Tag: writing
group name: rantingraving
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August 20, 2008 10:47 AM EDT --
It's Wednesday, my least favourite day of the week, cuz that's the day the beer truck comes. My back hurts already and I'm not even there yet! Don't know how much help I'll be, but . . . more
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June 29, 2006 05:04 PM EDT --
For the first time since being on Gather, I have been bitten by the ratings monster several times in the past week. And as much as I have prided myself on not caring about ratings in the past, I have . . . more
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August 17, 2008 05:20 PM EDT --
So ... it is Sunday ...and on Sundays, Ross goes to the store and flit gets to stay at home and do whatever flit wants to do with her 4 hours of me time.
In theory.
Was off to a great start... . . . more
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June 16, 2006 10:19 AM EDT --
Yesterday evening, I checked the local weather report. I knew it was going to rain this morning. I planned to sleep late. That is why I could relax, uncork a bottle of the red and enjoy . . . more
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November 01, 2007 04:09 AM EDT --
So my first day and NaNoWriMo showed me just how "fixed" my computer is. I got somewhere over 100 words. They were crappy words admittedly, but the start of a novel often is strained (That's . . . more
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March 18, 2008 04:05 PM EDT --
I don't usually rant, but what a couple of days it has been! My older sister, God bless her, was due to come visit me yesterday around noon. She had a 2 hour drive, and it's a drive . . . more
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June 25, 2006 09:30 AM EDT --
"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can. Jane Austen 1775-1817; Mansfield Park (1814)
Dear Aileen:
A gracious good morning to . . . more
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October 13, 2006 06:22 PM EDT --
My phone rang and I rushed to answer it. I heard a voice on the other end, a female voice. She asked, "Is this June Howard?"
I replied, "Speaking."
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June 15, 2006 11:41 PM EDT --
How Did You End Up At Gather?
So why exactly are you here on Gather? Is it to read, to debate, to socialize, to pass the hours of your worthless life because there is nothing better to do? Of course . . . more
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June 27, 2006 09:51 AM EDT --
Metaphor. A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance (moonlight sleeping on a bank. . . . more
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August 24, 2006 11:31 AM EDT --
This is reprinted from Boston.com. An Op Ed piece by the Rev. John Hudson.
Making HIS first public remarks in more than 1,000 years, God appeared in the heavens yesterday and ordered . . . more
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February 28, 2007 11:00 PM EST --
GREAT TRUTHS THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED:
1) Raising teenagers is like nailing jelly to a tree.
2) Wrinkles don’t hurt.
3) . . . more
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June 03, 2006 07:49 PM EDT --
Recently I read a wonderful editorial written by Jennifer Hodge, a member of Gather's editorial team. In this editorial Ms. Hodge had mentioned the diversity of writers here in the Gather . . . more
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June 13, 2006 05:33 AM EDT --
Fireside 8: Hot Chocolate
What a wild evening it is! Thunder and sheet lightning all over the place. Damn, I'll have to oil these squeaking front door hinges. Oh, . . . more
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September 11, 2006 08:16 AM EDT --
At one time I thought that some here on Gather were starting groups just to get points. For a few this is no doubt true. I have nothing against the ones who do this.
I want to apologize to those . . . more
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February 07, 2007 07:19 PM EST --
In a perfect world, I'd write every day but I don't. This used to guilt me out until I heard Joyce Carol Oates speak. She writes in spurts like I do. Not everyday but every . . . more
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June 12, 2006 10:31 PM EDT --
Who Am I?
Who am I? I know who I used to be. A young lady who saw the world as a pearl. Simply to be plucked from the ocean on a fateful day. Then I would polish and cherish it. Full of hopes . . . more
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June 03, 2006 07:55 AM EDT --
There is nothing more difficult
than to interrogate
my own psyche;
perform an introspective
autopsy, dissect
every hidden niche
of my soul.
I scalpel through tendons
of consciousness . . . more
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October 01, 2006 09:00 AM EDT --
Here I am again, pounding away on the keyboard writing things other than that which is calling to me. I feel frustrated and angry at myself for having so little discipline.
I always wanted . . . more
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November 07, 2006 06:33 PM EST --
Recently, a lot of talk has been circulating in Gatherdom about the Shameless Point Whore Phenomenon. We bow to our Queen, Jackie L., and her Court including Dame Ruth Dickson, Auntie Smedley, and Saint . . . more
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