Tag: childhood
member name: Kathryn E.
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July 28, 2006 11:57 AM EDT --
You've felt fear – you're afraid -- deeply afraid of something, but you don't know what. An unexpected sound, a shadow, being alone in the dark – can make your heart race, . . .
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May 13, 2007 08:57 AM EDT --
Mother Memories - certainly, I have mother memories - memories of my mother, but are they ‘Kodak' memories -that stand the test of time, that possess a patina of sorts, that stand heads and shoulders . . .
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September 27, 2007 07:14 PM EDT --
Not only breakfast, but breakfast on Mother's Day.
Kathy was all of four years old, if that. Ever determined to be independent, Kathy wanted to make breakfast for Mother all by herself.
After waking . . .
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December 16, 2007 06:17 PM EST --
It was the summer before my 12 th year. It was after the separation but before the remarriage. The divorce was not yet final.
My nerves were high, my stomach was low and I was not eating . . .
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July 26, 2008 03:08 AM EDT --
You may have heard of Randy Pausch, the computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon who gained world fame last fall with his Last Lecture, which went viral on YouTube.
Here is a blog post I wrote . . .
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July 19, 2007 05:30 AM EDT --
I stood with my foot covering the hoe, about to slice deep into the wet black earth when I heard a familiar sound chortling down the street. It was the ice cream truck, nearly the same as when I was a . . .
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December 02, 2007 11:52 AM EST --
I had the oppotrunity to interview fellow Massachusetts resident, Lama Milkweed L. Augustine, a couragous woman who was born with a rare form of albinism, is 40 years old and in the final stages of illness. . . .
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September 15, 2006 03:11 PM EDT --
wind lifts, skies darken
leaves to yellow,
white sand memories
of kicking the foam
and tides rushing in,
crashing the sandcastles
we built when you two were small,
how we made mountains, rivers
moats . . .
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May 07, 2007 01:11 AM EDT --
The morning Sue Hapenny was born, circus elephants danced, lions jumped through rings of fire and choirs of angels sang throughout the heavens. Or so she was told.
After hours of labor in which . . .
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October 05, 2006 03:06 AM EDT --
Anna Mae Langford Leigh was my maternal grandmother. She was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, on February 15, 1903, in a polygamous Mormon colony. Her father had two wives.
Not such a big deal, considering some . . .
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April 26, 2006 12:10 PM EDT --
When I was five, my grandfather was six feet tall, in a ten-gallon hat and spurs. He was a sheep man, a livestock broker. When the trains came in, he would go down to the livestock yard to see the sheep. . . .
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February 15, 2006 12:25 PM EST --
Anna Mae Langford Leigh was my maternal grandmother. She was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, on February 15, 1903, in a polygamous Mormon colony. Her father had two wives.
Not such a big deal, considering some . . .
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January 15, 2006 05:23 PM EST --
Snow is beautiful once again.
Having recovered from the big storm, I reminisce about last week's annual Christmas Tree lighting in town. We've been going for years. It does have a sort of magic . . .
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