Tag: writing
member name: Yvette F.
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October 26, 2006 02:05 PM EDT --
My name is Thomas. Thomas the Train Bed. I started my journey in this room with a cute little toddler named Scotty. I felt so at home, surrounded by stuffed animals and my friend, Donald the Dresser, proudly . . .
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June 01, 2007 12:38 AM EDT --
Like millions of other people out there, it has been one of my life-long goals to write a book. When I read “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,” I loved it! I . . .
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July 02, 2008 07:17 AM EDT --
I'm trying to get back on track with my 2008 resolutions and goals again. In many ways they've been going well, but the two that are giving me trouble are the same two that always give me trouble: . . .
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May 23, 2007 09:15 AM EDT --
OK, I'm accepting one of those gather writing challenges... Here's a "red in the face" moment I wrote about when I first got on gather.com. I've had many! I could . . .
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July 04, 2007 02:52 PM EDT --
I see a lot of lolling going around, but I wonder how many times people are actually "laughing out loud" lol. I used to get excited by lol, but now I realize it's so overused . . .
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November 30, 2006 08:18 AM EST --
The Webster Word of the Day for November 30 is:
poikilotherm \poi-KEE-luh-therm\ noun
: an organism (as a frog) with a variable body temperature that tends to fluctuate with and is similar to or . . .
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November 26, 2006 08:42 AM EST --
The Webster Word of the Day for November 26 is:
steganography \steg-uh-NAH-gruh-fee\ noun
: the art or practice of concealing a message, image, or file within another message, image, or file
Example . . .
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September 21, 2008 12:46 PM EDT --
This is the part in "my book", The Laptop Dancer Diaries, (work in progress) where I talk about joining gather.com...
It may have been time to start seeing a psychiatrist when I started . . .
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November 27, 2006 08:28 AM EST --
The Word of the Day for November 27 is:
Podunk \POH-dunk\ noun
: a small, unimportant, and isolated town
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After living in a Podunk for most of her life, it took a long time for . . .
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December 23, 2006 09:50 AM EST --
A couple of weeks ago I decided I had to stop sleeping with my laptop. I was literally in bed, on the internet in the wee hours of the morning every night. I stopped my normal exercise habits, . . .
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May 26, 2007 11:48 PM EDT --
I've had a lot great birthdays. I love 'em! I think every day should be celebrated and when a day comes that's your own special day, I say take advantage of it! Revel in those . . .
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December 30, 2006 08:18 AM EST --
The Webster Word of the Day for December 30 is:
slapstick \SLAP-stick\ noun
1 : a device made of two flat pieces of wood fastened at one end so as to make a loud noise when used by an actor to strike . . .
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September 22, 2008 12:47 AM EDT --
David Salyer challenged me to bring his coffee table to life, so here goes:
Hello. My name is Marcella, but people often call me Aunt Teak. (This is a common nickname for furniture of my generation, . . .
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December 27, 2006 11:05 AM EST --
The Webster Word of the Day for December 27 is:
1 a : characterized by or suffering from vertigo or dizziness b : inclined to frequent and often pointless change : inconstant
*2 : causing or tending . . .
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February 18, 2007 11:41 AM EST --
The Word of the Day for February 18 is:
scintilla \sin-TILL-uh\ noun
: spark, trace
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After the witness's frank and bruising testimony, neither my brother nor I was left with . . .
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August 23, 2007 07:36 PM EDT --
I got this in my email today and I think I'm going to go. It would be great to meet some of my gather friends in person. Anyone else?
Yvette
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December 24, 2006 08:40 AM EST --
The Webster Word of the Day for December 24 is:
rue \ROO\ verb
*transitive sense: to feel penitence, remorse, or regret for
intransitive sense : to feel sorrow, remorse, or regret
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May 26, 2007 01:32 AM EDT --
One reason I get so addicted to blogs and social media is that I am enamored with the people behind the writing. When you meet someone, there's usually a "small-talk" stage and it's . . .
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August 27, 2007 09:09 AM EDT --
Being a writer wannabe, whenever I get the chance, I try and read advice from seasoned successful writers. One piece of advice I read was to write every day. Don't worry about how . . .
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September 29, 2007 08:15 AM EDT --
Last day in Sarasota... Headed back to the real world today and my todo list will be extra long as I catch up on homelife and worklife. I had hoped to do a lot of "gathering" while . . .
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