Tag: life-changing event
member name: Robb F.
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June 02, 2007 02:35 PM EDT --
I mentioned in a recent article that my absence here on Gather was, in part, due to my search for employment. I can now announce that the search is over. It will now be my job that will pull . . .
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February 11, 2007 02:04 AM EST --
Today, my normal Saturday routine was broken. I usually leave home around 8 a.m. to pick up my 12 year-old son. I usually arrive in Baton Rouge around 10, depending on how . . .
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March 26, 2007 03:31 PM EDT --
Hello All,
I am introducing a newly created group entitled, "What's In A Name". The aim of this Gathering spot is to provide a space for articles related to personal names;given . . .
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August 18, 2007 07:12 PM EDT --
While watching the distant tempest
now boiling the tropical seas,
my mind fills like a mizzen pulled taught
by a strong, unfortunate breeze.
Transported back by memory
to a . . .
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August 29, 2007 12:58 AM EDT --
On this date two years ago, I was moving back and forth between the television and computer watching waiting for any new scrap of information about the huge and powerful hurricane that would be . . .
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February 12, 2007 02:49 AM EST --
For what reason,
To what rhyme,
Is the season,
And the time,
When love blooms,
Then slowly dies,
In deafening grief,
And silent cries?
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February 14, 2007 03:45 AM EST --
Last night I was awakened from a deep sleep by the sound of the wind outside. I did not think much of it and returned to whence I came. I awoke this morning to learn a tornado had mangled . . .
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March 21, 2007 03:38 AM EDT --
Some Things Never Change
It seems New Orleans' mayor, Ray Nagin, still suffers from "hoof in mouth" disease or some other malady that twists his words and makes us believe . . .
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February 19, 2007 10:25 PM EST --
This is the second installment of “100 Things About Moi” If you are somehow interested, the first installment can be found at:
www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976902568 . . .
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August 30, 2008 05:16 PM EDT --
Hi folks,
I worked on a nice essay to let my Gather friends know that I was safely out of my home which is located South of New Orleans, but after completing it, adding the groups to send it, and pressing . . .
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August 30, 2008 07:29 PM EDT --
Bless The Quiet
It has been a quiet day in the home of the gracious people who have once again taken my family and me into their home after evacuating ours, south of New Orleans. . . .
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August 28, 2008 07:05 PM EDT --
Living at the edge of the marshland just south of New Orleans, I was away from my home for a month following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. My family and I lived in a FEMA trailer parked next to the . . .
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April 02, 2007 12:56 PM EDT --
Impossible mirages blind me to the curves awaiting ahead
as all possibilities rush my way, I ignore the the incipient dread.
But flying fast with all my being poured into my "arriving." . . .
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March 16, 2007 02:07 AM EDT --
Installment Three
This is the third installment in my quest to complete an article, "100 Things About Moi." For the most part, I have taken a chronological approach in my self-disclosure . . .
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September 04, 2008 04:24 PM EDT --
Home...For How Long?
We are back home on the Westbank of New Orleans following Hurricane Gustav. Our parish re-opened for return at 6a.m. this morning. Filling up our vehicle's . . .
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March 29, 2007 11:23 PM EDT --
Here I go, once again submitting yet another installment of this quest of explaining who I am in One Hundred Steps. Thanks to all who are reading this installment and to all who have read any . . .
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February 06, 2007 12:48 AM EST --
Lost to me forevermore
her smile that shone
as stellar decor.
Warden Death shut her cell's door,
her quiet voice quelled
by its deafening roar
By that, shaken to my core. . . .
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February 04, 2007 04:48 AM EST --
Being new to this site, I was inspired by another's article on “One Hundred Things About Me. Encouraged by that writer, this is my first installment of 20 of my own 100 Things.
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January 31, 2007 07:43 PM EST --
(Note* Please contribute my use of wee biff as an extreme case of Poetic License)
Two Hundred Twenty-two channels I surfed and found naught I wished to see.
So I dug down deep amidst dozens of . . .
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