Tag: writing
group name: holidaze
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June 27, 2007 01:31 PM EDT --
An Accident of Birth
As the 4th of July approaches, the birthday of my country, I look around at my warm comfortable home and my bulging closets and cupboards, and I understand how I got here. . . . more
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July 04, 2007 10:43 AM EDT --
Written February 29, 2004
It is February 29th, and as I survey the ruins of my living room, it appears that the last vestiges of Christmas are finally gone. That isn?t true. I will . . . more
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January 04, 2008 12:38 PM EST --
I gaze upon the barren fields
Bereft of crops, covered in new snow
That looks like clouds fallen to the earth
Pure, white, and clean.
Brown remnants of dead stalks
Poke through the snow like . . . more
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December 11, 2007 02:18 PM EST --
I am far too busy right now to write anything new about Christmas, so I thought I'd post this tidbit about the frustrations of Christmas decorating that I wrote a couple of years ago. Anyone who . . . more
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August 24, 2008 11:47 PM EDT --
Labor Day weekend is a good time to catch up on your culture. Of course, you can go to the Sausalito Art Festival (SAF) — voted the best in the country since, well, forever — or . . . more
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August 31, 2008 11:57 PM EDT --
Today, I am Captain of Beer Booth #3 at the Sausalito Arts Festival. For those who have never been in a position of REAL POWER, where the hopes and dreams of six booth attendants, the unborn grants . . . more
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March 17, 2008 02:30 PM EDT --
It's shaping up to be another fun day on Humor Monday. Here's a sampling of some of the fine, funny writing:
TODAY'S FEATURED ARTICLES
ShamRock . . . more
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March 20, 2008 06:10 PM EDT --
Spring Break is an evolutionary leftover, like the appendix.
Two years ago I fled the rain and went to Florida to get a jump on my tan. There I ran smack into another March Madness: Spring Break. . . . more
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July 04, 2008 12:48 PM EDT --
I wrote and posted this last year under the title "What America Means to Me." I still feel the same. It is my contribution to today's Friday Writing Essential.
As the . . . more
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March 23, 2008 12:52 AM EDT --
My childhood memories of Easter are a mixed bag of American traditions and Lebanese traditions. The Lebanese side of my family is Christian, so Easter was very much celebrated. While my paternal grandmother . . . more
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July 03, 2008 06:52 AM EDT --
Tomorrow we celebrate July 4th in honor of the day the citizens of the United States, after asking nicely for over 150 years, declared their independence from George III of England and also voted to . . . more
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February 10, 2008 11:46 PM EST --
"A lingerie store is no place for a man."
You are a man. You have a woman in your life. You love her. Valentine's Day is coming up. You think, instead of the traditional gifts of flowers . . . more
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February 18, 2008 12:04 AM EST --
"Whom would you rather buy a used car from than Honest Abe?"
(Abe Lincoln hasn't granted an interview since April 1865. However, using a new Apple proto-type called iAfterLife, I . . . more
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March 16, 2008 11:51 PM EDT --
Today is St. Patrick's Day, which naturally leads a humorist to think: How can I write something funny about St. Patrick's Day? Or any calendar event for that matter?
We've talked . . . more
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January 09, 2008 06:33 PM EST --
I grew up on Main Street, U.S.A. Actually, I spent my childhood in two houses — 1501 W. Main Street and 2910 S. Waverly Road. Main Street was a small inner-city house on a very small . . . more
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January 15, 2008 11:52 AM EST --
SNOW KISSES
they stood there holding hands
mittens of red and scarfs of green
one with a blue hat, one with a pink
staring . . . more
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December 23, 2007 12:43 PM EST --
The misty day was cool, however it did not deter an early morning ride on a 1935-40 (actual year unknown) restored fire truck. Pulling hoods over our heads we headed out with children on the bed . . . more
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