Tag: family
member name: Annina Anton
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May 22, 2006 03:22 PM EDT --
Thirty years ago today I got married to my best friend. Lots has changed in the intervening decades, but he's still my best friend and I'm his. I guess that's the bottom line when it comes . . .
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May 02, 2006 04:54 PM EDT --
We took the dogs to the vet today. Only one came home. Skipper is already missing little Diamond, and I waver between tearfilled sadness and relief. Deep in my heart I knew she was edging closer . . .
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May 14, 2006 08:37 AM EDT --
From the time I was a toddler I assumed that like any woman, I would one day bear children and become a mother. It was a given in the early 1950's when the women's movement was just gearing up . . .
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June 02, 2006 06:03 PM EDT --
Well, okay--you got me. It wasn't the phone, but the phone charger that was neatly chewed to the point where it wouldn't feed my fone...sorry...phone. [switching off alliteration toggle in brain] . . .
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December 17, 2006 10:07 AM EST --
I suppose that should have been the title had I bothered to write a temporary farewell back in mid-July when I ceased being much of a presence on Gather and other areas of the Net, like my blog at LiveJournal. . . .
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June 27, 2006 12:50 PM EDT --
When I was three years old, my parents and I made a cross-country automobile trip in our brand new 1953 Chevrolet sedan, from the San Francisco Bay Area to the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York. . . .
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May 14, 2006 07:05 AM EDT --
Mothersong was written in 1997 for my mother, LaVerne Jahrling, and published in a chapbook that same year. Mom is my best girlfriend, and when both of us were much younger, we were often mistaken for . . .
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May 31, 2006 06:12 PM EDT --
MY LOVE IS SMILING.
IN HIS SLEEP HE TELLS STORIES
OF DECADES OF JOY!
He is such a good man, my husband of thirty years. I don't know where I would be without him. He works too hard to keep the wolf . . .
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May 20, 2007 11:32 AM EDT --
There you sit, Cheech,
With your whiskers all forward
And your eyes open bright,
Hoping against hope
That the bright orange carton
Of Catty . . .
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May 02, 2006 04:39 AM EDT --
Might as well join the pack. This is turning out to be great fun, learning about my new friends and colleagues.
My mother says it runs in the family, this habit of ours of meeting people and being . . .
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April 22, 2006 02:08 PM EDT --
There is a mole on his back,
Black, perfectly round,
Like a period ending
A statement of fact.
I worry that it's cancer,
His body's way of dealing
With far too much sun
Over half a century.
. . .
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May 05, 2006 02:21 AM EDT --
I only looked for her three times today.
Erik came home and said, "I just looked for her at the foot of your bed--I miss her so much!"
When Chris woke he said, "The bed feels so . . .
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April 20, 2006 03:51 PM EDT --
Last night, Erik, my beamish boy of 22 years came home from work all excited about his mortgages and loans class at the credit union where he works, and all hepped up on too many Mountain Dews.
He was . . .
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July 02, 2006 11:52 AM EDT --
I come from changeling stock. My mother was a wild child who sprang out of Mother Earth like a sprite being born, and she passed her cherishing of nature on to me.
One early summer day back in the late . . .
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May 21, 2006 11:34 PM EDT --
Does delving into your family background constitute an earnest attempt to link to the past or a desire for bragging rights? For me it is the former, with a little bit of the latter thrown in for good measure. . . .
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April 04, 2006 10:11 AM EDT --
All along the Gulf Coast people are beginning to get ready. Even though hurricane season doesn't officially start until the first of May, it isn't too early to begin the ritual. People are buying . . .
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May 21, 2006 01:43 PM EDT --
Yep...I live in Florida and I'm in Central time. Deal with it. Look at a map...I told you Pensacola was really Eastern Lower Alabama (East L.A. if you prefer).
That dealt with, why am I pleased that . . .
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December 20, 2006 03:46 AM EST --
My dad's family heritage was German. When I was a kid we would go to Granny and Pop Jahrling's house for Christmas. Their tree was huge and grand. Granny had trimmed it with her handmade German . . .
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May 13, 2007 02:21 AM EDT --
Her name was Camille. She had been born in Jerez de la Frontera in southern Spain and came to live with us in 1989. Did I mention that she was a miniature poodle? A few months later we transferred . . .
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April 19, 2006 09:54 PM EDT --
She was born and raised in Minnesota at the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. One day she rode her father's horse to deliver a message to her father who was helping out a neighbor in his . . .
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