Tag: real life
member name: Rory M.
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June 19, 2007 10:30 PM EDT --
The little fixer-upper we bought when we moved to our quaint rural retreat sixteen years ago came with one distinct concern of which we were well aware: water.
Our house gets its water from a 400 foot . . .
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August 01, 2009 01:27 AM EDT --
As the United States once again suffers through the throws of a new round of debate over health care reform, the opponents of reform are resorting to their time honoured tactic of scaring the public . . .
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July 29, 2007 11:04 PM EDT --
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
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August 06, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
Everyone knows, from the endless movies and televisions shows and novels, of the American pioneering archetype: the cowboy. He was the white knight of the wild West and the wide open plains, . . .
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August 11, 2007 09:52 PM EDT --
The word "money" has uncertain etymological origins, though it is probably derived from the Latin (of course) moneta which was a title given to the Roman god Juno whose temple was near to the . . .
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October 03, 2007 10:24 PM EDT --
The American television network NBC recently carried a series entitle The Black Donnellys. One of the creators of the series (Paul Haggis) is a native of London, Ontario, a small Canadian city with . . .
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October 09, 2007 08:05 PM EDT --
(If you are a person who believes that every word in the Bible is literal truth and your mind is not open to other points of view or interpretations, then it is perhaps best if you do not read any further . . .
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July 05, 2007 11:32 PM EDT --
Mandy knew to the minute when she had first started to become suspicious: 12:43 p.m. last November 8th, a Thursday. She was running late, having intended to take a short lunch break. The sales guys were . . .
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November 19, 2007 02:01 PM EST --
The knee-jerk answer to this question, the one almost everyone gives without pausing even a micro-second to think about their response, the one on many people's lips much of the time, the one . . .
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May 13, 2009 10:58 PM EDT --
(With acknowledgement to William Blake, who wrote the original)
Tiger, tiger, dying light
in the forest, out of sight
what mortal hand and eye
dares decide that you must die
In . . .
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September 16, 2007 02:23 PM EDT --
We've all heard of WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants), or YUPpies (Young Urban Professionals) or of DINKs (Dual-Income, No Kids).
Well, I have a new social acronym, one I've created . . .
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June 28, 2009 12:14 AM EDT --
Michael Jackson and I were about the same age, he being a few months older than I am. Since I was a young child I have been hearing about Michael Jackson, about his impressive musical career, his . . .
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July 08, 2007 12:13 PM EDT --
The mid-life crisis has long been widely recognized as a common stage of maturity and growth in the lives of humans.
There comes a time when a person recognizes that the time remaining to them is likely . . .
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July 16, 2007 08:18 AM EDT --
What is Gather?
What does this cyber-community amount to?
There are many possible answers to these questions and many of them will be true even though they may seem contradictory. Because . . .
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July 26, 2007 09:39 PM EDT --
Often on Gather various people will post some kind of simple statement or elaborate essay outlining their position on a given issue or cultural phenomenon, staking out their position and inviting like . . .
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December 15, 2008 07:26 PM EST --
We have a weird attitude towards death in our culture. It seems as though we reject death as though it were something strange, something unusual, even something unnatural.
And yet, death is the most . . .
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September 24, 2007 06:56 PM EDT --
All new parents, when their child is born (usually in a hospital) should be given these instructions as the baby is placed in their arms:
Here is your new child, it is a wild animal that will act . . .
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May 02, 2008 10:44 PM EDT --
If I were to tell you that I was exceptionally tall you would not take this as a statement of conceit or hubris. Either it would be a factual statement or a delusional one. In person, you . . .
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May 17, 2008 10:04 AM EDT --
Words. They are very powerful things.
Of all the many inventions of human kind, words, sound that convey an endless range of meanings, must be amongst the most important. They can . . .
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May 18, 2008 09:34 AM EDT --
This is the second installment of this series in which I am paying homage to the words of other writers that have had an impact on me in my life. The first article in the series can be found here: . . .
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