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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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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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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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 . . .
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January 15, 2009 08:53 AM EST --
This came this morning in the mail from my friend Mike from La Mesa. I agree with him that such witty examples of the subtle insult must be shared.
Who Said That?
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February 22, 2009 03:15 AM EST --
When the price of gas here in the mountains east of San Diego rose to almost $5.00 a gallon, most of us changed our driving habits drastically. The small grocery stores have benefited greatly from . . .
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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 . . .
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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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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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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 . . .
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February 26, 2009 06:00 PM EST --
This book is a heartwarming tale of an Italian/American boy, Antonio Benedetto, growing up amidst a large, devoutly Catholic family living in Revere, Massachusetts, just north of Boston, in the 1950s. . . .
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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. . . .
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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 . . .
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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!) . . .
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