Tag: family
member name: Elizabeth Madrigal
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December 11, 2009 04:20 PM EST --
After a certain age there is nothing we feel the need to prove. We are who we are... that is until we go home for the holidays. As we bring our improved selves to family gatherings, some of us still . . .
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May 23, 2008 12:27 AM EDT --
Anyone from the east coast will raise their eyebrows slightly when I mention where I was born, so if asked I generally say, "New England". If they continue to press, I answer, "Connecticut", . . .
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December 17, 2008 05:29 PM EST --
This post isn't for those thrifty, efficient people who started buying presents back in August during the first series of sales, but for My People . You know who you are. December 17th . . .
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January 27, 2009 06:48 PM EST --
It may have started with the neighbor lady five houses down. She had some of the loveliest gladiolas, camelias and irises I have ever seen, but it is her roses I still remember fondly. . . .
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February 27, 2009 07:56 PM EST --
A few months ago I noticed a site, http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/news/pr/RadioAds.asp , that thrilled this lapsed Catholic. On it I discovered that there were many Roman Catholics like me . . .
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February 17, 2008 01:32 AM EST --
"He's not your real uncle, he's your godfather."
"Why isn't Aunt Thellie my godmother then?"
"Because Aunt Mary is your godmother."
"But I've . . .
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April 01, 2008 11:27 PM EDT --
How I envy those who worship God and attend mass with seeming impunity. I fear the homily is always directed at me, confirmed by my involuntary blushing. As there is no blood spurting from their . . .
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October 10, 2008 05:18 AM EDT --
As many of you know, I am passionate about our country, but the United States of America has fallen on very sad times. The economic breakdown of late is merely the latest symptom of the moral and . . .
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November 03, 2008 02:58 PM EST --
Yes, that was the first thing I read this morning in the New York Times, courtesy of Douglas MacKinnon, a man who lives in an alternative universe. http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.c...
Like . . .
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February 13, 2009 03:14 PM EST --
I suspected that if my title was 'Middle-aged woman vicariously living through, while spying ,on children', many might find this post rather unappealing. I couldn't help myself. . . .
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June 09, 2008 09:51 PM EDT --
The first five days my husband is out of town are usually a bit of a gift. I can do whatever I want without any judgment, I think smugly. Of course, my wildness these days seems to consist . . .
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June 20, 2008 04:46 PM EDT --
You might assume this story is about teen pregnancy, but the Associated Press and I think it is much larger than that. The basics are that as many as 18 teenage girls in the small Cape Ann town . . .
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July 02, 2008 06:05 PM EDT --
She was Jewish like all my good friends in grammar school and lived in East Gloucester right across from the beach. Two minutes to have your bare feet on the wooden bridge and another minute to reach . . .
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September 27, 2008 12:20 PM EDT --
Not to in any way diminish the real suffering that is going on in this country with 401ks flatlining, houses being foreclosed upon and people losing their jobs... I thought publishing my Bankruptcy Stew . . .
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March 02, 2009 06:32 PM EST --
The horrible part about getting older is that we rarely can use the excuse, "Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't know ." Yes, my dear compatriots, general aging has an inflated price-tag . . .
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February 25, 2009 09:51 PM EST --
Last night as I listened to President Obama outline his plan for the impending Great American Recovery, I was entranced, inspired, saddened, proud, called out and most of all, hopeful . Of course, . . .
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October 07, 2008 07:12 PM EDT --
We all saw John McCain's mom walk and stand up unassisted during the convention. She is in pretty good shape for someone in her 90's. It was impressive, really. Moms? . . .
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December 12, 2008 12:26 AM EST --
Feeling sorry for myself isn't really my style, although lately it has been a challenge to remember that. So here is my gratitude list today.
First of all I have a new grandchild on the . . .
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June 29, 2008 04:20 PM EDT --
I will admit I have been celebrating my birthday for eight days already. Oh, it wasn't really my fault. A dear friend's birthday is ten days before mine, so we had a two-couple potluck . . .
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June 04, 2008 07:48 PM EDT --
As a young child I remember being fascinated by my father's tattoo. It was on his left forearm, just below the elbow. Encompassing about four square inches, it was both red and black . . .
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