Tag: people
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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May 01, 2007 08:42 AM EDT --
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Somewhere East of Elko Nevada, Allen and Meg turned off the interstate to glide under the concrete canopy of a Philips 66 station. The canopy cast a deep blue pool . . .
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January 23, 2007 09:43 AM EST --
Nothing is so calming as the dark maturity of a neighborhood tavern. Even at mid-day, with the bartender elsewhere clinking glass, you feel the company of lives seeped into the wood. Ghosts lingering beneath . . .
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January 24, 2007 12:09 PM EST --
He hovered at the bedroom window, kept awake by new romance. Even the breathing of the wind spoke of passion. It whispered of winter’s end, of flowering, of freshly turned earth, of new . . .
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July 04, 2007 11:04 PM EDT --
Blooming Prairie Minnesota is an unremarkable farming town in Southern Minnesota where the lack of distinction is celebrated in a big way every July.
Each Independence . . .
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July 16, 2007 03:50 PM EDT --
How many times have we heard that boys need to "share their feelings" and to "talk their problems out"? As if only boys could be more like girls, we would all be better for it. . . .
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December 09, 2006 07:50 PM EST --
Albert could not remember much before today, and all he remembered of today was the explosion and violence of a college kid kicking open his door and roughing him into the hall. All of Albert’s stuff . . .
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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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July 02, 2007 11:26 AM EDT --
Didn't see you on the bus yesterday.
Naw, I took the day off; had to go to court.
How come?
Ex-landlord refused to return my damage deposit.
You win?
Slam-dunk.
Good for you.
Typical crap, but . . .
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January 18, 2007 01:23 PM EST --
I tend to believe that people confuse "free love" with affordable sex. Love itself can never be free because it costs to love and love not shared equally costs the most.
Unlike the grace offered to . . .
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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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June 08, 2007 03:39 PM EDT --
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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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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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December 10, 2007 06:22 AM EST --
San Francisco – The 9 th Circuit Court of Appeals remains mute over banning all use of language in official documents.
“ We see this as a victory” said Ms. Todavía . . .
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February 18, 2008 08:12 AM EST --
On bitter cold days like we have had this last week, the world locks up and shuts down. Nothing moves that does not have to move and what does move, complains about it. Even the mercury at . . .
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February 25, 2008 12:04 AM EST --
I pondered reincarnation the other day.
The reason was simple, I am the notorious procrastinator who neglected to empty the cat box on garbage day. Now both my wife and cat are making . . .
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January 25, 2007 12:51 PM EST --
Magic gripped Sara so hard she loosened hold of life. After a delirious evening, fleeing up the driveway, she plowed forward the garage clutter to conceal her car with its splayed chrome and spider webbed . . .
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February 17, 2007 12:48 PM EST --
My wife is out of town for a month. She calls daily from the warmth of Florida to remind me that she is wearing short sleeves outdoors while I am bundled in a heavy sweater indoors.
Here in Minnesota, . . .
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March 12, 2007 05:29 PM EDT --
Tired of winter and buoyed by a recent warming of the weather, I tell my wife, "We need to see waves on blue water. Let's take a weekend trip."
"Are we going to Florida?" . . .
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January 22, 2007 09:29 AM EST --
I begin my morning commute by waiting. Every morning after dropping my wife off at the bus station, I queue up behind a long line of idling cars. We poise on an incline, brake lights glowing red with impatience, . . .
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