Tag: people
member name: marilyn l.
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March 05, 2007 09:20 PM EST --
This poem was written by my granddaughter when she was in the ninth grade. She is now graduating from high school.
Wandering through a dark, eerie passage,
Pondering my whereabouts. . . .
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January 14, 2007 08:33 AM EST --
We are living in a new world, so they tell me.
When people are walking around talking to themselves, waving their hands wildly, discussing their personal business on public transportation, on the streets, . . .
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April 14, 2007 11:38 PM EDT --
Today is Yom Hashoah, a day that Jewish people mourn for the people, men, women, children who were murdered, maimed, tortured, starved, had medical experiments done to them by the Third . . .
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January 25, 2007 02:12 PM EST --
---SEEING THE SUNSET AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE BEAUTIFUL DEEP PINK'S, BLUE'S, AND RED STREAKS IN THE SKY AND THE BLAZING SUN GRADUALLY SINKING OVER THE HORIZON.
---SEEING THE . . .
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February 15, 2007 02:56 PM EST --
It's been one year since I signed up with Gather! My how time flies when your having fun.
This group has enabled me to meet people from all over the world and from all walks of life!
I have met Sigalet . . .
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January 20, 2008 01:35 PM EST --
I am reading" Emma" and saw "Pride and Prejudice" for the umteenth time. I enjoy reading about life in the village in the 18th century but I find Jane Austin's books very . . .
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August 31, 2006 09:47 PM EDT --
Neighbors....why are we always so concerned about what they think. What gives them so much power. We give them this power.
As I was walking the other day, past a building with benches in front of it, . . .
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December 06, 2006 05:46 PM EST --
Today, I heard the news of a special lady I knew. She passed from this life without any fanfare. She was unassuming, quiet, did not ask for much, always a smile on her face and never a complaint. She always . . .
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November 16, 2008 05:30 PM EST --
my mom passed away on july 17, 2008, at the ripe old age of 94. For her memorial, I wrote a poem which I would like to share with you fellow Gatherites.
MOMMY DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE... . . .
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December 01, 2006 12:49 PM EST --
Everytime someone says something wrong against Islam or it's preceived as wrong or draws a cartoon putting their prophet in a not so good light, the Fundalmentalist Muslims have a temper tantrum. . . .
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January 19, 2009 10:58 PM EST --
I am a little leery of President-elect Obama, simply because he sounds too good to be true! When he said its time for a change, my first thought was , What Kind of Change" is he offering. . . .
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September 17, 2006 10:55 PM EDT --
Gather gives me a chance to connect with people from all over the world. I love to chat with people, share my ideas with them, and even though i am a very novice writer, I enjoy writing when the mood hits . . .
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October 22, 2006 08:00 PM EDT --
In the year 1998, I went on a tour with Rabbi Marvin Tokayer, to the land of China. I always was fascinated with China, especially since I have read all of Pearl Buck's books.
Well, he was going with . . .
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September 17, 2006 11:17 PM EDT --
I once cut out a poem written by two ladies named Beatrice Brophy, 72, and Barbara Anderson, 74. They are canoeists and guides in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota.
I would like to share this poem with . . .
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November 02, 2006 02:36 AM EST --
I was thinking to myself, why do I enjoy reading about the past so much. I find it so fascinating. But, if one really thinks about it, life was very difficult before the days of indoor plumbing and running . . .
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October 01, 2009 06:45 PM EDT --
I don't understand it. Everyone is putting President Obama down! Why? He's brand-new on the job. Give the guy a chance.
I knew from day-one that he wasn't going to do all the things he said he . . .
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February 11, 2007 12:14 AM EST --
I am in the midst of reading Main Street by Sinclair Lewis. This book was published in 1920 and what was true then still holds true today 90 years later.
This is a novel about a small town. In 1920 . . .
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December 22, 2008 04:43 PM EST --
does anyone have any stories to tell about their relatives or friends experiences riding in a covered wagon going across the plain states and onto the rockies across the dessert ontothe oregon trail and . . .
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