Tag: story telling
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October 04, 2009 03:19 PM EDT --
Do your grandchildren ever ask you to tell them a story? I don't mean, READ them a story from one of their books. I mean, TELL them a story about your life, growing up, or family. Maybe . . .
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February 24, 2007 02:14 PM EST --
Greetings Folks, I am pleased to feature the article entitled, How The Colonel Came to Love Laundromats in my Chateaux Gathereaux Group, This article is written by the infamous Colonel . . .
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November 28, 2006 10:29 PM EST --
Do you remember when you were much younger and your parents would always say something to you, which was never true. Just to make you thing you did something wrong. heres an example.
You know how . . .
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October 20, 2009 12:37 AM EDT --
Excerpted from "Cat's Cradle", chapter 8, by Alexsandralyn Stevenson
"Hang on a second," I thought to God, "This is probably going to be a long story. Let me get more comfortable first."
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May 25, 2006 02:14 PM EDT --
I suppose the title shouldn't be "Why I Write", but why I post my writing here. I write to be read. I write to make someone feel. I don't imagine my words will change the world, but I . . .
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November 22, 2007 11:32 AM EST --
I woke up early this morning, too early for a day off, but my body is conditioned to wake up for work today. I contemplated going back to sleep, but the house was dark and quiet. . . .
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January 12, 2008 11:37 AM EST --
What possesses some men to think that they can control a woman, and cause harm and terror? I grew up in a home where lived such a man. I married a man that made his way in the marriage . . .
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April 07, 2009 06:34 AM EDT --
I have had to take a month off from writing because of teaching related challenges which included three state wide assessment and being part of over forty special education parent meetings . It did not . . .
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January 24, 2007 12:09 PM EST --
He hovered at the bedroom window, kept awake by new romance. Even the breathing of the wind spoke of passion. It whispered of winter’s end, of flowering, of freshly turned earth, of new . . .
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October 14, 2007 12:10 PM EDT --
Is that true? The stories that I tell seem untrue. That is because I lived in the Bronx and have lived in four states. I also have traveled to many countries. When you move around, you see . . .
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July 03, 2009 10:55 PM EDT --
We’re writers. Storytelling for us is like breathing. Storytelling is as old as time. Oral storytelling is a long-standing art of most cultures. Much of it set to some form of music or through . . .
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July 09, 2009 04:44 PM EDT --
" If you don't go out on a limb, you may never see the view. "
As a group we are full of accomplishments. We've done a lot this year. So I figured let's have a thread on sharing things . . .
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June 26, 2006 04:36 PM EDT --
I used to wonder when the world would end. I hoped that it would.
I'm referring to my father's remarriage to my stepmother. It was a nightmare for the entire time between the beginning of the . . .
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May 08, 2007 01:18 PM EDT --
"(Our house) had a heart,
and a soul, and eyes to see us
with; and approvals and
solicitudes, and . . .
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August 16, 2008 08:11 AM EDT --
In 1965, I was about 17 years old. (Yes, that makes me 60 now. Deal with it; I do.)
That year Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Eva Marie Saint were the . . .
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March 07, 2009 10:44 PM EST --
I have a deep dark secret. I am tired of hiding it but now I just have to confess. I am a story teller. My kids have known I was a story teller since they were babies and now that they are old enough . . .
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May 21, 2009 09:54 PM EDT --
It wasn't the usual dark and stormy night, far from it as Rhiannon lay on the cool grass looking up into a clear, star studded sky. Just days before, she had returned to her home town, Ararat, after being . . .
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March 11, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP".
It's easy to understand UP. , meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list. . . .
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April 22, 2008 06:49 PM EDT --
Well the weeks are just flying by and i don't have anything to write about. So i thought i would repost this for the Genre creative kids fantasy for any one that never got around to reading. . . .
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May 07, 2009 02:06 PM EDT --
Last week I got a call from Bryant Harrington, an old acquaintance I met during the seven years I spent as docent at the Stone Store Museum in Campo, CA. That was over ten years ago when I was still telling . . .
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