Tag: life
member name: Annina Anton
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June 27, 2006 10:26 PM EDT --
Summer's come to call
And with it brings a sweet kiss
Of bright remembrance.
Rainstorm do your all
To nourish parched environs
With your moisture rare.
Tree frog counterpoint
Lonely croaking pleas . . . more
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April 19, 2006 07:05 AM EDT --
I admit it. Neferkiti and her brother, Cheech, own me lock, stock, and kitty treats. They also lay claim to my husband and son. They would probably claim Diamond the Ditz Dog and the Skippity Doo Dog, . . . more
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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 . . . more
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May 26, 2006 05:05 PM EDT --
Here at the dawn of the twenty-first century, following several sad failures and more triumphs of NASA's important space voyages of discovery, there seems to be a movement afoot in some scientific . . . more
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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] . . . more
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May 08, 2006 08:33 AM EDT --
You've put your all into a poem, essay, story, image, or novel. It is your child, a piece of you. It is a third or thirtieth draft, something you've really worked over, and now you are putting . . . 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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July 02, 2006 12:58 PM EDT --
Nope. That title is not a typo. This morning I was reminiscing about my teen years in South Jersey, and remembered the summer of '67 which I spent with my grandmother, Aunt Carol, and cousin . . . more
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June 22, 2006 06:12 AM EDT --
During the controversy which has raged over the past weeks about the rating system, I've noticed that some Gatherites appear to be using the rating system to voice their protest that the content is . . . more
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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 . . . more
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May 21, 2006 01:34 AM EDT --
Maybe we can't achieve world peace, but hey, if a mere 600,000,000 people in the Western Hemisphere all jump at precisely the exact moment on July 20th, we'll trigger a planetary orbit shift, which . . . more
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June 07, 2006 01:04 AM EDT --
In curving, lyrical, Tibetan calligraphy, a phrase graces the doorway of a Buddhist temple. It describes the numinous and enthralling manner in which enlightenment is found. "One million monks, one . . . more
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June 17, 2006 12:23 AM EDT --
Shamelessly transferred from my LiveJournal, consider it part of the 100 Things About Me verbiage.
1)How old do you wish you were?
Twenty-five, but with all the experience and smarts I have now. . . . more
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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 . . . more
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April 20, 2006 06:33 PM EDT --
Omigosh, I'm gonna black out! I'm on the top of Top Members list. Do ya think it was the frog tale, or maybe Grandma Ruth? The letter to Tom Gerace,Or the Yiddish-a mama? Whatever it was that did . . . more
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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 . . . more
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March 30, 2007 10:29 AM EDT --
Several things have happened which are changing my attitude, indeed changing my world view. Just like the old hit by Patti LaBelle, New Attitude, I've got a new hairdo, mobility, a new flower . . . more
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June 25, 2006 03:11 PM EDT --
Journeys...
Do you remember how
The dreams come in waves
And how we watch as on
The silver screen--a play?
Or act the parts ourselves
So that from deep within,
Messages get their share
Of inner . . . more
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April 18, 2006 01:39 PM EDT --
One hundred years ago today, the most powerful earthquake to ever strike the continental United States hit the San Francisco Bay Area, jolting cities up and down the California coast as two tectonic plates . . . more
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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 . . . more
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