Tag: random musings
group name: bookofmyself
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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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February 23, 2006 04:05 AM EST --
Mark P. was my best buddy. We grew up in Chicago but were both from the deep south. We were preachers' kids (PKs). I met Mark in first grade at six years old—and we are still . . .
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March 19, 2006 05:23 AM EST --
As I kid, I knew my favorite actors by their screen names. In most cases, I didn't even know their real names. I grew up in a tough neighborhood and dreamed of getting out. When I . . .
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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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March 02, 2006 05:22 AM EST --
Mrs. DeMars was my teacher in third grade, and I was in love. I was ten and she was about thirty-five. She was tall, blond and wore skirts just above her knees. I had an unbelievable . . .
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March 10, 2006 03:50 AM EST --
As a PK, or preacher's kid, I figured I'd be a minister like my dad and grandpa. Even my mother attended seminary. That's where my parents met. It was destined that I would . . .
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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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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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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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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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May 31, 2006 04:11 AM EDT --
J. was my first mentor in the software business in the early 1980's and became a true friend over the years. He was a marketing genius and about twenty years my senior. We traded roles . . .
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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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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 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 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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December 24, 2006 09:13 PM EST --
I love colorful things, I love it when things are bright and glowing and viberant
Such as the colors of a sunset, which are rich and deep, with golds, scarlet, deep pinks and reds
mingling with shades . . .
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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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