Tag: people
member name: Ruth MacGill
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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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October 10, 2007 10:01 AM EDT --
My new Dell computer is a gem, gleaming silver and blue on the bench before me. It seems to be telling me, "Ok, Hotshot, Let’s have at it and unload some old stories and new ideas before that . . . more
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August 26, 2007 04:59 PM EDT --
Counting My Blessings
There was a time I felt hopeless and wished I were dead. I couldn’t see any likelihood of any happy endings for me. I tried suicide, but was even a failure at . . . 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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October 07, 2007 01:45 AM EDT --
This is an edited version of an article I have posted before. The Mohawk tribe was an enemy of the Wappinger Indians in bygone times, and I thought it might be an interesting accompaniment to last weeks . . . more
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October 24, 2007 03:19 PM EDT --
This is the fourth day of the fires in San Diego County. From the safe vantage point of an Indian horse camp, 70 miles east of the city, I am watching coverage of the disasters occurring from the Mexican . . . more
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November 25, 2006 01:59 AM EST --
My Prose Wasn’t Deathless, After All
Last night I got so disgusted with my articles and myself, that I deleted all six pages of titles! They aren’t gone forever because . . . more
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October 06, 2007 10:36 AM EDT --
The Long Riders Are Here
This horse camp on the Manzanita Indian Reservation is inundated with over 180 horses and about the same number of people here to compete in the annual long distance . . . more
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August 28, 2007 11:52 AM EDT --
Eclipse of the Moon Over the Oak Trees
It’s 2:10 A.M. and there must be coyotes out there in the moonlight because Jane’s dogs just woke me up with a frenzy of barking. From my bed . . . more
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October 21, 2007 11:27 AM EDT --
Horse Campers
On this sunny and very windy weekend there is a group of people camped at #40, under a huge old oak tree at the far end of the camp. That site is popular because it is very private . . . 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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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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August 01, 2008 09:38 PM EDT --
Summing Up the Day
This is the day, the first of the month, when I always go to town for monthly supplies. It turned out pretty good. I went alone, and on the way in I stopped in Alpine, a halfway . . . more
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December 14, 2006 01:30 AM EST --
Today’s Dog Rescue
There is a local network of dog rescuers within a twenty-mile radius of where I live, and when any of us find out about a dog in need, we keep the wires hot planning . . . more
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January 29, 2007 04:04 PM EST --
Sheba is in the Dog House!
Pit bulls will be pit bulls! I have written about Sheba and her three puppies that my daughter, Jane rescued. A truck had hit Sheba and her right front leg was mangled. . . . more
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August 21, 2007 10:13 AM EDT --
I heard on the news the other day that police departments in the United States are experiencing a bullet shortage. In an interview from somewhere in the heartland, a police chief said that orders he has . . . more
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September 13, 2007 02:44 AM EDT --
Wildfire Is on the Prowl in the Mountains Tonight!
This morning I drove the 65 miles to town to pick up my cat, Riley, whom I had left yesterday with the vet to have his infected teeth extracted. . . . more
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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 . . . more
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