sundown yesterday, I was surprised by a visit from Nora and Bruce, a couple who used to be my neighbors. They are a generation or two younger than I, but we share a mutual love of animals. . . .
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November 06, 2007 11:03 AM EST --
Things have not been going well for Sherpa’s family, a large, good-looking and independent couple I have known for about eight years. They have fallen on hard times that have left them virtually . . .
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November 16, 2007 12:40 PM EST --
As I was donning my jeans and T-shirt for my day’s activities this morning, I got to thinking how fashions have changed since I was a child. When I was born in the roaring twenties, hems had just . . .
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October 15, 2008 11:33 AM EDT --
Did you see Frontline last night? They broadcast biographies emphasizing the adult lives of both candidates. I liked the way they did it by segments about one candidate at a point in his life, followed . . .
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January 12, 2009 08:52 PM EST --
I have been a member of Gather for two and a half years and there are still some very elementary things I don't understand and don't know how to do there. For instance I don't . . .
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December 02, 2006 10:41 AM EST --
Drat That Blue-Haired Woman!
Yesterday, on schedule at 8 AM, I set out for town in my Toyota Tacoma for my monthly supplies. Living 65 miles from major stores means you have plan ahead and make . . .
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December 07, 2006 01:20 PM EST --
How I Got This Computer
I was a volunteer at the Gaskill Brothers Stone Store Museum for seven years. I started as the caretaker and weekend docent, but gradually volunteered my way into having . . .
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December 20, 2006 12:32 PM EST --
Yesterday I Met a Man Named Charley Silverwater
In this small community of Boulevard, just off Interstate 8 at the highest point before the road dives down to the Anza-Borrego desert, there is . . .
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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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December 31, 2006 03:55 PM EST --
Resolutions?
I don’t know what good it will do, but ever hopeful, I will keep trying to do better in all things, starting by thinking positively about New Year’s Resolutions . . .
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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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