Tag: travel
member name: elizabeth e.
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February 10, 2007 09:12 PM EST --
One frigid night in Fairbanks, Alaska, with the northern lights dancing in the sky, I, along with my husband Bill, were on our way to the Cathredral on Peger Street to . . .
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June 03, 2007 12:59 AM EDT --
"So Bob, would you like to have afternoon tea at the Empress Hotel. It's quite expensive, but well worth it. The treat is on Harry and me....you'll just love it, coming from New . . .
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March 11, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
It was the summer of '69 and I had flown home to Massachusetts from Alaska where I had been a Jesuit Volunteer. The previous winter I had spent at St. Mary's Mission as a high school teacher. . . .
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March 22, 2007 11:09 PM EDT --
Several weeks ago I commented on an article written by Cynthia about a commune in Austria. In the article she mentioned taking a steam bath and it brought back a flood of memories of my own cleansing . . .
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July 27, 2007 07:36 AM EDT --
I love being an active member of Gather...not only is it a place to meet and connect with new people, it is also a site where you can experiment with your own writing and where you can stretch your imagination . . .
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January 03, 2008 09:06 PM EST --
The other day my sister gave me a gift. No, it wasn't wrapped up in holiday paper nor tied with a bow; but rather the gift of a day to ramble in a land I did not know. Being four years older, Fran . . .
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July 17, 2009 07:12 AM EDT --
Wednesday morn, 4:45 A.M.
"Fran, wake up. Listen, I'm going to throw on some clothes and walk down to the center. I want to see what Commercial Street looks like at dawn. I couldn't . . .
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June 09, 2007 06:04 PM EDT --
In the summer, I along with several friends journey to Wellfleet, Massachusetts for a two week sojourn to replenish our soul. I am an early riser and usually leave the Victorian house on Commercial . . .
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June 25, 2007 01:48 AM EDT --
Yesterday Papa and I attended the Flye Point Folk Festival on the grounds of the "Look-out", an old country inn in Brooklin, Maine. Last night I posted an article about the festival and . . .
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August 07, 2007 07:54 PM EDT --
This summer, I, Ophelia discovered Kurt Vonnecut. You see, Mistress Elizabeth was embarrassed when Kurt died this Spring and everyone on Gather was paying tribute to this famous writer and she hadn't . . .
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February 18, 2008 05:04 PM EST --
This morning I chanced upon a wonderful article " Tracker" by Barbary Chaapel. It was about an outstanding detective who goes to any lengths to track down his subject. Like Sherlock . . .
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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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August 13, 2007 07:23 AM EDT --
Last week I was invited by my sister Fran to come up to Ogunquit, Maine, a lively fishing village only an hour drive north from Boston. For the past twenty-five years, Fran and her family have called . . .
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August 14, 2007 11:39 AM EDT --
Last week our Ozzie friend Magi the magical poet wrote a poem about all the various kinds of people that can be found on the "Oz Beach". In a comment to the Magi, I told the poet . . .
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April 18, 2007 12:03 AM EDT --
Another cold, windy, drizzily night and as I sit down at my computer, with a piece of ricotta pie to keep me company, I think about today and the friendship that was born. Several weeks ago I commented . . .
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August 15, 2007 08:47 AM EDT --
Last week for several days I was up in Ogunquit, Maine staying with my sister Fran and our 90 year old mother. On Wednesday, early in the morn, after a stroll on the Marginal Way, we went back to . . .
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May 04, 2008 08:18 AM EDT --
It's been over a week since I left Faith at the Airport in Pensacola at 5 A.M. in the morning. I needed to rush back to Massachusetts and get my house in order before school resumed on Monday . . .
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May 09, 2008 07:02 AM EDT --
Listen closely to the lapping of the river
and the swaying of the Spanish moss
in the large oak trees and you may smell
the campfires of some Apalachee Indians
or the hammering of New England . . .
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June 20, 2007 11:45 AM EDT --
" Hey Auntie Anne, you and Duffy can go to Ireland over April vacation...don't cancel cuz of me. I'm going to have this bone marrow transplant on my birthday and I'll be good to . . .
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August 19, 2007 06:36 AM EDT --
On Thursday Papa, Nick, my lifelong friend from college and myself ventured down to Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge in Middletown, R.I. to do some hiking by the sea. When we arrived we were surprised . . .
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