Tag: the past
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December 24, 2009 06:29 PM EST --
It's a special night, isn't it? It's Christmas Eve. Can you believe the year is nearly gone?
This is a time of giving and receiving. A time of darkness brightened by many tiny, twinkling lights. . . .
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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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November 10, 2009 11:47 PM EST --
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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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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 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 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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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 03, 2009 05:38 AM EST --
1468: Johann Gutenberg, German printer and inventor, died.
1690: First paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)
1869: Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet) . . .
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February 09, 2009 09:37 AM EST --
1822 - American Indian Society organizes.
1825 - House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president.
1867 - Nebraska becomes 37th US state.
1870 - US Army establishes . . .
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February 14, 2009 12:42 AM EST --
1778: The Stars and Stripes of the United States is seen abroad for the first time, flying on a U.S. vessel in a French port.
1779: Captain Cook killed in Hawaii.
1849: The first . . .
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November 23, 2009 01:35 PM EST --
If you can do nothing about something that has happened in the past, shut up, and go from there in accepting it.
In college I worked in a small emergency room. A middle-aged couple arrived who . . .
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December 29, 2009 01:49 AM EST --
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Eye wood wreck-ammend . . .
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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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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 . . .
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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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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 . . .
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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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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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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 . . .
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