Tag: daisymarie
member name: Vicky Duggins
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May 31, 2009 01:45 PM EDT --
As soon as I was in your living room There it was, sitting in the middle The Pink Elephant: Cancer We talked about our children And their children Days to come and days long past And still it sat between . . .
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August 18, 2009 02:58 PM EDT --
I never expected To miss you this much The sound of your voice The feel of your touch Always there, somewhere Then came the day That you are nowhere You aren't simply away.
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June 05, 2009 11:53 PM EDT --
What are your plans for the first weekend of summer, the weekend after Memorial Day kicked off the season? You know that song, "Roll out those lazy, crazy, hazy days of summer... those days of soda . . .
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June 07, 2009 08:44 AM EDT --
If only I’d bought those Poise Pads, I wouldn’t be in jail today.
My best friend, Lily, and I were traveling cross country. Recently divorced, we had . . .
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October 02, 2009 02:07 AM EDT --
Do you h a ve someone here on Gather that just gets on your last nerve? I have a someone like that. She's on about her third "incarnation" now to scrape in m ore points. I shouldn't . . .
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April 26, 2009 09:55 AM EDT --
Van and I spent the last week of March and the first ten days in April far south of Missouri in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. We were chasing spring and we found it just south of Memphis. . . .
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June 14, 2009 02:14 AM EDT --
It was just a very soft, slightly cool summer evening. In fact, it was this very summer evening.
Taking my book and the first cup of coffee from a fresh pot, pillow under my other arm, I made . . .
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June 05, 2009 01:50 PM EDT --
It's summer time and the livin' is easy... which means it's the perfect time to loll around the backyard, the beach or a campsite and spend some time reading. Heck, anywhere is a good place to loll . . .
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September 03, 2009 10:51 PM EDT --
The title of my dabble is "Easing into September". It should be subtitled, "Kicking and Screaming All the Way." It probably surprises no one here on Gather that has been in my acquaintance . . .
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May 18, 2009 03:07 PM EDT --
My very first comment deletion! I'm tickled pink, though I'm actually writing about it in blue.
Here, for your consideration, is the comment that so incensed St. Joy that she deep-sixed . . .
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June 06, 2009 12:20 PM EDT --
Slammerkin , noun, eighteenth century, of unknown origin. 1. A loose gown. 2. A loose woman.
Emma Donoghue uses bits of the true story of Mary Saunders and how she came to . . .
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June 07, 2009 11:20 AM EDT --
As usual, I find myself with things to say that don't warrant an article all their own. I add them all to the stew I call a "dabble" and publish them together. Strength in numbers, right? . . .
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June 23, 2009 02:50 PM EDT --
Yesterday's mail brought a very special gift that still has me smiling.
Do you other Geezers remember the rock group "America"? They had some huge hits including A Horse With No Name . . .
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June 29, 2009 12:37 PM EDT --
They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, or in our family, maybe we should amend that to the nut doesn't fall far from the tree, but my love of "As Seen On TV" merchandise has been manifesting . . .
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June 22, 2009 08:31 AM EDT --
I love coffee. I freely admit it. I love coffee with caffeine in it. Don't even come near me with a pot of that decaf stuff.
According to Wikipedia ( www.wikipedia.com ) coffee . . .
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May 14, 2009 10:35 AM EDT --
What I Love To Do in Summer for Thursday Gather Writing Essential
The best days of summer are without a doubt those days we spend camping.
If we go to the campground at our local lake, (named Mark . . .
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May 23, 2009 10:46 PM EDT --
Fantasy...
"Language?" Donna said with a puzzled expression.
"In Benin, Donna. What language do they speak in Benin for God's sake?" I asked.
"I'll find out Ma'm." She began to . . .
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June 19, 2009 07:04 PM EDT --
She sat on the chilly sand, feeling the cool coming through the seat of her jeans almost immediately. She thought back to that other beach on another day, a warmer, sunnier day than this. . . .
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June 21, 2009 12:25 PM EDT --
As a boy growing up in the country near Sedalia, Missouri. He loved the farm and absolutely hated the move to Kansas City when he was 13. But he had a rendezvous with destiny - he had to meet my Mom! . . .
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July 12, 2009 05:50 PM EDT --
I'm packing to go to the other side of Missouri to stay with my sister Nancy while her husband, Ronnie, has back surgery. Nancy is in fourth stage brain cancer. The tumor is pressing on . . .
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