Tag: life
member name: Greg Schiller
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August 02, 2007 10:30 AM EDT --
Yesterday as my wife and I watched a parade of gray frigates rotate slowly around Seattle harbor, my son called from over a thousand miles away.
“Did you hear the news?”
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April 21, 2008 06:58 AM EDT --
I have yet to visit the eHarmony website, but I am curious. Can anyone tell me if the following items appear on their compatibility questionnaire?
- Which is louder: a pile driver or your snoring? . . .
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May 19, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
After four hours of touring the flat expanses of Eastern North Dakota, I told my buddy I'd seen empty parking lots with more scenery.
At least parking lots have interesting stuff like white . . .
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November 27, 2008 11:09 AM EST --
No one described home better than the poet Robert Frost
In Death of the Hired Man , he wrote, "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."
And so it . . .
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May 13, 2008 10:09 AM EDT --
I don't believe in "Global Warming".
No, not at all.
I've read some interesting studies about carbon forcing and others that suggest the whole thing is overblown, but at least . . .
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May 03, 2007 06:04 PM EDT --
Critique welcome
In a canyon west of Boulder Colorado, Meg eased Allen's Volkswagen down a rutted road dogging the course of a noisy brook. The lane crossed and re-crossed the stream . . .
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May 06, 2007 10:56 AM EDT --
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For Meg, The Black Hills were more than mountains. She carried a worn, marked-up copy of "Black Elk Speaks" in support of her belief that . . .
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October 14, 2007 12:44 PM EDT --
None of this is my fault.
FOXNEWS is calling it “The Payday Massacre”, like I'm some kind of gangster killer. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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January 19, 2007 01:32 PM EST --
I know of a man handicapped by intelligence; he is in every sense of the word, a nerd. Eluded by social and physical grace, as well as success, he still remains undeniably breathtakingly brilliant. . . .
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February 01, 2007 01:58 PM EST --
Two old guys wearing the same fashion they wore for decades held down opposite ends of a bench in the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport; neither appeared headed anywhere. They eyed the human herd passing by, and . . .
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November 19, 2007 11:06 AM EST --
" What makes some of us tightwads and others spendthrifts?”
I still don't know, but American RadioWorks explored the question in a documentary titled Design . . .
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October 13, 2008 12:06 AM EDT --
My first love was my first car.
Oh, I've had crushes before but never anything close to love -- but that car, that was love.
She wasn't much to look at, just a snot-green . . .
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January 21, 2007 11:26 AM EST --
I hit two deer in three days at the same spot in the road. To be precise, I hit one, the other hit me. The first accident occurred while commuting one crisp moonless morning on a road slicked black with . . .
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April 08, 2007 01:49 PM EDT --
Sgt. Schultz pulled his squad behind a Volkswagen Beetle blocking the south bound lane of River Road. The little white car puttered at an uneasy idle, its air-cooled engine rattling a loose . . .
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April 28, 2008 08:24 AM EDT --
There was a time when almost everyone in Minnesota lived in a tent. The equipment in those days was pretty basic stuff: buffalo hide shelter, wicker backpacks, wooden utensils and maybe a clay vessel . . .
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May 05, 2008 06:59 AM EDT --
I remember my son's coach ticking his way through the roll-call before the soccer games: "Joshua, Jeremiah, Jason, Joshua, Joshua, Joshua".
You get the idea.
To . . .
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April 01, 2009 10:01 AM EDT --
Could there be an entry in the White House speech-writing stylebook that reads, "A paragraph anchored by an inference to "Global Warming" can state anything and still be credible with . . .
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June 08, 2007 03:39 PM EDT --
Critique Welcome
You look like you have been up all night.
Yeah, we had the break-up fight. Marcy is gone.
I am really sorry to hear that. She was a nice kid.
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November 12, 2007 11:40 AM EST --
Religion in America is in steep decline, and I know why. Simply gaze upon any church built after 1950, and you will know why too. Modern churches are ugly as sin, and so too is modern religion.
In . . .
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January 28, 2008 06:25 AM EST --
I bought something the other day I shouldn't have. It was a little thing, a memory chip for my camera, but it came in a large clam-shell package. I needed the chip, but I swore I would . . .
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