Tag: memories
group name: creativegulf
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May 14, 2006 08:37 AM EDT --
From the time I was a toddler I assumed that like any woman, I would one day bear children and become a mother. It was a given in the early 1950's when the women's movement was just gearing up . . .
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June 17, 2008 01:13 AM EDT --
We shot a wedding in Carillon Beach Friday night. I kidded the Groom that at least he'd always be able to remember his anniversary, since the chapel had been booked for every weekend day but Friday . . .
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May 08, 2006 08:12 AM EDT --
Perhaps among the strongest recent contributors I've had the pleasure of reading is LT Christopher Combest. His continuing memoir begins with his September eleventh decision to join the military. . . .
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May 07, 2006 09:28 AM EDT --
Her loose hair was long (like mine), its russet spirals lifted by the tropical wind exposing pale shoulders. We approached her without hesitation, following our father, a man we had known for less . . .
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May 13, 2007 02:14 AM EDT --
for some reason today my mind has been in the Carolinas
some windswept coast, some open vista of sea.
there are many places like that between north Georgia
and the end of the upper North Carolina coast. . . .
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May 14, 2006 07:05 AM EDT --
Mothersong was written in 1997 for my mother, LaVerne Jahrling, and published in a chapbook that same year. Mom is my best girlfriend, and when both of us were much younger, we were often mistaken for . . .
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December 17, 2007 11:35 PM EST --
It's Monday night.
Today I spent the day
fighting utilities.
Tomorrow probably the same.
Saturday early I will start out
for a Sunday arrival at the sea
to disperse my . . .
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April 06, 2006 03:50 PM EDT --
My Third year going!
It's a fun laid back small festival!
(pssst. click on the photos on the side for full size shots!).
Historic Apalachicola Classic & Antique Boat Show Saturday April 22nd, . . .
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August 07, 2006 08:41 PM EDT --
When last we saw our hero, Ormond Bad Bob, (and if you haven't seen part one click on the link or this won't make much sense...), we were leaving St. Augustine Florida in the afternoon headed . . .
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November 21, 2007 12:05 PM EST --
Why I'm carrying a knife.
Things here are starting to change, movement in large quantaties of goods going to my buddy at the 2nd hand store, getting ready for the load out when . . .
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July 02, 2006 11:52 AM EDT --
I come from changeling stock. My mother was a wild child who sprang out of Mother Earth like a sprite being born, and she passed her cherishing of nature on to me.
One early summer day back in the late . . .
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December 29, 2007 10:43 PM EST --
Strange Brew Coffee House
461 Harrison Ave
Panama City Florida
850-215-0236
Live music Friday nights at 7, Wi-Fi hotspot all the time!
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December 30, 2007 01:01 AM EST --
I got the nicest gift from my daughter-in-law, Celeste, for Christmas. She had a quilt made for me with the words Grandma in the center and my four grandkids names beneath (Austin, Eli, Sarah, . . .
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April 26, 2006 04:10 AM EDT --
It was an aging Ben Franklin Five and Dime store on Main Street. The windows that ran along the front of the store seemed more capable of lighting the place than the ancient fluorescent lamps that hung . . .
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July 03, 2007 08:35 PM EDT --
It had been a long day, begun before the dawn and run hard into the ground of a sweaty and humid night. The latest indignity had been to pull ‘cheater’ duty for . . .
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December 20, 2006 03:46 AM EST --
My dad's family heritage was German. When I was a kid we would go to Granny and Pop Jahrling's house for Christmas. Their tree was huge and grand. Granny had trimmed it with her handmade German . . .
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January 19, 2008 08:29 AM EST --
I'm thankful for
--snow swirling under a corner streetlight
--snow meandering off the edge of the roof
--snow, the silent invader
--snowy angel tiptoes across my nose
--the . . .
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April 11, 2008 08:18 PM EDT --
Pioneer Sunday in the 60's. Picture, if you will, a conservative bunch, the adults careful to avoid dressing or behaving in any way that could be considered "hippieish." We spent . . .
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April 19, 2006 09:54 PM EDT --
She was born and raised in Minnesota at the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. One day she rode her father's horse to deliver a message to her father who was helping out a neighbor in his . . .
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November 09, 2006 02:33 PM EST --
I don't know why, but I had a thought of some of my fondiest childhood memories. So since I am home alone, I figured I would share with my friends right here at gather. This was back in the early to . . .
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