Tag: living
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May 07, 2006 07:47 AM EDT --
I have an idea.
People have emailed me with some ideas about this Monday's Welcome Newcomer article that I'm doing.
A lot of people are doing terrific stuff in that department.
Undiscovered . . .
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May 09, 2006 03:24 AM EDT --
"Hey, you there – don't jump."
A short, balding man with a twinkle in his eye and appearing to be ageless, yet elderly, caught the younger man by the arm, and stopped him . . .
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April 29, 2006 09:45 PM EDT --
Two Decembers ago, it was 65 degrees and my crocuses and tulips bloomed.
They trusted. They trusted their instinct that the time to bloom was at that moment.
It doesn't matter they were wrong. They . . .
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May 02, 2006 02:59 AM EDT --
Breathing is life.
It is involuntary.
We cannot will ourselves to stop.
But we can will ourselves to breathe faster or slower.
But even this feat cannot last forever.
In the end, we must trust enough . . .
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October 22, 2009 01:49 PM EDT --
There is so much hype about the flu these days. Should we vaccine or not? How dangerous is it? One thing we can do is eat these foods to help boost our natural defense to the flu – our immune system. . . .
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April 16, 2006 02:31 AM EDT --
(This is a continuing fictional series in the lives of Susan Hapenny and her friends. This installment takes place in 1967, in Monterey, at the Monterey Pop Festival.)
"Our Weekend in Monterey" . . .
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May 10, 2006 02:11 PM EDT --
81. As a child, I ate dirt and sucked wet wash cloths.
82. I turned out alright.
83. Thank God I did not partake of my diaper.
84. My first power dream was when I was five. I wanted . . .
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June 15, 2006 01:47 PM EDT --
I wrote this article specifically for a new group called Minnesota Readers but am posting it to everyone at Gather as I'm currently engaged in a publicity tour for my new book, The Scent of God. . . .
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May 02, 2006 09:11 AM EDT --
Like a dandelion to the wind he goes
from hearth to school
come September
youth's first bloom
a tall 5-year-old
last night, his 18th birthday
our son
life of dreams
promised hope
no longer child, but . . .
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May 04, 2006 09:06 PM EDT --
When I was in college, when I felt self-indulgent and wanted to write, I would say 'I'm feeling mossy.'
It was an oblique reference to Walt Whitman. More mundanely, I was feeling creative. . . .
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May 17, 2006 07:42 AM EDT --
cooking with gas tonight, dirt included
laying it out in the open
soul, dirty
flesh raw, bones bare to skull
god, what have I done
cooking with gas tonight, dirt included
I'm real
we've all got . . .
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June 08, 2006 12:10 AM EDT --
That summer I'd found the rabbit lying in the road, hit by a car, its legs broken; he couldn't be saved. Yet, I had to try.
I knew the marriage couldn't be saved. Yet, I had to try.
I called . . .
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May 06, 2006 06:28 PM EDT --
Joseph Smith, Jr. was born in 1805 in Sharon, Vermont, now Royalton, off Route 89, in a family of 10 children. His family was extremely poor, even by the rough standards of the time. His family . . .
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May 15, 2006 02:22 PM EDT --
It was a dark and stormy night. Rain pelted the road, covered the ground. Flooding would soon begin. Brad tried the ignition. Nothing. Janet groaned.
"Brad, oh, whatever are we going to do? We're . . .
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June 05, 2006 01:12 AM EDT --
Recently, I downloaded Firefox, as part of a larger Google download, which took all night; the Google download included 6 progarms, such as Picasa, Google Desktop, Google Earth and others...
We've . . .
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June 06, 2006 07:28 PM EDT --
pure evil
that painted
whore
in our bed
her children, bound to ours
that dark night, your soul
thrashes upon a sea of unknowing
your black soul cries misery
upon your bones wracked in pain
now
your torment-knotted . . .
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June 17, 2006 05:25 AM EDT --
Customers drive me to the brink of despair and beyond. Some days, everything's too much.
They'll rip open up the plastic bags on the comforters, pull out a comforter, then try to stuff it back . . .
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June 19, 2006 04:18 AM EDT --
Last week I caught Anne and Babe in the bathroom doing crack; I no longer knew who she was. I grounded her; she ran away.
She called from a motel near Venice Beach; she was going to kill herself. . . .
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June 26, 2006 04:36 PM EDT --
I used to wonder when the world would end. I hoped that it would.
I'm referring to my father's remarriage to my stepmother. It was a nightmare for the entire time between the beginning of the . . .
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May 12, 2006 01:31 AM EDT --
By all accounts, Joseph Smith was charismatic. He was an uncommonly handsome man, six feet tall with dark hair and blue eyes. He charmed the ladies and he was a public speaker without equal: he possessed . . .
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