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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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. . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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December 06, 2006 12:33 AM EST --
(This is a repeat posting of an article I deleted.)
I was born in 1922 and my family had a farm in Bethel, Connecticut by the time of the ‘Crash of ‘29’. Some of my father’s . . . more
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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 . . . more
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May 10, 2008 12:03 PM EDT --
What Are You Going to Do With Your $600?
Mine came in yesterday. I live 60 miles from town and I had waited until it came in to do my monthly shopping. Since the price of gas went sky-high and rising, . . . more
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May 14, 2008 01:11 AM EDT --
Things Worked Out Right - I shouldn't have worried
Two days ago I got a letter from my health provider that my primary doctor was no longer available to me. I panicked and assumed that the Clinic . . . more
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February 10, 2008 01:24 AM EST --
I'm laughing, but it really isn't funny. After about six hours of dosing her dog Bob on tranquilizers, my daughter remembered someone's story about getting his dog drunk to . . . more
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May 03, 2008 12:53 AM EDT --
My Visitor Made it Brief
Several months ago I wrote an e-mail to a man I knew slightly from the Senior Lunch program. He enhances his fixed income with part time software writing, and had moved to . . . more
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May 04, 2008 10:56 AM EDT --
What Does 'Going Back to Basics' Mean to You?
A friend told me he looks upon going back to basics as living within one's means - no charging. That's right of course, but it is only . . . more
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May 04, 2008 05:22 PM EDT --
Requiem for a Little Sofa
It has been more than a month since a little sofa appeared beside the road by a dumpster not far from this rural horse camp. It was the size of a love seat, but overstuffed . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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November 22, 2007 11:38 AM EST --
My Holiday Blues Aren’t Working!
Each year I seem to dread the Christmas holidays more and more. It starts on Thanksgiving and today I am all prepared to hunker down with moody blues, and go . . . more
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February 05, 2008 09:09 AM EST --
So Far So Good
More than a month ago my kind-hearted senior-aged daughter was told she had to get rid of her four mixed-breed pit bulls, or move away from this beautiful horse camp on an Indian reservation . . . more
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March 27, 2008 11:34 AM EDT --
Yesterday I Met an Iguana
It's not everyday you meet an iguana, even here on the Mexican border. Yesterday I took my collections of aluminum cans, beer bottles, (other people's, not mine!) . . . more
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January 07, 2008 01:55 PM EST --
And his name was Samuel Wesley Cameron, born Nov. 29, 1856- and died Oct. 13, 1926.
But this is not a fairytale. This is all true.
When Sam Cameron's family came from Canada in the . . . more
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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 . . . more
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