Tag: family
group name: englishalphabet
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September 08, 2007 11:55 PM EDT --
My Mom is a stalker.
She follows me everywhere I go.
When I’m playing in the back yard, she watches me through the slats on the blind. She thinks I can’t see her, but I can.
She drives me . . .
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October 03, 2007 10:24 PM EDT --
The American television network NBC recently carried a series entitle The Black Donnellys. One of the creators of the series (Paul Haggis) is a native of London, Ontario, a small Canadian city with . . .
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May 27, 2007 07:43 PM EDT --
When I was growing up in the Midwest, we called Memorial Day, “Decoration Day”. It was the day we decorated the graves of loved ones with flowers.
A few days before Memorial Day, Mom would . . .
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September 09, 2007 12:16 AM EDT --
When Janice woke up, everything seemed the same. Her same old slippers were lying on the floor beside her bed, same as always. Her same old bathrobe was hanging on the end of her bed, just the same as . . .
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June 09, 2007 07:45 PM EDT --
It wasn't my fault, I should have been there. I was that kind of girl. What happened? My father, bless his heart, had been laid off in 1965 . . .
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April 03, 2007 08:39 AM EDT --
Three weeks ago my daughter had a baby. She will be taking three months of maternity leave, just as she did with her first baby. There was never any doubt or question that she would be allowed to . . .
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April 20, 2007 12:24 PM EDT --
writer
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April 20, 2007 12:27 PM EDT --
I kinda like the swirly S
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November 08, 2008 06:53 AM EST --
Life goes on, and though we are ever mindful that it is a gift, given our recent brush with the impending lack of it, it remains Chinese curse "interesting".
I just scared up a couple does . . .
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April 20, 2007 12:43 PM EDT --
black
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June 10, 2007 03:25 PM EDT --
Bah.
Today was supposed to be the day Laura's family gathered together to celebrate their birthday. They were going to go out for a nice lunch, and then select Laura's cake, and have a nice birthday . . .
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June 13, 2007 11:23 AM EDT --
No one who knows me could think I support the war in Iraq. That would make me a peacemaker, right? Hardly.
They say charity begins at home.
So does peace.
When the bible talks about beating swords . . .
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April 22, 2007 04:25 AM EDT --
My son was turning nine and wanted to have a birthday party. I agreed and asked him to make up a list of friends so we could send out invites. When he gave me the list I noticed . . .
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April 06, 2007 01:12 PM EDT --
We need to know.
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January 08, 2008 11:15 AM EST --
The Mother of my dear husband has come to live with us. I highly recommend such an arrangement for anyone actively seeking spiritual growth.
If that sounds like a sideways slam at my mother-in-law, . . .
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November 03, 2008 02:58 PM EST --
Yes, that was the first thing I read this morning in the New York Times, courtesy of Douglas MacKinnon, a man who lives in an alternative universe. http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.c...
Like . . .
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May 18, 2008 09:34 AM EDT --
This is the second installment of this series in which I am paying homage to the words of other writers that have had an impact on me in my life. The first article in the series can be found here: . . .
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October 17, 2007 04:04 PM EDT --
In this morning's paper I read an article about a study done by the California Budget Project on the minimum income needed to live in California. Here are the figures they came up with:
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June 23, 2007 07:24 PM EDT --
Laura and I were thinking that maybe today we'd have time to rest and relax. You know, enjoy life a little. We have another concert to attend on Sunday, after all, and this week has been nothing but . . .
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April 20, 2007 12:17 PM EDT --
White
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