Tag: life
member name: Len Maxwell
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August 18, 2009 03:01 PM EDT --
I’m just being nosy, but do you have a tool drawer in your kitchen?
For as long as I can remember every house in which I’ve lived had a tool drawer in the kitchen. For some reason it was . . .
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August 23, 2009 01:56 PM EDT --
Before I get to the main point I need to explain a couple of problems that led to my posting this.
My current home was a bank repo when I bought it last December. In order to make it look habitable . . .
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December 03, 2009 12:36 PM EST --
Prompt: Create a holiday newsletter based on fact or fiction, but keep humor as your underlying theme.
Hi everyone,
Sammy and Tammy bringing you this year’s Christmas . . .
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September 19, 2009 06:11 PM EDT --
Today waqs Take Dad to Work Day Part II for my oldest son, Greg. He talked to me yesterday and we agreed on it and he picked mye up around 7:30. Drove to his jobsite and started in. Back in 2006 he draggd . . .
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September 01, 2009 05:55 PM EDT --
I have made many comments here on Gather about the fact that we don’t really have seasons here in SoCal. That’s true from the standpoint that we don’t have the seasons that many other . . .
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September 27, 2009 03:20 PM EDT --
Once again work has interruped my fun. I haven’t had time to do a freewrite the past two days, so here is one of my old stories.
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Arms loaded with firewood, Kurt pushed open the door to . . .
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November 27, 2009 02:59 PM EST --
To explain what I did, I need to take you back about twenty years. My wife and I had separated and my friend Dave, having an empty bedroom, invited me to move in. I never noticed, prior to that, how . . .
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December 10, 2009 06:20 PM EST --
It was 1955 when I learned to not take dares. I was one of those kids who would do anything... everything you wanted if you only prefaced it with, “I dare you.”
“You’re . . .
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October 17, 2009 03:37 PM EDT --
I never really thought about change because my life has been filled with it. I didn’t have massive changes in my early life -- not like a lot of kids. We moved to a new house when I was about . . .
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December 15, 2009 04:50 PM EST --
Pirates with eye patches. Buried treasure. Maps where X marks the spot. Nearly every pirate was said to have a treasure map showing where he had hidden his plunder. You can pretend you have managed . . .
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November 27, 2009 05:36 PM EST --
I know! It’s early for Christmas stories, but if you decide to do what I’m describing, you’re going to need some time to plan.
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The neighborhood was nearly silent as I watched . . .
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May 26, 2009 08:59 PM EDT --
It's a neat concept that gets arguments for and against. Do I believe in love at first sight? Absolutely! I've seen it twice. The first time was when I met my last wife and fell in love in just seconds. . . .
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January 21, 2009 05:35 PM EST --
Grandpa Webb (Deloss Maitland Webb) was a real cowboy. Born 24 Sep 1882 in Umatilla, Oregon, he had herded and driven cattle off and on for nearly fifty years. Not just a cowboy, he was a welder and a . . .
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September 24, 2009 11:17 AM EDT --
Every couple of months a hobo named Joe came through town. He would offer to clean the barn or hoe the garden in return for a meal and my grandparents always gave him something to eat. Somehow, he always . . .
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November 23, 2009 08:09 PM EST --
From where I stood, all I could think of was waves.
Having spent most of my life in Southern California, I knew waves. I knew the ocean. I knew the roar as the green waves crashed on the . . .
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May 17, 2009 05:21 PM EDT --
[One of many excerpts from a much longer work that I'm publishing separately to see what reaction I get from readers.]
Located just south of the frontage road about half way between Hallowell and . . .
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May 23, 2009 06:30 PM EDT --
There are frequent e-mails showing pictures from the "old days" with a simple blurb asking if you remember such a thing. I have had some younger folks ask me what some of those statements meant and whether . . .
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February 17, 2009 11:25 AM EST --
Consider how we do laundry today. Open the washer, dump in a bunch of dirty stuff, throw in some detergent, set the controls, turn it on, and forget about it. When they're done, we take them out, . . .
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May 09, 2009 05:55 PM EDT --
Yep, it's just another indicator that our economy sucks. In case you weren't aware of it, today (9 May) was the food drive day put on by the National Association of Letter Carriers.
Each year . . .
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September 04, 2009 01:43 PM EDT --
This is so the wrong time to dtry to do this, I got home at 0100 this morning, caught about four hours of sleep, and my mind id is so fuzzy I don’t know what I’m saying. Why tired?
I just . . .
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