Vanessa L.

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The Gingerbread Man

Vanessa L. posted an article on - Nov 29, 2009, 2:23 pm
Note: I wrote and posted this last year. I felt like sharing it again. I added the Dickens quote because it reminds me so much of my father and his feelings about Christmas. "But I am sure I have alw...
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Thanks and Giving (EDIT TO ADD)

Vanessa L. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 8:54 am
EDIT: Added some additional organizations! I wasn’t going to post anything else until next year sometime, after our move to the Midwest... But I think that this is important. I do not usually wri...
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Thanks and Giving

Vanessa L. posted an article on - Nov 17, 2009, 4:20 pm
I wasn’t going to post anything else until next year sometime, after our move to the Midwest... But I think that this is important. I do not usually write posts like this; typically, I write memor...
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Sam In Love

Vanessa L. posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 3:55 pm
“There are no ordinary cats.” -Collette My Sam, our big boy-kitty (please see my profile picture) is a character. I’ve had several cats (or, as they see it, they’ve had me) throughout my life...
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Beatrice & Benedick

Vanessa L. posted an article on - Nov 12, 2009, 5:21 pm
“Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.” -Benedick, Much Ado About Nothing -William Shakespeare It was our third or fourth date, about eleven years ago, when I knew I really liked the man that...
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A Pre-Christmas Memory

Vanessa L. posted an article on - Nov 8, 2009, 11:07 am
Note: This is my submission for Featured_Grownups. 1973, A few days before Christmas... When I woke up that morning, my brothers (I have four of them, three older, one younger than me) were all yell...
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Looking For A Book?

Vanessa L. posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 6:56 pm
If you can’t find the book you’re looking for… You’re probably at the…
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It All Began With Frogs

Vanessa L. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 5:00 pm
October is usually our last month with the frogs. They first appear in late spring; there’s usually that low twang emanating from the pond all night (the Bull’s mating call), and then whoosh! Litt...
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Tea and Men

Vanessa L. posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 2:30 pm
Tea parties were all the rage when I was a little girl. More often than not, it was just my dolls, my stuffed animals, and I, but sometimes, other girls in the neighbourhood would bring their dolls an...
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Zoo Signs

Vanessa L. posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 1:05 pm
My big brother sent these to me this morning. Just thought I would share:
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Chickens!

Vanessa L. posted an article on - Sep 21, 2009, 3:36 pm
We live in a small, one-floor apartment complex in a rather rural area. Most of the large farms were done in by a big drought that began just before we moved up here in 2001, but there are a lot of sm...
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The Soaring Spirit

Vanessa L. posted an article on - Sep 18, 2009, 4:21 am
For Cindy. The kite – glued, painted, and glittered – must have taken hours to create. It took about two minutes to crash into a tree. Immediately, the child began to wail. My heart went out t...
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Ouija

Vanessa L. posted an article on - Sep 10, 2009, 6:39 pm
The sign on the side of the car read: PARANORMAL SOCIETY 860-555-5555 (I cannot recall the actual phone number) The car reminded me of the one in Ghostbusters. It was raining. I had been crying all...
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Being Naked

Vanessa L. posted an article on - Sep 1, 2009, 3:47 pm
I’ve been feeling very “private” for a little while now. There are a few reasons for it, but, to be honest with you, I’m not clear on all of them myself, so I will leave them out for now. I r...
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Summer's Almost Gone

Vanessa L. posted an article on - Aug 26, 2009, 7:10 am
When the radio stations around here play anything by The Doors, it is typically Light My Fire or Love Me Two Times. The other day, while I was stuck in traffic on i91 (coming home from Holyoke), 102.1...
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Sorry, samspeeps has chosen not to publish an RSS feed....

Vanessa L. posted an article on - Aug 22, 2009, 3:48 pm
Sorry, samspeeps has chosen not to publish an RSS feed. Please visit their Xanga site here: http://www.xanga.com/samspeeps
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A Fishy Story

Vanessa L. posted an article on - Aug 11, 2009, 3:00 pm
My big brother emailed this to me this morning. Thought I would share: A guy who lives at Lake Conroe (50 miles north of Houston ) saw a ball bouncing around kind of strange in the lake and went to i...
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In The Now Man It's So Groovy

Vanessa L. posted an article on - Aug 5, 2009, 6:40 pm
It’s like that part of the roller coaster ride… where you’ve gone up to the top of the hill already, but you haven’t flown down the other side yet. The moment in which you take a quick breath ...
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In The Now, Man (It's So Groovy)

Vanessa L. posted an article on - Aug 4, 2009, 5:04 am
It’s like that part of the roller coaster ride… where you’ve gone up to the top of the hill already, but you haven’t flown down the other side yet. The moment in which you take a quick breath ...
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Song Names A Little Fun

Vanessa L. posted an article on - Jul 28, 2009, 3:35 am
You can thank Randy for this one... It started as a Facebook thing, but I liked it so much, I thought I would share it here. Using only SONG NAMES from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Ta...
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