Tag: family ties
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August 24, 2007 10:43 PM EDT --
For Mae
Only daughter
Of an only daughter
Of the first dead daughter
Of the clan
Mother of an only daughter
One who carries
The beautiful face of
Her great grandmother
One with almost . . .
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August 10, 2008 08:15 PM EDT --
There are six of us in the family
we renew each year
at the beach
Mom had twins in the first year:
a male and female
the waves hit the shore
her other children followed
each succesively; . . .
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March 18, 2009 10:10 AM EDT --
I was nosing around trying to find out who (imho) ditzy Mika Brzezinski was married to (James P Hoffer) and stumbled on this site!
You just might want to enter a few names from . . .
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November 25, 2007 06:13 PM EST --
This title was inspired by the song as sung by Joss Stone whose first line is "Been a lot that I've been through I've cried a tear a time or two".
My tears are for the . . .
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November 28, 2007 06:24 PM EST --
O precious one! Dost thou know
your presence is the reason I am?
You are the answer my soul craved
when plunged deeply in an abyss;
Shadowing emptiness and pain
from the darkest of hours, though . . .
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October 28, 2006 10:27 AM EDT --
Our United States were never perfect. Crime has always been here, and much of it has been violent. Look what we did to the Indians. Gangs have also been a part of the United States. . . .
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July 06, 2006 06:46 PM EDT --
The psychic said
my long-dead Aunt Norma, beatnik
poet-- who in black Capezio flats escaped
Buffalo for San Francisco and a round bed,
before she took sick-- was in league
with my Sicilian . . .
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October 15, 2007 12:02 PM EDT --
There are certain things in our lives that we can live without. A large house filled with items that have been collected over the years, a fancy car that can take us wherever our heart desires and a bank . . .
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October 29, 2007 04:07 AM EDT --
My younger brother came to visit today. I studied him, looking for the quiet little boy I once knew. Or thought I knew. In the seriousness of his observations of his workday, I looked . . .
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March 30, 2006 06:21 PM EST --
Through one of those changes of place so typical of American families, my cousin's son, David Sandborg, and I became friends. He came to Pittsburgh from his boyhood home of . . .
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April 09, 2007 10:48 AM EDT --
I'm just curious. With the way the world has changed, and all the different careers and choices out there. I have a diverse background myself. Seriously, military, married, 2 kids, divorced, cashier/hostess, . . .
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July 01, 2007 11:04 PM EDT --
Since last September my mother inlaw has lived with us. She suffered from very low sodium and her symptoms were much like those of a stroke victim. She was in the hospital for 28 days, she had to . . .
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January 20, 2007 05:47 PM EST --
I use to have a daily schedule. I’d get up in the morning at 4:30 am and get the hubby off to work. Then reset the clock to 6:30 am, which usually gave me 40 minutes more to sleep after the hubby . . .
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December 04, 2008 07:31 PM EST --
I really need a time out! I take care of my mother inlaw who has alzheimers, bipolar, manic depressive, and so on. When she has a bad day, I have a bad day. Most days are ok, but lately......I need a . . .
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September 10, 2006 03:12 AM EDT --
I gather from some of Sherry W's excellent questions today, that a bunch of us are proud to be fans of 80s teleivision. So, think back. If you could have swapped your ordinary life as a teen in your . . .
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September 12, 2006 01:43 PM EDT --
Holding her mother's hand tightly, the little girl walked into the classroom for the very first time. Cacophonies of sound were not unfamiliar to the little girl. Kids . . .
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July 12, 2006 04:29 AM EDT --
I had just had the biggest surprise ever, discovering my sister has joined Gather and had commented on a poem i had written called "new beginnings"!!!
This experience for me is equal to that . . .
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May 06, 2009 11:15 PM EDT --
Growing up in the the 70's did nothing for me. For the most part I stayed outside from dawn till dusk. In the 80's playing outside had little appeal for me unless it was to skip school, so I spent . . .
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October 18, 2009 06:30 AM EDT --
I've been interested in politics since I was a kid really, a regular " Alex P. Keaton " from the TV show " Family Ties ." I was about 15 when I saw the movie " All the President's Men ." I was . . .
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May 17, 2007 04:21 PM EDT --
I'm on a committee that hold a festival each fall for 2 needy families in our area. This is a great event. We are a non-profit organization.
We have our first committee meeting this Friday, and I . . .
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