Tag: family
group name: journalmoments
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October 03, 2007 02:54 PM EDT --
20th century poetry starts in 10 minutes.
I am not there.
I may go for the second half... but right now, I have decided, I need to take a break.
And besides that, I am not willing to risk fainting in . . . more
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August 25, 2007 02:21 PM EDT --
Tamara has a place to live - not only that, but it is available now... can start moving things in as soon as she figures out how she's going to do that.
***update*** - she just got a message from . . . more
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October 28, 2007 01:33 PM EDT --
In January, my mother will have been dead 25 years. We weren’t prepared for her to die. It makes it hard to talk about her. In the back of my mind, not talking about her . . . more
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June 02, 2008 01:51 AM EDT --
Life gets really complex sometimes. Recently, for me, the whole "yours, mine and ours" became a very real thing, and I had to step up to the plate and accept one of K's kids (AND a . . . more
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May 19, 2008 07:11 AM EDT --
Everyday at 10 o'clock, coffee and donuts are served in the Big Room at Newfield House, the facility where both my Uncle Charlie and my Mom are residents. Uncle Charlie has been at Newfield for . . . more
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September 21, 2007 08:43 AM EDT --
Do you have a favorite spot in your house? The one that just makes you relax and feel comfortable the minute you get there.....the place you want to start and end your day......? Where is it? . . . more
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July 08, 2007 09:50 PM EDT --
Today we are going to drop in on my cousin Terry and his partner Gino for tea at their old-fashion Cape Cod home. In our family, you never have to call and say your visiting...you just show up...and . . . more
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July 01, 2007 09:35 PM EDT --
The schools are out for summer and the children are romping around happily.
And I live in a beautiful gated town home community,It . . . more
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August 04, 2007 07:47 PM EDT --
Lately it seems that all I do with my free time is clean. Laundry and dishes is a given. Those are things that are constantly being used. But my husband and my son seem to have gotten out of control.
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January 19, 2008 01:43 PM EST --
That is the day I became a mother. My oldest son was born 19 years ago today. Can that really be possible? He's growing into such a wonderful young man, and I'm very proud of him.
Here he is . . . more
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May 14, 2008 07:06 AM EDT --
She looks at me
with questioning eyes
and then turns away.
Was it not just yesterday
she was a child of six
with plaited braids down
her back going off to school?
And where is the girl, . . . more
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June 08, 2007 05:33 PM EDT --
UUUGGGHHH... we finally made it to D.C. We left Cincinnatiat 5:00 AM (2 hours later then we told our son we would leave) for the 8 hour trip to Washington D.C. that took 11 1/2 hours.
After . . . more
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July 28, 2007 10:22 PM EDT --
Sitting on his treeside throne
Guarding precious ears of corn
Looking at the world with scorn
Feeling just a bit forlorn.
Suddenly a flash goes past --
Ruddy rodent joins the cast
Stealthy, . . . more
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August 02, 2007 03:50 PM EDT --
For those of you who know me well and have known me for quite some time, I offer an update on an old story. For those of you I have just met, relax, and let me tell you a tale...
Once upon a time (spring . . . more
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December 19, 2007 11:29 AM EST --
I LOVE baking for the hoildays. My son and I make a list of things and have a blast in the process. We are making the following:
Sugar cookies
Kolackis
Magic cookie bars
Snickerdoodles . . . more
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March 01, 2008 12:09 AM EST --
Last week, my good Gatherite friend Jean, at my asking, gave me a Tarot card reading. In the article she mentioned that I was going through some major changes in my life and that "my cup runneth . . . more
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September 25, 2007 10:46 AM EDT --
Ok, as all families tend to be, this is a true story about a dysfunctional family. The names have been changed to protect the innocent, well if you can call them that. Yet, . . . more
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June 15, 2007 12:52 AM EDT --
On the night before my father died, I spent the night at the hospital with him so that my mother could go home and rest. He slept fitfully, tossing and turning in the hospital bed he had slept in for the . . . more
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August 21, 2007 03:13 AM EDT --
Tonight I found myself in a bit of funk, for the third or fourth time some wet behind the ears know nothing suggested that I should “Get a life.” I swallowed hard and put the insult . . . more
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March 30, 2008 06:41 AM EDT --
Last night I was on the phone with my sister Fran and we were talking about the two articles I wrote on her Victorian House among other things. Her husband Fred was pleased with the articles but . . . more
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