Tag: family
member name: elizabeth e.
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December 25, 2007 11:10 PM EST --
It's the afternoon of Christmas Eve and I sit here at the computer. If I look out into the living room I see a well decorated fir tree with wrapped presents underneath. The stockings are hanging by . . .
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April 02, 2007 02:41 AM EDT --
H.P. died yesterday morning. I did not mourn him though maybe I should have since he has been my companion for the past five years come this May. But the decision had to be made. Over . . .
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July 12, 2007 09:19 PM EDT --
This past week I have been making runs to my sister's cranberry bogs on the other side of Carver for aged manure. Anne and her husband own acres and acres of cranberry bogs and in one of the . . .
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July 18, 2007 07:08 AM EDT --
As you enter Uncle Charlie's Garden all your senses are immediately bombarded...the colors, the sounds of buzzing bees and then of course, there's the scent....the scent of a garden that has reached . . .
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April 29, 2007 09:10 PM EDT --
Today I had a lovely afternoon with my Mom. My Mom turned 90 in January and since her retirement from the Old Colony Memorial Newspaper two years ago due to an injured knee, she doesn't get out much. . . .
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June 10, 2007 08:44 AM EDT --
Over the past several months since becoming active on Gather, I have noticed the icons of many people... for the most part they represent the person they want to be or the thing that they most value . . .
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June 13, 2007 07:27 AM EDT --
As I was rummaging around Mom's house I came upon this picture and I smiled. Yes, those were the days...spontaneous summer days where the neighborhood children were allowed to be free and create . . .
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February 24, 2009 08:38 AM EST --
It has been a very cold,windy, snowy winter here in Massachusetts. As I shoveled out after every snowstorm all I could think about was come February vacation, a week-long trip to Florida would be . . .
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February 23, 2007 11:34 AM EST --
Only that morning I had taken a cab home from the BIA Public Health Hospital in Bethel, the largest Yu'pik community in Southwestern Alaska. With me was my two . . .
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May 13, 2007 11:55 AM EDT --
Two days before Mother's Day, I called my older sister Fran and asked her what we were doing for Mother's Day for our 90 year old Mom. It was a ruse...unknown to Fran, her husband Fred was . . .
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July 08, 2007 09:50 PM EDT --
Today we are going to drop in on my cousin Terry and his partner Gino for tea at their old-fashion Cape Cod home. In our family, you never have to call and say your visiting...you just show up...and . . .
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May 19, 2008 07:11 AM EDT --
Everyday at 10 o'clock, coffee and donuts are served in the Big Room at Newfield House, the facility where both my Uncle Charlie and my Mom are residents. Uncle Charlie has been at Newfield for . . .
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July 01, 2007 05:12 PM EDT --
This morning we arose early and headed south to Bourne to feed and water a friend's kitties...all eight of them. Actually one of them she received from us four years ago when our Holly Go Lightly . . .
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May 14, 2008 07:06 AM EDT --
She looks at me
with questioning eyes
and then turns away.
Was it not just yesterday
she was a child of six
with plaited braids down
her back going off to school?
And where is the girl, . . .
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November 01, 2008 05:24 PM EDT --
It's been a long, long time since I have gone out on Halloween Night and so Papa and I were delighted last week when Lena and Paul asked Papa and I to join them and go trick a treatin' with Julia . . .
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May 06, 2007 09:44 PM EDT --
When I was growing up, I never understood why Mom seemed to know everyone and everyone seemed to know her. To me, she was the person who made me tuna fish sandwiches every school day because I hated . . .
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June 25, 2008 09:16 PM EDT --
"Bob, I can't wait to hear what your father will say if he heard you right now? A young woman doesn't go traipsing around the world to meet someone you don't even know? I'm going . . .
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October 31, 2008 11:16 PM EDT --
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays...actually, it is my very favorite holiday. I love the whole idea of ghosts and goblins and witches and vampires and as a result I like to make it a special . . .
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April 22, 2007 08:54 AM EDT --
My name is Tucker Evans and with my Mistress Elizabeth I am celebrating Earth Day, 2007 by a romp in my favorite woods...the woods behind my house. Right now we are at the top of a big hill overlooking . . .
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March 18, 2007 09:48 AM EDT --
In June I received an email from my good friend Harry (Ann Harrington), my room-mate from the year I spent in a Jesuit mission in a Yu'pik community. She wrote that our fellow volunteer, Mary . . .
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