Tag: family
member name: Karen E.
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April 18, 2007 12:11 AM EDT --
I have taken pride in the fact that I have stayed out of my adult children's lives. My one married daughter has confided some things to me that I had to bite my tongue to keep from saying something . . .
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March 18, 2007 08:36 PM EDT --
I have two daughters. For most of their lives I have been of the opinion that the two of them were as different as night and day. The older one, Rebecca, who lives in Norfolk, has dark, extremely curly . . .
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April 14, 2007 12:42 PM EDT --
I was going to write this for Tim S. who wrote this: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976958416
But then, I read this: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976958494 . . .
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June 15, 2007 12:52 AM EDT --
On the night before my father died, I spent the night at the hospital with him so that my mother could go home and rest. He slept fitfully, tossing and turning in the hospital bed he had slept in for the . . .
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October 19, 2008 05:51 PM EDT --
Don’t get me wrong. I love my mother. And maybe she does love me. But I am here to tell you I would rather get bitten by a shark than have to talk to her.
She called me today. She started . . .
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December 19, 2007 09:29 PM EST --
Yesterday when my husband and I went out to go to the grocerystore, we came upon a young man standing in the island in the middle of a busyroad. He was holding a handmade poster, which we assumed before . . .
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June 08, 2007 07:59 AM EDT --
I don’t know what it is with men and their socks. Jim always seems to be needing more socks, more often than I do at least. He says they lose their “springyness” and when they do, . . .
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May 03, 2007 09:03 PM EDT --
For most of my life, I have had some, um, very embarassing problems with my gut. But, since my father and most of my siblings had the same problems, I just thought it was normal, that some people were . . .
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June 20, 2007 06:25 PM EDT --
At the campground where I work, on Saturday night of Father's Day Weekend, a man who was camping in the tenting area was beating up his wife in front of their three small children, and in front of . . .
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April 11, 2007 11:03 PM EDT --
My ten year old grandson, Michael, has lived in England for the last seven years. His Dad, my son, is in the Air Force. They recently were transferred to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, which . . .
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June 25, 2007 01:23 PM EDT --
I don’t usually write about my dreams because I rarely ever dream, or, if I do, I don’t remember them. But last night I went to bed with a terrible headache, so early after coming in to work . . .
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August 15, 2007 11:59 AM EDT --
My granddaughter, Sarah, lives in Seattle, Washington with her mother. Michael, my grandson, lives with his Dad and step-mother in Washington, DC. Sarah came to spend two weeks with her her dad . . .
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March 17, 2007 04:26 PM EDT --
As most good Fab Grandma’s do, I have stories that I tell my children and grandchildren, over and over, at certain times of the year, ad nauseum…It is like a tradition to tell them even if . . .
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August 22, 2007 12:00 PM EDT --
Last week my husband, Jim had his initial medical exam at a VA Medical Clinic. I have tried for years to get him to fill out the paperwork to see if he was elegible for medical care throught the VA. He . . .
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May 17, 2007 01:34 AM EDT --
I got an message today that I have been tagged. The message says I have to write an article that tells five positive things about me. This kind of article is hard for me to write, as I am not usually someone . . .
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March 15, 2007 08:56 PM EDT --
When my daughter in law was pregnant with my first grandchild, I decided to teach myself to quilt. I knew absolutely nothing about how to make a quilt. I had been sewing for years, but never had . . .
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April 12, 2007 11:38 PM EDT --
Michael getting ready to fire the cannon:
Firng his musket into the battle from the top of Little Round Top:
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May 06, 2007 01:16 PM EDT --
Jim and I are working the evening shift at our job this season. This means that on Sunday, Monday, and Thursday, we get off at eight o'clock. On Friday and Saturday we don't get off until ten o'clock, . . .
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