Tag: life
member name: Gisela S.
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April 07, 2006 10:28 AM EDT --
Perhaps I was Lucrezia Borgia in a past life? Only the karma of one seriously DEPRAVED could have wrought the week I'm finishing....
Monday started off innocently enough. I bought . . .
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April 18, 2006 12:08 AM EDT --
Like many women, I suffer from "poor body image." I've learned to accept my middle aged upper arms, 4 foot eleven and a half inch tall frame, and feet that I'm sure somehow link . . .
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April 30, 2006 01:43 PM EDT --
1. I was born dead. When my heart stopped beating during delivery, they knocked my mom out, removed me with forceps and spent 2 minutes reviving me. The jury is still out as to if there . . .
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May 08, 2006 03:24 AM EDT --
Sunday May 7th - 9:12 PM
"Mom?"
"Yeah sweetie, what is it?"
"We have to talk."
"Hmmm?"
"Stop typing Mom..... Mom....MOM!!"
"Yes? I'm . . .
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February 25, 2007 08:33 PM EST --
All last week, I knew she was out there, waiting for someone - anyone - to find a place where she could be put to good use again. Other than adjusting the sheets and blankets that we'd draped over . . .
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April 08, 2006 09:01 PM EDT --
I'm sure that there will be a story on this evening's local newscast featuring an unexplained tremor in the Phoenix Metro Area. It had to register at least a 4.5 on the Richter scale,and . . .
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April 17, 2006 09:25 PM EDT --
For your consideration.....A Belated Gathering Thunder
I promised my friend Mandi G. that I would submit an article for her two words "Gathering Thunder." I try to ALWAYS keep my promises...but . . .
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April 25, 2006 09:34 PM EDT --
Sixteen years ago today, I awoke at 2:45 am from a sound sleep to a ruptured amniotic surprise. An hour and a half, and some serious hard work later, I was handed a small bundle.
Who . . .
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August 09, 2006 01:30 PM EDT --
Logan Seth - quite possibly the most laid-back baby in the world, and our very first grand child was born yesterday morning at 10:54 am.
He weighed in at 8 pounds 2 oz, and stretched out to 21 inches . . .
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April 06, 2006 01:08 PM EDT --
As many of you know, Gather's own Beryl Singleton Bissell has published her memoir THE SCENT OF GOD, and it's arriving in bookstores this week. . . .
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March 23, 2006 02:11 PM EST --
I have been a parent for over two decades. For the majority of that time I was working outside the home, and I admit, placed dutiful meal planning rather low on the totem pole of my priorities.
Inevitably, . . .
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May 27, 2006 07:41 PM EDT --
It was supposed to be a nice quiet morning of Gathering. I'd been away in the real world, and all I wanted to do was to catch up a bit on what had been happening over the past couple of weeks. . . .
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June 29, 2006 03:15 PM EDT --
It arrived yesterday with little fanfare. In fact, it very nearly DIDN'T make it across the livingroom. Good thing my eye-hand coordination was actually functional when Fred casually lobbed . . .
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June 16, 2006 11:36 AM EDT --
I was thrilled when Gather first asked if I'd be willing to test a few "brain training" games offered by Nintendo and then to write about my experiences. Like many others with a family . . .
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June 28, 2006 05:14 PM EDT --
The lobby of the Hilton Waikoloa greeted us with smiling "Alohas," a chandelier just dripping with crystal and open air architecture. Fred went over to check in, and I contented myself . . .
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March 27, 2008 08:30 AM EDT --
Apparently, photographs to chronicle and commemorate one's surgical procedures are standard fare these days. Oh yes, printed on a glossy sheet of photo paper, my ovaries and abdominal cavity . . .
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January 01, 2007 11:55 PM EST --
At the end of 2005, I swore off all resolutions for the rest of my life. Faced with my 40th birthday, my daughter's announcement that I was SURPRISE going to be a grandmother, the last semesters of . . .
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April 11, 2006 01:37 AM EDT --
They say "You can never go home again," but I beg to differ.
On March 27, 2002 I returned to Fûrstenfeldbruck, the town my mother's family had called home since the . . .
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January 18, 2009 04:02 PM EST --
I realized earlier today that like so many other things I've recently come to take for granted, expecting my husband to come to my rescue in the midst of a household emergency is probably NOT something . . .
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June 01, 2006 04:54 PM EDT --
"I just know I'm forgetting something...."
"There's a hole in your pants."
"I know dear."
"Well, aren't you going to change them?"
"No dear." . . .
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