Tag: family
member name: Sandy (Site Psychic™) Knauer
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October 12, 2006 06:28 PM EDT --
We met at the house to disassemble their lives. In one evening, we took apart what they had created, collected, and been in their years together. We held the pieces of their lives - our history - in . . .
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January 07, 2007 02:32 AM EST --
An eerie absence of everything familiar troubled Ben, yet he hesitated to move since the bed felt more comfortable than it had in years. He compromised; didn't move a muscle other than . . .
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April 25, 2008 12:32 PM EDT --
Whipping winds and pelting rain
the demons on a rampage again
They wage a losing battle you see
nothing can fell the family tree
A solid . . .
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June 17, 2006 03:16 PM EDT --
I breezed past the card aisles and stores this year without feeling the pull. My father, grandfathers, and the uncles and friends . . .
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December 06, 2006 03:19 PM EST --
When seen but not heard lost favor to never say no, the gap between parental and public expectations widened. Nerves shattered, tempers flared, and patience levels bottomed when seen but not heard . . .
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December 15, 2006 02:29 PM EST --
Our quarrel began the night before I was born and ended the morning she died unless, as I suspect, her spirit lingers to resent the funeral. A rational person would assume that if she knows about . . .
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June 14, 2008 09:23 PM EDT --
One of the best things about having a granddaughter who is still young enough to feel big when she stands on a chair to wash dishes is that while she feels big, she also talks big. Hannah Montana . . .
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July 16, 2008 04:02 PM EDT --
In their latest insane-o-gram, the AFA (American Family [sic] Association) calls upon liberal-haters to set aside their thinking skills and pound the internet pavement with inane, sensationalized . . .
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April 14, 2006 02:27 AM EDT --
Dancing served many purposes in my life. There. I said it in past tense and I'm still breathing. It was great exercise, a stress reliever, an expression of emotions and music, always fun, and sensual . . .
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January 14, 2009 03:35 AM EST --
A pitcher of sweet tea was as standard as toilet paper and electricity, with one glaring difference. Mom took full responsibility for assuring that we never ran out of toilet paper and Daddy . . .
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March 18, 2007 02:31 AM EDT --
I went for a walk with my mother yesterday. I walked out the back door with the confused imposter who had been living in her body the last few . . .
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August 20, 2008 04:44 PM EDT --
I intended to make this a three-generation project, but can't get to my baby pictures right now. I'll post my daughter and granddaughter and add mine later.
Our comparison story is fun. My . . .
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June 21, 2009 02:06 PM EDT --
There at the edge of nothing
someone waits for me.
His essence fills the air
enabling me to breathe.
I draw the life he exhaled
so very long ago,
pull . . .
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April 28, 2006 02:37 AM EDT --
My big mistake was in expecting a twenty-mile drive to erase the thirty years I had been away. I set myself up for the unwarranted sense of betrayal that came when I saw a flat lot with a beer garden . . .
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July 26, 2006 09:20 PM EDT --
School pictures at every age
Ballerinas on gymnasium stages
Ribbons won in spelling bees
A collection of little league trophies
A row of bronzed baby shoes
Mounted together in sets of twos
Her little . . .
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October 13, 2006 10:42 PM EDT --
She caught the misguided traitor--once known as her left hand--in time to save face, but too late to protect her emotions. Two decades of near-perfect denial washed away, dropping her in a life-changing . . .
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November 28, 2006 04:14 PM EST --
I suspended my loathing of ruffles and frills long enough to let Mom explain the saccharine blouses.
"We were Christmas shopping." She spread the hideous garments on the bed, forcing me to look . . .
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April 02, 2006 04:42 AM EDT --
There I was with fifty years of love and admiration invested when I discovered his love meant nothing at all. What do you do when that happens?
This man had shown up on every holiday, picked me up when . . .
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April 18, 2006 07:31 PM EDT --
In addition to the traditional offerings most generous, doting parents lavish on a child, mine infused a lifeline to their unrestricted generosity. They gave me the world, by allowing me to see . . .
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August 11, 2006 08:54 PM EDT --
I went for a walk with my mother yesterday. I walked out the back door with the confused imposter who had been living in her body the last few years and ended up with my real mother by the time we circled . . .
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