Tag: family
member name: Pamela H.
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February 23, 2007 11:32 AM EST --
Shadows are falling and I've been here all day...
How do you get to the stage in life where the shadows are beginning to fall, and suddenly discover the mind and magic of Bob Dylan? How do you . . .
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April 20, 2007 07:00 PM EDT --
We planted it the year we bought the house:
Japanese plum with deep red leaves,
Outside the kitchen window
Where the front yard stretched
Before us like years.
For a while, children played under it
In . . .
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April 01, 2007 03:15 PM EDT --
It must have been pretty noisy when Jesus rode on the foal of a donkey into Jerusalem, with all the people calling out, the palm branches being yanked off trees and spread on the ground, the shouts of "Hosanna!" . . .
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April 14, 2007 10:01 PM EDT --
He hasn't cut his hair in at least a year,
His gray oxydizing yellow.
Chemical reaction.
He calls my asking for home repairs
And kid help "harping".
Overreaction.
He smokes his . . .
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May 10, 2007 08:45 PM EDT --
As Mother's Day approaches, some of us honor our mothers (and mothers-in-law) in memory only, and if we are truly blessed, someone has stepped in to be "mom" for us in their absence. . . .
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March 16, 2007 07:58 PM EDT --
When televangelist Jimmy Swaggart had his fall from grace in February of 1987, many Americans delighted in his public humiliation. Swaggart had been caught with a prostitute. He was a hypocrite, . . .
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March 25, 2007 07:13 PM EDT --
I attended a religious retreat yesterday, the annual Lenten lecture and discussion that my church puts on. Note that this is actually designated a "Lenten" retreat, and we are observant . . .
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March 28, 2007 08:42 PM EDT --
Serendipity: 1. a gift or talent for accidentally finding the perfect solution or making a happy discovery; 2. lucky coinciding of events; 3. an orange-blend shrub with a sweet fragrance...
My computer . . .
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June 03, 2007 09:24 AM EDT --
"Randy" (a Copy the Master* poem)
My number three baby was active and loud,
Born on a Sunday, October bright boy.
No delivering mother was ever so proud
To put newborn to breast, just . . .
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July 06, 2007 03:21 PM EDT --
I was privileged to attend last night's Red Sox game, a fun blow-out of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays that ended in a 15-4 win. My tickets -- fantastic seats 10 rows up from the field almost . . .
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February 26, 2007 10:15 PM EST --
With Spring Training games set to begin this week, baseball is finally on the horizon. Still, at least for those of us in the northern half of the country, there is enough winter left to read a few . . .
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March 10, 2007 11:30 AM EST --
Bob Dylan a false prophet?
Over the years of his career, countless books and articles have been published about Dylan's spirituality and what he himself called "the saving grace that's . . .
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March 10, 2007 10:10 PM EST --
I'm starting to get worried. Here it is, three weeks and one day until Red Sox Opening Day, and I have no idea who pitched today in Fort Myers for the Red Sox -- or if they even . . .
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May 13, 2007 02:17 PM EDT --
"You're going alone?!"
I'm getting that a lot these days, as the clock ticks and there is now just "One More Weekend" until I travel to Hibbing, Minnesota for this . . .
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June 02, 2007 04:58 PM EDT --
This is the story of the fifth-grade schoolteacher -- me -- who became so inspired and captivated by Bob Dylan that I went on pilgrimage to his hometown, a journey of 1575 miles from my front . . .
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March 01, 2007 07:58 PM EST --
My upper elementary level students are studying the Medieval period in history this year. We've covered the Middle East and the origins of Islam; Western Europe and Feudalism; and three of the . . .
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May 05, 2007 06:53 PM EDT --
Here's your hat.....what's your hurry?
Of all the lines written by Bob Dylan, this may be the most unexpected and unlikely: "By the way, that's a cute hat." ("Sweetheart . . .
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June 04, 2007 09:51 PM EDT --
Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
Hibbing High School may be the most impressive structure in the town of Hibbing, Minnesota, but it was a much . . .
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February 28, 2007 11:36 PM EST --
I get on kicks listening to music. I can listen to a CD over and over again for a couple of weeks. When I'm in this kind of zone I'll listen to one particular CD until . . .
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March 06, 2007 06:51 PM EST --
You let him break,
standing back to watch
(and I watched, too)
his lean lithe attention to
the white ball.
Then a sharp crack!
And he had the stripes,
You solid.
Cue sticks slid back and forth
Carefully . . .
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