Tag: life
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 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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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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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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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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October 20, 2007 09:01 PM EDT --
Thy name is J. D. Drew!!!
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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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June 10, 2007 08:55 PM EDT --
Crossing the Duluth Bridge (Lake Avenue Over Duluth Ship Canal)
Windshield wipers waving
Vague sightseeing in Canal Park
I'm heading for the bridge, it seems.
No destination waits on . . .
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August 16, 2007 08:33 PM EDT --
Photo Essay Contest
I live on Cape Cod, one of the most naturally beautiful places on earth. Shaped by glaciers advancing and then retreating, the land has the ridge of a spine along . . .
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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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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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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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May 08, 2007 07:23 PM EDT --
"What My Grandparents Mean To Me."
Sounds like a simple assignment for a fifth and sixth grade essay, doesn't it?
Not really.
In my combined fifth and sixth grade class, we are reading . . .
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May 08, 2007 08:17 PM EDT --
"Dear John?"
He left to play for another team,
It's true some fans get attached,
And believe reality is their dream;
"He and the team are perfectly matched!"
It's true some . . .
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March 03, 2007 05:55 PM EST --
I'm a journeyman player
I go team to team
Never in one place long
Always wake from the dream
I lead off each season
Thinkin' now I belong
But my hat's barely broke in
'Fore I know I was . . .
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March 12, 2007 10:23 PM EDT --
I watched a bit of the Sox-Yankees spring training game tonight. Unlike many springs, where I was glued to the TV or, if I was in my car, desperately scanning the dial and cursing the radio . . .
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