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December 26, 2009 07:19 PM EST --
Now that the worst of the Christmas shopping season is over it is time for the retail clerks to be recognized for all that they do. I worked in retail for a total of four years the last period ending . . .
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December 19, 2009 11:19 PM EST --
Years ago when I was young and newly married my wife and I visited a fishing pier in a sleepy town on the central coast of California. The pier allowed cars on it but we decided to park our car . . .
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December 17, 2009 06:40 PM EST --
Very quickly they had everything they needed for the plan. One problem they had to deal with was that they needed to get Tip Top and his family out of their home for a little while. All they needed . . .
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December 17, 2009 06:42 AM EST --
When his children asked why he was cutting so many trees down across his driveway Top told them it was going to be a cold winter and that he was going into the firewood business. He would sell fresh . . .
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December 16, 2009 10:59 PM EST --
By Thanksgiving Tip Top knew he didn’t have any money to buy his wife and children gifts for Christmas. Top tried anything and everything he could think of to get money. He tried so hard to get . . .
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December 16, 2009 05:49 PM EST --
It all began when a train stopped Santa during a Christmas parade. It was that train that gave Tip Top Tommy the idea in the first place. As I think about it the whole thing began months earlier. To . . .
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December 06, 2009 10:13 PM EST --
You shouldn’t have.
Just say “thank you.”
It’s too big.
Just say “thank you.”
It’s too much.
Just say “thank . . .
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December 05, 2009 04:58 PM EST --
When Henry needs to think he thinks best when he can walk in the sand in the cool of the night. There is something about the feel of his bare feet and the sand of the beach that helps him to focus on . . .
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November 30, 2009 08:06 PM EST --
He hesitated just a step and he missed the winning catch.
He regretted the hesitation as long as he lived.
He hesitated just at the start and he lost at the end.
He regretted the hesitation . . .
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November 29, 2009 11:27 PM EST --
The other day my ever so kind Principal came up to me and pointed out to me that I hadn’t been CPR certified in two years. “Really” I said acting surprised. He then said “ . . .
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November 29, 2009 06:43 PM EST --
When Albert needs to think he thinks best when he can walk in the sand in the cool of the night. There is something about the feel of his bare feet and the sand of the beach that helps him to . . .
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November 28, 2009 08:24 PM EST --
Even though Keri is only eight Keri knows that when Keri needs to think, she thinks best when she can walk in the sand in the cool of the night. There is something about the feel of her bare feet and . . .
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November 26, 2009 02:47 PM EST --
For the first time since I began being a part of Gather I found myself thinking that I would not write a Thanksgiving Thank you. That is not to say I do not have much to be thankful for. On the . . .
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November 17, 2009 09:30 PM EST --
They tell you you are too tall, too short, too fat, too skinny. Dare To Dream.
They tell you you are too smart, too mentally limited, too wise, too foolish. Dare To Dream.
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November 16, 2009 09:23 PM EST --
Veterans Day was November 11th in 2009. This year there was much said to honor our veterans and active service men and women on that day. Flags were flying proudly and paper poppies were given out by . . .
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November 14, 2009 09:39 PM EST --
There is a man who out of kindness befriended me. It was his kindness that made him share his knowledge and hard work with me. It was his kindness that made him open a door to a new career for . . .
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November 03, 2009 11:44 PM EST --
My friends outside of Georgia have accused me of being preoccupied with insects. I will grant you that some years ago I had a job as a bug killer but that has nothing to do with my interest in insects. . . .
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November 02, 2009 10:38 PM EST --
Twenty-six months ago I wrote an article titled Twenty Lessons I have Learned I said then that I was smack dab in the middle of Middle Age. I felt obligated to pass on those time tested truisms to . . .
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October 31, 2009 11:03 PM EDT --
Jenny stood on a cliff gazing into the horizon at the sailboats going in and out. She looked further out at the fishing boats heading towards the deeper waters. She looked even further out, as . . .
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October 29, 2009 05:49 PM EDT --
Trains had always fascinated Tom. Walking by railroad tracks was always exciting for him. Whenever he was fortunate to see a train it always seemed to him that it was going to wonderful places. Trains . . .
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Kevin E.
South Central Georgia, USA
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