Tag: humor
member name: Wilhelmine Estabrook
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December 05, 2009 08:18 PM EST --
It wouldn’t be true to say I suffered a stroke September 1. I didn’t really suffer--except the few times when I raised my arm and my hand came back and hit me in the face, or I tripped or . . .
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September 12, 2008 05:02 PM EDT --
Having already used up my three score and ten, mostly on trivia, I resolved on my 70th birthday to spend at least two . . .
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October 31, 2008 10:52 AM EDT --
DRIVERS, BEWARE,
Tonight's Halloween.
Parents, make sure
Your kids can be seen.
Be prepared . . .
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May 08, 2009 05:56 AM EDT --
I'm feeling a bit scattered this morning so, herewith, some word soup. (900 words to be exact.)
= = = = = = . . .
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March 26, 2008 11:27 AM EDT --
Hattie was a hypochondriac. For over 50 years she had symptoms of every devastating disease known to man, or concocted by the pharmaceutical companies. She had a knack for swooning. . . .
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December 22, 2008 01:52 PM EST --
Down from the Arctic the wind was sweeping the day the cow fell in the . . .
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October 17, 2008 12:56 PM EDT --
The residents of Creepy Cavern were in a dreadful pickle. Halloween was looming and everyone was down in the grumps. The apparition and the specter were both . . .
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October 23, 2008 05:02 PM EDT --
When a member of our family puts a lot of thought and effort into a project that goes awry, she will usually remark: . . .
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October 02, 2008 11:53 AM EDT --
The brook near my house. When Kathryn Esplin Oleski, in an essay on Gather a few years ago, described me as someone who "wrote about family," I stayed miffed for a week. I mean, . . .
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May 02, 2009 05:50 AM EDT --
When you get past a certain age (said she, coyly) the whole world conspires to keep you humble...and confused. And if . . .
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May 05, 2009 07:13 AM EDT --
Awaking late this morning, a whole hour late in fact, I instantly ran into a number of roadblocks. Someone was already in the washroom . . .
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May 14, 2009 06:55 AM EDT --
Thirty days, thirty stories was the goal I set for myself back in April, and today's essay will be the last one for . . .
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April 14, 2009 08:04 AM EDT --
(I have resolved to write a short story a day. Here's a short short. Critiques are most welcome.)
Ed Zarowski had his new ten-passenger van totally under control. . . .
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April 15, 2009 08:44 AM EDT --
Entering the funeral parlor, Marlene Taylor joined the line and moved along slowly. She . . .
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March 25, 2008 08:26 AM EDT --
Billy Pope died on March 20. He was 80 years old. I'd known him and corresponded with him for 17 years. Let me . . .
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November 13, 2008 02:23 PM EST --
After placing eight eggs in a pan of water to boil and setting the timer, I dropped the empty egg carton on the floor and stomped it. Picking up the flattened egg carton, I tossed it in the trash . . .
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August 21, 2008 02:49 PM EDT --
In a few days I will be 70 years old. This means I've been taught a few lessons by that stern, . . .
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July 27, 2008 01:30 PM EDT --
It's been said that time passes faster the older one becomes. At nearly 70, I'm here to tell you that's . . .
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April 20, 2009 09:30 PM EDT --
At dinner the other night my husband Robert Nielsen and I were entertaining each other with battle stories from our days in the newspaper business. We recalled the many times some . . .
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March 01, 2008 05:09 AM EST --
For Carolyn M.
It occurred to me this morning while in the shower that maybe I didn't really waste all those years of youth, beauty, and energy. Those years are some of my best memories; . . .
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