Tag: culture
group name: slicesoflife
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July 16, 2006 10:12 PM EDT --
While on vacation we stopped in Branson, Missouri. Mom was with us and she had always wanted to see Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede. We purchased our tickets and went up the street a few doors to a motel. . . .
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August 01, 2006 12:56 PM EDT --
My Kentucky grandmother kept a small cedar box hidden beneath the lace ruffles skirting her bed. I found it playing hide and seek with my sisters, my stomach pressed into the dust-covered worn floorboards. . . .
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January 19, 2009 01:50 AM EST --
Published in Ciao
The Kwakwaka’wakw also known as the Kwatiutl is a native, indigenous people found on the mainland and Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. The Kwakwaka’wakw Nation . . .
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August 26, 2006 11:36 AM EDT --
I'm posting these pictures with only a minimum of commentary (mostly because I have a lot to do today here in Tennessee and shouldn't be spending time posting pictures about Tibet). This . . .
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June 08, 2006 09:35 PM EDT --
WHY IS IT......???
I have been calling the same pizza place for four years and each and EVERY time, my conversation begins like this...
ME: I'd like to place an order for PICK UP...
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August 10, 2006 11:03 PM EDT --
I was raised on a farm in rural Ontario. From the time I was a young child, I saw farm animals born and I saw them die. It was the natural circle of life and it never upset me overly much.
When I was . . .
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June 07, 2006 07:44 PM EDT --
when we were kayaking last night, i noticed that there are an awful lot of used tires being used in a new way. growing up on a farm, we had some uses for old tires - tire swings . . .
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July 02, 2006 12:58 PM EDT --
Nope. That title is not a typo. This morning I was reminiscing about my teen years in South Jersey, and remembered the summer of '67 which I spent with my grandmother, Aunt Carol, and cousin . . .
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March 11, 2007 08:03 AM EDT --
Over the past week, Audrey H. has been posting articles on the "greatest dog sled race" in the Arctic, the Iditarod. As each day I read her updates, it brings back memories of Brandy, my . . .
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April 19, 2006 11:59 PM EDT --
Have you ever heard the term, "screech like a banshee?" This phrase is often used when describing the screech owl. Though this article focuses mainly on eastern screech owls, it has a small bit . . .
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August 30, 2006 01:02 PM EDT --
My waitress at the Mountain View Hotel in Sapa, Vietnam.
"They are, all of them, attractive, graceful, demure women who confirm immediately . . .
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October 03, 2006 11:54 AM EDT --
THERE ARE A LOT OF BICYCLES ROAMING AROUND THIS WORLD. HERE ARE PICTURES OF A FEW OF THEM...
Beijing, China
Taxila, Pakistan
Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam
New Delhi, India
Kunming, China (parked . . .
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August 04, 2006 01:28 PM EDT --
My sister and me with local friends, March 1986
"'Oars! Oars!' he intensely whispered, seizing the helm -- 'grip your oars, and clutch your souls, now! . . .
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August 07, 2006 05:29 PM EDT --
Motorbikes in Saigon, Vietnam; the Cathedral of Notre Dame is in the background.
There is a problem with automobiles, and I'm not talking about break-downs or pollution. I'm . . .
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May 14, 2006 02:21 PM EDT --
The Evolution of Dance!
http://gorillamask.net/evdance.shtml
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August 12, 2007 03:01 PM EDT --
This morning while I was reading something on the computer I was introduced to four new terms that I have never heard of before today and I was kind of shocked
Big Beautiful Women
Chubby . . .
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April 27, 2006 11:12 AM EDT --
Home & Garden Quilts:
Quilt Month at the Alexandria Museum, April 2006
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Alexandria is a small community just a few miles down the road from where I live. It was featured last week in my . . .
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July 24, 2006 06:54 AM EDT --
They sit in a row
selling dreams.
Old shirts, once-white kurtas,
and nine yard sarees.
Woven baskets in front,
deft hands stringing garlands
of mogra, crysanthemums
marigold and sweet
scented . . .
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August 01, 2007 05:52 PM EDT --
I WAS INVITED by my friend "Louise," who is in one of my bands, to get together to play music, just the two of us. She offered to feed me whatever meal was closest to our playing session. Louise lives . . .
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July 06, 2006 01:14 PM EDT --
On Christmas morning 2003, as dawn struggled to break through the soup-like fog that had the small town of Sapa thoroughly enveloped, I struggled out of bed. I had been up late the night before, . . .
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