Tag: memoir
member name: Kathryn Esplin-Oleski
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August 28, 2008 03:03 PM EDT --
There was a moment that Sunday in Luxembourg when I was 17 and you were 19, as we lay together in the cool grass, high atop a field, picking dandelions and macking, mouth upon mouth, delirious in our . . .
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February 10, 2007 01:19 PM EST --
This is part of a fictionalized memoir I am working on. I will write these when so inspired but, not necessarily in chronological order.
I stood with my foot covering the hoe, about to slice deep into . . .
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February 20, 2007 09:14 PM EST --
Cheap paintings of cut flowers lined the pastel hospital walls. A young nurse with a well-scrubbed face and a bright smile zipped in and out of the waiting room. The hospital gave every appearance of being . . .
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January 13, 2007 05:05 AM EST --
As you read Jeannette Walls' best-selling, riveting memoir of a nomadic childhood with an artist mother and an alcoholic father, you will find yourself dancing along the edges of smiles and sorrow . . .
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October 27, 2008 12:22 PM EDT --
Coming home from the hospital that night on August 8 '93, I knew something was terribly wrong.
It wasn't just the pain or the crushing mental fatigue, not just the room spinning around, . . .
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October 27, 2008 06:57 PM EDT --
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When did you know you’d never come back?
Was it when they strapped electrodes to your skull,
Gave you a bit, yet still you convulsed?
You entered barred windows with gnarled trees . . .
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November 08, 2008 01:56 PM EST --
Kira was delighted to be going to Europe for three months, paid for, in its entirety, by the money she had saved during the previous year she worked part time at the McGill Medical Library, . . .
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February 12, 2007 06:50 AM EST --
When I was five, my grandfather was six feet tall, in a ten-gallon hat and spurs. He was a sheep man, a livestock broker. When the trains came in, he would go down to the livestock yard to see the sheep. . . .
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January 11, 2008 08:20 PM EST --
Little Kathy was bored.
This was another long, boring summer before two baby sisters joined Kathy, Mother and Father.
Little kathy as . . .
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February 14, 2007 02:53 AM EST --
I pushed my knuckles into the dough and gazed at the maple outside, its top branch severed by the storm, its roots gnarled underneath the cold, bare earth. I remembered the day we visited Mama at the hospital. . . .
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February 28, 2007 09:11 AM EST --
Three months later, I returned to visit Mama. I'd been traveling on business and wasn't able to return as soon as I wanted. I didn't know what to expect, and what I found there . . .
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July 14, 2007 07:01 PM EDT --
I would spread my parents' ashes over the sea on a day of blue, green, and yellow; I would clutch the earth in my hands and spread it over my wounds, as my pores open, raw, sweating blood; . . .
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September 27, 2007 07:14 PM EDT --
Not only breakfast, but breakfast on Mother's Day.
Kathy was all of four years old, if that. Ever determined to be independent, Kathy wanted to make breakfast for Mother all by herself.
After waking . . .
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November 15, 2008 02:05 PM EST --
Again, Kira forgot a scarf to tie her beautiful pre-Raphaelite hair for the Channel boat from Dover to Calais, and so, her long, wavy, dark brown hair once again became Medusa hair. . . .
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February 09, 2007 04:31 AM EST --
Anna Mae Langford Leigh was my maternal grandmother. She was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, on February 15, 1903, in a polygamous Mormon colony. Her father had two wives.
Not such a big deal, considering . . .
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February 17, 2007 08:11 AM EST --
It's true. My great-grandfather had six wives and 44 children. Yep, we're talking Mormon. I'm not Mormon, but thousands of my first, second, and third cousins are.
My father was born in 1927, . . .
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March 04, 2007 12:04 PM EST --
Your mission, should you accept, is to write an essay. Write about anything you want, let your mind roam. We call that creative writing. Do it as soon as you get home today, so you will not forget. Good . . .
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June 20, 2007 02:14 AM EDT --
Hello and welcome to Writing Essentials on Wednesdays. As the Writing Essentials Member Editor for Wednesdays, I will be moderating this page today in the Writing Essentials group. writing.gather.com . . .
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July 04, 2007 09:44 AM EDT --
Today, July 4th - I will be Featuring the strongest of articles that relate to a holiday. Not just Independence Day, USA - but Canada Day, any National Holiday, or any other holiday, anywhere, of your . . .
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July 19, 2007 05:30 AM EDT --
I stood with my foot covering the hoe, about to slice deep into the wet black earth when I heard a familiar sound chortling down the street. It was the ice cream truck, nearly the same as when I was a . . .
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