Tag: family
member name: Corina Carrasco
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October 24, 2006 12:43 AM EDT --
I have depression. It catches me by surprise every four or five months. Usually I can kick it in a few days to one week. Occasionally, it lasts longer. Last year I had the most . . .
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February 23, 2007 01:57 AM EST --
I am Gathering on my laptop as I watch the Oprah Winfrey special. Sidney Poitier just said something that struck a nerve. He said that his father told him and his brothers that "the measure . . .
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December 23, 2008 01:19 PM EST --
Note: This is a particularly difficult Christmas story to tell. I wrote it some years ago but I have only shared it with a very few people. It was written as an assignment for a writing . . .
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December 18, 2006 04:23 AM EST --
I watched "Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind" on sunday night. The premise is that a couple goes in, each one separate of the other, to have each other erased from their mind when their . . .
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February 24, 2007 11:51 PM EST --
We had a gas stove in the kitchen. It was almost always on. Good things came from that stove and the best part was that my mother was always there, at the stove, near the . . .
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October 19, 2007 04:02 AM EDT --
I don’t use recipes.
I’m not a gourmet cook.
I just hate following directions; I even hate reading them. That goes for any directions. I just don’t read them.
Recipes . . .
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December 12, 2007 03:19 PM EST --
(This is a couple of days old. I first published it on my blog.)
My cell phone rang at 1 AM. Very few people have my cell number and no one calls me at that hour. My heart stopped. It had . . .
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February 03, 2007 04:02 PM EST --
Uneducated
I just flashed on an old memory and, as usual, it did not fail to amaze me.
This happened years ago, when I was a fairly new newlywed. There was all this talk and awareness . . .
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January 06, 2009 10:06 PM EST --
Today is my dad’s birthday, January 6. I haven’t spoken to him in a long time, maybe about three years. I don’t even have a phone number to call him. I’m glad I don’t have it because I would be very . . .
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July 05, 2009 01:34 PM EDT --
It has been a very long time since I have posted here. Life has had its ups and downs for the better part of the year.
In January I was going through a severe depression and anxiety that kept . . .
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May 13, 2008 03:28 AM EDT --
My oldest daughter Tina, surfs the web looking for interesting gifts and items. She was upset last week when she told me that my Mother's Day present would not arrive until today, Monday. . . .
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April 30, 2009 09:49 PM EDT --
When I was growing up I was exposed to a wide variety of music at home. As far back as I can remember, my parents played records of music in Spanish and listened to Spanish language radio. . . .
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December 16, 2007 09:10 PM EST --
This is my favorite Christmas story. It's about the night that I was born. I posted this on Gather last year and am posting it again. I'm hoping this will inspire me to write a new Christmas . . .
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May 26, 2007 03:38 AM EDT --
On the drive southward through California, one of the things we listened to was a CD recording of an NPR broadcast having to do with babysitting stories. I enjoyed the broadcast and it made my mind . . .
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March 22, 2008 02:18 AM EDT --
David always stuck up for me. Always. When I was in first grade, David was in fifth grade. One morning we were got to school an as we walked across the playground, a big kid yelled . . .
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July 04, 2008 06:12 PM EDT --
Recently, I was swapping stories about traveling with kids. I recalled how my youngest daughter, Susie, was very forgetful when she was little. She was constantly leaving her shoes or jacket or some . . .
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November 05, 2006 03:32 PM EST --
At 9:25 on Saturday night I hit 11,269 for my word count. So I'm ahead of the game.
Today is the anniversary of my brother's suicide. I was going to drive to the cemetary but . . .
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November 19, 2006 04:11 AM EST --
I went to the cemetery to visit my brother's plot this afternoon. I had never thought of a cemetery as a place of change but when I drove up today, the small street adjacent to the cemetery was . . .
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January 19, 2007 03:02 AM EST --
California State Senator Sally Lieber, has announced that she is writing a bill she will introduce next week which will make it illegal for anyone to spank, pull, slap, or punch any child under the age . . .
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February 17, 2007 07:26 PM EST --
The phone rang, waking us from a deep sleep. I glanced at the clock as I reached for the phone. It was 3:47. I knew it was bad news.
“Hello.”
“Is Raúl there?” . . .
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