Tag: people
group name: makeadifference
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August 03, 2007 02:00 AM EDT --
Some of you who know me may already know that I'm a volunteer-a-holic (if it's not a word, it should be). My current major project is as the Board Chair for one of our local Community Justice . . . more
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April 18, 2006 07:31 PM EDT --
In addition to the traditional offerings most generous, doting parents lavish on a child, mine infused a lifeline to their unrestricted generosity. They gave me the world, by allowing me to see . . . more
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July 26, 2007 12:54 PM EDT --
Stephania D. posted an article about this woman and I felt compelled to repost in case we don't share the same list of contacts here on Gather. I think it is important that this story is made . . . more
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July 21, 2006 02:27 AM EDT --
I've postponed a month-long plan to publish a photo essay from a 2003 trip I made to Gaza. There are several reasons for this, most of them to do with being busy lately, but the primary reason . . . more
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July 28, 2007 02:51 PM EDT --
If any of you read my posting about the woman who received serious chemical burns to her feet after wearing flip flops purchased at WalMart - here is the e-mail I received from her regarding where . . . more
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March 23, 2006 12:36 PM EST --
6 weeks ago my daughter and I started cleaning out our basement. I say started because of course it is not finished yet. We did put a huge dent in it though. I estimate that we removed a half a ton of . . . more
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September 08, 2006 10:22 PM EDT --
Recently my husband and I bought our first home, in the same town where we have rented for the past 6 years. Just this week we receive a small box in the mail that said, "Our Gift to You." . . . more
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October 27, 2006 10:42 AM EDT --
Enough is enogh!
I have tried being nice about people forcing their religous belifes on me. Nicely saying I'm not intrested in being saved by their God. I was born and raised as a pagan as some . . . more
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April 24, 2007 12:58 PM EDT --
I am sure anyone who has read my articles would think I would be the last person on earth who would want to defend Carl Rove, but I must. A couple weeks ago I was listening to the radio and the discussion . . . more
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August 15, 2006 08:53 PM EDT --
I have had the same therapist for over fifteen years.
At one point when my marriage was failing and I had
better insurance, I would see her once a week. Now I
consider her my "on-call" . . . more
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August 14, 2007 02:54 AM EDT --
I can't single out one person but as a group the women I worked with as a teenager were inspiring. My family had a small electronics business back then. We stuffed circuit boards and laced wiring harnesses . . . more
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December 04, 2006 10:36 AM EST --
I made a new friend the other day.
I had walked to the drugstore. I always walk, if I can avoid driving. I don't like to give my money to the oil companies and I can use the exercise. . . . more
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April 07, 2006 09:48 PM EDT --
A posting to answer a question asked by a reader of one of my journals as to how to relate to a family who has an ill person in it. http://journals.aol.com/yeolecontractor/SpencersPlace/entries/1492
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August 30, 2006 05:33 PM EDT --
In a recent interaction with a colleague, she pulled the "spiritual card" and I was shocked and disappointed. We were discussing a legal/community issue that impacts many people. . . . more
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April 12, 2006 12:20 PM EDT --
Some people are saying that a certain poem on gather is plagiarized,(I won't say whose) and it got me to thinking...
There is so much in our life to write about, so much wealth, love, pain and . . . more
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July 13, 2006 05:31 AM EDT --
Today is my birthday, and I would have written this musing even if it weren't the beginning of my fifty-seventh year on this planet, but birthdays remind me of something very important.
You see, every . . . more
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October 09, 2007 10:27 AM EDT --
How To Get People To Do What You Want– Without Telling Them What To Do. If we want to get a teenager to clean their room our first instinct is to tell them to do it.
They are children, we are . . . more
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June 01, 2006 12:48 PM EDT --
"We travel," says travel writer Pico Iyer, "to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate." Reading about a place . . . more
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March 23, 2006 12:10 PM EST --
I don't understand why people waste good shopping time driving around and around trying to get parked close to the entrance, only to go inside and walk two or three miles? . . . more
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September 06, 2006 01:39 PM EDT --
A while ago, I wrote these words, frustrated at the fear and separation in the world. I posted them on my refrigerator, and there they remained for years. Only recently (because of a move) . . . more
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