Tag: family
group name: bookofmyself
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June 11, 2006 09:47 PM EDT --
I have been spinning around in circles in this life.
Where is the drive and passion that I once had?
Did I send it away or did someone steal it from me?
I know I am the one that has control of my mind . . .
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May 02, 2006 04:39 AM EDT --
Might as well join the pack. This is turning out to be great fun, learning about my new friends and colleagues.
My mother says it runs in the family, this habit of ours of meeting people and being . . .
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May 22, 2006 03:22 PM EDT --
Thirty years ago today I got married to my best friend. Lots has changed in the intervening decades, but he's still my best friend and I'm his. I guess that's the bottom line when it comes . . .
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April 22, 2006 02:08 PM EDT --
There is a mole on his back,
Black, perfectly round,
Like a period ending
A statement of fact.
I worry that it's cancer,
His body's way of dealing
With far too much sun
Over half a century.
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June 12, 2006 11:07 PM EDT --
My name is Destiny. What a name to give a little baby girl in the 70's when free love and good will was on everyones mind. . . .
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February 13, 2007 06:31 AM EST --
In 1983, Kate and I were living in Mexico City working for Chase Manhattan Bank. We were twenty-somethings out to save the world and were madly in love. We had known each other for about eighteen . . .
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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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June 19, 2007 04:24 AM EDT --
We knew it all the time....
The July 1, 2007 issue of the Bottom Line Personal newsletter has an interesting piece of news that should warm the hearts of writers in relationships everywhere: . . .
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January 13, 2007 05:56 AM EST --
Memoir, Biography & Autobiography, The Book of Myself, and Struggling Writers & Artists Gather Group members,
NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: I have just updated our The . . .
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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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July 25, 2007 06:10 PM EDT --
From my collection of my Gramma's recipes she handed down to me:
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July 04, 2006 03:47 AM EDT --
Dad said it is important to have beliefs and to share them with others, but he was willing to accept new information that might change his previous beliefs. For example, when he found out my two . . .
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October 19, 2006 02:55 AM EDT --
My friends nicknamed me "Monkey Man" because I used to scale our apartment building four stories high hanging by my fingers from the brick ledge. I remember people called me a daredevil . . .
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August 09, 2007 10:32 PM EDT --
This is the day my Mother died. Sixteen years ago, but it seems like yesterday. I have smelled lilacs all day, a reminder of her. She loved lilacs, and always shared the flowers from her huge lilac tree . . .
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July 24, 2007 07:32 PM EDT --
I, Catherine Huber, sit at table, pen in hand. In trepidation, we await the ever brewing battles we have rumour of. Simple farmers we are and have no need for war, but face it we . . .
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July 10, 2007 02:24 PM EDT --
She sat, enfolded in shadows, brushing her long, dark hair. Gramma rocked gently, the rhythm of her brush matching the soft ‘tap tap’ of her slippers on the floor.
This was Gramma’s . . .
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December 31, 2006 05:34 AM EST --
Book of Myself Gather Group Members:
My wife Kate and I are excited for Valentine’s Day 2007. Our new fill-in journal hits the stores in January, just in time to offer couples a fresh new . . .
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April 15, 2006 02:53 AM EDT --
I applied to Harvard Business School in early 1985. In April a thin envelope arrived from Cambridge. Not a good sign. Only thick packages offer admission. But it wasn't an outright . . .
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July 28, 2007 12:39 AM EDT --
Gramma used to be able to purchase fresh butter from the ladies who lived in near by farms. When the Great Depression hit, butter was no longer available to her, as it was so expensive.
So, Gramma had . . .
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December 21, 2006 02:33 AM EST --
Well as I told you in Growing up Hillbilly Years my dad had a hard time with his daughters growing up and me being the oldest he did not like the idea of my leaving at all and getting married well that . . .
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