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July 08, 2009 01:51 PM EDT
(featured date: July 08, 2009)
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If a person must correct someone's usage of the language, may we do so sensitively without attack and hurt feelings?
Recently an intelligent young man was driven away from Gather because of the . . .
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June 13, 2009 03:00 PM EDT
(featured date: June 13, 2009)
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One of my "funny now, but major trauma back then" events happened when I was 12 yrs old. My friend Denise was spending the night on a Saturday, and everyone had gone to bed. We were chatting away in the . . .
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June 01, 2009 04:50 PM EDT
(featured date: June 01, 2009)
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Today I am still in a half shocked state. I don't cry easily, but today tears are second nature to me. Last night I held a bleeding child in my arms and watched her died.
I didn't know the child, I . . .
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May 28, 2009 10:41 PM EDT
(featured date: May 29, 2009)
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Ok I feel like I am not here, yet I know I am, hubby hugs me almost hourly, to see if I am ok,, I thought this wuld be easier, yet I just feel numb, not totally sad, nor happy. . . .
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April 28, 2009 08:57 PM EDT
(featured date: April 28, 2009)
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I went to have my 14 year old diagnosed today. The diagnosis is "Developmental Trauma Disorder."
Developmental Trauma Disorder is when a child doesn't develop normally because . . .
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April 02, 2009 09:53 AM EDT
(featured date: April 02, 2009)
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Lately I have been observing people and manners. Or should I say lack there of? I think its because my husband and I have discussed having children and how we would want to raise them. I have always said . . .
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March 02, 2009 04:20 PM EST
(featured date: March 02, 2009)
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Onset speed of conversation resides
Inside warmth keeps, softly your brown eyes
Automatic knowing, kindling itch
Still, over the edge, head over heels
You warm my heart for eternity
Recent eras . . .
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February 21, 2009 08:46 AM EST
(featured date: February 21, 2009)
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Maybe most of America won't care about dealing with the Taliban, Al Qaeda, or other despotic regimes. Maybe President Obama will be able to demonstrate his famous multi-tasking more effectively . . .
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January 03, 2009 12:56 AM EST
(featured date: January 03, 2009)
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I can't get a name for him. So, I come to my friends on Gather for help. If you would make some suggestions, and if you like one please, please comment. Any help would be greatly . . .
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October 29, 2008 12:40 PM EDT
(featured date: October 29, 2008)
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One does not think about a bus being haunted, but a bus that traverses Old Hollow Turnpike and travels only south through the tainted heart of Shadowland knows all too well of the perilous journey.
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October 18, 2008 11:41 AM EDT
(featured date: October 18, 2008)
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Do you agree with Obama that you should share your wealth. Whether you have wealth or not should the government have the power to decide how you give your money?
I am not so wealthy as yet to . . .
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September 03, 2008 10:48 PM EDT
(featured date: September 03, 2008)
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My experience started a while back, when I had decided to go do some cemeteries investigations with another team. What we never did was pray for protection neither before or after leaving. I actually . . .
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July 23, 2008 01:36 AM EDT
(featured date: July 23, 2008)
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When I was in my thirties and went back twenty years,
I was but a child,with many childhood fears
Then when I was forty and looked back again
Those twenty years made me twenty, . . .
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June 26, 2008 08:05 PM EDT
(featured date: June 26, 2008)
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Arriving Late
A certain professor arrived late for a lecture to find a most uncomplimentary drawing of himself on the blackboard.
Fuming, he asked the class joker in the front row, "Who, pray, . . .
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June 05, 2008 10:32 AM EDT
(featured date: June 05, 2008)
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I realize as responsible adults we must watch what we say, especially when children and grandchildren are in the area.
I am probably one of the most impatient men living on the face of this earth or . . .
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May 29, 2008 12:30 PM EDT
(featured date: May 29, 2008)
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A young father determined to be the best dad he could be, would sing his two sons to sleep each night. He did this for several months until one day he heard the 4 year old whispering to the . . .
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May 21, 2008 09:42 PM EDT
(featured date: May 22, 2008)
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Who better to know a thing or two about polar bears? I guess a washinton insider can state unequicovably that the sea ice is melting and the bears will go the way of the Dinosaurs.
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May 18, 2008 05:04 PM EDT
(featured date: May 18, 2008)
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Searching through the archives, I was curious as to what important events happened on the day Peter Joseph Swanson was born. Well, I went to the Smith & Sonian library in his hometown and discovered . . .
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May 12, 2008 12:00 AM EDT
(featured date: May 12, 2008)
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It's Monday again, time to start a new week. Do not do this without a smile on your face.
We'll have a passel o'humor at Gather Essentials: Writing as the day progresses, . . .
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May 06, 2008 02:33 PM EDT
(featured date: May 07, 2008)
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Heavens to Murgatroid!
Just taking "two" that's all. . . . but two for who!!!?
I remember the first Mother's Day without my mother. It was a difficult . . .
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