Tag: people
member name: Ann Weaver Hart
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May 19, 2007 05:07 PM EDT --
Geez. I'm tempted to give you five qualities about which I am positive, but here goes.
1. I'm loyal. It's pretty simple, I don't turn my back on people, friends, neighbors, family. Couldn't . . .
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August 02, 2007 03:57 PM EDT --
The first time I traveled very far into Mexico, I did it for the sole purpose of demonstrating to my children that "poor" is in the eye of the beholder. What I discovered is that it is also largely . . .
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August 18, 2007 01:21 PM EDT --
I recently attended a family reunion, where I paid my respects to the older generation and joined them in welcoming the younger one. Our newest member is Riley John Tyler, which is a fairly euphonous name, . . .
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January 08, 2008 11:15 AM EST --
The Mother of my dear husband has come to live with us. I highly recommend such an arrangement for anyone actively seeking spiritual growth.
If that sounds like a sideways slam at my mother-in-law, . . .
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May 21, 2007 12:02 PM EDT --
If you are wondering what a Word Geek is, it's a person with an obscene amount of verbal intelligence. For an idea about the kinds of things they think about and know, see my article, Confessions of . . .
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May 11, 2007 02:42 PM EDT --
Here is one of those questions I'll have to put in the "Glad I don't have to answer it" column, but I can't get it off my mind for other reasons.
Emilio Gonzalez is a terminally . . .
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October 29, 2007 10:02 PM EDT --
I'd like to introduce one of my oldest and dearest friends, Anne Burgin Diallo. She joined Gather a few months ago, because I recommended it, and she's beginning to get a feel for the place. . . .
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October 30, 2007 09:22 AM EDT --
We're thinking that my mother-in-law may be coming to live with us temporarily in the near future. I'm thinking of ways to make that work.
Having had grown children move back in, I have . . .
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October 20, 2007 02:25 AM EDT --
Carol D.'s very amusing article about Gun Control reminded me of this true story from Smithville, Texas, famous for. . . well, honestly, nothing, but home to some amusing if not terribly bright . . .
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June 15, 2007 01:01 PM EDT --
Everybody who has kids has had to watch them make mistakes. Some are really hard to watch, and you really hate the idea that it's going to be, well, ugly. Other times, well. . .
It was a cute hairdo. . . .
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August 20, 2007 09:12 AM EDT --
Israel says it will no longer accept refugees from the Sudan who sneak across the border into that country from Egypt. The refugees will be returned to Egypt. The Israelis claim that country has agreed . . .
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May 13, 2007 02:55 PM EDT --
It seems to be a fundamental truth for me that the more I attach to a particular outcome of a situation, the less likely it is to turn out the way I want it to. Conversely, the less attached I am to seeing . . .
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June 10, 2007 03:52 PM EDT --
I have had a teenager in my home for more than 12 years. Sometimes it feels like it must be karmic retribution for having been a Nazi war criminal in a previous life. Other times, I know I'll miss . . .
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June 15, 2007 06:47 PM EDT --
The points-for-pics thing did some really nice thngs for me besides the points, and I just want to thank Gather, and all of you Gatherans.
First of all, I love seeing all of your pictures. It's a . . .
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July 29, 2007 06:07 PM EDT --
The word maze doesn't even begin to describe Guanajuato.
We got a map when we got here, first thing, figuring that the local people must tire of telling people where the Centro or the Mercado . . .
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August 10, 2007 11:37 AM EDT --
Back in 1938, the German people were sick and tired of being sick and tired. They had had their traditional monarchical government forcibly removed and replaced with what appeared to them to be an impractical, . . .
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December 20, 2007 01:04 AM EST --
Or if you do, buy it in July, and give it on Christmas.
Everybody is busy this time of year. Things seemed like they were on the right track. And then everything went retrograde in squares, as they . . .
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December 30, 2007 11:58 AM EST --
How can you stand her? The aunt/cousin/uncle/mother/father/drama queen relative rears his or her ugly head, and we ask that question. This is how I figure it:
Ninety-nine percent of the time, the problem . . .
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January 01, 2008 02:31 AM EST --
I'm not going to loose weight, or exercise more, or make more money or get a better job. There is nothing wrong with those things. I might even do them. But this year, I have a resolution that I don't . . .
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May 11, 2007 10:56 AM EDT --
Half-a-dozen times over the last 10 years, I have found myself going head-to-head with some authority figure over one of my children. Usually, I'd look at them and fold. After all, they were the professionals. . . .
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