Tag: triple name club
member name: Beryl Singleton Bissell
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September 19, 2008 09:41 PM EDT --
Drinking from the Saucer by Charlene C. Duline is a fascinating memoir of a strong-headed, devout, and idealistic young black American woman who was among the first volunteers to join the Peace . . .
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April 14, 2009 10:33 AM EDT --
My husband Bill is noise sensitive. Sounds of traffic, noise from factories, lawn equipment and machinery drive him batsy. I, on the other hand, having spent many years in a cloistered monastery on a . . .
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September 16, 2009 01:49 PM EDT --
Assisi: parking ticket and all
We came to Assisi seeking St. Francis and Clare. We found them. We found, as well, a greeting from the Assisi police: a parking ticket. Parking in Assisi . . .
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January 27, 2009 11:36 AM EST --
"What is it you REALLY believe?" asked a friend in her weekly email "On the Waterline."
She posted the question two days ago and I am still pondering the thought. What . . .
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January 17, 2009 07:09 PM EST --
We left Rome for Naples on my birthday, October 10, 2008. This was not a wholly good idea, unless one thrives on travel tension. The day started off innocently enough when we took a taxi to the Termini . . .
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May 28, 2007 08:32 PM EDT --
The Liar’s Diary: A Book Review
Gather keeps getting better. I keep bumping into fine writers that I hadn’t encountered before and a growing number of outstanding authors. Often these . . .
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July 19, 2007 01:41 PM EDT --
Actually, I almost leapt the wall but I didn't. If I'd pictured a cozy retreat where I didn't have to talk and could just moon around being thoughtful I was sadly but wondrously mistaken. This . . .
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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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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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July 04, 2007 05:06 PM EDT --
"Get thee to a monastery!" -- does anyone know the actual source of this quote? -- there are thousands of articles with that quotation but none I can find that attribute the quote to its . . .
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September 19, 2007 11:41 AM EDT --
Yesterday was the 6th anniversary of the death of my 24-year-old daughter, Francesca. I am reposting an article I originally published on Gather December 2005
My Runaway Girl
I no longer . . .
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October 03, 2007 10:31 PM EDT --
For months I counted down the days until Ann Patchett's newest book Run arrived in my mailbox. When it arrived I immediately set aside what I was doing and lost myself in the joy of her story-telling. . . .
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November 19, 2008 04:05 PM EST --
When my hubby Bill surprised me with tickets to Italy to celebrate our 12 wedding anniversary and suggested that I plan the trip as I “knew Italy,” I thought “Oh my! Did I still “know” Italy 30 years . . .
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December 16, 2008 10:38 PM EST --
Normally, while trudging through the deep sand along Lake Worth’s beach, we encounter lots of man-made debris cast up on shore by Atlantic’s waves along with slimy seaweed, tortured driftwood, . . .
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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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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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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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