Tag: life
group name: posterpointchild
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January 24, 2008 05:40 PM EST --
I have been waiting for some time now for Azure to show off her great photos. She has taken some of my favorite family photos, she has a nack for getting just the right shot. A childs expression . . . more
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February 04, 2008 09:25 AM EST --
"You can make more friends in two months by becomimg interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you"
Dale Carnegie
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March 03, 2008 07:44 AM EST --
"There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish." . . . more
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January 13, 2008 03:04 PM EST --
Yesterday while I was on my computer checking my emails, my 5 year old comes up and says,"Mommy, I know how you got me." That got my attention. I asked him how did he think his daddy and I got . . . more
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March 11, 2008 11:28 PM EDT --
My entry into the "Money for Nothing" Poetry Contest. One of my "written in 15 minutes flat" poems. If this one doesn't work, I hope I'm allowed to enter more than once: . . . more
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May 06, 2008 01:51 PM EDT --
My spouse & kids & I were out on the front lawn playing baseball the other day. And some people were moving in next door.
My wife has this awful couch that we all hate -- it's this nasty . . . more
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February 01, 2008 07:47 AM EST --
I love those "Today in History" posts that many people put here on Gather. I'd like to show the flip side a bit too though. There is a site that dedicates itself to "Rotten History" . . . more
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March 08, 2008 01:17 AM EST --
"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones."
St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582).
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March 21, 2008 07:30 AM EDT --
A man with a pegleg, hook hand and an eyepatch went to apply to be a pirate.
Interviewer: How did you get that pegleg?
Pirate: Arrr. I got me leg shot off during the first world war.
Interviewer: . . . more
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February 18, 2008 08:51 AM EST --
Here is a great website I found. Type in your area and find registered sex offenders, where they live and work. It shows their addresses, names, and pictures so that you can show your children . . . more
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January 23, 2008 08:03 AM EST --
Henry Giles:
"A song will outlive all sermons in the memory."
Aldous Huxley:
"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Oscar Hammerstein: . . . more
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January 31, 2008 08:45 PM EST --
I don't do this often, in fact I think that I have never done it before during my hundreds of years here on Gather! ;-) There are exceptions to all things though and this is one of them.
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February 02, 2008 05:11 PM EST --
Here is today's installment! Some interesting things happened on Groundhog Day through the years!
Feb 2 1852
The first public toilet is inaugurated, located at 95 Fleet . . . more
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February 03, 2008 02:39 PM EST --
Feb 3 1882
P.T. Barnum purchases the elephant Jumbo. He keeps him for three years until the animal's skull is crushed by a train. After his death, Jumbo gets extra exposure, as his stuffed skin . . . more
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February 04, 2008 07:45 AM EST --
Feb 4 1783
A large earthquake in Calabria Italy leaves 50,000 dead.
Feb 4 1899
On patrol in the city of Manila, Private William Grayson shoots three Filipino soldiers when they fail . . . more
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February 06, 2008 08:15 AM EST --
Feb 6 1998
Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7 years
Feb 6 1997
Diane Blood, 32, in . . . more
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February 08, 2008 09:50 AM EST --
Feb 8 1861
Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Alabama. Effectively marking the start of what would lead to the war of Americans fighting other Americans.
Feb 8 . . . more
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February 09, 2008 03:53 PM EST --
Just in case I don't get a chance to do a Sunday edition (hey, sometimes I actually do have a life;-) I thought I would put up two days today!
Feb 9 1895
Volley Ball was invented . . . more
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February 10, 2008 10:48 AM EST --
A cab driver reaches the Pearly Gates and announces his presence to St. Peter, who looks him up in his Big Book. Upon reading the entry for the cabbie, St. Peter invites him to pick up a silk robe and . . . more
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February 12, 2008 08:24 AM EST --
Feb 12 1554
The sixteen year old Lady Jane Grey, puppet Queen of England for nine days, beheaded in the Tower of London. Questions arose as to where to bury this semi-queen, until it was decided . . . more
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