Tag: memories
member name: donna f.
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July 04, 2009 10:29 AM EDT --
In the summer of 1972, during the beginning of my mid-pubescent, all important summer vacation, my parents did the unspeakable. They took me on a cross country trip that lasted the entire month . . .
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May 17, 2009 02:36 PM EDT --
Originally written and posted 3/06 (which garnered a whopping 5 comments)
Someone commented on my article "Jello- Why I never touch the Stuff", that my knowledge of . . .
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June 05, 2006 05:10 PM EDT --
Gun metal gray and sunset crimson
Shades of life
Emotion
Pain, despair
Joy , elation
Swirling, blending
Competing
No singular hue
Hoping in shades of tangerine
For a few . . .
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July 16, 2006 11:27 AM EDT --
OK, I admit it. Readily, Proudly, and without reservations. I am a softy. You don't see many of us these days. Women from my generation forward have been instilled with . . .
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May 03, 2009 10:52 AM EDT --
When I was a child, my family called Memorial Day, "Decoration Day", which was the original moniker of this day of remembrance. Many of them still do.
Growing up with a family which . . .
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May 04, 2006 06:26 PM EDT --
Being a nurse, dying is part of my everyday life. I see death in many forms. Quick and unexpected, slow and lingering, peaceful, and agonizing. Recognizing the signs of impending death are a learned . . .
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May 16, 2006 06:05 PM EDT --
I have to admit that this is not an original poem. I have read this to every Nursing Assistant class I have ever taught.
This was found among the meager belongings of an eighty nine year old, nursing . . .
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May 04, 2008 09:46 AM EDT --
Growing up, I was the youngest of six children. In the scheme of the family, I was literally, "the baby", as my closest sibling was seven years older than I. My oldest brother was in the Marines . . .
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January 09, 2009 11:36 AM EST --
This week, I received the most wonderful gift. An old friend of my Dad's sent me an email detailing how he met her, and the time they spent together when he was in the Marines, in 1944 and '45. . . .
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July 02, 2006 01:01 PM EDT --
Independence Day Memories
Seven pictures, for those with dial up. Thanks to Bill's Spirit, who was the photographer.
I have always had a sharp sense of patriotism. As a child, I can remember getting . . .
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April 09, 2006 11:20 AM EDT --
"She called me the "F" word" Carol cried, as she exited Mrs. Griner's room. Tears were streaming down her usually rosy cheeks. It was almost expected. Mrs. . . .
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April 29, 2006 10:13 AM EDT --
(republish to new groups)
Hailing proudly from the hills of Kentucky, I was raised to be a good cook, as were my Mother, Grandmother and all those before her.Let me say that I am not from a family . . .
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May 13, 2006 08:20 AM EDT --
Every day
I think of you
Too young to be taken
You could have told us, ya know?
Cancer
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May 21, 2008 07:12 PM EDT --
When I was a child, my family called Memorial Day, "Decoration Day", which was the original moniker of this day of remembrance. Many of them still do.
Growing up with a family which . . .
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December 02, 2006 10:45 AM EST --
As a child growing up in Kentucky and Southern Ohio, all Christmases were joyous times. I do not have many exact memories of some of those years, but I do remember that sense of family togetherness, camaraderie, . . .
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June 18, 2006 11:48 AM EDT --
-One of my, well, not fondest but most vivid childhood memories involving jello took place one October when I was about ten. My friends and I challenged each other to make the most horrifying "spook . . .
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March 18, 2006 10:20 AM EST --
This was the first piece I published on Gather, thus, it wasn't read by many. I'm reposting to maybe get a little feedback.
This morning, while meandering my way through . . .
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May 06, 2006 12:30 PM EDT --
This is a reprint of the first article I ever posted to Gather, thus, largely unread. I am republishing to perhaps get some feedback
This morning, while meandering my way through the site, I saw a headline . . .
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July 09, 2006 03:38 PM EDT --
"She called me the "F" word" Carol cried, as she exited Mrs. Griner's room. Tears were streaming down her usually rosy cheeks. It was almost expected. Mrs. Griner had been in the . . .
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May 11, 2006 05:29 PM EDT --
Her name was Tillie. She was a feisty old woman whom I had came to know well. She came to "the home" in 1988, following a fractured hip, needing rehabilitation. She had fallen at home, trying . . .
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