Tag: environment
group name: childhoodstories
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June 05, 2007 09:28 AM EDT --
My dad was the first man I ever loved. When I was growing up we never had any money. My dad worked all the time but we never got ahead. We were very disciplined. There were six of us kids. Three girls . . . more
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February 17, 2007 05:52 PM EST --
(I wrote this in July 2002 for a little girl in the news, Samantha Runnion. Her story broke my heart and I cried for a week. I didn't know her, but she was close to the same age as . . . more
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May 28, 2007 08:51 PM EDT --
I mentioned Buzzbomb in my childhood memories article. Here's his story.
When I was a little girl, before my parents divorced, I lived in an area that could have been a compound since most . . . more
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December 17, 2007 11:17 AM EST --
In today's paper is an article about a newscaster punching a undercover cop in the face.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/12/16/2007-12-16_news_anchor_busted_for_punching_cop.html
Now . . . more
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October 14, 2006 08:29 AM EDT --
Hubby and I have been doing Wildlife Rescue for decades. We rescue opposum., raccoons, squirrels,skunks, birds. We've done Exotic Bird Adoption as well. I'm licensed by my state.
We have . . . more
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June 07, 2007 07:17 PM EDT --
This is a true story I wrote for Chicken Soup for the Bride's Soul. As with many Chicken Soup stories, I still own the rights and am free to reprint the story elsewhere.
A Tale of . . . more
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January 25, 2007 02:12 PM EST --
---SEEING THE SUNSET AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE BEAUTIFUL DEEP PINK'S, BLUE'S, AND RED STREAKS IN THE SKY AND THE BLAZING SUN GRADUALLY SINKING OVER THE HORIZON.
---SEEING THE . . . more
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January 22, 2008 04:18 PM EST --
My daughter wrote her first haiku. She's only 10, so I think she did pretty good.
. . . more
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November 28, 2006 06:49 PM EST --
Sounds of Winter
By Jen Donier, December, 12, 2003
Shimmering crystals of wintery ice, sparkling in winter sun.
Children playing in the snow, having winter fun.
Children lying in the . . . more
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October 14, 2006 07:23 PM EDT --
My Mom is an invalid. She's been wheelchair bound for over 18 years due to a massive stroke. She's aphasic (minimal speech) and paralyzed on one side. When she first came out of rehab she . . . more
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October 12, 2006 06:09 PM EDT --
My Mom as you might know by now was Manic Depressive, known as bi polar nowadays. We had a very eventful childhood growing up with her and her mood swings. Some horrific, some quite funny, some just . . . more
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October 15, 2006 03:35 PM EDT --
I do WIldlife Rscue so my children are all involved with rescue and rehab.
When my son was wokring a summer job at a car detailing store I received a phone call from him. They had a bay door open and . . . more
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August 06, 2007 04:13 PM EDT --
Gertrude and William
Two Canadian geese
with downy grey bodies
and black feathered eyes
huddle the curve
of a tractor tire,
out of the snow.
We prepare a straw bed for them
and scatter yellow seed . . . more
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July 01, 2006 02:30 PM EDT --
I can´t say I´m an expert at anything really, but especially not in the area I´m about to write. I´ve seen most of the country, except for parts of the West Coast, but in retrospect, . . . more
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October 23, 2006 03:55 PM EDT --
My Mom's foray into Asian living went on for quite a while. It started when she completely redecorated the apartment we lived in in in Stuyvesant Town. Dad left for work in the morning and . . . more
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May 28, 2008 07:27 AM EDT --
Last week we started Unit 6, our last unit in our literacy curriculum. Over the next several weeks we will be exploring habitats around the world. Today in the morning class, I took the children . . . more
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December 20, 2006 04:57 PM EST --
When I was twelve there was a summer game that my friends and I used to play along the shores of the Mianus River where it flows beneath the span of I-95 that bridges the gap between Riverside and Cos . . . more
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July 11, 2008 10:51 PM EDT --
Last night when I got home from work I found two well rested children and a very tired husband. We ate dinner, gave the kids a bath and I put the baby to bed. Audrey, who is almost three, . . . more
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July 14, 2008 06:20 PM EDT --
On Saturday we took a family trip to the grocery store. As my husband was getting my daughter out of the car he found a small green caterpillar marooned in the middle of the parking lot. . . . more
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August 06, 2007 04:42 PM EDT --
December
An Ohio wind
gashes my skin
with icicle teeth,
freezes my grey heart
in still beats
while treeless leaves
peek through
new fallen drifts
and I shiver
into the warmth
of teddy bear slippers . . . more
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