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July 27, 2011 11:31 AM UTC --
...where I've been....
Well, I started my own blog.
Go, read, comment.
Be nice.
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May 03, 2011 08:36 AM UTC --
To borrow a legendary quote from Gene Krantz, which by the way was not really what he said during the fateful Apollo 13 mission, but it makes for good cinema.
I remember where I was on 9/11, as do most . . .
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April 13, 2011 08:35 AM UTC --
I thought I was a devout Christian.
I thought I was as a child, guileless and innocent, in my faith.
Boy, was I wrong.
My daughter gave me a copy of Heaven is For Real on Monday night. . . .
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March 30, 2011 08:37 AM UTC --
...and all eyes fixate on me.
But, it's not the residents of this locked unit in a nursing home, lost in their own worlds and detached from reality, who stare.
It's the staff.
And I wonder.
Why? . . .
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March 03, 2011 08:36 AM UTC --
Douglas Quinn’s new novel, The Capablanca Variation, picks up several years after The Spanish Game and finds the now-grown Jennifer Ellis in a humdrum job and bored with the quiet life. . . .
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February 21, 2011 12:30 PM UTC --
..........why I adore Ronald Reagan.........
From his 1981 inaugural speech....
"For decades we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the . . .
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February 11, 2011 02:44 PM UTC --
..and lives can be forever changed..
Do you text and drive?
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January 18, 2011 11:00 AM UTC --
Two years ago I received a gift certificate for a hot stone massage. I’ve always loved massages, but since being diagnosed with fibromyalgia I really love them
I had completely . . .
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January 14, 2011 12:22 PM UTC --
....for foreclosures...
And as we reflect on our new reality, let's put a little historical perspective on events shall we?
The Record of Congress:
1977: Jimmy Carter (D) signs the Community . . .
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January 05, 2011 09:38 AM UTC --
If you know me at all, you know I lean to the right politically.
Way to the right.
Today, as Rep. John Boehner takes the Speaker's gavel from the horribly inept Nancy Pelosi I find that.... . . .
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October 18, 2010 09:10 AM UTC --
....into...well, to be honest we're still ridin' the rails here...
If anyone's left out there who cares it's been the summer from hell for me.
First was Dad's complete break with reality and subsequent . . .
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July 20, 2010 09:44 AM UTC --
Prompts for July 14, 2010
Triplets. Something needs to appear three times within the body of your story, each time in a new way. A one-sentence example: I boxed up a gift for . . .
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July 19, 2010 07:56 AM UTC --
So...been away a long while....noticing BERF's absence since March.
Anyone know what's up?
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June 20, 2010 12:13 PM UTC --
...with a nod to Monty Python...
Let's see, now, where was I?
Oh, yes...Mother's Day....
It was wonderful...I was treated to a breakfast out and lavished with handmade gifts from grandchildren . . .
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May 19, 2010 07:07 AM UTC --
...and it's a beautiful sight......
From Yahoo News this morning, a quote by Michael Scherer.....
" This is how it goes in 2010 at the ballot box : old orders are upended, political lions become . . .
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March 16, 2010 10:54 AM UTC --
Prompts for March 10, due March 16th:
· A piece of writing in the form of a letter or note or list needs to appear within the text of your article
· . . .
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March 10, 2010 10:33 AM UTC --
We have ALL heard the stories about tech support.
I long suspected that at least some of what I’d heard was either a) an exaggeration or b) simply made up. . . .
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March 09, 2010 09:40 AM UTC --
Prompts for March 3, 2010; due by March 9:
strongly use foreshadowing and/or hindsight
somehow, for some reason, include the year you were born
the story must happen . . .
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March 02, 2010 01:04 PM UTC --
Prompts for today--February 24; due by next week, Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Include two sides of something, anything - coin
Use the words: lint, ugly, key, & usher
. . .
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February 18, 2010 11:30 AM UTC --
Prompts for today, due February 23:
Take an old post of yours, cut-n-paste it to a new article, and revise it with the following prompts. If you are NEW to Gather, take an old piece of . . .
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