Tag: writing
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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December 11, 2009 11:34 AM EST --
Silent snow
weight makes trees bow low
in submission to the old man's blow
You can listen to the rhythm of the falling rain
hear its gentle pitter patter
but when old man winter rages . . .
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September 08, 2007 11:55 PM EDT --
My Mom is a stalker.
She follows me everywhere I go.
When I’m playing in the back yard, she watches me through the slats on the blind. She thinks I can’t see her, but I can.
She drives me . . .
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September 09, 2007 12:16 AM EDT --
When Janice woke up, everything seemed the same. Her same old slippers were lying on the floor beside her bed, same as always. Her same old bathrobe was hanging on the end of her bed, just the same as . . .
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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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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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February 11, 2009 10:11 PM EST --
I remember my father saying that a man does his best work in his 40s. I guess I'm fucked, then.
If my best work is behind me then there are a lot of things I would have liked to accomplish that . . .
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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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November 22, 2007 11:30 AM EST --
I am not in the habit of reading books authored by American political figures. Though I have read two of former President Jimmy Carter's books, I am not drawn to partisan writings on politics in . . .
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January 18, 2009 12:27 AM EST --
The sun beat down relentlessly on the cracked blacktop of the parking lot of the run down shopping mall. Shimmering waves of heat rising off the asphalt made anything more than fifty feet away seem to . . .
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December 23, 2006 12:02 AM EST --
I have been a writer and an actor my entire adult life, and even through my teen years. I began writing at age twelve and acting at age thirteen. I am not rich or famous as a result of either pursuit, . . .
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June 18, 2007 01:09 AM EDT --
Back on July 18th, 2006 I was invited by a friend now living abroad to join Gather, where we could keep in touch and also enjoy the broader community that was gathering on this website.
Those were heady . . .
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