Tag: family
group name: firsttimewriters
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August 13, 2009 07:08 PM EDT --
My kitchen table has served more as a place of witness to life than a place to serve a meal.
I watch as the food delicacies I've created are piled on plates and enjoyed by family members . . .
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August 26, 2009 01:18 PM EDT --
It's a fearsome place
this battlefield
but I wear soft words and hope
as a shield deflecting
bullets of anger.
I'm posed and steadfast
in my determination
to face it once . . .
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November 05, 2009 04:04 PM EST --
My dad died four years ago. He had a second, but unrelated bout with a "highly treatable" cancer. He died before his 64th birthday. Before my 30th. Before I got my life . . .
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July 20, 2009 03:29 PM EDT --
It seemed to her they were just two aged and aging people when none of the kids were around.
Most weekends the house was full of visiting grandchildren of different ages and their activities would generally . . .
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July 19, 2007 06:43 PM EDT --
Hi All,
I am really new to internet groups, this is my first. I stumbled upon Gather looking for writing sites. I love what I see so far.
I hope this is how to get started, by writing an article. . . .
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December 14, 2006 10:14 PM EST --
Today was one of those days...
no, not one of ~those~ days...
one of those increasingly rare
few and far between totally special
days when she forgets that she forgot
how to walk and she gets up
. . .
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November 25, 2006 09:03 PM EST --
This is my first article and It comes after a few posted comments from gather members and a few nasty e-mails from people who had things to say but weren't willing to put them in forum. . . .
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June 16, 2007 11:05 PM EDT --
I read the daily email from my mother. It told of the day's activities, the weather, her doctor's appointments, and that my Dad was smoking again. My sister, my mother, and . . .
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June 15, 2007 03:33 PM EDT --
My father was fifty years old when I was born, the last of ten children. The depression had seriously hurt their success at farming and the coup de grace came when the farm house they were renting burned . . .
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March 30, 2007 04:40 PM EDT --
Filled with butterflies and frogs and birds and bees
The bush across the road grew untended until
They came from the city and cut down all the trees
The bush across the road grew untended until . . .
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December 27, 2006 09:50 PM EST --
My life is not just for living with you, its living for you. Its about your happiness, your smiles, sharing your miseries, easing your burdens. Its about loving you till it drives you crazy, its about . . .
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September 26, 2007 06:04 PM EDT --
So my sweet teenager kindly informed me yesterday that I have "rustic hair." Huh? Rustic? Like log-cabin-in-the-wilderness rustic? She continued with "Mom, really, . . .
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December 04, 2006 08:38 AM EST --
My First Rescue,,,,,,,of the horsey kind
I recieved a phone call one warmish Spring morning, "You HAVE to come and see
this colt!" My friend and neighbor, Sue, . . .
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December 26, 2006 11:51 PM EST --
December started out promisingly -- with a frosty six-inch blast of snow. As we watched that layer dwindle, the doldrums slowly sunk in. By the time of the 22nd, I was ready to . . .
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December 25, 2006 09:21 PM EST --
This is one of those cute things kids say.
My husband had a little bike given to him. It was like new. My husband had to put a new seat and hand grips on it and shine it up. It looked almost like . . .
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December 19, 2006 06:10 PM EST --
Dear Daddy,
It's been years since we've talked. Well, it's been never....Do you know about me? Do you even know I exist? I've waited all these years for a daddy and now . . .
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November 27, 2006 03:07 AM EST --
I grew up very close to Quantico Marine base in Northern Virginia. From the time I was 3 until the time I was 18 I was surrounded my Marines and their families. This provides a unique and interesting . . .
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January 02, 2007 01:04 AM EST --
Heard it was the one,
Log on Gather, to have fun
an addict I become.
Here it is the requested haiku for
being addicted to gather.
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October 22, 2009 01:38 PM EDT --
I always end up laughing with my mom. My mother and our family friend, Wilma, live near me in the warm season. This year I decided that we should have Thanksgiving early so that we can have . . .
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December 11, 2006 05:56 PM EST --
T'was the month before Christmas
when all through our land,
Not a Christian was praying
Nor taking a stand.
See the PC Police had taken away
The reason for Christmas - no one could say.
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