Tag: random musings
member name: Clair D.
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September 09, 2006 05:38 PM EDT --
I admit it. I am an overacheiver. I hated getting B's in school. And I work very, very hard at everything I do-- even at my retail job where I get paid peanuts. Yet, I find . . .
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September 09, 2006 11:25 PM EDT --
Had a student ask me the other day if she should forgive her boyfriend (and father of her unborn child) for lying through omission. He didn't want to tell her that he wanted to hang out with . . .
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July 31, 2006 07:08 PM EDT --
Let me first say, I am a very frugal person. I am also a painfully pragmatic person. My husband is similarly frugal. When it comes down to it, we're so cheap we drive to the pizza . . .
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December 29, 2006 07:39 PM EST --
Check out my products over at
www.cafepress.com/inferiorproduct
Including:
*The hope monster-- because hope can be a dangerous thing
* Corporate Sponsor (couldn't we all use one?)
* Unnumbered . . .
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January 06, 2007 12:50 AM EST --
As the semester winds to an end, I find I actually have a change to breathe, put my feet up, and even put a few words to paper (or to computer). This has been one of the more hectic semesters-- far . . .
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July 16, 2006 11:48 PM EDT --
In a quiet little part of Southeast Michigan, there's a quiet little town that gets more publicity that many of it's residents are really looking for. According to one legend, the town got . . .
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July 31, 2006 11:24 PM EDT --
Following the grain or going with the flow have never been strong suits of mine.
As much as I like some of the ways to link to content, such as "Articles for Me" and connections and recently . . .
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August 17, 2006 09:03 PM EDT --
There's no such thing as a "quick visit to gather".
It's kind of like that friend most everyone has-- the one with whom you can never have a short conversation or a short visit . . .
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August 01, 2006 10:57 PM EDT --
It was a warm fall day, probably late in August since school always used to start at the end of August. On that, my first day of kindergarten, I was so excited for school that I actually jumped off . . .
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July 11, 2006 07:58 PM EDT --
My husband left his shoes in the middle of the room. Again. I tripped over them. Again. And it made me smile.
I've been with him for eight years, married for . . .
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July 11, 2006 09:22 PM EDT --
you lean close to the mirror to put make-up around
old eyes
your glasses perch low on your nose to read
you're too young to need bifocals
"My mother's old, I'm middle-aged," you . . .
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July 20, 2006 10:54 PM EDT --
When I was asked to teach summer school, I was told that these were students who needed to make up the credit they'd lost in that particular course during the school year. I was also warned that . . .
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July 22, 2006 10:20 PM EDT --
WHY IT'S HARD FOR ME TO RELATE TO MY OWN GENDER
I recall having lunch with a fellow teacher where she was talking about how she needed to pack up her "winter" clothes to make room . . .
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July 24, 2006 11:27 PM EDT --
Today it was amusingly realized that our summer school staff could raise some serious questions for fee-paying parents. At least on face value, given the lot we have this July.
A Math . . .
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July 15, 2006 05:58 PM EDT --
Pretty simple, these four components to gather.com. We could supplant "Write" with "Publish", thus including photos too. Either way, I find that some people forget a step. . . .
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July 23, 2006 07:49 PM EDT --
A LETTER TO THE EDITOR WHO KEEPS REJECTING MY STORIES
Dear Editor,
I don't understand why you keep rejecting the stories I send you. You rarely give me much to go on, usually . . .
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July 11, 2006 09:17 PM EDT --
Curse you, Martha Stewart! Did you ever consider that women don't need any more pressure to be domestic goddesses? Not . . .
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July 12, 2006 08:34 PM EDT --
I'm trying to find the holy grail of writing: publication. For years, I've been writing stories that get good reviews . . .
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July 22, 2006 09:03 PM EDT --
THIS IS NOT YOUR PARENTS' CLASSROOM
And it's probably not the same sort of classroom the baby-boomers recall.
Today's high school classroom is something of a cross between . . .
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July 15, 2006 01:22 PM EDT --
As writers, many of us here know the frustration of writing and sending things off only to wait weeks or months for any reply. And far too often, it is not the reply we want. We might submit . . .
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