Tag: personal experiences
member name: Dale C.
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March 15, 2007 01:42 PM EDT --
Bats. My aunt is 83 years old, and apparently has some kind of mild dementia. She can't be left alone for more than an hour at a time at most. Her husband and son are dead, so my . . .
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June 08, 2008 01:44 PM EDT --
It's been a few months since the NiU shooting. We live about 15 minutes away from the campus. My daughter and I were home at the time and we went around checking doors because a rumor . . .
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June 14, 2007 10:30 PM EDT --
Listed below are 5 statements, four that are TRUE and one that is FALSE. Your job is to guess which one is false. After the first 10 guesses, I will come back and reveal which statement is the FALSE one. . . .
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March 15, 2007 01:56 PM EDT --
Glider, Sugar Glider that is. Sugar Gliders are marsupials, distant relatives of kangaroos. They look and act like flying squirrels. If they are bottle-fed and handled regularly from . . .
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March 17, 2007 12:32 AM EDT --
I've spent a lot of time in rural southern Wisconsin lately because because as of early last summer my 83 year old aunt has the responsibility for maintaining two farms. Think of your lawn and . . .
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May 24, 2007 07:44 PM EDT --
For the last month and a half, as the First Chapters contest comes to a close, gather.com has echoed with the sound of dreams hitting the cr*pfilter. It has been painful. Some dreams have died. . . .
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April 16, 2007 03:25 PM EDT --
It's kind of odd how fast things can change in your life. One Saturday morning in mid-December a few years ago I was in a hurry. It was 11:30 in the morning, and I absolutely had to get . . .
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April 09, 2008 02:43 PM EDT --
For the last ten years or so I've been a member of an "Amateur Press Association" (APA) called Point of Divergence. An APA is basically a bunch of people with a common interest who . . .
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March 26, 2007 01:59 PM EDT --
I got tagged three times, so I figure I'll just go ahead and post this. Unfortunately, I've already written about my really juicy stuff various places on gather, so some of this is sort of . . .
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March 28, 2007 02:53 PM EDT --
For the last two or three years, my sister and I have been living two lives. When we're home we have relatively normal lives with family, TV, time on the computer, work, and sometimes a little . . .
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May 20, 2007 11:08 AM EDT --
I've been tagged twice, so here goes.
This is going to be tough because so many things I like about myself are mixed emotions types of things. Also, the ones that aren't tend to make me . . .
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March 18, 2007 07:40 PM EDT --
This is a slightly fictionalized version of a real scene from my life. I telescoped time a bit. Otherwise everything happened as stated. Fair warning: I leave you hanging at the end of . . .
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May 28, 2007 12:16 PM EDT --
As a science fiction fan and writer I hate to admit this, but last night I watched Star Wars all the way through for the very first time. "How could that be?" you ask. Thirty years . . .
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May 27, 2007 02:59 PM EDT --
Most of us remember at least a few stories our uncles, aunts, or parents told us as we were growing up. Those stories can give us a window into another generation. Granted, they aren't . . .
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March 15, 2007 01:49 PM EDT --
Inka. My stepdaughter is a major fan of northern breed dogs. While she was in high school we became a foster home for Samoyeds and occasionally other northern breed dogs. Samoyeds are . . .
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May 30, 2007 02:44 PM EDT --
I joined Gather on March 7th. In the roughly three months since then I've published a lot of articles. This is kind of an overview of 50 articles I've posted, organized by category. . . .
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