Tag: people
member name: Amy B.
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May 24, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
Faith wouldn't come upstairs for breakfast this morning. She usually hides in the basement when there's a thunderstorm (not the case this morning) or when Shadow has been picking on her too much. . . .
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August 08, 2007 10:04 PM EDT --
I got great news today in the form of a flyer on my front door. Weather permitting, they will begin paving my street this Friday. Can we say "Alleluia!"?
The city has been replacing the sewers . . .
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March 21, 2007 02:09 PM EDT --
What would you have done if you were an ordinary German citizen during World War II? Would you have risked your life to hide some Jews? Or turned them in? Would you have joined the Resistance? . . .
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April 04, 2007 05:17 PM EDT --
Back in 2002 I went out to Denver to visit my grandmother for her 104th birthday. Yes, I typed that right – she was over one hundred years old and still pretty spry and spunky. After my plane landed . . .
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April 11, 2007 09:31 PM EDT --
We called my grandmother "Toots" (pronounced like the first part of "Tootsie Roll") ever since my oldest brother was learning how to talk. The story is that every time my grandmother . . .
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May 27, 2007 03:51 PM EDT --
Part of my job involves meeting with our customers at various events where there is a business meeting and then some sort of recreational event that allows everyone to mingle and get to know each other . . .
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June 09, 2007 04:47 PM EDT --
Not too long ago I read something that says we should think about what we want to be like when we're senior citizens and then start working on becoming that person today. That really made me start . . .
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August 13, 2007 03:06 PM EDT --
I get the genealogy bug from time to time and do a little bit of research. I have a lot of information on my Mom's side of the family, going back to the mid-1600s, but my Dad's side is a bit harder . . .
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May 29, 2007 08:36 PM EDT --
About six weeks ago I posted an article about Bob Greene’s “The Best Life Diet” book. Bob’s premise is that when people decide to lose weight they try to make too many drastic changes . . .
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February 16, 2007 04:18 PM EST --
When I was four years old, my three older brothers (aged 15 to 18) had a slot car track that was quite large and complex with curves and long straighaways where you could really pick up speed. Sometimes, . . .
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June 09, 2007 04:11 PM EDT --
I used to walk a lot in my youth. I walked 2.5 miles to school - one way. So that was 25 miles per week at a minimum because it didn't include any walking to get to a friend's house or to . . .
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March 13, 2007 09:22 PM EDT --
The Philadelphia Flower Show is the grand-daddy of all the flower shows. I believe it is also the first of the flower shows since it began in 1827 - making it over 175 years old! The show's ten acres . . .
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April 28, 2007 10:48 AM EDT --
Mother's Day is fast approaching and I'm finding the holiday to be just as bittersweet as last year. It's been one year since we buried my mother and I can't help but miss her amidst . . .
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May 28, 2007 09:36 AM EDT --
I love to go 'antiquing' and poke around antique shops to see what treasures I may find. Some days though I just don't have the time to drive out to where there are some antique stores and . . .
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May 28, 2007 09:17 AM EDT --
My ancestors are long-time residents of the Detroit area. In fact, one of my ancestors came to Detroit with Cadillac when it was first settled in 1701. Many of the descendants of the original Detroit . . .
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June 15, 2007 09:14 PM EDT --
There are several charities that allow you to sponsor a child through monthly donations. I have been sponsoring children through Compassion International for over twenty years now, beginning when I first . . .
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July 12, 2007 11:27 PM EDT --
It's way too late to call anyone and wake them up so I can vent. so I'm going to type my venting instead. :-)
Some of you are aware that the city tore up my street four weeks ago to replace the . . .
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July 20, 2007 05:07 PM EDT --
It's so good to finally be home! I was in Houston for business this week with three of my co-workers and we was supposed to be back home yesterday afternoon, but it ended up taking an extra 24 . . .
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May 26, 2007 05:27 PM EDT --
Detroit gets a lot of bad press, but there are a lot of things to see and do in the area. Last year I finally went on one of the tour boats and we had a great time. Seeing the sights from the river also . . .
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July 14, 2007 05:08 PM EDT --
Bill Bryson wrote this book almost a decade ago to document his walk along the Appalachian Trail with his friend Stephen Katz in 1996. Before reading this book I knew the Appalachian Trail was long, but . . .
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