Tag: life
member name: Dame Ruth, Chief Executive Elitist D.
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August 15, 2006 05:03 PM EDT --
With the big eight-one come and gone, I can't help but think about what's coming next. Hopefully, a few more birthdays, but there can't be many, and with this in mind, I've finally begun . . .
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August 20, 2006 07:06 PM EDT --
After fourscore years of deliberate avoidance, I have seen my first corpse. The new dock directly across the canal from me, the one I have been bitching about because it partially blocks my view of the . . .
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October 02, 2006 03:04 PM EDT --
It suddenly occurred to me that I have been overlooking my primary purpose in joining Gather, which was to share what I have learned in almost a century living to the hilt. So, rather than spend . . .
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October 17, 2006 08:43 PM EDT --
Folded into a W in the hospital bed, sabers of pain slicing through my middle, I was now a Bone of Contention between Nurse Stoneface and Nurse Fatass, one on each side of the bed, firing . . .
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January 26, 2007 02:05 PM EST --
Recently, a spate of “you hurt my feelings, so I’m going to leave” articles have appeared here, instantly followed by long comment . . .
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February 04, 2009 05:04 PM EST --
I've always had trouble with my tongue. Usually, it runs so much, it causes contretemps with friends, relatives and innocent passersby. A few weeks ago, however, it apparently rebelled . . .
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August 16, 2006 04:54 PM EDT --
My son just called to tell me his father died yesterday. Had I not divorced him, we would have been married 60 years in two weeks. Sonofabitch slipped out on another anniversary!
My son and I discussed . . .
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October 18, 2006 03:31 PM EDT --
Sometime later (pain has a way of distorting time…it could have been minutes or hours) a portable computer was wheeled in by Nurse Robot. Without a glance in my direction, she stood at the . . .
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December 15, 2008 05:28 PM EST --
Many a title includes the word 'life', and the word is included in virtually every philosophical/theological discussion everywhere in the world. Generally speaking, thumpers are apt . . .
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February 08, 2009 01:00 PM EST --
Since one of the cable networks is again airing the Meryl Streep vehicle The Devil Wears Prada this weekend, I thought this would be a good time to drag out this little . . .
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January 20, 2007 07:38 PM EST --
To Whom It May Concern:
Grant those who live in blind faith the ability to see the light of reason, that they may understand “faith” to be nothing more than a euphemism for . . .
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March 26, 2007 12:45 AM EDT --
Of necessity, writing is a lonely profession, unless you’re collaborating with someone else, in which case it’s both lonely and irritating. Since I opt to . . .
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