Tag: storytelling
member name: Kathryn Esplin-Oleski
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April 02, 2006 01:36 PM EDT --
On a lazy Sunday afternoon, I call to my two cats, Mao and Cheddar. And they come running.
I called "Baby Fooooood." Sure, they know the words, "Baby Food." They're cats. . . .
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May 21, 2006 01:49 AM EDT --
Women's list here
1. Ed Nudelman
2. Ludolf
3. George Corneliussen
4. Ron Hall
5. Nathan Schauer
6. KR Craft
7. John . . .
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April 29, 2006 09:45 PM EDT --
Two Decembers ago, it was 65 degrees and my crocuses and tulips bloomed.
They trusted. They trusted their instinct that the time to bloom was at that moment.
It doesn't matter they were wrong. They . . .
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January 18, 2006 02:06 AM EST --
My husband of 20 years talks about getting a divorce.
This is not a new theme, but one that has recurred every few years. It is also something I don't take all that seriously, because he is not a . . .
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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.
* . . .
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April 08, 2006 08:26 AM EDT --
The setting was Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina. The day was February 1, 1960.
Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr. and David Richmond were four young men who attended Agriculture . . .
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April 11, 2006 11:55 PM EDT --
Sitting at her desk, today the Quill peers into the future and wonders about those who will live one-hundred and ten years from now. She fears a new, and as yet, unseen world where people speak to each . . .
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April 16, 2006 09:28 PM EDT --
That's right. A bath. You CAN bathe cats. Cat care books recommend it, but I don't know why. The cat gets wet, cold and meows. You get wet, cold and you howl.
But if you're so inclined, here's . . .
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April 29, 2006 05:52 AM EDT --
Sue sat in a room with only a bare bulb overhead and a pack of Gitanes and Camels in her hand.
Her eyes burned in the haze thick as soup that swirled above the bulb; her nose was buried in her book as . . .
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April 16, 2006 02:31 AM EDT --
(This is a continuing fictional series in the lives of Susan Hapenny and her friends. This installment takes place in 1967, in Monterey, at the Monterey Pop Festival.)
"Our Weekend in Monterey" . . .
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April 19, 2006 03:22 AM EDT --
In 1952, Eisenhower was in the White House, ranches and bungalows sprung up everywhere, men wore Hawaiian shirts on Fridays and gave barbecues on Sunday afternoons. In 1952, women stayed home to mind the . . .
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April 21, 2006 12:05 AM EDT --
On February 7, 1962 and continuing, President John F. Kennedy announced a trade embargo against Cuban exports into the U.S., making it the longest continuous trade embargo in modern times. . . .
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April 30, 2006 02:19 PM EDT --
Each boy staked out his territory. Two boys on the same turf, fighting for the same bag of drugs.
Mao hooked a left into Cheddar; Cheddar hooked a right and tossed Mao straight to the mat. . . .
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May 10, 2006 02:11 PM EDT --
81. As a child, I ate dirt and sucked wet wash cloths.
82. I turned out alright.
83. Thank God I did not partake of my diaper.
84. My first power dream was when I was five. I wanted . . .
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April 17, 2006 02:46 AM EDT --
..it's been 10 minutes, and no one has commented, yet.
You've heard the stories: Gather produces an intoxicating high unlike any other. This is all too true. And you don't get a hangover, . . .
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February 13, 2006 12:11 PM EST --
Doctor, it's just a game. We choose someone who will get the rush and we press her against a wall and then we use a bag, a tie, a belt, or even a scarf and tie it around her neck. And then we choke . . .
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April 20, 2006 05:59 PM EDT --
On Dr. Phil today, as I watched during a break from work, I saw a story about an all-too- common phenomena: the parents don't really love their daughter.
They don't understand her, they blame . . .
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February 08, 2006 01:15 AM EST --
What follows is an account of The Massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857. The diary is fictional, but based on facts; the epilogue is factual.
Monday, September 4, 1857
We received word . . .
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April 10, 2006 07:03 AM EDT --
In 1967, Sue was 17 and George was 20. Like all people their age, they weren't as innocent as they seemed, nor as worldly as they pretended to be.
They were restless and itching to test . . .
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April 20, 2006 01:57 AM EDT --
Coming home from the hospital that night in '93, something was terribly wrong.
It wasn't just the pain or the crushing mental fatigue, not just the room spinning around, and not just the sick . . .
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