Tag: travel
group name: gatherblessings
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December 09, 2006 01:27 PM EST --
Last month on November 2, I flew back to Santa Barbara from southwest Louisiana. While down on the bayous, I was busy with several projects. After the big major hurricanes last year, our . . . more
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April 14, 2007 12:57 PM EDT --
Back in the 70's, someone invited me to go to some kind of Club Med thing in Mexico. I said no way; I want to experience the real deal -not a candy-coated version of a beautiful place. I . . . more
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February 19, 2007 05:54 AM EST --
It's 5:00 Monday morning and I'm headed home, cruising down I-75 South, the only other headlights this early belong to the men and women who keep America moving - truck drivers. My fiancee, . . . more
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April 09, 2007 10:58 PM EDT --
Sometimes it's fun to daydream about things you've already done and look forward to doing again. In the summers, I spend my months collecting stories and images of bayou life. Most . . . more
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March 11, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
It was the summer of '69 and I had flown home to Massachusetts from Alaska where I had been a Jesuit Volunteer. The previous winter I had spent at St. Mary's Mission as a high school . . . more
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January 19, 2007 12:28 AM EST --
Romance: A Tale of Two Proposals
(c) Dorine Houston 2007
I was engaged twice, but married (and then widowed after 29 years) once.
The first fiance was from a town in the mountains of Andalucia, . . . more
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March 22, 2007 11:09 PM EDT --
Several weeks ago I commented on an article written by Cynthia about a commune in Austria. In the article she mentioned taking a steam bath and it brought back a flood of memories of my own cleansing . . . more
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March 18, 2007 09:48 AM EDT --
In June I received an email from my good friend Harry (Ann Harrington), my room-mate from the year I spent in a Jesuit mission in a Yu'pik community. She wrote that our fellow volunteer, Mary . . . more
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June 25, 2007 01:48 AM EDT --
Yesterday Papa and I attended the Flye Point Folk Festival on the grounds of the "Look-out", an old country inn in Brooklin, Maine. Last night I posted an article about the festival and . . . more
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June 03, 2007 12:59 AM EDT --
"So Bob, would you like to have afternoon tea at the Empress Hotel. It's quite expensive, but well worth it. The treat is on Harry and me....you'll just love it, coming from New . . . more
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June 09, 2007 06:04 PM EDT --
In the summer, I along with several friends journey to Wellfleet, Massachusetts for a two week sojourn to replenish our soul. I am an early riser and usually leave the Victorian house on Commercial . . . more
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April 18, 2007 12:03 AM EDT --
Another cold, windy, drizzily night and as I sit down at my computer, with a piece of ricotta pie to keep me company, I think about today and the friendship that was born. Several weeks ago I commented . . . more
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June 20, 2007 11:45 AM EDT --
" Hey Auntie Anne, you and Duffy can go to Ireland over April vacation...don't cancel cuz of me. I'm going to have this bone marrow transplant on my birthday and I'll be good to . . . more
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December 18, 2007 10:40 PM EST --
As many of you on Gather know, several years ago, five to be exact, in the month of May our house burnt down to the ground. All was lost except a large wooden box containing momentos I treasured of our . . . more
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April 19, 2007 11:00 PM EDT --
There's a place in Maine that I consider my own...it's a small little point that juts out into the sea...during low tide, if your brave you can wander out to Goose and Gander Island and if you . . . more
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March 03, 2008 05:40 PM EST --
In solitude, I pause to freeze the moment
so that I can hear;
In solitude, I journey far in distance
so that I can see;
In solitude, I stand in the shadow of the moon
so that I can reach . . . more
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February 17, 2007 04:33 PM EST --
Hello, enormous number of strangers sitting at your computers. It feels little wild, a little fast, and (I'll admit) a little fun to go ahead and do that expert-sounding thing called "publishing" . . . more
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April 26, 2008 12:00 PM EDT --
It's truly amazing when one takes "the leap" and actually meets the person one only knows through poetry, articles and emails and finds that "yes" this is the person I knew all . . . more
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January 18, 2007 08:08 PM EST --
We love to travel! Many of our favorite memories both before and after kids involve road trips. Obviously, traveling can be quite spendy... but we are learning to economize in this area, too. I'd rather . . . more
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July 08, 2008 07:06 PM EDT --
This Independence Day weekend, we went to Lake Tahoe . A hike to Eagle Falls gave me unexpected inspiration....
At the bridge of Eagle Falls,
A dying tree
Stands, strikingly,
Against the vitals . . . more
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