Tag: living
group name: gatherbest
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April 01, 2008 04:05 PM EDT --
It wasn't a trip I wanted to take; there were no beaches or cocktail hours; and the only souvenirs I brought home are carved into my abdomen. And yet, I traveled far, saw things I'd never seen . . . more
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April 09, 2006 05:09 PM EDT --
What Can You Do With One Arm?
A month or so ago I was working at the rock climbing wall at work. This wall has twelve degrees of difficulties. One being the easiest and twelve the most complicated. The . . . more
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February 20, 2007 04:57 PM EST --
My acupuncturist, Justin, and his SO, Helen, have recently decided that they would like to develop protocols for sustainable organic farming. To this end, they asked me to help find . . . more
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November 25, 2006 05:22 AM EST --
Dear Santa 07: Baghdad
Dear Santa, please listen up!
I'm a grunt, just a soldier, in Iraq on my second tour of duty; and I loathe the place and everyone in it. . . . more
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August 06, 2006 12:45 PM EDT --
As I begin the downward descent on the arc that is my life, I sometimes fear that I?m going to end up like my Aunt Marion: alone, angry, and crazy as a loon.
Aunt Marion was always a little nutty, and . . . more
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January 23, 2006 07:06 PM EST --
Why is it that as I post this picture of me, I hear the music from Psycho! Do not be afraid though, it is only little ol' me! You've often wondered (or maybe not) what I look like, . . . more
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September 05, 2006 01:00 PM EDT --
Around these New Mexican parts, Labor Day means the annual Bean Day Festival in Wagon Mound. Each yearly event features a free bean barbeque and the best rodeo this side of the Pecos! Of course I lassoed . . . more
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January 10, 2006 10:38 PM EST --
Do you know your Myers-Briggs Personality Type? I am an ENFP. I learned this by taking a personality test administered by my therapist, but I have also taken some for free on the Internet. . . . more
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August 04, 2006 01:00 PM EDT --
For-Profits versus Non-Profits
In my twenty three years as a Nursing Home Nurse, I have spent the majority of my time in non-profit facilities, working in one, and traveling to numerous others as an . . . more
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January 30, 2007 06:54 PM EST --
Joe was my client, as we called the folk who had disabilities at the developmental day program where I worked Joe was a short little guy, no taller than myself, very sprightly, and almost . . . more
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February 09, 2006 10:25 PM EST --
sometimes I feel like a worthless gem
full of potential but flawed to no end
who wants the diamond with the spot
the ruby with a crack
the emerald with the white streak
who made the rules for what . . . more
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June 18, 2006 06:37 PM EDT --
Okay folks, it is official . . . the time we wait for all year long has finally arrived . . . It is Carolyn Madden's Birthday week! That's right. According to carolyn's about . . . more
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May 21, 2006 11:38 AM EDT --
I tend to pile my mail on the coffee table in the livingroom. Occasionally I go through it and remove the bills (which are about the only really "personal" mail I ever get) and throw away all . . . more
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June 26, 2006 09:30 PM EDT --
I'd like to suggest Peter M's marvelous essay on his most unusual teenage upbringing in Spain. This memoir is filled with the kind of detail that makes the writer's personal experience so real . . . more
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September 12, 2006 01:04 PM EDT --
Home. The very word conjures up an image so evocative of a secured feeling. A feeling surpassing most other feelings. A place where one can be just himself, no pretensions, no affectations.
Home is not . . . more
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August 24, 2008 11:47 PM EDT --
Labor Day weekend is a good time to catch up on your culture. Of course, you can go to the Sausalito Art Festival (SAF) — voted the best in the country since, well, forever — or . . . more
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February 06, 2007 10:58 PM EST --
A Sweet Life
by Wesley R. Bowman
The window and bladder beckon
As the pillow seduces
Cartoon chatter from the T.V. downstairs
Mingles with the smell of pancakes . . . more
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June 03, 2008 07:03 PM EDT --
( This article was published over a year ago, shortly after Stephanie Moore died, when I didn't know many people on gather. Several friends asked me to republish it. )
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August 26, 2008 02:00 PM EDT --
Cows seem to know how to find north and south, say researchers who have studied satellite photos of thousands of cows around the world. Reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . . . more
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January 05, 2006 04:51 AM EST --
I sat in my private dorm room, feeling like a failure. It was supposed to be my last semester in college, the semester I had looked forward to – student teaching. No one understood why . . . more
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