Tag: love
group name: cr8nonfiction
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April 20, 2006 08:21 PM EDT --
(edited version after receiving permission to use her real name)
Dazed preoccupation, glowing skin, picture in hand to remind her he wasn't a dream, giggles and visible jitters. She showed all . . . more
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July 10, 2008 05:15 PM EDT --
A million questions hit me at once. Where had he been the last two years and why hadn't he called? Who told him where to find me? Was that a scar on his lip and did he have any idea what time it was . . . more
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August 31, 2006 01:40 PM EDT --
The legend of my father started long before I was born. He died when I was six years old, and even now, 14 years later, his notes remain embedded in the memories and hearts of the musicians and fans he . . . more
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June 17, 2006 03:16 PM EDT --
I breezed past the card aisles and stores this year without feeling the pull. My father, grandfathers, and the uncles and friends . . . more
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June 14, 2008 09:23 PM EDT --
One of the best things about having a granddaughter who is still young enough to feel big when she stands on a chair to wash dishes is that while she feels big, she also talks big. Hannah Montana . . . more
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February 03, 2007 09:06 AM EST --
My youngest son, 9, turns 10 in a few days. He woke me an hour ago.
"I can't sleep."
He tossed his art supplies on the bed and crawled in after them. Graphite pencils, rubber eraser, . . . more
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September 27, 2006 04:46 PM EDT --
"Come on. He deserves better."
"Don't you think I know that?"
"If you know it, why don't you let him go?"
She releases her hair, lets it fall over her face, stalls, . . . more
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August 11, 2006 08:54 PM EDT --
I went for a walk with my mother yesterday. I walked out the back door with the confused imposter who had been living in her body the . . . more
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October 13, 2006 10:42 PM EDT --
She caught the misguided traitor--once known as her left hand--in time to save face, but too late to protect her emotions. Two decades of near-perfect denial washed away, dropping her in a life-changing . . . more
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December 15, 2006 02:29 PM EST --
Our quarrel began the night before I was born and ended the morning she died unless, as I suspect, her spirit lingers to resent the funeral. A rational person would assume that if she knows about . . . more
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May 07, 2008 09:17 PM EDT --
YOU CAN TEACH AN OLD DOG NEW TRICKS . . . more
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April 28, 2006 02:37 AM EDT --
My big mistake was in expecting a twenty-mile drive to erase the thirty years I had been away. I set myself up for the unwarranted sense of betrayal that came when . . . more
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August 31, 2006 01:27 PM EDT --
I had unusual children. They wanted to stay at home and hand out candy on Halloween, and provided lists of their favorite charities when . . . more
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August 24, 2006 03:01 AM EDT --
I knew you before I met you. I fell in love with you when your name first graced my lips. I dreamed about you. I longed for your . . . more
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October 03, 2006 08:58 PM EDT --
I could have let my daughter feel as rotten and neglected as I've sometimes felt considering her dads recent actions. But, not if I could help it this time. One morning my husband took a thermal coffee . . . more
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June 18, 2006 06:37 PM EDT --
Okay folks, it is official . . . the time we wait for all year long has finally arrived . . . It is Carolyn Madden's Birthday week! That's right. According to carolyn's about . . . more
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September 15, 2006 12:30 AM EDT --
I'm proud to announce that on September 15, 1956 a couple that were destined to be my parents were married in a Catholic church in an unassuming Midwestern town. They had met at a New Year's . . . more
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August 18, 2006 08:19 AM EDT --
It's only been a few hours since some fast acting doctors saved my life. Robin, Bill, RG and his new friend hung around my bedside for awhile. It's now evening. Visiting hours are over. Everyone . . . more
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December 02, 2005 06:22 PM EST --
I have suffered from mental illness all my life. I have what I have chosen to accept as a medically diagnosed illness called Bi-polar II. I can go for months or even years with no or . . . more
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August 31, 2006 08:02 AM EDT --
Not only is this possible, if you could read people's minds, I'd bet you would find this is the norm rather than the exception to the rule. Wouldn't you really rather have all the people that . . . more
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