Tag: family
member name: Cynthia C.
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December 12, 2009 12:22 PM EST --
It's been well over a year since I posted anything on Gather. It was as though, after the election, and Obama actually took the oath of office, I experienced a period of political withdrawal pains. . . .
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August 18, 2006 06:55 PM EDT --
While the religious right eats away at the edges of American culture I had thought their influence on education, particularly science education, was confined, primarily to Kansas, where we get to watch . . .
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September 01, 2008 05:54 PM EDT --
I heard it on NPR, then I went to the blog-o-syphere for confirmation and SURE ENOUGH, much to my wonder, (I thought it was some hurtful rumor from the nasty liberal left) IT'S TRUE!!! Not only is . . .
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August 18, 2006 08:19 AM EDT --
It's only been a few hours since some fast acting doctors saved my life. Robin, Bill, RG and his new friend hung around my bedside for awhile. It's now evening. Visiting hours are over. Everyone . . .
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August 31, 2006 08:02 AM EDT --
Not only is this possible, if you could read people's minds, I'd bet you would find this is the norm rather than the exception to the rule. Wouldn't you really rather have all the people that . . .
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April 15, 2007 02:36 PM EDT --
We try to ignore it as we go about the humdrum routines of our daily life, those routines that help us feel all is comfortingly "normal". But suddenly (even if we know it's coming, when it . . .
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April 20, 2007 12:02 AM EDT --
My birthday. The 40th year of my life. Picasso's birthday too, same day, different year. I look at the number and it seems impossible. How could I have gotten that old already? I used to think 40 was . . .
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August 12, 2007 10:56 AM EDT --
During WWII, as B17 pilot at the age of 19, I doubt my Dad felt like he was dying. Although death stalked him every time he got into the cockpit of that plane the few photos I have of him from that time . . .
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August 24, 2006 08:43 AM EDT --
It was around midnight last night when I asked RG to take Cassidy for her final walk of the day. The downstairs door had barely slammed shut when I knew a disaster had occurred. Our entire apartment, plus . . .
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September 04, 2006 03:57 PM EDT --
When my husband, Pete was the track coach and sports information director at MIT (this was in the 1970's), his boss, the head of the Athletic Department, led two lives. We were the only couple on his . . .
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November 01, 2007 08:25 AM EDT --
Seems hard to fathom, how many are there, deep in the most conservative bowels of the Republican party, how many Gay guys in total denial? Or perhaps they are just schizophrenic. That seems to make more . . .
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December 13, 2007 06:34 AM EST --
The green glass ball was the size of a very large grapefruit. It was an odd, sort of warm shade of green with hints of gold and surprisingly heavy, which implies a certain robust quality that may help . . .
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July 16, 2006 06:53 AM EDT --
A talented young filmmaker called me the other day to discuss a new project he's developing about the relationship of humans to their dogs. When I'm in Maine next week to teach my class on the . . .
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August 14, 2006 07:37 PM EDT --
Pregnancy was a condition I tried to avoid but my body would thwart me. The only truly, 100% successful form of birth control that I had experience with was THE PILL. It protected me throughout my sexually . . .
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October 21, 2006 01:51 PM EDT --
Two stories, a few pages apart in today's New York Times brings home, yet again, the complete moral and ethical blindness, in concert with the Republican Party, of the Catholic Church. All decisions . . .
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August 12, 2006 10:08 AM EDT --
At 14 Erika was a stunner. She was my daughter, and I didn't see it coming. I figured it out when we would walk down the street together and I saw guys swivel their heads so far around I thought they'd . . .
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August 31, 2008 11:01 AM EDT --
The dust has hardly settled from McCain's announcement of political novice and former failed beauty queen as his Vice Presidential running mate, when we are learning more than we even want to know . . .
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September 02, 2006 06:13 PM EDT --
The east entrance to Yellowstone Park is 52 miles from Cody. The legend of Buffalo Bill, cowboys and Indians, and RG's brothers and sister awaited me there. RG's mom was driving and we would take . . .
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April 06, 2007 08:39 AM EDT --
Who among us has not been touched by cancer? It seems to be one of those things that is so intimately a part of being human that it is everywhere, all the time. In order to function, we need to either . . .
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April 15, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
Last night was the first night in a week that RG and I did not go running. There was no time, I had to get ready for my date with Bill. For the past 15 years he's been the head Art Director at a major . . .
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