Tag: memoir
member name: Corina Carrasco
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December 04, 2007 03:43 PM EST --
Years ago, when my now 17 year old was less than 3, she was pretty much a little angel. Susie didn’t go through the dreaded terrible twos, not at two, not ever. She was usually pretty . . .
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February 29, 2008 04:34 PM EST --
(previously posted on my blog)
Some years ago, I was in a car accident that totaled out my car. The amount the insurance company gave me was more than I thought my car was worth. . . .
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December 05, 2007 04:00 PM EST --
When my kids were little, we used to drive around looking at Christmas decorations. We lived in Glendale in southern California, near Pasadena. Before the kids were born, my husband and I would drive . . .
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January 25, 2008 08:31 PM EST --
[Note: My grandmother is 97. Yesterday I gotword that she has very little time left. Funeral arrangements have beenmade. I am flying out to Texas later today. This is a story I wroteabout the times my . . .
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June 15, 2008 08:06 PM EDT --
While I often have some negative memories associated with my dad and growing up, today in honor of Fathers' Day, I will dwell on the fun stuff.
I learned to dance by standing on my dad's . . .
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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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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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December 29, 2007 04:35 AM EST --
Last week, I had occasion to go to my birth town, San Jose. It is about a two hour drive from where I live. I had to go get a copy of my birth certificate so I would have it because during the ongoing . . .
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May 10, 2008 04:45 PM EDT --
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 stove, using the stove . . .
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July 06, 2007 06:18 AM EDT --
silently you move
toward me
my heart races
our dry mouths
water
silence broken by
thumping hearts
velvet soft lips
pressing until they
hurt
this is the kiss
the very first one . . .
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October 08, 2007 10:35 PM EDT --
Kindergarten is a place of beginnings. For me it was a place where I became someone else. Using my middle name, I became Joy. With my new name I saw new things; heard . . .
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November 23, 2007 09:57 PM EST --
I tend to think that sometimes life gives us signs. If we listen to them, we might get a warning of some kind. If we don’t listen, then we miss the warning that Mother Nature, in her . . .
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December 23, 2007 02:21 AM EST --
When my kids were in elementary school, there was a dad that would put on the Santa suit each year and he'd be driven in on a fire truck during the middle of a fire drill when the entire student body . . .
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December 21, 2008 07:18 PM EST --
Two of my favorite Christmases were when I was pregnant.
Early during my first pregnancy, I was told that my baby was due on January 15. However, during my routine visit on December fourth, the doctor . . .
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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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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 16, 2008 01:34 AM EDT --
It has been way too hot this week. Today we hit 104 degrees. Much too hot. Tomorrow will be about the same. I have no air conditiioning in the house we rent. It has been absolutely . . .
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July 25, 2007 10:49 PM EDT --
I started a new group a couple of weeks ago but never published its announcement. I'm doing that now.
The group is called Just A Kiss (justakiss.gather.com) and it is for any poetry or prose . . .
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