Tag: random
group name: fiftyplus
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April 03, 2007 10:59 AM EDT --
You think you’ve moved beyond it. In fact, you hardly ever give it a second thought these days. The breast cancer you had seven years ago.
Like a slumbering beast, though, the memory . . . more
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June 29, 2008 11:11 PM EDT --
I have a suggestion.
Gather is a GREAT place to communicate with and get to know people, who otherwise, we would never know. There are people we like, people we don't like and people who . . . more
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April 26, 2008 10:59 PM EDT --
Have I missed something? Has the latest upgrade changed the way one redeems points?
There always seems to be a big to-do concerning points earned on Gather. But I don't really get that excited . . . more
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July 23, 2008 10:41 PM EDT --
Angel's Author's Cafe will be rewarding random acts of kindness with a free meal... Just leave a comment about the act of kindness and enjoy a free meal.... It can be an act of kindness . . . more
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March 25, 2007 07:13 PM EDT --
I attended a religious retreat yesterday, the annual Lenten lecture and discussion that my church puts on. Note that this is actually designated a "Lenten" retreat, and we are observant . . . more
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January 05, 2008 07:26 AM EST --
"Lurch" was just a nickname. I don't recall his actual name but he was a character. Lurch was a black soldier (this was the early 80s) who stood about 6 foot tall, thin and lanky and was . . . more
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April 17, 2007 03:11 PM EDT --
May, 1990
He’s a sensitive soul, my middle child, Joe. Today, he has come home from school quieter than usual. I ask if he’s feeling all right. He says he’s OK. He gulps down some crackers . . . more
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December 27, 2007 06:20 PM EST --
How do you define space?
Science considers space to be the vast void that encompasses universes and galaxies. My Dad always refered to it as the area between my ears. The area between words . . . more
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February 14, 2008 02:24 PM EST --
At an evemt scheduled for 4:00pm today in Boston, Mitt Romney will throw his support behind John McCain.
The former Republican Presidential candidate, with this endorsement, could help pull together . . . more
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August 12, 2007 11:55 AM EDT --
It was just an old picnic table.
I saw them building the tables together out in the blistering California sun, a man and his son. “Six feet. Sixty dollars,” said their cardboard . . . more
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June 05, 2007 06:41 PM EDT --
Summer, 1967. My first real job. Detasseling corn in the hot, sticky cornfields of northern Illinois.
“They’re hiring anyone 14-years-old and taller than five feet,” . . . more
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June 16, 2008 05:55 PM EDT --
As I look at these last days of the school year, I wonder how much different I would be now if my summers had all the things that kids have today. Things like cell phones and cars and computers. And televisions. . . . more
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June 24, 2008 11:32 AM EDT --
In my growing up years, the person I probably felt closest to was my older brother, Frank.
I know this admission would surprise him. We haven't been all that close these past twenty years or . . . more
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June 26, 2007 09:10 PM EDT --
It was time to take it down. To let it go.
But isn’t that so hard sometimes – to change something that has been there for as long as you can remember. Well, as long as you can remember . . . more
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October 16, 2007 11:46 PM EDT --
On reading Mark Shields editorial:
Money doesn't just talk, it roars,
"My Way or the bridge in Minnesota".
Millions spent to defeat tax hike
for the effluently richer . . . more
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May 31, 2007 04:49 PM EDT --
Getting to Know You, Gather!
I’ve been a member of Gather since April 24, 2007. I’ve been using that time to this present time to get the feel for the site and its members. Initially I found . . . more
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July 21, 2008 07:34 PM EDT --
On the local front, area gasoline prices have fallen about fourteen cents per gallon. We can accredit this to the recent fall in oil prices. Today, crude was back over $130 per barrel and wholesale . . . more
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April 01, 2008 03:50 PM EDT --
It wasn't my dream. At least not in the beginning.
In the beginning, which was last September, I just wanted to see if what I had always believed held true: No matter what your age, . . . more
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April 30, 2008 11:51 AM EDT --
Well, here we are on the last day of the month (Hubby gets his VA check tomorrow) and, between us, we have less than a dollar in change to our names...
This morning I used the last . . . more
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October 13, 2007 09:12 PM EDT --
Geocaching the Cliffs of Teal
A bit of background: In 1994 Hee of HeeHaw team had his hearing and balance nerves removed because of a brain tumor then in 2001 he suffered a . . . more
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