Tag: living
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 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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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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June 20, 2006 12:05 AM EDT --
A long time ago, a dear friend named Jamie, who is like a daughter to me, gave me a journal which she had made from handmade paper, with envelopes bound right in for special memories, and with the cover . . .
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November 14, 2006 08:24 PM EST --
I originally posted the following on Judy's Book:
<h1 class="title">Please protect me from idiots who think that they know what is best for me!</h1>
July 11, 2006 8:54 AM . . .
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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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June 20, 2006 07:07 PM EDT --
My mind is left empty.
From all the pain and the anger.
What has this life done to me?
Where do I end this coaster of speeding through my destiny?
Or can I change my destiny?
I want more words to . . .
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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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December 26, 2006 12:58 AM EST --
Okay this is a dream I actually had and it did not make sense to me then nor now exactly. I wrote it down in poetic form and going through my poems and writings of years from my files I came across . . .
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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 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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December 25, 2006 07:52 PM EST --
To all mom's who have experinced the empty nest when children grow up and leave home.
I have a sense of not belonging
Displaced and alone, a sense fo longing
My heart feels like a stone. . . .
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December 20, 2006 11:57 PM EST --
I was raised in the foothills of the South Eastern Cascade Mountains. My dad was one of those people who attrached people he was charismatic. But he also liked his family around him and kept . . .
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December 19, 2006 07:50 PM EST --
By Dolly Hebert Clark Webster Kallio
My mom gave me this letter her gift to me on my sixteenth birthday, I have had it now for 41 years the original letter. It is yellowed now but still . . .
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December 27, 2006 01:29 AM EST --
A Night At Boulder Creek
My dad was always up to something that was exciting and fun. As a result not one of us kids turned down the suggestion of playing hooky from school October of 1964
I was . . .
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January 03, 2007 06:06 AM EST --
Dear members of THE BOOK OF MYSELF Gather Group:
I apologize for not publishing more questions from my book in 2006. I have been working on a new narrative non-fiction title that has been all . . .
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December 19, 2006 08:25 PM EST --
December 20th, 1981
Dear Mom
Sixteen years ago you gave me a birthday gift that I have kept and cherished and still have. I have taken it out and read and re-read it many times. It started out "Sweet . . .
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