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August 17, 2007 10:01 PM UTC --
The sign is new, and contrasts strangely with the tangled growth behind it. Blue and russet and metallic gold are not colors normally seen beside the roads of the Florida Panhandle.
"John David Patten . . .
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April 04, 2007 05:59 AM UTC --
Early on in our acquaintance, D. insisted on our doing the "Please Understand Me" personality typing quiz. I thought it was interesting, and went along. According to the test, we . . .
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April 02, 2007 06:51 AM UTC --
When the husband and I moved to North Florida to raise greyhounds, I quit a time clock-punching job that involved precision timing in the exposures of various materials to light. I had gotten so . . .
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April 01, 2007 06:56 PM UTC --
". . . . Add another 1.8 degrees and as many as 2 billion people could be without water and about 20 percent to 30 percent of the world’s species near extinction. Also, more people start dying . . .
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November 04, 2006 09:10 PM UTC --
I do not often wear bracelets now.
But just last week, I was looking for something, and opened up my big wooden jewelry box -- the one of black walnut, crafted without a single power tool, that Charley . . .
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November 04, 2006 02:31 PM UTC --
Scrape, scrape, toss . . .
My first Gather article was about raking pinestraw, about the memories it scraped up in me. I published it in March, but first met my reason for joining Gather the previous . . .
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October 22, 2006 07:07 PM UTC --
I couldn't fall asleep last night, after seeing The Science of Sleep yesterday afternoon. The movie was too brilliant, too enigmatic, and just a tad too close to the bone for me to dismiss it with . . .
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October 15, 2006 07:40 AM UTC --
Number six in a series Since most of my writing this time of year is papers for college classes, I thought I'd post them and see what Gather has to say. This one is in response to the question: . . .
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September 28, 2006 06:57 AM UTC --
Number five in a series
Since most of my writing this time of year is papers for college classes, I thought I'd post them and see what Gather has to say. This one is in response to the question: . . .
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September 20, 2006 06:19 AM UTC --
Number Four in the Series:
Since most of my writing this time of year is papers for college classes, I thought I'd post them and see what Gather has to say. This one is in response to the question: . . .
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September 09, 2006 11:15 AM UTC --
Number Two in the Series:
Since most of my writing this time of year is papers for college classes, I thought I'd post them and see what Gather has to say. This one is in response to the question: . . .
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September 07, 2006 06:55 AM UTC --
Since most of my writing this time of year is papers for college classes, I thought I'd post them and see what Gather has to say. This one is in response to the question: Name the "Hollywood . . .
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September 06, 2006 05:58 PM UTC --
We are sitting on the deck of the house Dad built, most of it with his own hands. I remember "helping" to clear the land when I was about eight years old. It was a summer house until we moved . . .
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August 12, 2006 03:55 PM UTC --
There were no blinking lights, no mysterious machines. I wasn't even outdoors. I was in my own house, in a quiet neighborhood, behind locked doors with my dogs lying around me. But still I was captured . . .
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August 10, 2006 10:05 PM UTC --
Today I saw a plant catalog offering seedling trees of Ulmus Americana, the American Elm, for sale. I want some, although I'm not sure they will thrive here in South Georgia.
I grew up in the Midwest, . . .
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August 09, 2006 10:14 PM UTC --
It had been a productive Saturday morning. Kennel turned out, cleaned, fed, and turned out again. Outside dogs all fed, water buckets changed, all dishes put to soak. The adult dogs, bellies full, are . . .
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August 08, 2006 07:00 AM UTC --
One of the things I like about working for a printing company is that I get an early heads up about events I'd never hear of otherwise. For instance, I just plated invitations to the annual gathering . . .
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July 31, 2006 08:45 PM UTC --
There was a time when I would load up three, sometimes four, greyhounds in my two-door Plymouth Neon, and drive us hundreds of miles in order to deliver those dogs to an adoption group.
Greyhounds are . . .
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July 25, 2006 09:53 PM UTC --
We are sitting on the deck of the house Dad built, most of it with his own hands. I remember "helping" to clear the land when I was about eight years old. It was a summer house until we moved . . .
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July 17, 2006 06:55 AM UTC --
Worst dream I've had in years. Last night. Couldn't sleep (lack of usual morning walk? Chocolate too late? Unsettled mind about certain friendships? Too much not ready for trip? Who knows.). Tossed . . .
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