Tag: living
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 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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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 . . .
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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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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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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 . . .
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June 22, 2006 01:07 PM EDT --
K D's SONG DID IT
It was one of those songs,
"My Old Addiction,"
Where the poetry that is
The Lyrics
Reaches out and grabs you
By the soul,
And shakes you gently
In a mind-shattering . . .
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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. . . .
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July 02, 2006 02:23 PM EDT --
...or why you should probably not order a dozen tortillas when you are in Spain.
The Spanish Tortilla, aka frittata, is a quick and simple dish I learned to cook while living in Andalucia, the southernmost . . .
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April 04, 2006 12:13 PM EDT --
Pensacola, Florida is known for quite a few things. It is called the City of Five Flags, because of its many and varied custodians: Spain, England, France, The Confederate States of America, and the United . . .
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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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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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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June 20, 2006 12:05 AM EDT --
A long time ago, a dear friend named Jamie, who is like a daughter to me, gave me a journal which she had made from handmade paper, with envelopes bound right in for special memories, and with the cover . . .
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April 01, 2006 02:27 PM EST --
Some time ago I began to refer to discount thrift bakeries as "used bread stores." After all, they sweep the items from the supermarket shelves and truck it back to the thrift store to sell as . . .
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June 07, 2006 04:53 AM EDT --
A long time ago, a dear friend named Jamie, who is like a daughter to me, gave me a journal which she had made from handmade paper, with envelopes bound right in for special memories, and with the cover . . .
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March 27, 2006 05:10 PM EST --
(Written in response to My Grandmother's Housecoat by Gather member, Kathryn Esplin-Oleski)
Kathryn, you are blessed in that you took the time to build memories with your children, and that you learned . . .
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April 26, 2006 04:10 AM EDT --
It was an aging Ben Franklin Five and Dime store on Main Street. The windows that ran along the front of the store seemed more capable of lighting the place than the ancient fluorescent lamps that hung . . .
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