Tag: a stranger in the land where i was born
member name: Stephen Schneider
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August 28, 2006 12:14 PM EDT --
As summer begins to wind down, I realize that I haven't published anything on gather in the last month. In fact, I haven't spent much time here at all.
As weird as it was, it seems to have gotten . . .
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December 20, 2006 02:02 PM EST --
I thought that it would be easy to ignore Christmas. My monastic life needs little decoration. My shopping list down to one, my daughter, and I send her what she can use most, money.
Then I noticed the . . .
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December 12, 2006 02:11 PM EST --
I awoke this morning to a rare occurrence here in New Mexico, freezing fog. In Michigan this could be a problem, here it just means a wait until the sun comes up strong. The sun actually works here . . .
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December 21, 2006 01:29 PM EST --
Memories of Christmas past keep flowing. From both sides of the Santa clause. I can remember nearly every Christmas morning from my childhood. The nearly mystical glow of the nights peering from my window . . .
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October 03, 2006 02:52 PM EDT --
It began simply enough. The next door neighbor was having problems with a clogged sewer.
I would see him out at the cleanout with a snake at times. Sometimes it was a water pressure type snake. He would . . .
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December 10, 2006 12:43 PM EST --
My one-year anniversary here at gather passed on Monday. I had planned on posting something, but unfortunately, had nothing to say. Such has been primarily the case for the last five months.
A writer’s . . .
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January 29, 2007 02:26 PM EST --
As I move into the second month of my resolution to lose all of the weight I’ve gained in my adult life, I’m starting to get cranky.
Every time that gushing woman in the Nutrisystem ad shouts . . .
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December 31, 2006 01:03 PM EST --
A very dear friend has come to visit for the holidays. I’ve held this friend close to me since I was a very young man. After all of the friends and lovers have slipped softly into the past, only . . .
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January 02, 2007 01:34 PM EST --
I spent an unusual day yesterday watching the marathon rebroadcast of NBC’s reality series, “The Biggest Loser.” Seeing as finally losing all of the weight I’ve added in my adult . . .
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March 09, 2007 09:31 PM EST --
It was the eyes all along. His vision of the universe was reflected in those eyes. When Boopy looked at you, you knew that you were his expression of the universe. You were very important. You knew he . . .
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June 11, 2006 09:32 AM EDT --
Once again I wake up to an America I can not recognize. Shocked this week by the release by my government of pictures of a dead man in some exultation or hope his death means more than that he is dead. . . .
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March 19, 2007 03:55 PM EDT --
As a harbinger of Spring, I have converted my spare bedroom into a nursery.
For plants that is. I’m putting winter behind me as soon as I can and trying to get a jumpstart on my garden this year. . . .
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