Tag: family
group name: womenwise
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July 17, 2007 12:58 PM EDT --
First let me say I have a great job. I work for a great boss and know how lucky I am. I am an on line admin for a company in NJ. I have been doing this for 2 years now. This jobs allows . . . more
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April 18, 2006 08:11 AM EDT --
I found an old journal this past weekend and made the painful choice to read through it. It is almost twenty years old, and it covers most of two years with a few pages of the years after. Those were some . . . more
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March 25, 2006 10:20 PM EST --
*our house
6 years ago we bought our first home. It is 79 years old and it shows. Over the years many, many owners have moved in and did what they thought was remodeling; I'll explain.
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July 13, 2006 02:27 PM EDT --
"So, I'll call you tomorrow after I am coherent," she says.
"Are you ever coherent?" I retort.
"Not most of ever..." She was already losing coherence, due . . . more
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April 18, 2006 11:25 PM EDT --
I was reading another Gather posting by a nice young man named Joshua. In one of his comments he made reference to being open to anyone's single daughter. He seems like a nice enough guy, but rather . . . more
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May 21, 2006 02:01 PM EDT --
I woke up this morning with a feeling in my gut that I haven't experienced in a very long time. Fear.
It's that awful wrenching, twisted, aching feeling that something - somewhere - is terribly . . . more
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August 08, 2006 11:42 AM EDT --
When I met my siblings in 1982, I learned that I had three brothers and two sisters. It was a wonderful reunion for them, but rather different for me, since I didn't remember any of them. I was the . . . more
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April 17, 2006 01:51 AM EDT --
My granddaughter is deaf. Actually, with her hearing aid, and reading lips, she can do quite well, though I often have trouble understanding what she has said to me. I've not always been quite . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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September 06, 2006 02:46 PM EDT --
My favorite skirt ripped last night as my son, 11, helped me take the clothes off the twisted rope hanging across my backyard. It caught on the rough tin edge of the garden shed as I swung it from line . . . more
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April 14, 2006 11:43 AM EDT --
One of the perks of my job is acting as fashion consultant to some of the gentleman who live in the retirement community. I think it is great that, in their eighties, these men are concerned enough to . . . more
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September 07, 2006 06:51 PM EDT --
Hi all,
A friend gave me a photo and five minutes to come up with a story. The picture was of a group of adults in a circle and two small boys standing off to the side. Following is an . . . more
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April 25, 2006 08:22 AM EDT --
As adults we learn that all of the days can blend together into mush if you're not careful. Remember when summer vacation would fly by as kids no matter how hard you tried to savor each day? Running . . . more
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April 26, 2006 01:18 AM EDT --
Transience
A rose, a candle, and
A single smile
Are all alike
They're just for awhile
But just for awhile
Is why they are here
They mean so much more
Like a single tear
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May 15, 2006 11:16 AM EDT --
Eschew Obfuscation: Married to the Devil: Rearing His Ugly Head, Part 2
Things were glorious at first. My gut was saying nothing now except that John was the right one. For two months we keep our . . . more
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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 . . . more
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August 06, 2006 02:28 PM EDT --
You're beautiful, pure light
You're luminous, so strong
Inside and out
You carry me
Endlessly
You're tall
And dark
And yet the brightest soul I've seen
Your smile
Could . . . more
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March 20, 2007 10:46 AM EDT --
My son, age 12, noticed it first. He pointed with his fork as I placed a plate of stirfry on the table in front of him.
"Mom. Your stomach is pooching out."
I glanced down at my midriff, at . . . more
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October 01, 2006 09:34 PM EDT --
I'm curious about other peoples way of handling situations that is foreign to some, common to others.
If you were/are a parent and you were given an ultimatum by your spouse/partner . . . more
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