Tag: children
group name: slicesoflife
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April 06, 2008 05:25 PM EDT --
When I was eight years old, I was still wetting the bed. It was an embarrassing problem and my parents got tired of getting up in the middle of the night to change my bedding and my pajamas. They put . . .
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August 06, 2008 07:46 PM EDT --
Today we had the young ones with us for the day. Lili (the 6 year old) returned this past Sunday from an extended trip to spend time with Mimi, her other grandmother. Ari (the 2 year old) had returned . . .
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December 26, 2006 12:22 AM EST --
We celebrate Christmas Eve - a tradition that started out of emotional necessity when I was divorced and the children had to go to their Dad's on Christmas morning. After a depressing and disasterous . . .
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January 04, 2007 01:05 AM EST --
Last night I had the pleasure of observing a three-year-old child in its natural habitat, and I was interested to see her exhibit two behaviors I wish more people carried into adulthood:
1) Unaffected . . .
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June 15, 2006 10:35 PM EDT --
On June 28th, my grandsons will attend their last day of school for this year. Two months loom ahead when, after the first week or two, they will be bored out of their minds.
Since I care for my grandsons . . .
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May 11, 2006 05:41 PM EDT --
North Alabama Weather Report, Physical Therapy, and People Watching
This morning in North Alabama I awoke to the brilliant sunshine penetrating through my grimy windows. It broke into multiple beams . . .
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July 23, 2006 04:07 PM EDT --
What follows is a chapter from my book, Playing With The Devil.
Helen pulled her '59 black and white Ford into the lot.
"Damn, I love this . . .
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September 24, 2006 12:12 PM EDT --
When I was three, my favorite toy was a beanbag Snoopy, to whom I was deeply attached. I took him with me everywhere, including to preschool. It was a good preschool, with lots of interesting . . .
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December 22, 2006 05:35 AM EST --
I was finally on the delivery table. Relief was in sight. This would be my third son. I had a sono-gram the day before, the doctor had said ,'Its another boy, i see his plumbing'. . . .
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August 05, 2006 05:52 PM EDT --
We live in a neighbourhood with lots of children. The other day as I was coming home from work we drove down one of the side crescents and I noticed a group of children playing in one of the yards. . . .
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September 06, 2006 02:46 PM EDT --
My favorite skirt ripped last night as my son, 11, helped me take the clothes off the twisted rope hanging across my backyard. It caught on the rough tin edge of the garden shed as I swung it from line . . .
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September 08, 2006 06:15 PM EDT --
In honor of Star Trek's 40th Birthday, I want to post a little story of something that happened at my youngest son's school last year:
Hey, Klingons have feelings, too!
I got a call from the . . .
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January 16, 2007 08:13 PM EST --
My son, 12, invited six friends to attend his birthday party. I made the invitations, hand-wrote Who, What, When, Where, Why, Pizza and Cake! I added careful script, respondez, s'il vous plait, our . . .
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June 04, 2006 12:59 PM EDT --
Sunday, June 4
This is a special note to let you know that my documentary, Young Poet Incarcerated, and the young man it's about were profiled on Page One of the Ann Arbor News today.
In case you . . .
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August 04, 2006 08:05 AM EDT --
I had serious Avon Apathy this late summer. Sure, I knocked on doors, left satin smooth brochures and samples of beauty promise on beach cottage porches, under doormats, stuffed behind screen doors, balanced . . .
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October 11, 2006 11:57 PM EDT --
Every October 12, as the Blue Angels fly over the city, I remember the day you came into the world. People would have paid money for our spectacular view that day. We were at University of California San . . .
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May 30, 2007 09:58 PM EDT --
A friend sent me this and I thought I'd share it.
*ELEMENTARY BIBLE SCHOOL TESTS **
PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE WORDING AND SPELLING.
IF YOU KNOW THE BIBLE EVEN A LITTLE, YOU'LL FIND . . .
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June 02, 2006 03:50 PM EDT --
This is the What I've Learned So Far... piece that won the 2003 Erma Bombeck award. It was republished today in my print column, so I thought I'd share it with my Gather friends.
The other day . . .
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February 09, 2006 11:43 AM EST --
what is the essence of timelessness?
is it something that calls to us, repeatedly through the ages?
is it a restful thing, something to soothe the soul?
can it be personal, or is it always something . . .
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June 16, 2006 09:09 AM EDT --
I am at work and I just got back from my morning walk. I found a great route that is basically a right hand turn out of the building and down Washington Street for a little less than a mile . . .
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