Tag: living
group name: renewedactivist
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May 04, 2006 09:06 PM EDT --
When I was in college, when I felt self-indulgent and wanted to write, I would say 'I'm feeling mossy.'
It was an oblique reference to Walt Whitman. More mundanely, I was feeling creative. . . . more
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May 14, 2006 03:06 AM EDT --
Well, that got your attention.
The Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints (NOT the Mormons, but the Polygamous spin-off, the FLDS) has incited national attention and the FBI, for . . . more
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February 20, 2007 09:39 AM EST --
I sort of rushed this, plese forgive the mistakes and typos.
Part IX
81:The youngest turns 18 and is out on her own. She is still in trouble with the law. She goes to Nebraska where her sister lives . . . more
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February 20, 2007 11:46 AM EST --
Seems I left this one out!!!
PART VII
61: The thing about working for a Tribal nation for which you are not an enrolled member, if an enrolled member who wants your job and is qualified for it, gets . . . more
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April 16, 2006 05:39 PM EDT --
The following is a letter to the editor of the Sunday NY Times Magazine. I had to write about an article by Walter Kirn regarding the pay gap between CEO's and workers.
If you read the Sunday magazine . . . more
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April 08, 2006 08:26 AM EDT --
The setting was Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina. The day was February 1, 1960.
Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr. and David Richmond were four young men who attended Agriculture . . . more
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April 18, 2006 10:57 AM EDT --
I have a piece of the Berlin Wall on my refrigerator. This is from 1989, when a friend joined hundreds of thousands, who helped to tear it down.
The piece of the wall is thick concrete, and you can imagine . . . more
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April 16, 2006 02:31 AM EDT --
(This is a continuing fictional series in the lives of Susan Hapenny and her friends. This installment takes place in 1967, in Monterey, at the Monterey Pop Festival.)
"Our Weekend in Monterey" . . . more
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September 24, 2006 10:11 PM EDT --
Tonight I wrote something for a second time that I thought I would never have to think about again.
A friend of mine's son was trying to enlist in the military for the education benefits. I . . . more
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May 22, 2006 02:13 AM EDT --
First of all I am not prejudice what so ever. Okay, I am prejudice when it comes to the immigrants that live on Cape Cod that don't speak English and work in customer service or fast food. . . . more
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May 30, 2008 05:33 AM EDT --
Is that your living room? I asked. No reply. It must be, for it seems so like you – calm, artful, sedate. It is full of grace like Tuesday's child, fair of face like Monday's child and . . . more
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May 18, 2006 06:12 AM EDT --
Queen Rania * of Jordan was on Oprah yesterday.
She spoke about her role as a mother, as a Queen, and of the importance for people to understand and be tolerant of one another.
Queen Rania said . . . more
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December 30, 2006 06:57 PM EST --
What happens in life? In the beginning we were all born equal. And I use the word “were” and not “are” because those that I am referring are already here. . . . more
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May 16, 2006 02:01 AM EDT --
On May 2, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Reverend Abernathy and Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth lead a protest march in Birmingham, Alabama.
At that time, Birmingham had been one of the most racially segregated . . . more
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April 11, 2006 11:55 PM EDT --
Sitting at her desk, today the Quill peers into the future and wonders about those who will live one-hundred and ten years from now. She fears a new, and as yet, unseen world where people speak to each . . . more
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May 15, 2006 05:03 AM EDT --
When I was four, we went to Sears. You wore seamed stockings, a black dress and a hat with a veil.
All I ever wanted was to try on dresses.
When I was six, I went to kindergarten.
All I ever wanted . . . more
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April 22, 2006 08:27 AM EDT --
On April 14, 1962, a Cuban military tribunal convicted 1,179 American Cuban exiles who had participated in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of April 17, 1961, exactly one year earlier.
(See "The . . . more
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April 25, 2006 02:09 PM EDT --
The year was 1962. James Meredith was a student at the University of Mississippi.
That his final acceptance into the university was won by such strife is a disgrace in our civil rights history. . . . more
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January 20, 2008 04:06 PM EST --
It's everywhere. Talk of recession. It increases every day. And with it, the fear of it increases. The fear it creates escalates the probability of it becoming a reality. . . . more
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March 01, 2007 01:55 AM EST --
Behold the
Neophyte with attitude
Singing
The dreamtime melody
Of pure delight
more
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