Tag: life
member name: Wilhelmine Estabrook
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December 12, 2009 08:14 AM EST --
Yesterday I threaded a needle. And I only have five little holes in my thumb to prove it. Then I programmed the answering machine. Today I will practice forging my own signature.
Forgive me if I brag, . . .
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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 30, 2009 08:46 PM EDT --
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October 13, 2008 06:36 AM EDT --
TODAY IS CANADA 'S THANKSGIVING
It looks like another fine day coming up. I have walked the dog, checked the computer for Robert's mail and am . . .
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October 15, 2008 12:48 PM EDT --
Autumn, with all its blazing beauty, its whispering winds and its dying leaves dramatically reminds me that time is passing. . . .
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March 27, 2009 08:19 AM EDT --
Some days with all the little irritations and aggravations of living with four cats, one dog and an elderly husband with COPD, I feel downright sorry for myself.
While everyone else in . . .
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March 01, 2009 01:50 PM EST --
Since Svetlana wrote such an awesome poem for International Women's Day on being a Russian woman, I decided to go another way and revive an old rap I wrote about my 70-year-old body.
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April 26, 2009 06:18 AM EDT --
(1500 words)
All my life‑‑at least since grade four‑‑I . . .
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April 29, 2009 08:16 AM EDT --
The new Carleton Nursing Home contains 90 beds. All are occupied, unless it is mealtime, bath time, or mid-afternoon when residents are wheeled to the central courtyard or one of the common rooms. . . .
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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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April 17, 2009 06:17 AM EDT --
Joyce studied her reflection in the bathroom mirror with all lights on. She loved that the unsightly mole was gone from . . .
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April 24, 2009 06:33 AM EDT --
Elizabeth Taylor and I have a lot in common. We're both female. We've both dreamed dreams and had them come true. We've both battled obesity, and lost. We've both had more . . .
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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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May 07, 2009 04:36 AM EDT --
(800 words)
"Have you been laying eggs on my desk all week?"
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March 06, 2009 03:33 PM EST --
On this March 8, International Women's Day, I ask all women, teenagers and precious girl children to repeat after me:
I am unique.
I am worthy.
I am a child of the universe. . . .
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July 16, 2009 09:37 AM EDT --
There are a lot of times when I can sit down and write something funny about my life and, believe me, a lot of weird things have been happening and I’ll come back to that another day.
My sad news . . .
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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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February 26, 2008 03:59 PM EST --
Some days I feel like my life has been erased. So many of the people, customs and landmarks of my childhood have disappeared, even from my memory.
The one-room school I attended was . . .
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