Tag: random musings
member name: Corina Carrasco
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November 08, 2006 10:20 PM EST --
I am working on my NaNoWriMo novel. I just finished a really tough scene, emotionally tough. Now I have to unwind a bit before I sit and write some more.
What do you do to unwind?
I came . . .
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November 26, 2006 01:45 AM EST --
[Thank you to David Rochester. Your article earlier tonight http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976846970
reminded me of this incident.]
We were at . . .
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November 06, 2006 04:20 AM EST --
Crystal walked in the brisk air, trying to forget the thoughts and memories rushing through her mind. Why now? She had put that part of her life away a long time ago. She had tried . . .
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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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December 21, 2006 04:01 PM EST --
Last night my daughter invited me to go with her to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner to celebrate her friend's birthday. It is a relatively new friend that I have not met and she wanted me to . . .
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July 30, 2007 02:20 PM EDT --
Or give up.
This morning, I was rudely awakened by the phone ringing loudly. I jumped up, found my glasses (I’m totally blind without them) and ran to the desk, two rooms away. By the . . .
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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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November 28, 2006 12:41 PM EST --
I’ve never been in the snow before. I have been where snow has fallen but never when it is falling or is freshly fallen, still a pristine white.
I looked out the hotel window last night and . . .
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November 27, 2006 03:41 AM EST --
Tonight I packed for a trip
I don’t know how long I will be gone
So packing was not easy
I looked at the weather report
Looks like treacherous roads
But I guess que será será . . .
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November 06, 2006 03:05 AM EST --
Crystal sat at the window overlooking The Strip. She liked the lights. She could see the distant mountains. It felt strange to be sitting high above all the frenzied activity, all alone in . . .
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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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December 15, 2006 04:04 AM EST --
The silence was interrupted only by the steady fall of the much-needed rain. Alone, she thought of the life promised only to be snatched from her before it materialized. She buried her silent, . . .
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January 01, 2007 03:52 AM EST --
firecrackers burst
the night sky illuminates
the new year is here
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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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November 11, 2006 04:42 AM EST --
Pain is the deep sorrow
when a life finally passes
from the concrete
to the elusive thoughts
of imagination and
memories hidden
way down in the darkness
of the mind.
Pain is the hollowness left
behind . . .
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November 15, 2006 03:00 PM EST --
Fourteen years ago today, my husband of fourteen years packed a bag and walked out. He didn't say anything before he packed. He just came into the bedroom and started packing.
That . . .
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November 23, 2006 05:06 AM EST --
1. I was born on Christmas Day, 1955. That makes me a Capricorn.
2. I am the fifth of seven children born to my parents (three boys then four girls).
3. I was born and raised in . . .
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November 24, 2006 10:25 PM EST --
Dejame Vivir
Ya no me vienen las lágrimas
he llorado demasiado
desde que te fuiste
he llorado como sí te hubieras
muerto
aunque en tus ojos,
yo soy las que ha muerto.
Mi renacimeiento está . . .
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November 26, 2006 12:47 AM EST --
I was so tired. I wanted to be home, warm, safe, in my bed, but I wasn’t. My mother and my brothers and sisters and I were walking home from the movies. It was dark and late. . . .
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December 27, 2006 04:14 AM EST --
Restless and unable to sleep, she got up, walked the few steps to the window in the motel room, and pulled the curtains aside. A smile broke out across her face as she saw the snow. She had . . .
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