Tag: miscellaneous ramblings
member name: Pina M.
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September 24, 2006 09:25 AM EDT --
Morning has come to my humble life, and today I find myself wistful and reflective from the events of last week, wishing I could start it all over again, fresh and new. I am thinking about the . . .
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October 20, 2006 11:21 AM EDT --
SPENT
I spent the better part of last night contemplating what it was I should write, but I kept coming up empty; my mind drained from a trying workweek that has continued since Saturday, with . . .
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February 22, 2008 11:48 PM EST --
SICK: LIVING WITH CHRONIC FATIGUE AND FIBROMYALGIA SYNDROME, Part II
I am not entirely sure when all of this started. It's kind of like trying to figure out if the . . .
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October 21, 2006 10:33 PM EDT --
When I was 18 or 19, I had great plans for my life. I was in college studying abstract painting when this brilliant thought came to my mind one day while I was working in the studio, carefully applying . . .
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November 10, 2006 09:43 PM EST --
PART III
When I first moved back to New York the summer of 1977 and after I had settled into the apartment I shared on 103 street, I was pretty much consumed by two things: finding a job . . .
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October 11, 2006 10:38 PM EDT --
THE DANCER
For Wendy S., on Gather, whose story about a homeless man inspired me to write this.
I was living in Hotel Bretton Hall, an old hotel located on the corners of 86<sup>th</sup> . . .
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October 22, 2006 05:08 PM EDT --
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Before I careened into my marital fantasies, I continued my artistic pursuits, even though some plans I had were discarded in favor of the practicalities . . .
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February 23, 2008 10:34 PM EST --
CHRONIC ILLNESS AND THE FINE ART OF SAYING "NO"
They say "sorry" is the hardest word for many of us, but for me the word "no" has been my downfall. After . . .
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November 25, 2006 04:39 PM EST --
Where I am From
I came from love, a second marriage of opposites
A love forged in passion and grace,
Entwined in inner sorrows, revealed when I matured
A gentle, . . .
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February 22, 2008 11:41 PM EST --
SICK: LIVING WITH CHRONIC FATIGUE AND FIBROMYALGIA SYNDROME, Part 1
When you first look at me, you wouldn't believe or think that I am sick, just as you wouldn't know I am . . .
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March 24, 2008 10:57 PM EDT --
Rumble and Roar
It starts quietly enough
this low sound
a rumble that comes from afar
a distant storm
dark clouds overhead, churning and twisting into monstrous shapes . . .
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March 23, 2008 01:18 PM EDT --
ISN'T IT IRONIC?
A Karmic Journey
Of late, my life - such as it is now - is one so filled with the twists and turns of life's irony and Karmic energy I . . .
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September 18, 2006 10:29 PM EDT --
Yesterday I wrote about the Sunday blues and today I write about Monday's madness... Now, I am in a fine mood and there is no issue here to speak of, but it is just another slice of my life. And so, . . .
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September 28, 2006 11:07 PM EDT --
We all know I have 8 cats, and we all know, of course, that our cats are GODS, but what few know - unless they are in the same situation as I - is exactly what it is like to have 7 cats . . .
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September 22, 2007 12:46 PM EDT --
In 1977/78, right after I lost the job at the lighting firm and started a new job two weeks later at a wing of New York's largest University . . .
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November 03, 2007 08:14 PM EDT --
For 32 1/2 years I have dreaded the day I would turn the proverbial page of my life and finally come "full circle" to meet- head on - the embodiment of all my fears, the age of 52, . . .
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April 17, 2008 07:04 PM EDT --
The Journey Revealed: Breast Cancer - Reality Sets In (Part 2)
Over thirty years ago I remember reading an article about Betty Rollin, a former NBC News Correspondent and . . .
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September 17, 2006 10:17 PM EDT --
I don't like Sundays as much as I don't like snow. You know it is part of the daily theme and cycle of life, and you know that it is coming, but it still is a drag no matter how you slice . . .
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