Tag: life
group name: writersnoticed
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July 26, 2007 10:01 AM EDT --
I had to write this answer for a scholarship question and thought I would pose it to you gather folks. Also, if any of you wiser more experienced voices have advice on funding college...please pass . . . more
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August 18, 2007 11:27 AM EDT --
I admit it. I’m a classic overachiever. I’m never satisfied with doing well. I’m pushing for Wow!
I have a difficult time committing to anything I’m not passionate about. A . . . more
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October 27, 2007 09:27 PM EDT --
I'm a charity fundraiser. Some of you may cringe at that and if you do, let me just say that I understand. While few will argue that we don't work for a good cause, there are many who question . . . more
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August 06, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
Everyone knows, from the endless movies and televisions shows and novels, of the American pioneering archetype: the cowboy. He was the white knight of the wild West and the wide open plains, . . . more
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April 01, 2008 12:59 PM EDT --
This past week I received one of those forwarded emails that we all get from time to time. This one was from my sister-in-law (who is nine days older than I am) and was about the benefits of growing . . . more
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July 29, 2007 11:04 PM EDT --
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
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October 10, 2007 10:43 PM EDT --
In 1873 the government of the Dominion of Canada established the Northwest Mounted Police in order to bring "peace, order and good government" to the Northwest Territories, the vast expanse of . . . more
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October 12, 2007 07:17 PM EDT --
This article is a tribute to my mother, the late Lillian Dorothy Cook McRandall, known to all as either Mom, Gramma or Dot.
She was born in June of 1922 in Montreal to Albert (Bert) Cook and Nellie (Quickfall) . . . more
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March 25, 2008 12:02 PM EDT --
Recently I was riding in my car (blissfully and unexpectedly alone—except for my dog) and I heard an old Rod Stewart song. I'm not certain of the title but the lyrics go something like . . . more
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July 05, 2007 11:32 PM EDT --
Mandy knew to the minute when she had first started to become suspicious: 12:43 p.m. last November 8th, a Thursday. She was running late, having intended to take a short lunch break. The sales guys were . . . more
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October 03, 2007 10:24 PM EDT --
The American television network NBC recently carried a series entitle The Black Donnellys. One of the creators of the series (Paul Haggis) is a native of London, Ontario, a small Canadian city with . . . more
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February 27, 2008 03:44 PM EST --
A Self-Realization
Reality Check! or The Danger in Self-Love
I've learned a great lesson today. Some days just carry this gift with them for you to unwrap - the gift of awakening. My . . . more
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September 22, 2007 12:09 AM EDT --
Reluctantly pushing, yearning forward tentatively
Last and the latest, loudest and brashest
An afterthought amongst many unbidden and inevitable ones
That was me, at one time
Shy and fearful, . . . more
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November 01, 2007 10:03 AM EDT --
Two summers had passed, and Adele had chosen to spend both of them in their special place. She had met Tom nineteen years ago while she was vacationing on the Outer banks of North Carolina. He was attending . . . more
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September 15, 2007 12:57 AM EDT --
My friend at work has an ongoing goal: to be her own hero. She has projects that she dreams of fulfilling, and when she gets frustrated or down, she reminds herself that she is her own hero.
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September 11, 2007 09:35 AM EDT --
If you work and live in the same space, how do you separate the two? It’s not always easy, especially if you have the opportunity to do what you’re passionate about.
I left my full-time job . . . more
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June 22, 2008 09:04 PM EDT --
When the boys got back there with the pails full of clay dirt and moss plus those fish they caught the men were in need of it. They piled those field stones just about high . . . more
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October 09, 2007 08:05 PM EDT --
(If you are a person who believes that every word in the Bible is literal truth and your mind is not open to other points of view or interpretations, then it is perhaps best if you do not read any further . . . more
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July 25, 2007 10:26 PM EDT --
In mid June I began a project I called The Gather 30 Day Countdown.
We have all seen fellow Gatherers get disillusioned, enraged, outraged, plain old pissed off and sign off the site permanently . . . more
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October 14, 2007 11:01 PM EDT --
Everyone who does laundry on a regular basis knows the mysterious nature and frustrating prevalence of odd socks.
Rarely do symmetrically limbed people wear a single sock. One either goes sockless . . . more
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