Tag: biography
group name: bioandautobio
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March 11, 2008 06:01 PM EDT --
Getting a busy signal again, I hung up the phone. It was a mid March day in the early 1980s, and I had been trying all evening to call my father long distance at his retirement residence in Michigan to . . .
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June 11, 2006 04:39 PM EDT --
Great great grandmother Esther was wild,
Never a husband, many a child.
When long in the tooth
She tarred her own roof.
Ain't nobody dared get her riled.
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February 12, 2008 09:33 PM EST --
Shuffling from one foot to the other, I stood uneasily staring into the corner of the room as punishment for talking during class. It was 1943, and I was in the first grade of Lutheran School in . . .
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June 06, 2007 03:44 PM EDT --
Yesterday was my third son's 25th birthday. Charlie
was given tickets to go see the Dead Sea scrolls
exhibit at KC's Union Station (now used as an
exhibition hall) and he was quite excited about . . .
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October 19, 2006 08:33 PM EDT --
"Can we go play now?"
More questions would come later. But at the time, this was the most pressing to my ten-year-old self.
It was a snowy Sunday night in January. We'd just come home from . . .
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February 26, 2007 09:15 PM EST --
On March 11, 1959, the curtains of the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City opened on A Raisin in the Sun, the first Broadway production written by an African-American woman (and directed by an African . . .
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June 09, 2007 12:05 PM EDT --
Charlie Dell was an engineer, a gun maker, a
shooter, an inventor, a traveler, a dog lover, an
experimenter, a mentor, a writer and a father.
Most of those things he did superlatively, . . .
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September 09, 2006 05:18 AM EDT --
As I write, I gaze from my open window towards the beautiful cerulean blue celestial sky. I see but one bright star shining its light upon me. I am reminded that light is an illumination, a pathway from . . .
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October 14, 2007 03:44 AM EDT --
Who is that girl I see
Staring straight back at me?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?...
Now just indulge me in this major Mulan moment.
If you just see how my gazes turn away or downward . . .
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September 16, 2006 04:12 AM EDT --
I remember his green eyes, beautiful aquiline nose, white skin, and big bushy afro. He was the handsomest man I had ever met. At 19-years-old, he still kept his boy-like appearance. When you looked into . . .
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May 29, 2006 12:22 AM EDT --
Name barely remembered
Face long forgotten
Removed by years and
Miles, crisscrossing the country
From job to job,
One tentative life to the next
Running from her youth
The family left behind . . .
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August 21, 2006 07:17 PM EDT --
Tiny toes, fat and stubby toes, they are connected to small little foot stubs not yet formed into the shape of the adult foot. These little toes experience the sensation of another's fingers . . .
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August 28, 2006 04:28 AM EDT --
If I could define just one quality that I like it would definitely be patience. Sometimes, I find there is a big discrepancy between what could be, and what is. I look at my life and I don't always . . .
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September 02, 2006 04:24 AM EDT --
written May 31, 2005
I just had a very bad exchange with an email correspondent. The details are not important; suffice to say I felt I was being a friend to this person. I was really trying to accommodate . . .
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September 13, 2006 04:47 AM EDT --
Right now I nurture the seedling of my dream when I do not linger on bad feelings and past hurts. I understand life has it series of ups and downs, and each bump in the road is a learning experience and . . .
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September 23, 2006 04:07 AM EDT --
Menarche is the first occurrence of menstruation at the onset of puberty. There are many statistics giving different age ranges for this, but basically it can happen between the ages of 8 and 16. I remember . . .
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August 26, 2006 06:09 AM EDT --
As a child there were several foods I never liked. It was not that I was a fussy eater; it was because I grew up poor and I was not exposed to a large variety of foods. My grandmother made sure I always . . .
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September 07, 2006 03:58 AM EDT --
Warm smiles, infectious laughter and love will change the very essence of me. It will change my outlook and my attitude towards life and all that it encompasses.
I do not find myself as a person who . . .
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September 10, 2006 03:54 AM EDT --
written February 2005
My heart is telling me it will all work out in the end. Yesterday I wrote about transcending my demon insecurities and to trust in the process; to trust in me. I want to elaborate . . .
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June 22, 2006 11:28 PM EDT --
PREVIOUSLY: "Paying Tribute to the Past"
Your family tree has been growing for generations, tall and strong, and you'll face a slow climb without a few tried and true genealogical practices. . . .
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