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member name: Kathryn Esplin-Oleski
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November 21, 2008 12:13 PM EST -- How I love this time of year… cinnamon apple potpourri roasted turkey, cranberries, squash, apple pie a la mode; Wind kicks up, lifts leaves on the ground, cold sun blows apples to your . . . more
July 20, 2006 07:55 AM EDT -- My mother passed a few years ago, but when she was with us she carried a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. The World Health Organization has termed schizophrenia as one of the top 10 most disabling . . . more
August 04, 2007 05:13 AM EDT -- It happened the summer I found the rabbit lying in the road, hit by a car, legs broken, he couldn't be saved. Yet I had to try. I knew the marriage couldn't be saved,  yet I had to try. . . . more
March 03, 2008 07:36 PM EST -- wind lifts, skies darken , leaves to yellow, white sand memories of kicking foam, and the tides rush in, crashing sandcastles we built when you were small; we made mountains, . . . more
November 05, 2006 08:53 AM EST -- How I love this time of year… cinnamon apple potpourri roasted turkey, cranberries, squash, apple pie a la mode; Wind kicks up, lifts leaves on the ground, cold sun blows apples to your cheeks . . . more
December 11, 2006 06:59 PM EST -- It was the summer before my 12th year.  It was after the separation but before the remarriage. The divorce was not yet final. My nerves were high, my stomach was low and I was not eating much. Some . . . more
April 14, 2007 12:10 PM EDT -- It all happened the summer I found the rabbit lying in the road, hit by a car, legs broken, he couldn't be saved. Yet I had to try. I knew the marriage couldn't be saved. Yet I had to try. I called . . . more
April 04, 2006 12:18 AM EDT -- She was 14 when the Nazis came in the middle of the night to take her father and hang him in the street. Decades later, she saw a photo of him in a book about the occupation.  *     . . . more
April 05, 2006 11:10 AM EDT -- A Vermont National Guardsman killed last week in Afghanistan was killed by friendly fire, the Boston Globe reported today. Master Sergeant John Thomas Stone, 52, was struck in the torso by small-arms fire . . . more
May 11, 2006 10:58 AM EDT -- I used to wonder when the world would end. I hoped that it would. I'm referring to my father's remarriage to my stepmother. It was a nightmare for the entire time between the beginning of the . . . more
April 13, 2007 02:06 AM EDT -- I'm soldiering on here, as best I can. I'm doing my part, I'm taking care of the children, house, bills, work. Mother's off her meds, she slips away. I don't know what keeps you . . . more
The telegram
by Kathryn Esplin-Oleski
views: 93 | rating: 9.9 | comments: 44
April 15, 2007 07:23 PM EDT -- Michael sent a telegram today: Mom, bad news. Stopped at border for open container and pot. Stop.  Friend not US citizen. Sent back to US. Stop.  I'm not in the PH D. program, I lied. Stop. . . . more
December 15, 2007 03:26 PM EST -- Putting up the tree this year brings me back to when we first met.       That first year, when we put up our tree we were as innocent as sugar plum fairies as . . . more
November 16, 2006 11:27 AM EST -- We are told that  in the 1950s, most mothers stayed home to raise children. We are told that in the 1950s,  few mothers worked full-time outside the home. We are told that by 1990,  about . . . more
July 22, 2006 02:50 AM EDT --  I was born in Utah in the 1950s with a birth defect called epidermolysis bullosa. It is a 'blistering skin' disease, is very rare and includes several subtypes of the defect, all of which . . . more
December 02, 2006 01:07 AM EST -- Putting up the tree this year brings me back to when we first met.  That first year when we put up our tree we were as innocent as sugar plum fairies as we danced from the living room to the bedroom, . . . more
August 11, 2007 10:59 PM EDT -- Michael called. He and a friend were at the border with an open container and pot. His friend was not a US citizen and they were sent back to Canada.   I drove 200 miles to the border to bring . . . more
August 05, 2007 04:16 AM EDT -- Just when I need you all so damn much I'm soldiering on here, as best I can, taking care of the children, the house, bills, work.  Mother's off her meds again, she slips away further each . . . more
Film at 11
by Kathryn Esplin-Oleski
views: 160 | rating: 9.6 | comments: 77
March 28, 2008 12:16 AM EDT -- Last week, I caught Anne and Babe in the bathroom doing crack; I realized I no longer knew who she was. I grounded her but she ran away, far away from here, as far away as she could get from . . . more
March 29, 2008 02:05 AM EDT -- I keep having that dream. You know that dream? It is the one no one wants to dream. *      *      *    I never thought . . . more
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