Tag: memories
member name: Mandi -Watch where the chalk-white arrows go. To the place where the sidewalk ends. S.S.
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March 25, 2006 10:20 PM EST --
*our house
6 years ago we bought our first home. It is 79 years old and it shows. Over the years many, many owners have moved in and did what they thought was remodeling; I'll explain.
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April 23, 2006 12:11 AM EDT --
My husband is in the Army and had to work today, but he came home just in time to go fishing with me.
It was warm but very windy so we didn't stay very long. We didn't catch anything . . . more
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April 28, 2006 10:34 PM EDT --
I have been nostalgic for the past few months...thinking about old friends, old boyfriends, Chicago the city I grew up in. I don't want to call it a mid-life crisis (I'm not that old!)
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April 29, 2006 02:12 PM EDT --
In March of 2003 my husband Bill started complaining of a stomach ache. Several doctors' visits yielded nothing. He was losing weight very quickly, was not going to the bathroom properly and the pain . . . more
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February 17, 2006 02:12 PM EST --
My grandmother was at the end of her life; 81, sick for many years. Enlarged heart, aortic aneurysm, 2 heart attacks, diminished lung capacity, weak kidneys, blindness and finally her intestines collapsed. . . . more
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February 23, 2006 06:53 PM EST --
For many years I was very sick and didn't know why. I had a splitting headache all the time. I felt like I had a constant sinus infection which in turn caused severe nausea. My muscles were always . . . more
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May 26, 2007 10:44 PM EDT --
The moon light illuminating the path had a magical glow as the june bugs clicked between the trees, darting in and out of the beams of light as if to say "Follow me."
The tallness of the pines . . . more
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July 18, 2007 09:55 AM EDT --
I didn't know
you'd be something to miss
Stored Away,
returned on the whisper of the wind
The memory of one perfect kiss
The deliciousness of young love
floods my brain
Rain washes over . . . more
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February 21, 2006 01:09 PM EST --
Somewhere a memory burns
Amidst the clouds in my brain
There is no time
No feeling
An open wound, gaping
Laughing
Reminding me, never allowing
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April 09, 2007 09:54 PM EDT --
I was born April 9, 1971 in Chicago. It must have been a tramatic experience 'cause I sure don't recall a thing. Come to think of it I don't remember anything before the age of 8 or so. . . . more
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May 01, 2006 01:40 PM EDT --
When I was 15 I got 2 small tattoos. They are home made and while I was stupid to do it, I don't regret it. One is a star and moon on my right pinky, the other is an aunk (Egyptian symbol of life) . . . more
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May 02, 2006 06:33 PM EDT --
31. I never had a childhood illness until I was 24
32. When I was 24 my 6 year old daughter gave me the chicken pox. The doctor I saw at the ER said it was the worst case he or any doctor there had seen… . . . more
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May 02, 2006 08:18 PM EDT --
This is getting hard....
41. I am no longer mad at my mother for not being a perfect mother
42. I love lobster with lots of real butter
43. I caught a bigger bass than my husband last year
44. I would . . . more
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May 17, 2006 01:26 PM EDT --
(Republish for David Corn's contest)
Too many things were happening in the space of 24 hours. The doctors said it was big, most likely cancer, we have to get it out soon they said. . . . more
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May 26, 2006 02:34 PM EDT --
My husband is on a motorcycle trip in D.C. this weekend and my daughter is working her Life Guard job, so it is just me and the animals this weekend. I started feeling sorry for myself until I saw a veteran . . . more
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January 24, 2008 11:32 AM EST --
Today is my 2 year anniversary here on Gather! I found Gather quite on accident and had never "blogged" anything in my life.
I never would have guessed that . . . more
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April 13, 2006 12:00 PM EDT --
One cool, sunny, winter day in 1989, I took my 17 month old daughter Beth for a buggy ride. Usually we would just meander through the residential area in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, where we . . . more
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April 18, 2006 10:35 AM EDT --
When I was 10 years old my mom moved us to the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, to an avenue named Wayne. My first day there a vertically challenged 13 year old with the worst perm I have ever seen, said . . . more
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April 28, 2006 03:42 PM EDT --
I can't see your face.. so long ago, yet yesterday. If I close my eyes I can smell you… feel your hands on me rough, young, inexperienced, but willing to learn along with me. Just me and you . . . more
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May 01, 2006 10:21 AM EDT --
I left notes on your windshield
Watched from afar while you read them
Smiled when you smiled
For so long we played this game you and I
Week after week you pretended . . . more
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