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White trash cookery

Loren Williams wrote 4 hours ago: I’ve always known that I’m white trash. It’s a simple calculation: I’m one-half early Twentieth Cent … more →

Tags: Food, long reads, SNL, white trash

The Secret

personalhistorywriter wrote 1 day ago: Pssst.  Wanna know a secret?  By nature, people, like cats, are naturally curious.  We all want to b … more →

Tags: History, secrets, Gossip, Cats, Curiosity, Sadness, Truth, Burdens

The long and winding road1 comment

wmcworter wrote 1 day ago: The lyrics to that beloved Beatles ballad have been playing on loop in my mind’s iPod lately.  … more →

Tags: Theater, theatre, Marketing, Public Relations, Performing Arts

Le Temps Perdu2 comments

michelletempletonart wrote 2 days ago: Recently an art colleague commented on how productive I am in my studio practice. It’s true th … more →

Tags: Certain Art, Certain Inspirations, Art, Inspiration, lost time, Overcoming obstacles, Process, Productivity, Woodblock Prints

Hands of Time

HazelKrause wrote 2 days ago: Written 2004 orig. title: Your Hand In Mine Your hand in mine, a thing of the past. It was nice to h … more →

Tags: Personal History, therapy notes, The past..., Surviving Hell, overcoming my destructive addiction

Strange. Stranger.1 comment

strangedavid wrote 3 days ago: In the past few weeks, I have had several opportunities to be involved in a variety of group setting … more →

Tags: Depression, depression 2, Personal History

The Monday Post, Vol. 8 -- What Was Basil Like?

Patricia wrote 3 days ago: As many of you already know, last Thursday evening, May 16th, we lost our dear friend, Basil, after … more →

Tags: Blogging, The Monday Post, Monday Post, Dogs, pomeranian

How lovely the violin

Loren Williams wrote 4 days ago: My father played the violin!     Yes, indeed: farmboy though he was, he had a violin, and … more →

Tags: Family History, long reads, violin

Now I Get It!

personalhistorywriter wrote 4 days ago: It was simply beautiful.  Not outrageously overdone.  The flowers were minimal, but lovely.  Contemp … more →

Tags: History, Children, Growing Up, Marriage, Weddings, Daughters, Emotion

Reappearing from death as more physical than ever3 comments

Alexius Jorgensen wrote 4 days ago: What is death? No one can tell. Not even after being ´near death´. I haven´t read anything by people … more →

Tags: Modern Spirituality, Psychology, Philosophy, direct experience, Fringe, no-self, interpretation, authentic, Who am I

Integration Exercise #1

randomyriad wrote 5 days ago: For the last month and a half I have been cranking out written answers to questions in kinesiology, … more →

Tags: thinking in words, whereever you go there you are, change, can't really complain but, All part of the process, Internal Landscape, MindWorks, my life ♥, Thinking in Words

What makes me not a Buddhist2 comments

Loren Williams wrote 6 days ago: Alfred North Whitehead said that Buddhism is not so much a religion as a philosophy. Here is its roo … more →

Tags: long reads, Religion, Buddhism, Four Noble Truths, Kensho, mahayana, Noble Eightfold Path, theravada, Vajrayana

My own personal Obama story

onmiyogi wrote 6 days ago: Back in 2006, ancient history now, I was working with a young man who kept telling me about this guy … more →

Tags: just stuff, Politic Correct, Progressive/Regressive, Anti-Christian, obama, Politics, Wright

History of me

inspiredsolution wrote 6 days ago: Hi there.  New to this idea of blogging but thought I would give it a go.   So my name is Glenda and … more →

Tags: NLP, Hypnotherapy, Nursing, Learning Disabilities

i'm still living with your ghost . . .

dartagnonwells wrote 1 week ago: just after high school i dated this girl — nay, lady. this lady and i dated and on one such da … more →

Tags: Editorial

Reading the signs4 comments

Loren Williams wrote 1 week ago: Sometimes I mock superstitious people for their credulity. It’s all very silly, isn’t it, all this h … more →

Tags: long reads, Superstition

I Need Your Advice.34 comments

Dan Curtis wrote 1 week ago: Have you done your own personal history? As a professional personal historian, I’m sometimes a … more →

Tags: Life Stories, personal historian, Advice, Life Story, personal histories, Reasons, Value, Why, writing

Daddy

elishbulgodley wrote 1 week ago: On Your First Anniversary Daddy, you slipped away from us this day last year, holding out, to cross … more →

Tags: Kimmage, Father's Anniversary, daddy

The night terror returns

MarciesMoments wrote 1 week ago: It’s been 9 months since the last time I woke up screaming. It was August, and I was about to … more →

Tags: trauma, night terrors


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