Tag: past
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November 10, 2007 07:36 AM EST --
I’m one year younger right now than my maternal grandmother was when I was born, in 1960. She was the youngest of my grandparents, and she was also the last to die, at age 90 in 2002. She was born . . . more
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August 17, 2008 08:06 PM EDT --
Long ago and far away, in a land that time forgot.
Before the days of Dylan, or the dawn of Camelot.
There lived a race of innocents, . . . more
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November 07, 2007 05:16 AM EST --
I was fourteen years old the first time I smoked pot. I tried it the first time someone offered it to me. In fact, I had asked everyone I knew if they knew anyone who had ever tried it, because . . . more
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December 26, 2007 07:43 AM EST --
I'll stay away from the retail stores for another day or so, just in case. I heard the day after Christmas is always brutal but having no need to go into town right now, and no desire to shop ever . . . more
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December 25, 2007 09:30 PM EST --
Going back to my old hometown is always a little weird. Blakely hasn't changed that much, cannot change that much, but each year brings a little change, and after a while, like a puppy that's . . . more
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November 22, 2007 11:05 AM EST --
I have not really been gathering for a while. Real life is happening around me. My husband and I just moved into a smaller apartment.... not because we wanted to but because right now we are just . . . more
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January 25, 2008 09:39 PM EST --
"Calvin and Hobbes" was a comic strip that ran for just a few years before the creator, Bill Watterson, decided that enough was enough, and he quit. I seem to remember he had a problem with . . . more
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August 11, 2007 04:15 PM EDT --
Up until recently, I held similar beliefs to every other Protestant out there with only a few deviations. Kids change everything. That includes our belief systems. My daughter Wendy has changed the . . . more
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October 27, 2007 11:08 PM EDT --
What am I excavating
from my past?
What previously uncovered artifacts
will I unearth?
Has it been so mined that the site lies barren?
Or will a new discovery
shake today's . . . more
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October 31, 2007 06:09 AM EDT --
I was nineteen years old, and a very young nineteen, before I realized that the world wasn’t like my tiny hometown of Blakely Georgia. It was to be several more years before I realized that the . . . more
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November 05, 2007 05:23 AM EST --
Lane’s Spring in Miller County Georgia was once one of those places that was popular without being too popular. You had to know how to get there and paved roads hadn’t reached their tentacles . . . more
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November 06, 2007 09:17 PM EST --
Parting is such sweet sorrow
Yet in the morrow
I’ll be there.
Na matter how long
I’ll remain strong
Your soul needs to be free
Such as me . . . more
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December 03, 2007 10:38 AM EST --
Here I sit so weak and merry
Wish I had a bowl of cherries
But I don't in my search to find
Something nice or an ax to grind
If my mind seeks feral release
In the vacuum . . . more
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November 06, 2007 07:12 AM EST --
The Boys of Thunder Road And like many Knoxvillians, I love the lyrics that describe the “mountain boy who ran illegal alcohol”…
Roarin’ out of Harlan, revvin’ up his . . . more
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April 08, 2008 04:40 AM EDT --
Well they say that you can't go back home and I've always found there to be a lot of truth in that statement. Things that have changed, as all things do change in life, are just never the . . . more
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May 03, 2008 04:38 PM EDT --
What are some things that were around when you were a kid that you wish your kids could see?
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June 08, 2008 11:28 PM EDT --
Can you name any of our past presidents? I'll start with President John Kennedy
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August 27, 2007 01:15 PM EDT --
Reincarnation is a subject that I have long been fascinated with. I lived in India for many years when I was young and grew up learning from friends that the concept of having many lifetimes was . . . more
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November 04, 2007 08:07 AM EST --
It may or may not be hard for you to believe that in High School I was voted “Most Likely to be Dead Before 21”. It was a joke, sort of a joke, but more people than not were certain it would . . . more
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March 29, 2008 05:40 AM EDT --
What's the cd that is buried in your closet and safely hidden? It's the guilty little pleasure that you won't allow your friends to see when they peruse your cd collection. Perhaps an endless . . . more
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