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member name: Kimberly Ripley
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December 05, 2007 11:17 AM EST --
I've been a waitress, clerk, and cook,
This year I even wrote a book.
But there's a job that's worse than all-
To be a Santa in a mall. . . .
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November 01, 2007 09:52 AM EDT --
Of poetry I'm clueless.
I seldom write the things.
But try my hand in vain today
And pray good cheer it brings.
Acquaintances we meet each day,
And most they . . .
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November 27, 2007 12:49 PM EST --
I remember that particular Christmas as though it was yesterday. I was five years old. A great deal of my childhood was spent in the home of my great-grandmother. . . .
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October 14, 2007 10:28 PM EDT --
by Kimberly Ripley
Okay, by now you're probably laughing at me, thinking, "Doesn't this woman have anything to do?" I know it was a bit of a hokey show, but I faithfully watched . . .
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November 16, 2007 03:45 PM EST --
Ellen didn't seem to fit the mold. Perhaps I was being stereotypical. Probably it was because I'd really only known one other person who was married to a minister. Millicent had been . . .
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December 27, 2007 11:17 AM EST --
Greetings, Gather writers! Now that the holidays are drawing to a close, and the winter weather will undoubtedly linger, many of us are faced with a case of the doldrums. It's perfectly natural. . . .
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March 03, 2008 08:57 PM EST --
Filling in for John Philipp today was a treat...I truly enjoyed the many wonderful pieces s ubmitted in various states of humor. Featured pieces for today included:
"Corn Dog Cartoons" . . .
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December 30, 2007 08:43 PM EST --
I've heard it dozens of times.
"They'll get their just desserts."
Maybe they did. Maybe they didn't. I doubt I'll ever know. As a writer, however, I've always . . .
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January 17, 2008 05:09 AM EST --
Greetings , Gather writers. It's Thursday! I can't wait to read what you have in store for me today. Since it's been a crazy week, I'd like to propose submitting some lively writing. . . .
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January 31, 2008 11:38 PM EST --
It's been a long day on the road, but a fairly easy one nonetheless. I got a second wind after a cup of high test jet fuel in Virginia so cancelled our reservation in Fredericksburg and drove about . . .
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February 14, 2008 10:06 PM EST --
Here's what I requested this morning for today's writing essential:
" For today's Writing Essential, I'd like to feature pieces that show our expressions of love. NO LOVE . . .
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January 08, 2008 09:58 AM EST --
Issue #23
Greetings, Gather writers, and welcome to this issue of Freelancing for Pleasure and Profit. Did you create a writing list of New Year's Resolutions? This is completely separate . . .
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March 11, 2008 06:16 PM EDT --
This is reposted in response to flit's request to what we consider one of our best under-read pieces published in 2008 Mine follows. Warning: It's not for the faint of stomach!!
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November 16, 2007 11:32 AM EST --
Sure enough, winter means different things to different folks. Some welcome a drop in temperature and delight in the lull of tourism in their part of the country. Others welcome winter's economic . . .
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November 21, 2007 09:33 AM EST --
The Fresh Air Fund is constantly looking for families to provide an inner-city child with two weeks away from their city environment each summer. How could your family help? . . .
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April 04, 2008 01:42 PM EDT --
We're all familiar with Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream..." but something I experienced not so long ago makes me wonder how far people have gone to fulfill his prophecy. . . .
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July 12, 2009 05:07 PM EDT --
In the writing world there's probably no such thing as a "pre-review," but I'm so taken with this book after just starting it this morning that I simply had to make it a new literary form.
Where . . .
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November 05, 2007 08:58 PM EST --
With Advent just around the corner, here's a new twist on the more traditional Advent calendars. These calendars foster the idea of spreading "Peace on Earth, and good will toward men." . . .
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December 28, 2007 09:44 PM EST --
So often we ask the question, "Why, Lord?"
Sometimes there is no answer.
This is one of those times.
On Christmas afternoon a young man threw himself off a building in our city, . . .
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January 05, 2008 10:12 PM EST --
Mothers spend many sleepless nights caring for their children-sometimes when those children are in their 20's.
Mothers seldom eat hot food.
Mothers pray without . . .
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