Tag: gather
group name: amusingmusings
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April 12, 2006 11:39 AM EDT --
Madame Noetal tells it like it is
Dear Madame Noetal,
I just joined Gather.com. Nobody's reading my articles. Should I send an personal message to all 20,000 members so some will come and read my . . .
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April 28, 2006 01:02 AM EDT --
1. I lost 5 pounds. In the last month, alone. Without trying. I ate three meals a day, at least I think so. I don't rightly remember, actually, between the cups of coffee I drank staying up half the . . .
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April 02, 2006 01:36 PM EDT --
On a lazy Sunday afternoon, I call to my two cats, Mao and Cheddar. And they come running.
I called "Baby Fooooood." Sure, they know the words, "Baby Food." They're cats. . . .
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April 29, 2006 09:45 PM EDT --
Two Decembers ago, it was 65 degrees and my crocuses and tulips bloomed.
They trusted. They trusted their instinct that the time to bloom was at that moment.
It doesn't matter they were wrong. They . . .
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April 19, 2006 02:56 PM EDT --
Oh dear, what shall I do
My Gather Points went down to two
Hundred, it's not enough
I say things are tough
Perhaps Tom Gerace I should woo!
Now Dean is really upset
And Hannah's taking . . .
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July 16, 2006 01:07 AM EDT --
Well, it has been more than 48 hours since the New Gather arrived.
The first 24 hours or so saw 600 new articles; the next 24 hours saw only about 180 new articles published. . . .
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July 19, 2006 11:47 AM EDT --
Heat's addled my brain
Cannot think
Heat's addled my brain
Vapor steams from my fingers, as they fly on the keyboard
Heat's addled my brain
I cannot sleep
Heat's addled my brain
No AC except . . .
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May 04, 2006 09:06 PM EDT --
When I was in college, when I felt self-indulgent and wanted to write, I would say 'I'm feeling mossy.'
It was an oblique reference to Walt Whitman. More mundanely, I was feeling creative. . . .
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July 04, 2006 06:39 PM EDT --
I began actively participating on this site around the middle of April. Even though I officially joined Gather last December, it took me a while to publish, and just as long to comment. . . .
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May 21, 2006 01:45 AM EDT --
Men's list here.
1. Maureen Sullivan Stemberg, for starting all manner of things Beatific…
2. Beryl Singleton Bissell, for "The Scent of God."
3. Hannah Dreyma, . . .
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May 21, 2006 01:49 AM EDT --
Women's list here
1. Ed Nudelman
2. Ludolf
3. George Corneliussen
4. Ron Hall
5. Nathan Schauer
6. KR Craft
7. John . . .
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March 06, 2006 12:19 PM EST --
Dreaming of Gather
I awoke from my dream, maybe it was a nightmare, at 7:05 this morning to make a break for the bathroom. The confusion of the last hour or two in bed was whirring around in my head. . . .
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April 08, 2006 09:01 PM EDT --
I'm sure that there will be a story on this evening's local newscast featuring an unexplained tremor in the Phoenix Metro Area. It had to register at least a 4.5 on the Richter scale,and . . .
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July 15, 2006 12:30 AM EDT --
Almost. By the time this goes to press, I'm sure we will soon have 2245 pages of articles.
When I published my article last night around midnight on the New Gather, it was on page 2215.
Now, . . .
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April 27, 2006 01:29 AM EDT --
Four young women came to my home, marched in, all limber and lithe, tight and young. They scrubbed, vaccumed, waxed and cleaned.
There, too, was I, right there beside them, putting away as fast as they . . .
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May 09, 2006 03:24 AM EDT --
"Hey, you there – don't jump."
A short, balding man with a twinkle in his eye and appearing to be ageless, yet elderly, caught the younger man by the arm, and stopped him . . .
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April 11, 2006 07:26 AM EDT --
Over the past few weeks, the number of emails from an author asking that I read his or her article has increased. Dramatically so.
I've been a member of Gather for three months now. Gather membership . . .
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October 17, 2006 07:25 PM EDT --
Tah dah... I have returned to Gather. I left feeling a bit miffed that silly entries receive more attention than well written submissions. I pushed my indifference aside and decided . . .
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April 14, 2006 10:43 PM EDT --
I open my email and what do I see?
Nothing from the Nudelman house,
Are they spurning me?
Day after day, night after night...
Did I say something wrong??
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May 02, 2006 02:59 AM EDT --
Breathing is life.
It is involuntary.
We cannot will ourselves to stop.
But we can will ourselves to breathe faster or slower.
But even this feat cannot last forever.
In the end, we must trust enough . . .
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