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 . . .
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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, . . .
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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 . . .
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February 10, 2009 07:05 PM EST --
Suddenly, this week the past has been hitting me with a vengence, both good and bad! First my friend posted those photos from Rocky from 1996. Then, I heard about Larry Norman and Delaney Bramlett dying. . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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September 19, 2006 10:09 PM EDT --
Aa kshan
Phool par jhaklna bindu jevi
aa kshan.
Ateet ne ahin avavaanun
koi nathi kaaran.
Bhavishya pan ahin nahin kari shake
koi pan akraman.
Keval aa kshan
jhakalna bindu par –
janey suryanun . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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February 04, 2009 06:02 AM EST --
My first memory of my sister, Sandi was when she was about 10 months old. She was born 1 month premature. People used to be surprised when she started walking at the age of 9 months. . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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January 10, 2008 11:51 PM EST --
Ok I have a little problem.
I've not paid my taxes - random ones for several years. I can't remember what ones exactly that I have paid and what ones i'm missing. . . .
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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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January 22, 2009 10:17 PM EST --
The list was gotten from others (Lisa Frost, Spartan, Kathryn E.) You are supposed to highlight the things you have done. I have changed the color to my favorite color and underlined what . . .
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January 31, 2009 12:29 AM EST --
1865: Congress approves the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery.
1923: Novelist Norman Mailer is born in Long Branch, New Jersey
1939 : George Burns is sentenced . . .
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