Tag: memories
member name: Ruth MacGill
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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 07, 2007 07:58 AM EDT --
A pounding on a door awakens me.
I hear a man’s voice yelling, “Let me in!”
I fumble for a light and turn it on.
I do not recognize this room wherein I sleep.
The walls . . .
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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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February 25, 2007 11:33 AM EST --
Ginger, The Trick Pony
My father admired horses. He owned a 65-acre farm in Fairfield County, Connecticut situated in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains. It was close enough to the metropolitan . . .
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March 05, 2007 09:07 AM EST --
My Second Summer Job
Growing up, I lived on a farm in southwestern Connecticut, too far from town to try working at any job that might be available to a teenager in those days. There were . . .
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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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July 20, 2009 03:14 PM EDT --
Among the vessels tied up along San Diego’s Presidio as part of the Maritime Museum, is the USS Midway, an aircraft carrier launched just after the end of WWII. I feel an affinity toward the Midway . . .
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July 15, 2007 04:00 PM EDT --
The Worst Jobs of My Life
My working life started right after graduation from high school in 1940 when I was 18 years old. I had worked as a waitress and an upstaris maid during the summer, . . .
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July 31, 2007 11:17 AM EDT --
A Drink of Water
At ten years old I was a small skinny blond-pigtailed kid who had more freedom than modern kids could imagine. My parents were busy running a dairy farm, and after it was discovered . . .
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September 28, 2008 10:48 PM EDT --
I think I know what is at the base of all our financial troubles. We don't feel we have to save money ahead to buy things, and it has become all too easy to have instant satisfaction by buying with . . .
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December 07, 2007 11:43 AM EST --
My Link to Johnny Gruelle - Creator of Raggedy Ann
Johnny Gruelle was a political cartoonist when my mother and father first met him and his wife, Myrtle, at the dinner parties they attended in the . . .
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April 25, 2009 05:58 PM EDT --
I'll do the annoyances first.
Right now what annoys me the most is listening to Dick Cheney and his friends trying to justify torturing people. Next, is having to listen to the media on every news . . .
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May 30, 2007 07:15 AM EDT --
Memories of Life and Death in Tidewater Virginia
I’m having another night of not being able to get back to sleep. The coyotes serenaded us a while ago, and I am so wide-awake I might . . .
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February 03, 2009 01:09 PM EST --
I ran across this letter when I was going through a box of my mother's mementos yesterday. It is a letter I wrote home when I was finishing up my training at NATTC in . . .
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March 23, 2009 01:12 AM EDT --
For a week I have been trying to remember the name of one of my best beloved poets, and this afternoon it popped up of like a long lost friend. OGDEN NASH!
Ideas are best expressed in carefully . . .
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