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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October 18, 2008 10:09 AM EDT --
I have just read a heart-wrenching story on Gather by my good friend Debbie G. She hasn't been feeling well lately, and this is the first article by her I have found in a long time. It is called . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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, . . .
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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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September 02, 2009 03:39 AM EDT --
September 1 st again. I have lots to remember that happened during the last part of August and the first week in September. Fifty-eight years ago today I had my last child – a beautiful . . .
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November 22, 2007 10:23 AM EST --
Slowing Down in the Fast Lane, or Down the River and Over the Falls
This is one of those days I feel as if I am reclining in my Lazyboy in the middle of a freeway, or another analogy would be that . . .
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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 . . .
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June 13, 2008 12:23 AM EDT --
My daughter Jane and I started our day with a cat funeral. Her cat Jenny died last evening after a long illness. My daughter can't stand to let her pets go without a her best effort to keep them alive, . . .
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February 10, 2007 12:32 PM EST --
Smokey Joe’s Woes
It has been over two weeks since Smokey Joe went walking with my daughter Jane, and Sheba, the pit bull mother of three mixed breed puppies. At about nine months old, . . .
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March 24, 2007 01:58 AM EDT --
New York in 1941
In reference to my article “I Chickened Out In Nurses Training”, I failed to include some aspects of those ten months in New York City, and why I abandoned . . .
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August 31, 2009 03:14 PM EDT --
I want to tell you about two books – one I read last week and already returned to the library, and one I am still reading.
The one from last week is T he Broken Window by Jeffrey Deaver. . . .
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