Tag: personal stories
member name: Cynthia C.
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July 06, 2006 08:39 AM EDT --
Richie Valens, The Chiffons, Lenny Welch, The Diamonds, Little Richard... this was the music that hit me between the ages of 12 and 14. When the hormones were ready to explode songs like "Come Go . . .
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February 10, 2006 07:55 PM EST --
We meet for dinner, Igo's on Mass.Ave. I'm struck by his vulnerability. He is sheepish. We talk for hours. He doesn't want to pressure me. (Just the fact that I'm there, I knew what was . . .
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June 04, 2006 10:08 AM EDT --
RG said "No dogs, no kids". The kids part was a joke. We both had adult children and I was beyond the age of possibility in that arena. But I wanted a dog. I went through phases. There was the . . .
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June 10, 2006 08:25 PM EDT --
Do you have a nail shop run by some Asian folks near you? In a three block stretch along Mass. Ave., near where I live in Cambridge, there are now three such nail "spas". There was one when we . . .
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June 24, 2006 05:47 PM EDT --
5% of patients with eating disorders die within five years of diagnosis. It is the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. An article about this appeared in a recent Boston Globe article. It said . . .
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July 03, 2006 08:06 PM EDT --
Their home on 198th Street in Queens had a sun porch the width of the house. My gram kept it full of plants, mostly two kinds, ferns, and something called "mother-in-law's tongue". Gram claimed . . .
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July 07, 2006 07:57 AM EDT --
Life was easier when I lied and cheated like a normal person.
Adding RG to my list of current intimate relationships was perfect. Now I had true happiness, nearly Nirvana. Three wonderful men. . . .
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May 10, 2006 07:49 AM EDT --
I discovered the wonders of make-up at the age of 13, the year before I discovered the wonders of sex. Whether one was contingent on the other, I'm not exactly sure but in my subconscious they are . . .
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May 16, 2006 06:55 AM EDT --
Is this a learned skill to be encouraged, a genetic trait that can't be helped, or a tendency that needs to be squelched when it pops up in your children?
For me, there is no doubt in my mind, I was . . .
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May 25, 2006 07:54 AM EDT --
My friend Alice B. is a documentary filmmaker. She embodies all the characteristics that my company looks for in the kinds of filmmakers we support, (dedicated to their craft, respectful of the subjects . . .
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May 29, 2006 12:51 PM EDT --
Stalking had not been anticipated. I thought Pete was just too laid back or that he simply no longer had the energy for such behavior. At this point I figured he'd be glad to be rid of me.
The telephone . . .
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June 05, 2006 07:34 AM EDT --
As someone whose job and company rests on a foundation of the importance of anthropology as a scientific field of study, it would be like shooting myself in the foot to even suggest that the whole endeavor . . .
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June 11, 2006 10:02 AM EDT --
Mom and Gram were both good cooks - not wildly creative, but they knew their way around a kitchen. Gram's cooking was touched by her German ancestry. She made things like sauerbraten; vinegar marinated . . .
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March 23, 2006 07:50 AM EST --
I'm standing with my luggage in what I hope is a conspicuous place. A few minutes later an attractive young (nearly everyone these days is looking "young" to me) woman comes charging through . . .
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June 13, 2006 07:15 AM EDT --
Being an only child is how I've always felt. But I'm not, I have a brother. He is nine years younger than me. The last time I had any substantive communication with him was at his wedding, July . . .
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May 05, 2006 07:44 AM EDT --
War has been a favorite subject of filmmakers since the discovery of film. It's been more than 50 years since the end of WWII and yet this war is still a staple of most of the programming on the History . . .
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May 13, 2006 09:32 AM EDT --
There is a particular kind of day, always in summer, when the sky is an overall grey, not a menacing grey that threatens an impending thunderstorm, but a light infused greyness that softly shields you . . .
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May 14, 2006 01:14 PM EDT --
Stories across six generations of mothers and daughters in my family has been a staple of my writing for the past 3 or 4 years. I have more than enough material now for a memoir, actually for 2 or . . .
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May 26, 2006 07:32 AM EDT --
My daughter and I were thinking of things we could do with the kids that would provide us all with some relief from the relentless heat. I think this is the most uncomfortable I've ever been in summer . . .
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June 03, 2006 09:46 AM EDT --
We both like Arlo and Janis, the comic strip by Jimmy Johnson. Some mornings RG has already cut it out of the paper and left it for me next to my coffee cup. Recently a strip showed Arlo and Janis sitting . . .
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