Tag: people
member name: Ruth MacGill
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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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November 27, 2009 09:51 PM EST --
It occurred to me the other day that the most obvious difference in the two financial declines is in the look of people in general. I was 10 in 1932 so I remember a little about how people looked. . . .
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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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December 02, 2006 10:41 AM EST --
Drat That Blue-Haired Woman!
Yesterday, on schedule at 8 AM, I set out for town in my Toyota Tacoma for my monthly supplies. Living 65 miles from major stores means you have plan ahead and make . . .
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December 07, 2006 01:20 PM EST --
How I Got This Computer
I was a volunteer at the Gaskill Brothers Stone Store Museum for seven years. I started as the caretaker and weekend docent, but gradually volunteered my way into having . . .
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December 09, 2006 01:41 PM EST --
Seven Nuns From Carondelet
The country where I now live on the foothills of the Laguna Mountains is still rugged, but back in 1870 it was barely accessible. The trails were steep with many miles . . .
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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 . . .
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December 16, 2006 10:01 AM EST --
A Storm Is Coming In
I meant to wait two days before I fired off another article. I don’t want to ‘run you off’ with too much trivial drivel, and that is what this is going . . .
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December 20, 2006 12:32 PM EST --
Yesterday I Met a Man Named Charley Silverwater
In this small community of Boulevard, just off Interstate 8 at the highest point before the road dives down to the Anza-Borrego desert, there is . . .
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