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616 Blog Posts Under This Category Now Displaying Page 19, Blog Posts 451 to 475 « Previous | Next » Page 1.. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Category: Blogging MOXIE AND ITS MYSTIQUE - CarolynCHolland(9,534)   (Original Post) Southwestern Pennsylvanians drink pop or soda pop. In New England, they order tonic. Either way, the beverage is carbonated, sugary tasting, and usually a well-known brand. That is, unless it’s Moxie, which is neither sweet nor well-known. Moxie is reputed to be the original...Category: Blogging THE WOOD SHOP - beanerywriters(11,675) Linda V. just joined the Beanery Writers Group in Latrobe, Pa. This is her first submission. She writes in several different genres. Return to the Beanery Online Literary Magazine at ProBlogs.com/beanerywriters tomorrow night when her bio will be posted. Standing in the doorway, A pause before... Category: Blogging FATHER'S DAY POEM: "WALK A LITTLE PLAINER, DADDY" - CarolynCHolland(9,534) " Walk a little plainer, Daddy,” Said a little boy so frail. “I’m following in your footsteps and I don’t want to fail.” Sometimes your steps are very plain---Category: Blogging Linda V's Bio - beanerywriters(11,675) Veronique Vienne appropriately quotes, “Every new beginning is a merging of holding on and letting go.” Twenty-five years ago, and after the first twenty-five years of living, a new way of life emerged. Today I find myself reinventing my life again, learning about my natural rhythms... Category: Blogging FATHER'S DAY POEM: "WALK A LITTLE PLAINER, DADDY" - beanerywriters(11,675) " Walk a little plainer, Daddy,” Said a little boy so frail. “I’m following in your footsteps and I don’t want to fail.” Sometimes your steps are very plain--- Category: Blogging THE ISLES OF SHOALS: BEAUTY, MYSTERY, INTRIGUE - CarolynCHolland(9,534) I just learned of the death of my aunt and uncle, Marion and Gene Stegner. Marion died at March 28, 2007. Gene died June 2, 2007; his memorial service was today, June 16. I’m posting this New England article in their memory. Last year my aunt, Marion Stegner of North Tonawanda, N. Y., put...Category: Blogging WORKS IN PROGRESS WRITERS GROUP - beanerywriters(11,675) I finally made contact with a writers group in Somerset, Works in Progress Writers Group, lead by Barbara Purbaugh. It is affiliated with Laurel Arts---the group receives no funding but the affiliation connects them with Penn Writers. We talked about group members visiting back and forth. They... Category: Blogging BW MEETING MINUTES JUNE 8, 2007 - beanerywriters(11,675) Members present: Joe, Linda, Sal, Carolyn, Ron, Colleen (new), Claudette, others I shared a piece of mail from a local theater addressed to: Monte Holland, Beanery Writers Group, addressed to our street location (our mail is directed to a Post Office Box)! A momentary bit of humor… As for... Category: Blogging A FATHER-DAUGHTER MEMORY - CarolynCHolland(9,534) (Original Post) Today I’m sharing a piece my husband Monte used for a five-minute radio spot in 1997. It’s appropriate for Father’s Day. I want to share about a conversation I had with my daughter, Sandy, a couple of weeks ago. It took us back to a time over twenty years ago...Category: Blogging A DOG BISCUIT, A LOST DOG AND A FUNERAL - beanerywriters(11,675) What do a dog biscuit, a lost dog and a funeral visitation have in common? The funeral visitation was for a friend from church, Henry. My husband, Monte, and I wanted to give his wife, Margaret, our condolences. As we left the house I did my usual “Wait, I’ve forgotten... Category: Blogging NOT WORDS, JUST PRESENCE - CarolynCHolland(9,534) (Original Post) The twelve-year old peeked into the dining room where her new step-aunt, Carole, lay on the couch, her crying body softly shaking. Not knowing what to do, yet unable to do nothing, Katherine hesitatingly moved toward the couch. Self-conscious, she sat on the floor beside Carole....Category: Blogging BLUE MOONS AND NATURES OTHER BLUES - CarolynCHolland(9,534) Tonight, May 31, 2007, “the Moon will turn full on May 31 at 9:04 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (6:04 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time), according to The Truth Behind This Month’s Blue Moon, authored by Joe Rao, an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium....Category: Blogging BEANERY WRITERS MEETING NOTICE - beanerywriters(11,675) Just a reminder about the Beanery Writers Group meeting this Friday, June 22, 2007 at the Coffee Bean Cafe on Rt. 30 in Latrobe. For further information E-mail beaneryblog@yahoo.com and put the word MEETING in the subject line. Carolyn Category: Blogging EMILY AND MR. SPIDER - beanerywriters(11,675) I found this story in my files. A couple of weeks ago I’d spoken to Emily on the phone. She’s grown up now, with a child of her own. I hope her son enjoys this little story written by his mother when she was just a child herself. One morning Miss Emily got up and went to play in her... Category: Blogging REFOCUSED - beanerywriters(11,675) Focused on the problem overwhelmed, praying, trying, backed against the wall… Then…lifting up my head, I focused on the face of Jesus suspended in agony Category: Blogging THOUGHTS ON IMMIGRANTS - beanerywriters(11,675) Bob Mendler recommended we post this letter to the editor. Thanks, Bob! Dear Editor: So many letter writers have based their arguments on how this land is made up of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one, suggests we should tear down the Statue of Liberty because the people now in question aren't being... Category: Blogging EVERY DAY "QUIET" HEROES - beanerywriters(11,675) While reading a list of 20 th century heroes that included the Kennedys, Princess Diana, Anne Franks and Rosa Parks I wondered: Who were the heroes in my life? Initially I had difficulty answering that question, but deeper probing of my past pulled up the image of a woman whose name and... Category: Blogging THREE STORIES DEMONSTRATING CHOICE - CarolynCHolland(9,534) (Original Post) Life offers us choices. Below are three real life situations, each demonstrating the response of two persons. Consider what your response would be to each situation, if it would match one of the responder’s choices or if your choice would fall somewhere on the spectrum...Category: Blogging IMMIGRANT ASSIMILATION IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND LANGUAGE - beanerywriters(11,675) Problems with immigration fill written publications and Internet communication sites. I’m not certain where I stand on the issue, with all its complexities. I can, however, comment the issue of immigrant assimilation, including learning English. The argument I hear is: “If you come to... Category: Blogging tree - tearfulfish(104) ÊDz»ÊÇ ΪÃËÖØÃøÇ°ÊÀÄÇÒ»¸ö ûÓÿªÊ¼¾ÃÒѽáÊøµÄÃÎ ²ÅÔÚ¶à ÄêÒÔÇ°µÄij¸öÒ¹Ãà ÆÆÃöø³ö£¿£¿£¿ ¾ÃÕâÑùÕ¾ÔÚÄãµÄ´°Ç° ÊØÃû ÊØÃû×ÅÄãµÄÿһ¸öæØÌ ÊDz»ÊÇ ΪÃ˴˿̵ÄÄÇÒ»ÂÆ... Category: Blogging FOSTERING UNWED MOTHERS WHO HAVE AN ADOPTION PLAN - CarolynCHolland(9,534) While living in Atlanta, Georgia, our family decided to use our “fourth bedroom” to unwed mothers planning to release their children for adoption. This is the story of one pregnant-out-of-wedlock foster child. The trees were fleshing out with their springtime greens when Beth joined...Category: Blogging BW MEETING MINUTES JUNE 22, 2007 - beanerywriters(11,675) Those present: Pat, Claudette, Kathleen, Linda I finally made contact with the writers group I heard about in Somerset. Writers in Progress meets the first and third Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. It would be nice to have members of our group attend their meetings and vice versa. Check out the group web... Category: Blogging GRANDPARENTS, HOME MADE COOKIES AND CREAM OFF MILKCAPS - CarolynCHolland(9,534) Ahhh…the scent of orange marmalade…the scents of days past...of grandmothers that actually baked the cookies they served their grandchildren and removed the cream off the top of the milk they poured. Times change. As a child I licked the cream off the cardboard caps of glass milk...Category: Blogging OH AMERICA, YOUR BRIGHTNESS FADES - beanerywriters(11,675) “Oh America, your brightness fades; quenched by the waters of a whirlwind Category: Blogging THOUGHTS ON IMMIGRATION: A LETTER TO THE EDITOR - CarolynCHolland(9,534) Bob Mendler recommended we post this letter to the editor. Bob Mendler is a Holocaust Survivor. Parts of his story can be read in the Beanery Writers Online Magazine at www.ProBlogs.com/beanerywriters in the category “HOLOCAUST.” An article written by Carolyn was published in the... |
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