Tag: random
group name: writersnoticed
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September 08, 2007 11:55 PM EDT --
My Mom is a stalker.
She follows me everywhere I go.
When I’m playing in the back yard, she watches me through the slats on the blind. She thinks I can’t see her, but I can.
She drives me . . . 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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July 29, 2007 11:04 PM EDT --
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
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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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August 05, 2007 04:52 PM EDT --
Up here in "The Great White North" we have a national, publicly owned broadcaster called the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, or CBC. This is a public broadcaster that does earn some of its . . . 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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October 22, 2007 07:56 PM EDT --
Language is the main tool we have for expressing our thoughts, ideas, feelings, hopes, dream and fears to one another. Each of us has our own distinct history, frame of reference, point of view, . . . more
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December 21, 2007 12:02 PM EST --
Back in the 1980's, I worked in human resources at a large, international accounting firm in Chicago. I encountered a young man, straight out of college, who truly stood out in the group he started . . . more
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October 22, 2007 10:50 PM EDT --
I remember when I first came to really believe in magic. It was the summer after I turned five years old. My family lived on the Air Force base at Colorado Springs. Stepping outside of our front door, . . . more
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September 09, 2007 12:16 AM EDT --
When Janice woke up, everything seemed the same. Her same old slippers were lying on the floor beside her bed, same as always. Her same old bathrobe was hanging on the end of her bed, just the same as . . . more
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September 15, 2007 11:17 PM EDT --
Getting back to nature. Living off the land. Embracing the natural world and sacredness of our Earth Mother.
These concepts have been very popular in recent decades. Going back to the 1960s, people have . . . more
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August 11, 2007 09:52 PM EDT --
The word "money" has uncertain etymological origins, though it is probably derived from the Latin (of course) moneta which was a title given to the Roman god Juno whose temple was near to the . . . more
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July 23, 2007 07:26 PM EDT --
I sign on this afternoon and find that a whole bunch of my read emails are showing unread. 1038 of them to be exact, and just checking them and hitting mark as read doesn't work, you actually . . . more
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October 29, 2007 12:12 AM EDT --
Dreaming is an interesting phenomenon. It is said that we dream a lot more than we remember and, indeed, it is often true that one awakens with the remnants of a dream quickly fading.
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November 17, 2007 05:53 PM EST --
"No good deed goes unpunished."
"Help someone out and you get screwed every time."
"Nice guys finish last."
We have many such cliches that reinforce . . . more
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September 10, 2007 10:10 AM EDT --
For as long as I can remember, the first thing that I do when I open my eyes in the morning is turn on one of the news channels. Usually, I turn on CNN just to see if anything . . . more
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October 11, 2007 02:50 PM EDT --
Best Candy Ever? My nomination: The humble "Chick-o-Stick." It somehow manages to improve on the Butterfinger, although it would probably be more accurate to say that the Butterfinger tried . . . more
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January 02, 2008 01:20 AM EST --
I sit on on the banks waiting
storms rage and pull me down
tumbling and turning downstream
to unknown waters
and rest on the bottom of a pool
submerged
dreaming of calm
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July 18, 2007 12:26 AM EDT --
"I know that God is always on the side of right; my concern is not whether God is on our side but whether or not we are on God's side."
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June 27, 2007 10:13 PM EDT --
In Praise of Ample Women
by Rory McRandall
Everyone knows what the popularized image of the modern sex-symbol is: hips and ribs! The majority of fashion magazines and advertisements in all forms . . . more
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