Tag: living
group name: famousfirsts
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September 19, 2006 10:55 PM EDT --
The year was 1975. I was a senior in high school, and I was very excited because I was going to attend my first concert. My two best friends and myself had tickets to see the group Chicago. . . . more
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June 20, 2006 01:10 AM EDT --
The following is the first of a series drawn from memories of Massachusetts as a young boy. Although I grew up in Southern California during the 1950s, I traveled to Massachusetts several times with my . . . more
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September 04, 2006 02:49 PM EDT --
Most of you probably don't understand my mentality. But the idea of having stairs inside the dwelling is extremely attractive to me. I grew up in Taipei City, and because of the population density, . . . more
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August 26, 2006 08:37 PM EDT --
For as long as I can remember, I didn't like cats. I described them as sneaky and firmly believed they couldn't be trusted around children. But despite my dislike for the furry felines, for . . . more
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December 27, 2006 02:32 AM EST --
I woke up to the sound of typing. My boyfriend was sitting at our desk, on his computer, working, on Christmas morning. On Christmas morning! As a self employed web developer he makes his own hours . . . more
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November 19, 2006 02:04 AM EST --
I was hanging our clothing to dry in the September sun with my 3 month old son sleeping soundly in his sling. It was terribly hot and the mosquitos and flies were bothering. As I hung the . . . more
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May 30, 2008 05:33 AM EDT --
Is that your living room? I asked. No reply. It must be, for it seems so like you – calm, artful, sedate. It is full of grace like Tuesday's child, fair of face like Monday's child and . . . more
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August 30, 2006 11:09 PM EDT --
I love my mama. She's a very simple, homegrown kind of lady that comes from the backwoods of SW Louisiana (and SE Texas later on). She says things that my kids get a kick out of sometimes without meaning . . . more
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January 17, 2007 11:31 PM EST --
I used to think there were special people. People who knew what was going on in the world, even the universe. I guess it was only natural to think that someone must understand what is happening, . . . more
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April 11, 2006 11:55 PM EDT --
Sitting at her desk, today the Quill peers into the future and wonders about those who will live one-hundred and ten years from now. She fears a new, and as yet, unseen world where people speak to each . . . more
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August 09, 2006 01:30 PM EDT --
Logan Seth - quite possibly the most laid-back baby in the world, and our very first grand child was born yesterday morning at 10:54 am.
He weighed in at 8 pounds 2 oz, and stretched out to 21 inches . . . more
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November 25, 2006 07:12 PM EST --
There is our restaurant, that breakfast place we went the next morning after that first time. You raved about the waffles and fed me bits of caramel . . . more
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January 20, 2008 04:06 PM EST --
It's everywhere. Talk of recession. It increases every day. And with it, the fear of it increases. The fear it creates escalates the probability of it becoming a reality. . . . more
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July 22, 2006 12:26 PM EDT --
The following is Part V of a series drawn from memories of Massachusetts as a young boy. Although I grew up in Southern California during the 1950s, I traveled to Massachusetts several times with my mother. . . . more
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July 08, 2007 09:12 AM EDT --
I was honored to be asked to host this weeks two word challenge and I think it is fitting one for right after the holidays when the pattriotism may be dying down and we get a bit more introspective. . . . more
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January 21, 2007 02:34 PM EST --
What products or gadgets have you tried, and realized they just aren't what you hoped they'd be?
Here are some things that I've bought or used that looked like a great idea but weren't. . . . more
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September 05, 2006 11:53 AM EDT --
In addition to our biological children, we also had a number of foster children in the mid 1970's. Every Easter we had an informal family Easter Egg Hunt. I dyed and decorated dozens of . . . more
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February 23, 2007 11:34 AM EST --
Only that morning I had taken a cab home from the BIA Public Health Hospital in Bethel, the largest Yu'pik community in Southwestern Alaska. With me was my two . . . more
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August 26, 2008 09:55 AM EDT --
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Worker
Edward, are you working now?
In and out of systems and pathways
through these unseen gates, these
opaque cells and target organelles
in exploratory mode toward the . . . more
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November 01, 2006 12:52 PM EST --
Hungarian Halloween
Well, autumn is upon us here in Hungary and the chill of the -3 last night has all but laid bare the most stubborn foliage. Through once green laden trees the toil of the summer . . . more
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