Tag: minnesota life
member name: Beryl Singleton Bissell
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December 12, 2007 01:18 PM EST --
For centuries stuffed toy animals have been hugged, kissed and played with. They’ve been fed pabulum and sticky candies, been dressed and undressed, tucked into bed and tossed into corners. They’ve . . .
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March 03, 2007 11:44 AM EST --
I wrote the below during the midst of a blizzard and then lost my connection for two days. I am finally able to repost with photos.
I am in total awe. We have got massive seas . . .
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October 05, 2006 07:11 PM EDT --
This summer, as one week wended toward the next with no sign of rain, many of us believed we'd have little fall color. The trees were too stressed we thought. And, when the color seemed to peak around . . .
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April 06, 2007 10:52 AM EDT --
As I watch our beloved old dog Shelby find it more difficult to rise from the floor, when she refuses to eat or suffers interminable bouts of diarrhea I know that at some point we shall have to say goodbye. . . .
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March 22, 2007 07:24 PM EDT --
I heard about Professor Philip De Wolfe before I met him. The year was 1987 and what I heard was to change the direction my life would take from then on. I have Gloria to thank.
Gloria and I . . .
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December 03, 2006 05:29 PM EST --
I thought I’d completed the process of writing a book when my memoir, The Scent of God , was published by Counterpoint, NY, this April. I didn’t realize that the most arduous part of authorship . . .
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March 05, 2007 12:28 PM EST --
Just couldn't resist posting a few more photos of the incredible ice mountains formed last Thursday and Friday due to the blizzard on Lake Superior's North Shore. My hubby, Bill Christ, was in . . .
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April 15, 2008 12:31 PM EDT --
Travel, Grieving, the Writing Life, Book Reviews, Fictions, Random Musings, all my posts are here for your convenience, especially when the pull-down menus don't work. Please let me know if a link doesn't . . .
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September 30, 2008 11:45 PM EDT --
"Leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again." John Denver's lyrics waft through my mind as I return to Gather for an intense day of reading and commenting, only . . .
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November 15, 2006 12:41 PM EST --
I will be reading from my memoir, The Scent of God , at the Hennepin County Brookdale Library in Brooklyn Center MN on Tuesday, November 21, 7 pm.
I'd love to meet Gatherers in the area and am . . .
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April 18, 2007 08:05 AM EDT --
“Mommy, “ my children shouted as they careened breathlessly into the kitchen from outside. “Will there still be trees when we grow up?”
If they hadn’t been so . . .
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April 08, 2008 04:00 PM EDT --
Victims of sexual assault don't wear banners identifying them as such. They might be your neighbor, your son or daughter, the young child up the street. They don't want to be known as victims . . .
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October 03, 2006 06:54 PM EDT --
It looks like our old dog needs some encouragement to take a hike today but don't let appearances fool you. She's been barking her head off, so anxious she is to get going. It's just that sometimes . . .
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August 12, 2007 06:45 PM EDT --
There was a time when Ted could shimmy up trees with the best of them. He could gambol in play and run faster than others. Ted can no longer do these things because he weighs 900 lbs. Before you gasp in . . .
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August 29, 2007 07:14 PM EDT --
I live next to Lake Superior, the second largest fresh water lake in the world. Only Lake Baikal in Russia surpasses her -- not in size because Superior is 19,000 sq. miles larger, but in . . .
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October 24, 2007 01:36 PM EDT --
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-- or the Back Story behind becoming an author
My favorite past time as a child was sitting under the ping pong table over which I'd draped a cloth tent, reading. As a teen . . .
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January 28, 2007 08:56 PM EST --
I made a New Year’s resolution to spend Sundays as Sabbath days. I would worship, connect with family via phone or letter, and visit with friends on Gather. I would not work on my book, clean the . . .
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April 27, 2007 12:35 PM EDT --
Happy Arbor Day. Thought we'd honor the raggedy and lumpy as well as the gracious and lordly.
I was hiking with Shelby the other day and encountered a very unobservant grouse strutting . . .
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August 03, 2007 11:39 AM EDT --
Terminado. Finito. Finished! The final stop on my eleven week book blog tour. Were some of you wondering just how long this book blog tour would continue? Just how much more could you learn about a book . . .
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September 29, 2007 06:03 PM EDT --
The day the calendar announced fall’s arrival – a pounding rain doused the North Shore. The darkened, cloud-menacing sky that had hovered over the northland for two days sent waters gushing . . .
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