Tag: life
member name: Sandy (Site Psychic™) Knauer
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March 14, 2006 03:51 PM EST --
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 it deep inside
to energize my soul.
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July 17, 2006 04:23 PM EDT --
Stephen Frug's article, Reality-Based Theists and the Efficacy of Petitionary Prayer inspired me to pull out my blog entry from May 2004.
It's only Tuesday, and already a heavy . . .
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April 20, 2006 08:21 PM EDT --
Dazed preoccupation, glowing skin, picture in hand to remind her he wasn't a dream, giggles and visible jitters. She showed all the classic signs of a girl who had lost her heart and mind . . .
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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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February 12, 2007 11:31 PM EST --
You can't do anything about the backlight on your watch, but you can buy a new watch. Nick Puhlot 1999 -
Since Nick's birth, he has learned to extend the length of daylight hours . . .
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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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December 29, 2005 03:49 PM EST --
It was warm, so I sat outside, to eat my lunch in the sun
I met a man who'd lost his way, and didn't know any one
He swallowed his pride, avoided my eyes,
and in a tiny voice, shared with . . .
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April 17, 2006 04:45 PM EDT --
Carefully tend the garden,
protect her from the weather.
She's only out of season,
not gone away forever.
She amazed us with her beauty,
bloomed in vivid colors,
graced us the summer long,
standing . . .
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April 26, 2006 12:10 PM EDT --
Recognizing urgency in the knock, Paul forfeited his Nyquil induced reprieve. "Coming," he called, donning a sheet as he stumbled . . .
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September 27, 2006 04:46 PM EDT --
"Come on. He deserves better."
"Don't you think I know that?"
"If you know it, why don't you let him go?"
She releases her hair, lets it fall over her face, stalls, . . .
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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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January 07, 2007 11:56 PM EST --
Swiping a forearm across her sweaty brow, Marcelle exhaled and whipped up an imaginary friend to help kick her fatigue in the ass. Michael Landon won the honor this time. (Sandy is generous)
Starting . . .
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December 30, 2005 12:20 AM EST --
I spent one of my fifty-one years in a meager apartment on Strawberry Lane, in a rundown business district of a fading neighborhood. The bathtub didn't hold water and my bedroom window was at ground . . .
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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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May 15, 2006 01:52 AM EDT --
Karen has a room on York,
a far cry from the mansion she lost on Winter.
Maybe it isn't far.
Three miles, give or take,
seen differently by car, bus, or foot.
It's far enough she . . .
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August 31, 2006 01:27 PM EDT --
I had unusual children. They wanted to stay at home and hand out candy on Halloween, and provided lists of their favorite charities when . . .
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September 14, 2006 11:38 AM EDT --
I love little baby ducks, old pick-up trucks, slow-moving trains, and rain . . . Just kidding. None of those things are on my list of favorites. For those who don't know, that list came from an old . . .
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November 01, 2006 11:46 PM EST --
(Day One Here)
It was close to five by the time we exhausted decent choices and found a vacancy in what could have been (with a few updates) the Bates Motel, convinced the drunk behind the counter to . . .
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November 22, 2006 06:01 PM EST --
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Sherry and Karen perched on the bed with mirrors and cosmetics bags, prepared for another big day of soap operas and beauty treatments. Rhonda angled the television screen . . .
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