Tag: writing
group name: rememberthepast
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November 24, 2008 04:07 PM EST --
I remember someone telling me once "You will never know the lives that you have touched." I did not understand the quote then and I am just now beginning to understand it now. Each . . .
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January 19, 2007 11:08 PM EST --
When I was a little girl, in about fourth grade, my grandmother used to baby-sit me after school. We were lucky in that we rented a house from my grandparents so I could just go next door after school. . . .
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March 03, 2007 08:01 PM EST --
Great Grandma’s Wood Cooking Stove
One day my great grandpa showed me how to split some wood for grandma’s . . .
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March 03, 2007 08:21 PM EST --
The Sea Bat
One day we were at sea when a couple of my shipmates came to where I was swabbing the deck. They asked, “Do you want . . .
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December 12, 2006 07:40 PM EST --
I will do it tomorrow
I tell my wife; when there is something, she wants done, and that I have been putting off, “I’ll . . .
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March 09, 2007 11:53 PM EST --
Pappy’s Beer Bottles
When I needed spending money my granny would let me mow the yard. . . .
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August 29, 2007 11:01 PM EDT --
Looking over the city
The lights winked in the distance.
We sat on the hood of his car.
I don't even remember what model,
But I remember . . .
I shivered;
He put his jacket . . .
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December 12, 2006 10:54 PM EST --
The Shoebox Sunday the pastor had a shoebox that he had envelopes in for a Missionary Collection they were taking up next Sunday. . . .
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March 10, 2007 07:44 PM EST --
Bird of Many Colors.
I read a book once about an Indian myth about bird with many colors; that . . .
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December 28, 2006 06:09 PM EST --
No secrets on the Party Line Phone . . .
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September 14, 2007 02:05 PM EDT --
Our creative writing final exam in my junior year at Mercer Island High School was an oral presentation on one of our favorite authors: give a little history, show their impact from a literary, . . .
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December 23, 2006 02:54 PM EST --
A Christmas without Snow In 1963, I was in the Navy and the ship I was on homeport was Boston Massachusetts. There was snow on the ground and the wind was blowing the snow around, when . . .
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December 23, 2006 07:02 PM EST --
Dumb things People Do
People do some very dumb unsafe things in their life’s, rather it be working or . . .
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March 09, 2007 09:32 PM EST --
Granny and Pappy’s Color TV
My granny and Pappy were the very first in our family to have a color television.
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January 07, 2007 07:28 PM EST --
I was twelve when I first discovered my mother's box. Out of sheer naivety, I inquired as to it's contents. Chuckling ever so slightly, my mother had slid open the lock, gazing fondly upon her . . .
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January 22, 2007 11:41 AM EST --
Do you write to get information out to others? Or do you write to please others? Maybe you write as an outlet for your feelings, or to express your creative side, or to communicate. I think . . .
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August 17, 2007 09:17 AM EDT --
My senior year at Mercer Island High School was spent cavorting with the intelligentsia of seventeen and eighteen year-old wannabe's in what . . .
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July 16, 2007 07:43 PM EDT --
Why I don’t smoke
>My stepfather was quite brutal; I had to sit near him at supper time. That was because if I said something that he didn’t like he could smack me with the back of . . .
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July 02, 2007 05:30 PM EDT --
Reposted for Good Humor Monday
Trapped in the kitchen of a run down relative's house, I daydreamed myself free. They were my ex's family, hockey people; the kind of dullards who . . .
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