Tag: random
group name: womenwise
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March 30, 2006 08:10 AM EST --
A Middle Aged Women Looks At the Headlines
Sometimes I just want to scream.
Three days before I turn fifty
I wake to find a headline about
actresses entitled "50-ish and Hot".
Please . . . more
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August 29, 2006 02:29 PM EDT --
I walked in
lacking expectation.
But there you were,
finally,
looking in my direction.
I needed to see into
your clouded window,
recognize who sits
on your dusty throne.
When our eyes met,
a . . . more
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September 09, 2006 07:23 PM EDT --
The wisteria is a deep purple
jolting a memory
of a deep purple deception
the lover who did not love
the deep purple flowers
given to exact . . . more
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March 07, 2006 05:37 PM EST --
i always have cold feet. it makes sense - poor circulation, coupled with extremely low blood pressure (50s/40s). my husband and daughter are space heaters, especially when compared to me.
at night, i . . . more
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April 16, 2006 02:47 AM EDT --
Hah! Got you with that title, didn't I? It's true too but probably not in the way you expect. Let me tell you about Barry, okay?
I was 14 and my girlfriend Linda had two stepbrothers, . . . more
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April 18, 2006 08:11 AM EDT --
I found an old journal this past weekend and made the painful choice to read through it. It is almost twenty years old, and it covers most of two years with a few pages of the years after. Those were some . . . more
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September 18, 2006 02:31 PM EDT --
note: this is a pure, unadulterated ramble. by no means a finished poem, but more of an expectoration of words that were choking me, thoughts that needed release. shit, i couldn't even think of . . . more
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March 25, 2006 10:20 PM EST --
*our house
6 years ago we bought our first home. It is 79 years old and it shows. Over the years many, many owners have moved in and did what they thought was remodeling; I'll explain.
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September 24, 2007 01:33 PM EDT --
Twenty years of love, hope, security, companionship, plans.
One year of fear, noncomprehension, anger, grief, pain.
Eight months of learning to unlove, to sever the "we" and become "I." . . . more
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July 21, 2006 12:02 PM EDT --
Life is amazing with it's twists and turns. Just about the time we think we know who we are...just about the time we think we have it all figured out, something happens to remind us that we . . . more
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July 05, 2006 04:19 PM EDT --
I used to balk at the term "Big Beautiful Woman". Something about it bothered me.
First of all, it was a foreign concept to me. Big and beautiful in the same sentence? . . . more
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April 18, 2006 11:25 PM EDT --
I was reading another Gather posting by a nice young man named Joshua. In one of his comments he made reference to being open to anyone's single daughter. He seems like a nice enough guy, but rather . . . more
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June 08, 2006 04:31 PM EDT --
I am sitting here wondering why some women think they can change the men in their lives?
One scenario goes like this: A smart, savvy woman who has completed her education and advanced in her career . . . more
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July 27, 2006 01:22 AM EDT --
I started on a journey that lasted many years;
I spent a lot of money and shed a lot of tears.
Three weeks of every month, I really felt quite well
But the week before my period, my life became pure hell! . . . more
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March 04, 2006 06:38 PM EST --
How to Sneeze Like a Woman:
Pieces is parts, parts is pieces. This is all well and good if you happen to be a Chicken McNugget. . . . more
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June 15, 2006 06:05 PM EDT --
It seems that for girls and young women these days, in order to be cool, you need to post naked or revealing photos of yourself on the Internet. Everywhere I look is yet another girl planning on a career . . . more
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March 17, 2006 10:55 PM EST --
Your warm brown hands,
a man's hands, caramel color
fingers absentmindedly
caress mine,
gently moving back and forth
but unaware that I am there,
that my hands are handing you
my heart. . . . more
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August 02, 2006 01:19 PM EDT --
This has been a difficult week for me. For the past seven days I've been waiting on the results of a biopsy that was done on me. First I just denied that cancer was even a possibility. . . . more
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March 30, 2007 09:15 PM EDT --
Recently my son and I watched Miracle, the Disney movie about the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team’s victory over the Russians. That game was a defining moment of my youth: the ultimate David and Goliath . . . more
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April 15, 2006 11:26 AM EDT --
Time has changed us in many ways, you know;
More than our looks, but the way you think you know
what i'm feeling inside;
The way you think I'm the same sweet girl you married
so many years . . . more
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