Tag: lifestyle
member name: Linda Douglas
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September 01, 2006 03:21 AM EDT --
It is three o'clock in the morning and I feel like the only person in the world. There isn't even anyone on Gather right now that I can tell.
The birds are quiet, but my feline friends . . .
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May 29, 2006 12:58 PM EDT --
I have known for many years that I have an addictive personality. It has been a struggle at times to bring myself back to life after falling deep into addictive thinking and behavior. . . .
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May 03, 2006 01:46 PM EDT --
I woke this morning to the sound of the rain on the windows and the cars splashing on the wet highway near my apartment. The night had been a rough one. I had tossed and turned and fretted . . .
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June 03, 2006 01:13 PM EDT --
Splash and drip.
The rain falling again
on soaked grass,
filling creeks and rivers
lakes rising, roads wet.
Morning errands done
with raincoat and 'brella.
House chores done . . .
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June 16, 2006 09:09 AM EDT --
I am at work and I just got back from my morning walk. I found a great route that is basically a right hand turn out of the building and down Washington Street for a little less than a mile . . .
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August 05, 2006 07:36 AM EDT --
Help!! My head is spinning. I have a decision to make and it is making me crazy.
For twenty six years I lived in southeast Virginia while my parents lived in northern Wisconsin. . . .
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May 13, 2006 01:23 PM EDT --
The Poet Takes a Break
Don't expect any great words of longing out of me today
or prose that sings of the wonders of the world and its bounty.
My muse is shrouded in the mist like . . .
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May 30, 2006 08:26 PM EDT --
He had known for a while that he would be taking the trip sometime soon. He wasn't sure when. He just knew that there was no avoiding the inevitable and preparations might as well start . . .
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June 05, 2006 07:16 PM EDT --
Last week I admitted that I was addicted to television and that my life had become unmanageable. I am not making light of the 12 Step Program here. I am honest. I had become a slave to . . .
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August 13, 2006 01:42 PM EDT --
The sound of my fat cat, Leo, washing himself at the foot of my bed woke me around 7 a.m. this morning. The sun was shining and I wanted to go hiking so I got up and fixed some breakfast and checked . . .
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August 12, 2006 06:26 PM EDT --
Over the past few years I have noticed a rise in the number of medical intuitives. Carolyn Myss was one of the first persons who used her ability to psychically/intuitively diagnose a person's . . .
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May 06, 2006 04:19 PM EDT --
I think I have become a stalker.
It all started last year when I was researching southwest New Hampshire in preparation to move here. I had found a video on the Keene, New Hampshire . . .
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September 24, 2006 10:39 AM EDT --
The sun was still hiding behind fog and mist on this early Fall New England morning, but I knew there were babies at the farm and I needed to take pictures. I slipped on my barn boots and headed . . .
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March 11, 2006 04:41 PM EST --
As a woman of considerable size who likes to hike, I have found that the usual descriptions of trails do not quite relate the experience that I am going to have as compared to other hikers. In order . . .
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June 11, 2006 03:30 PM EDT --
The rain finally took a break today. I was elated. I didn't know what to do first. However, after a quick run into town to get a few groceries I realized that the wind was stirring . . .
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March 30, 2006 08:10 AM EST --
A Middle Aged Women Looks At the Headlines
Sometimes I just want to scream.
Three days before I turn fifty
I wake to find a headline about
actresses entitled "50-ish and Hot".
Please . . .
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May 29, 2006 12:17 PM EDT --
Waking up on warm summer mornings to the sound of birds in the big pine tree outside my window brings to mind the small farm on which my family lived when I was in grade school. It was not a large . . .
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July 08, 2006 08:23 PM EDT --
Since many of you were so kind in your encouragement a couple of weeks ago I want to update you on the progress of my new resolve.
I am surprised at the diligence at which I am sticking to my new program. . . .
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March 08, 2006 09:45 PM EST --
I want to smile at brown eyed Italian men as I shop for fresh herbs, olives and bread on the streets of Florence.
I want to gaze at Michelangelo's David and compare him to all the men I have ever . . .
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March 26, 2006 09:54 AM EST --
Soft Morning
Morning comes slowly on a Sunday.
Eyes open to the sound of cats chattering in windows,
calling to birds singing in a pine tree.
Bands of light creep across floorboards and between curtains, . . .
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