Tag: memoirs
member name: dianne j.
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August 08, 2007 09:46 AM EDT --
Written March 4, 2004
My mother’s mother (Nana) came to live with us when my father went to jail. I was seven. Nana had a house back in Peabody, but no means of support. Mum thought she could use . . .
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August 22, 2007 10:26 AM EDT --
I hadn’t been living in Australia long before Tim and I started looking for a house to buy. I had never owned my own home, so I found it very exciting. That is, until we started looking. I thought . . .
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September 13, 2007 08:10 AM EDT --
My first memories of coffee are as a child. When I would ask my mother for coffee (to make me feel grown up), she would make "gray coffee" — a mixture of cream and sugar with a little coffee . . .
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August 30, 2007 02:12 PM EDT --
As my due date approached, I was both elated and exhausted. Elated because, after three miscarriages (and five years), I was finally going to have the baby I wanted so badly. Exhausted because I was the . . .
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October 03, 2007 01:54 PM EDT --
I have never used Gather as a forum for ranting, but today I am so angry, I have to let it out somewhere. The longer my mother spends in a nursing home, the more experience I have with the Medicaid system, . . .
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December 04, 2009 10:23 PM EST --
As I approached college graduation, I started thinking more and more about the future . . . at least the immediate future. I was still working as a bartender and making enough money to support myself . . .
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September 01, 2007 10:59 AM EDT --
It was late September. I had just returned from vacation when the phone call came. A friend and I had visited Seattle, then flown to Juneau to catch an 11-day cruise back to Seattle, stopping all along . . .
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September 04, 2007 10:09 AM EDT --
As I sit here in my living room, empty but for this one chair and small folding table at which I work, the words of that song keep running through my head. "Closing time. Time for you to go out . . .
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September 27, 2007 08:53 AM EDT --
Today is Rose's 50th birthday. She is in Rome GA to go the Southern Women Writers Conference at Berry College, where she will read one of her stories today. I thought I would take this opportunity . . .
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September 07, 2007 10:33 AM EDT --
Note: This is a companion piece to another I posted a couple of weeks ago (Home Sweet Hovel). I have spent the last two weeks trying to find good "after" pictures of the house. But with two moves . . .
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September 25, 2007 03:43 PM EDT --
Jane died Saturday night. Esther and Scott died last week. Three in one week. My heart aches.
If you have a loved one in a nursing home and you visit often, you can’t help but make friends with . . .
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June 14, 2007 02:45 PM EDT --
I was raised in the Catholic church. My mother was not Catholic and my father was Catholic in name only, but in those days, if you wanted to get married in the church, the heathen partner had to promise . . .
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August 21, 2007 02:35 PM EDT --
The Great Buffalo Hunt
My sister Carol and I had been in Yellowstone National Park for almost two weeks and we hadn’t seen a buffalo. We had seen a bear on the first day. He had come up to the truck . . .
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September 06, 2007 09:43 PM EDT --
I Am Growing Up
I am the sum of my genes
and the sum of my experiences.
Not quite a tabula rasa at birth.
A kernel of personality
written in the genetic helix of proteins,
written . . .
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September 11, 2007 09:43 AM EDT --
I was driving to work a few days later. It was another perfect day, the sky so blue, the air fresh and warm. The kind of day that normally made my spirits soar into the cloudless sky, that normally made . . .
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August 29, 2007 05:05 PM EDT --
Lansing, Michigan
I was born in Massachusetts. My mother returned to her home town to have her first three children — and stayed a few months each time. So, although my birth certificate . . .
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June 14, 2007 03:57 PM EDT --
I was in the middle of fourth grade when my mother abruptly pulled us out of Catholic school and enrolled us in Pleasant Grove Elementary School. We lived out in the country by then, no longer in Lansing. . . .
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July 11, 2007 09:18 AM EDT --
Written June 20-23, 2005
I hadn’t been living in Australia long before Tim and I started looking for a house to buy. I had never owned my own home, so I found it very exciting. That is, until we . . .
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January 13, 2008 11:19 AM EST --
Until my grandmother died when I was 13, we had Sunday dinner at my grandparents' house. My Sito and Gido (grandmother and grandfather in Arabic) lived on Logan Street in the heart of Lansing's . . .
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January 09, 2008 06:33 PM EST --
I grew up on Main Street, U.S.A. Actually, I spent my childhood in two houses — 1501 W. Main Street and 2910 S. Waverly Road. Main Street was a small inner-city house on a very small . . .
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