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43 Blog Posts Under This Category Now Displaying Page 2, Blog Posts 26 to 43 « Previous Page 1 2 Category: Reading (posted 200 days 11 hours ago.) NORTHERN BAYBERRY YIELDS READY-MADE CANDLES - beanerywriters(11,675) Winter and the holiday season are around the very close corner. Below is information on bayberry candles, used fo rChristmas and for light. In the process of writing a historic romance novel, I keep finding material that is unfamiliar, such as the “plant that yields ready-made candles.”... Category: Reading (posted 210 days 13 hours ago.) TIME TO GO by geoffrey - beanerywriters(11,675) geoffrey m. miller © 1997 Miller Creative Services. All rights reserved Geoffrey Miller is a new contributor and on-line member of the Beanery Writers Group. The first part of the first sentence of the post below caught my eye: Once upon a time, there was a theoretical physicist…Those who... Category: Reading (posted 210 days 13 hours ago.) THINKING OF NOTHING by Joe - beanerywriters(11,675) ---written by Joe Stierheim Years ago I had a friend who was a nuclear physicist. As a scientist, he had no use for such things as metaphysics. The psychic, ESP and all aspects of the occult were, to him, figments of the imagination or worse, wishful thinking. In any case, they were a waste of... Category: Reading (posted 210 days 13 hours ago.) THOUGHTS ON IMMIGRANTS from California - 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... Category: Reading (posted 221 days 8 hours ago.) We Either Make Ourselves Miserable or We Make Ourselves Strong.... - CatherineYen(20,979)  
Poster from internet of " The Thinker-Carlos Castaneda"
Born in 1925 at Cajamarca, Peru, Carlos Castaneda is a writer, renowned by his novel " The Teachings of Don Juan", and also renowned by his famous quotes " We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong, the amount...Category: Reading (posted 226 days 14 hours ago.) EMILY AND MR. ALBERT 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. To view photo illustration scroll down after clicking on... Category: Reading (posted 229 days 22 hours ago.) AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH by Carolyn C. Holland - beanerywriters(11,675) Earth nears warmest in million years…This means El Nino may become more violent, scientists write in a paper…headline for a Reuters news service article Sept. 26, 2006 United Nations climate talks involving 189 nations start this week in the Kenyan capital Nairobi to negotiate a successor to... Category: Reading (posted 231 days 10 hours ago.) IF I COULD CRY - beanerywriters(11,675) Copyright ©2006 Hugh Kerry Lipsius If I could cry, For whom would it be? Perhaps the blind man, Clutching in his fists a gleaming of more. Perhaps the deaf man, S Category: Reading (posted 234 days 12 hours ago.) THUNDERSNOW IN BUFFALO---ONE YEAR AGO - beanerywriters(11,675) One year ago---October 12, 2006---Buffalo, New York, was hit with a freak snowstorm. This is a long entry, but the topic is huge---personal reports from Buffalo, New York. Monte and I stopped at his sister’s home in northern New York where we met his brother and sister for lunch. It was... Category: Reading (posted 234 days 12 hours ago.) THE SNITTY CAT by Carolyn C. Holland - beanerywriters(11,675) My sister found a typographical error in this piece. She demanded that I leave it in. Can you find it? If you find it, let me know via the comments whether I should remove it or if you agree with her that I should leave it in the article! Thanks. It was a beautiful October day and I... Category: Reading (posted 235 days 11 hours ago.) A DOG FOR ALL SEASONS - beanerywriters(11,675) ---by Barb It was 1979. Summer had come to my hometown of Connellsville, Pennsylvania, with its traditions of swimming, gardening and barbecues. These things meant nothing to me, however. All I wanted in the world was a dog. My childish imagination envisioned a brown female dog named Tracy.... Category: Reading (posted 235 days 11 hours ago.) PAMPHLETEERING: THE 1790s BLOGGING Part 1 - beanerywriters(11,675) by Carolyn C. Holland It’s “a one-man show. One has complete freedom of expression, including, if one chooses, the freedom to be scurrilous, abusive and seditious; or, on the other hand, to be more detailed, serious and ‘high-brow’ than is ever possible in a newspaper or most kinds of... Category: Reading (posted 235 days 11 hours ago.) PAMPHLETEERING: THE 1790s BLOGGING Part 2 - beanerywriters(11,675) by Carolyn C. Holland This is the second part of a two-part article responding to articles relating today’s blogging to 18th century pamphleteering. Read the first part at PAMPHLETEERING: THE 1790s BLOGGING. Tonight I’ll start with a brief background and then give actual 1789 pamphlet examples... Category: Reading (posted 235 days 11 hours ago.) ADELGES TSUGAE INFESTS EASTERN HEMLOCK TREES - beanerywriters(11,675) By Carolyn C. Holland Many threats endanger nature as we know it. Laurel Mountain Borough is a small community surrounded by conservation lands. Its dirt roads, lack of streetlights and cottage-type homes contribute to its charm. Another charming characteristic of the community is its many... Category: Reading (posted 241 days 17 hours ago.) FLIGHT 93 CRASH SITE MEMORIAL - beanerywriters(11,675) A small parking lot on the left side of Skyline Drive, Stoneybrook Township, has four Portapotties. Beyond them, on a distant hill, under high voltage lines spanning open fields, two obsolete cranes stretch skyward. A parking area on the right roadside abuts the Flight 93 Temporary Memorial... Category: Reading (posted 241 days 17 hours ago.) WHERE ARE YOU NOW? - beanerywriters(11,675) This poem was written by a young Fran in memory of her Aunt Kay and Kay’s six-month old daughter, Kate---who disappeared in Rhode Island in 1949 after a shopping trip. Authorities found the car (with the passenger door open), Kay’s purse and a baby blanket. No sign of the mother or child was ever... Category: Reading (posted 244 days 22 hours ago.) COCKROACHES GET A MILLION DOLLAR GRANT!!!! - beanerywriters(11,675) by Cochran Cornell the Cantankerous Cockroach Hey, did you read the recent newspaper item? My creator Carolyn did and she showed me the amazing article. It gave me a whole new view of myself. It was even better than those college students making roach robots! You see, the Pentagon’s Defense... Category: Reading (posted 244 days 22 hours ago.) A LESSON IN RELIGION - beanerywriters(11,675) by Carolyn and Joe The speaker, a college mathematics professor, arrived on time from a point an hour distant despite the inclement weather. His subject was not to be mathematics, however, but an explanation of his personal understanding and practice of his religion, Islam. As a gesture of... |
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