Tag: freelancing for pleasure and profit
member name: Kimberly Ripley
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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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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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April 11, 2009 10:32 PM EDT --
My daughter went out for a walk this evening, and found a new neighbor had moved into the neighborhood......I'm glad she didn't step on him! He was hanging out right by my car. It's the first . . .
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January 31, 2007 11:50 PM EST --
Name me one writer who hasn’t battled writer’s block. I’ll bet you can’t. It’s inevitable. Even the most prolific writers have rare occasions where the words won’t . . .
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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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March 28, 2009 09:45 AM EDT --
Does absence make the heart grow fonder
Or create a silent facade.....
Distance posing
As repose
Miles imposing trite discourse.
Repartee triviality,
Complaisant,
Solicitous. . . .
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April 29, 2009 04:34 PM EDT --
I was so pleased to be one of the selected reviewers for a beautiful photo book by Inkubook. While I first thought I would use a Spring Training baseball theme, I ended up basing my book around . . .
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May 05, 2009 07:31 PM EDT --
Times are tough, and we're all looking for ways to supplement our incomes.
I'd like you to give the following question some serious thought before you answer.
If I were to list . . .
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May 06, 2009 03:27 PM EDT --
Hello,
It's me again. And while I know I've never been your favorite person, I've struggled for years to make you mine.
You were a child when you birthed me. I would have understood . . .
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May 06, 2009 11:32 AM EDT --
I am so excited! This month's issue of Grand Magazine is available online, and my granddaughter Lilly and I made the cover!!
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May 08, 2009 11:44 PM EDT --
Tonight while we were having dinner, my daughter jumped up from the table and exclaimed, "Look at the size of that guy in the backyard!"
I wasn't sure what that meant, so of course . . .
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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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February 28, 2008 07:39 AM EST --
Greetings, Gather writers, and welcome to Thursday's Writing Essential. As writers we frequently need to tell our readers a little something about ourselves. Our biography---or bio, as it is more . . .
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September 20, 2008 11:36 PM EDT --
Aiden Cole McCarthy was born this evening at 8:09 PM, weighing in at 8 pounds even and measuring 21 inches long. My daughter Elizabeth and I stayed with Judy and Eric throughout the entire labor and . . .
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October 04, 2008 02:16 PM EDT --
If anyone read my article about my kid's accusation that I'm a horder (which I'm NOT!) My Name is Kim, and I'm A Hoarder? by Kimberly Ripley you might get a kick out of the . . .
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November 16, 2008 10:22 PM EST --
I don't, but I really need to get some. I have to drive a couple of hours up into Maine tomorrow. The gas here in the seacoast area of New Hampshire has actually dipped below $2 a gallon. Okay...so . . .
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December 28, 2008 06:30 PM EST --
'Tis better to give than to receive.
There are times when this proves false, but even more times, however, when the phrase rings completely true. The act of giving becomes a gift...not . . .
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January 01, 2009 08:20 PM EST --
May you go out of your way at least once every few days for someone else....maybe even a stranger.
May you strive to improve your health....even if it's just one less cookie or a ten minute . . .
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April 20, 2009 10:45 PM EDT --
While I don't subscribe to a lot of the thinkings of some radical Christian groups...those promoting hatred toward any group of human beings....I must say I have witnessed some disturbing behaviors . . .
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May 03, 2009 10:19 PM EDT --
In a trickle they arrive
Drop shoes
Handbag
Open the paper
And the fridge
Cold drinks
Warm hearts
Share their days
Hopes
Dreams
Futures not so far away
Each unique
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