Tag: week
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May 14, 2008 11:36 PM EDT --
"Now what I want is, Facts."
My mother's cousin made this demand with her pencil poised to record the facts of WWII. I glanced to the hospital bed where my once giant grandfather . . .
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September 20, 2008 01:30 PM EDT --
It's been a sort of unusual week around here in terms of drama.
It started with an increasingly ominous sounding 'drip, drip, trickle, trickle, gush, trickle, drip' noise coming from the . . .
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February 27, 2008 03:26 PM EST --
Snippets of my lost Mom were flashing in front of my eyes. Soon I realized that my eyes were drenched and burning. I had lost her three weeks ago. My . . .
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April 02, 2008 06:05 AM EDT --
Ingrid Jonker, a shining star among South African poetesses, she was known as the Queen of metaphor, imagery and heartfelt emotions.
Denied by a father, resented by her step-mother, Ingrid went to stay . . .
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June 25, 2008 02:29 AM EDT --
Today the rhapsody of the gushing water was disturbing him. Sitting in the little wooden summer house, watching those dull breezes; he wasn't surprised at life's hide- and- seeks game.
But . . .
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March 08, 2008 07:46 AM EST --
Recently I've been thinking about things that were 'meant to be', 'fore-ordained by the Divine'. No matter how hard we try, we're unable to change its course.
In other . . .
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July 21, 2007 04:50 PM EDT --
In the valley beneath Challise’s estate, set a tiny cottage that seemed to hallow the ground upon which it set. Its hallmark in the summertime, was the alluring Bourbon rose bushes that aggressively . . .
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November 02, 2007 06:16 AM EDT --
Wow. I sure am glad it's Friday. This week has seemed to stretch on FOREVER! Are you glad it's Friday, too? Tell me about it!
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June 02, 2008 10:49 PM EDT --
A fair day deserved a perfect night. Monica had thought and hoped that when she and Bill returned from their outing, Bill would take her downstairs to her room.
Nothing like that happened. It was . . .
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August 01, 2008 10:47 AM EDT --
Having been unable to connect to Gather for 10 days my pessimism was growing and I was sure I would have another weekend without my Gather friends. So I made plans to go to northern Iowa to visit . . .
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September 13, 2008 07:09 PM EDT --
Starting monday, I am starting a new job. I will not be permitted to use the internet for personal use and therefore will not be on until further notice during the week. I will however be able to make . . .
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September 30, 2008 10:30 PM EDT --
Retreat to the tracks
to wait for a train
that won’t come.
Dead tracks,
dead town.
Blonde girl
on the tracks
waiting for a train
that won’t come.
Dead mom,
dead dad.
Nowhere . . .
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October 25, 2008 12:10 AM EDT --
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Name something you buy more than twice a week.
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One answer per post, please.
Duplicate answers ok.
Post as many as you can think of.
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November 21, 2008 11:48 PM EST --
I wanted to try to catch up on some of my email before I posted this. I have gotten through more than half, and will finish the rest over the weekend!
We finally got water back on Tues night, but it . . .
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November 22, 2008 09:05 AM EST --
DEADLINE EXTENDED THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4TH 8AM(EST)
Yesterday, I was going through the poem "Stopping by the woods on a Snowy evening" by Robert Frost which inspired this week's prompt. . . .
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March 04, 2008 03:44 PM EST --
"There was music, the kind that never went away: the Stones and the Doors, Janis Joplin, very early Pink Floyd. It was one of those evenings."
At intermission, Johnny Carville interviewed . . .
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March 09, 2008 06:18 AM EDT --
Marta needed Grant's job offering; fail, forfeit the house.
Focus! Set daylight savings! Get there on time!
A breather until: No gas! That's precarious .
Marta gassed quickly . . . .
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March 11, 2008 01:08 PM EDT --
Purity, brilliance characterized by white, flowing robes, is made precarious by temptations to tie-dye it. Not that colorful raiment means adulteration, but its significance is altered.
Cameron philosophized . . .
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March 16, 2008 05:45 PM EDT --
Mary left in a still huff leaving Matt slumped by a breakfast plate, absently pressing the tine of a fork, questioning.
" Ouch! " Matt jerked his finger away from the fork. Suddenly he . . .
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April 05, 2008 10:10 PM EDT --
Eventually I venture into the world and get involved—I am human! It always leads to tears because I always die and renascence leaves me with living memories.
So many loves I've lost! I . . .
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