Tag: people
group name: thewritersreview
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June 09, 2007 11:31 PM EDT --
When I was very very young
He was occassionally around
Though now everytime I look and see
He is nowhere to be found
He moved away when I was little
With a promise he would call
Yet with . . . more
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April 17, 2007 08:01 AM EDT --
It was the one of the worst images a parent can face. My son was sitting in the back seat of a squad car with handcuffs on. His childish body, small for a young man, was barely visible, yet . . . more
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June 11, 2007 02:37 PM EDT --
About four years ago the big C word came into our lives and it was such a terrible dream. My twin sister called me and said would you come and stay with me. She had recently lost her husband . . . more
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December 28, 2007 09:31 PM EST --
Just one week ago this Sunday I was awakened by the phone ringing off the hook! It was a good friend of my parents. She asked if I had heard the news about our small Georgia town being . . . more
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June 24, 2007 02:55 AM EDT --
Last Friday evening, my seventeen year old son, Nick, and I attended a concert in Clear Lake, Iowa, at the historic Surf Ballroom. The Surf is best known as the last place Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, . . . more
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February 28, 2007 02:29 PM EST --
A blonde walks into a department store and heads to a table that has a lot of newfangled products on display. She spotted a certain item that was silver, long, and formed in a cylinderic shape. A salesman, . . . more
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June 11, 2007 03:02 PM EDT --
Have you ever wondered why some people are incapable of just being nice to fellow human beings? Why do people have to say and act on mean intentions? Perhaps they like to make trouble, . . . more
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April 20, 2008 07:44 PM EDT --
Back before cell phones, early in the 1980s, I was an insurance salesman/financial planner. For a while I sold Funeral Insurance. This was a small policy insurance that was to just cover the cost . . . more
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August 19, 2007 12:58 AM EDT --
You can be surrounded by 50 bajillion great new people that quickly became your friends but still miss one friend more than anything?
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February 27, 2007 03:49 PM EST --
It is a cold and lonely day
Nothing seems to go my way
Snow, please melt quick
I don't want it to stick
The family car is buried deep
My mother is starting to weep
My ears are cold, my lips are . . . more
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May 29, 2007 10:45 AM EDT --
Last summer, my family went to a Pittsburgh Pirates game. Before entering the stadium, we were herded through security for a bag search. As I approached the guard, my heart raced. The anxiety had nothing . . . more
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July 15, 2007 11:25 AM EDT --
I as a young mother had a very serious surgery and there were problem as the surgery progressed and I knew it...as they decided to put me further under anesthetic I fought it for a moment and held my breath . . . more
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October 01, 2007 06:12 PM EDT --
You gotta love 'em.
Saturday, I marched into the bookstore, my poster under one arm, a tote bag of books and pencils and bookmarks and cocoa packets in the other arm and announced to the . . . more
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April 21, 2007 04:30 PM EDT --
Recently I orchastrated a "Panel Discussion on Islam" at my local community college. (Although I have graduated, I remain active in bringing culture and education to the community.) . . . more
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March 29, 2008 12:48 AM EDT --
(This poem is from the writing of another. I can't remember who wrote the original words; I cut up the article and rearranged it. I promise I'll find the author. If someone recognizes . . . more
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June 15, 2007 11:38 PM EDT --
He reached down from on high and took hold of me: He drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foe who was too strong for me. Psalms 18:16-17
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September 01, 2007 03:55 PM EDT --
Angel of the night
As my thoughts race
restless,
in my worried mind.
And dream I chase
you hopeless,
despair I find
I see your face
but darkness
drives me blind
I close my eyes . . . more
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April 28, 2008 10:56 PM EDT --
Let's first state the obvious. She's 15. That pretty much ends the debate over the "appropriateness" of the "Vanity Fair" photo controversy involving tween multi-media superstar . . . more
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February 26, 2007 05:14 AM EST --
The luscious
Frangipani blooms in earnest;
Oozing desire
I watch the star of the summer
Garden with lustful eyes
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June 24, 2007 11:54 AM EDT --
My Bubbe, grandmother, saved my soul when I was growing up. My family of origin was somewhat dysfunctional, shall we say, but Bubbe was a source of unconditional love. I was the oldest grandchild, and . . . more
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