Tag: family
member name: Clare Stella
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December 24, 2007 11:43 AM EST --
Okay, first I bought Christmas cards, addressed and signed them, and sent them out. Check.
Put up three individual artificial trees. Check.
I decorated individual ornaments for . . .
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May 29, 2007 11:56 AM EDT --
My sister Nancy and I went to the beach on Saturday and she told me the news. She has decided to leave Gather. I was so sad because reading and writing on Gather is an activity that we have . . .
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April 20, 2006 12:17 AM EDT --
Buttons, coffee,
books and love,
that's what the woman
was made of.
Tears, pain
black eyes too,
but she loved me,
and she loved you.
Nights of horror
nights of shame;
we all know who
must . . .
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July 27, 2006 12:57 AM EDT --
Oh, how I used to mourn for that young woman who weighed 112 and was a perfect 34-24-34. She had unlined skin, good vision, and light brown hair.
She knew everything there was to know. . . .
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October 24, 2006 07:15 PM EDT --
My son Bill has always been one of a kind. He is the warmest, funniest guy you could want to meet but he thinks differently than I do. Maybe it's the fact that he has attention deficit . . .
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May 13, 2007 04:50 PM EDT --
Oh, Mama, I wish we could meet again. I would tell you over and over how much you influenced me in all the important ways. I would ask you questions I never dared ask when you were alive. . . .
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July 10, 2006 10:40 PM EDT --
For a long time I was Christie's stepmother and she didn't like me much. Now, many years later, we are friends. The road to friendship was a long one. When I married . . .
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August 27, 2006 02:49 PM EDT --
I cannot imagine life without my sister, Goddess Nancy Spivey. We have shared experiences for over fifty years... the good, the bad, the ugly (ex-husbands). We have been together through . . .
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September 11, 2006 12:29 PM EDT --
When my son realized that he was stuck with a birth date that would forever be associated with the bombing in New York, he was upset. I urged him to try and look at things in a different way . . .
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September 22, 2006 09:15 PM EDT --
Reading has been my passion since I was a little girl. It is
through books that I have traveled to other countries (and even
other worlds), met other people, and learned . . .
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May 25, 2007 02:21 AM EDT --
Gather is giving out triple points and I have to go to bed very soon so can only write this short article. And then to really drive me crazy I have to work all day tomorrow and there are no computers . . .
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May 26, 2008 10:20 PM EDT --
Nancy and I are best friends as well as sisters. A miracle in some ways.
We grew up in a family of four children and two dysfunctional adults. Dad was a violent drinker. Mama was . . .
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May 24, 2006 12:18 AM EDT --
Me: So, Andy, did you and Cindy go look at that house today?
Andy: (doesn't say anything, goes over to fix my computer)
Thank God I understand Andy's got ADD or I might think he is . . .
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September 25, 2006 07:09 PM EDT --
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig is a
coming-of-age story about a 13-year old boy, Paul,
who is living in Montana in the early 1890's. When
Paul's mother dies leaving . . .
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February 23, 2006 10:09 AM EST --
A recent furor over the use of the term "wife beaters" (referring to men's sleeveless undershirts) in an advertising circular inspired me to a write a letter of protest. The pain of . . .
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February 11, 2009 04:59 PM EST --
1966: I'm certainly not gonna tell you about dinner at my house. Trust me, it isn't from Gourmet magazine. Our meals were simple, cheap, and spartan. Macaroni and . . .
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March 29, 2009 12:29 AM EDT --
Here is what one adorable, angelic looking granddaughter can TRY do in a single day:
1. Eat dog’s kibble.
2. Splash hands in dog’s water dish.
3. Take one sock off and . . .
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April 26, 2009 08:47 PM EDT --
Each Saturday my Grammy comes to my house and takes care of me. Today it is very sunny and the flowers are blooming, so we decided to go for a walk.
Here I am in my carriage . . .
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September 14, 2009 06:36 PM EDT --
My grammy takes care of me on Fridays and Saturdays in the summer. Today after Daddy finished work we went to an ice cream stand with a farm.
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August 10, 2008 03:57 PM EDT --
This 321-page novel is a little gem. How many books are written through the eyes and words of a dog? A few perhaps...but none of them can compare (in my opinion) to The Art of Racing in the . . .
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