Tag: living
group name: theopenjournal
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March 04, 2007 04:08 PM EST --
We had an incedent emerge this week in which we learned, accidentally, that our neighbors were part of a group of swinging couples and had their pictures plastered all over the internet. I had a variety . . . more
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March 23, 2007 08:42 PM EDT --
There is such a place as heaven on earth and I have found it for me.
For twenty six years I lived in Norfolk, Virginia. I did not live in the nicest of neighborhoods. I drove in high . . . more
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September 28, 2006 10:51 AM EDT --
Yesterday I was having a test ran on my heart. I sat in the procedure room listening to the beep of the monitor. Each beep tracking the beats of my heart each beat to be thankful for, right? I sat thinking . . . more
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September 29, 2006 06:59 AM EDT --
It is a rainy fall morning here in the beautiful state of New Hampshire and the weather is fitting my mood. It has been the end of a long work week and I am looking forward to the weekend. . . . more
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September 25, 2007 01:20 PM EDT --
Once a quarter or so, I write a newsletter for an interior designer client of mine, Todd Richesin. He is amazingly talented and several of his projects have been featured in Southern Living.
One . . . more
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September 17, 2006 07:16 AM EDT --
Sun Salutation
I lay in wait for the chirps of the
first morning birds,
a sense of anticipation and hope
in the dawn of a new day
draws me out of bed to the
fog of an early Fall morning. . . . more
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January 18, 2007 03:41 PM EST --
Reading opinions on the, what is generally agreed here, debacle in Iraq. Both confuses and saddens me.
People tend to be, in the words of George, for or agin. That clear. And there's the problem. . . . more
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February 23, 2007 11:34 AM EST --
Only that morning I had taken a cab home from the BIA Public Health Hospital in Bethel, the largest Yu'pik community in Southwestern Alaska. With me was my two . . . more
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July 25, 2007 01:24 AM EDT --
When we lived in Germany, I was surprised to learn that the average German middle class family has two or three meatless dinners a week because the price of meat is so high there. When they buy meat, . . . more
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September 21, 2006 08:19 PM EDT --
This was sent to me by my mother!
Mean Moms
Someday when my children are old enough to
understand the logic that motivates a parent, I will
tell them, as my Mean Mom told me: I loved you
enough . . . . . more
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November 06, 2006 04:20 AM EST --
Crystal walked in the brisk air, trying to forget the thoughts and memories rushing through her mind. Why now? She had put that part of her life away a long time ago. She had tried . . . more
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December 24, 2006 01:55 PM EST --
My father has sold leather, for as long as I can remember. He has a wide range of customers who buy from him.
When I arrived last year Dad was dancing around the house with a little thing in his hand, . . . more
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December 06, 2006 08:47 PM EST --
When Things Go Terribly Wrong
Usually, I don’t watch the nightly news, because I prefer to go to bed feeling like the world isn’t going to hell in a hand bag. I changed my routine Friday night . . . more
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December 29, 2006 12:11 AM EST --
"Hey, if you can watch it like this, I guess we got a keeper." I walked out of the back room in time to hear my husband finalizing his tuning efforts. He looked up at me and asked me if it was . . . more
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November 29, 2006 02:53 PM EST --
Not that we needed any more animals in our lives - I mean, you would think that 2 dogs, 7 cats and 4 horses would be enough, but this little guy has managed to wriggle his way into the fold. He will probably . . . more
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January 21, 2007 01:24 PM EST --
Grief is such a tricky emotion. It shows up in a variety of ways.
My mother is gone. I am now an orphan. I tell myself that I knew this was coming. It was only a . . . more
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October 21, 2006 03:43 PM EDT --
MOMENTS IN LIFE
There are moments in life when you miss someone
so much that you just want to pick them from
your dreams and hug them for real!
When the door of happiness closes, another . . . more
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October 28, 2006 12:45 AM EDT --
I had a family member that deals with this every year. So i thought i would find out more about this and found out alot of people deal with this so i decided it's time to learn more about and this . . . more
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December 14, 2006 01:09 PM EST --
One story has dominated the news here in the UK for the past few days.
This week we have learned of the violent deaths of at least three, probably more, young women who made their living as prostitutes . . . more
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January 21, 2007 07:22 AM EST --
I wish you could see exactly what I was seeing as I type this. 38,000 feet above the south of France watching the elaborate and perfectly time carved mountains pass beneath me. It seems as if every rock . . . more
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