Tag: memoir
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August 28, 2008 03:03 PM EDT --
There was a moment that Sunday in Luxembourg when I was 17 and you were 19, as we lay together in the cool grass, high atop a field, picking dandelions and macking, mouth upon mouth, delirious in our . . .
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November 12, 2009 02:50 PM EST --
I saw the ads for this book when it first came out and was curious, but somehow never got round to reading it. Then I found it cheap in Powells and made up for lost time. It’s an incredible . . .
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December 16, 2006 08:45 AM EST --
A Memory of Time Spent In A German Prison Camp
I was captured by the Germans in the infamous Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944, along with 23,000 American troops in one of the worst episodes of . . .
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September 01, 2009 08:11 PM EDT --
I've spent much of the last few weeks doing further edits on the book I wrote here on Gather, last year, and wanted to share with you, my relief... I finished, today!
I edited out 75 pages, and the . . .
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February 10, 2007 01:19 PM EST --
This is part of a fictionalized memoir I am working on. I will write these when so inspired but, not necessarily in chronological order.
I stood with my foot covering the hoe, about to slice deep into . . .
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April 07, 2009 07:30 AM EDT --
There was a moment that Sunday in Luxembourg when I was 17 and you were 19, as we lay together in the cool grass, high atop a field, picking dandelions and macking, mouth upon mouth, delirious in our . . .
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August 17, 2009 03:59 PM EDT --
I just realized a little while ago that it's been twenty years, tomorrow, since I flew to South Dakota to get my son back. No wonder it's been so heavy on my mind these last two days.
In light of that, . . .
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May 10, 2009 06:28 PM EDT --
My Mother – Portrait of a Complicated Lady: Part One
My mother was born Susan Patricia Chanler in London, 1921. To understand her, you have to put her in context.
Her father Lewis . . .
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September 23, 2009 03:14 PM EDT --
I haven't been around much lately, (I've been so busy I can't see straight) but as of today, had some news which is too good not to share.
A prominent, well-respected literary agent has, today, requested . . .
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February 20, 2007 09:14 PM EST --
Cheap paintings of cut flowers lined the pastel hospital walls. A young nurse with a well-scrubbed face and a bright smile zipped in and out of the waiting room. The hospital gave every appearance of being . . .
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August 08, 2006 08:33 AM EDT --
A few days ago a woman called me. She found my Avon brochure in a dumpster behind the grocery, she said, it was missing the front cover and smelled like old fish, and she wanted me to visit, give her a . . .
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August 09, 2006 11:26 AM EDT --
I saw The Man six years ago, at a CPR training workshop in downtown San Diego. He laughed when I shook the lung dummy the way they teach you to do.
"Annie, Annie, are you OK?" I shook and said . . .
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October 11, 2006 04:34 AM EDT --
Today I finished the seemingly endless task of cleaning out my Random Stuff closet, which involved looking inside each box of Random Stuff to see if it contained anything I wanted to keep. . . .
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January 30, 2007 08:52 AM EST --
How 600 American prisoners of the WW II German army escaped almost certain annihilation just days before the end of the war.
This is a true story and takes place in Stalag IX A in central Germany. . . .
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February 14, 2008 04:16 PM EST --
This is the second of a 3-part series about my life at 35 Archbold Road. This part, although chronologically all over the place, provides background that I thought was needed before Part . . .
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October 27, 2008 06:57 PM EDT --
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When did you know you’d never come back?
Was it when they strapped electrodes to your skull,
Gave you a bit, yet still you convulsed?
You entered barred windows with gnarled trees . . .
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January 14, 2009 01:21 AM EST --
Due to the miracle of the Internet, I've connected with some old friends and classmates recently on Facebook. Naturally, I've thought about simpler times and some of the fun I had as a kid.
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February 13, 2009 04:39 PM EST --
Anna Mae Langford Leigh was my maternal grandmother, born in Oaxaca, Mexico, on February 15, 1903, in a polygamous Mormon colony. Her father, Isaac Fielding Langford had had two wives.
Her . . .
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May 29, 2009 02:31 PM EDT --
MEMOIRS ARE:
An alliterated haiku
© 2009 By David Wainland
Picture past pathos,
pain projected purposely,
perfectly . . .
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September 06, 2006 02:46 PM EDT --
My favorite skirt ripped last night as my son, 11, helped me take the clothes off the twisted rope hanging across my backyard. It caught on the rough tin edge of the garden shed as I swung it from line . . .
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