Tag: children
member name: Bethany C.
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February 27, 2008 11:39 PM EST --
Today I was helping my sister homeschool my niece a bit and we were playing around with poetry writing. I started writing this just to tease my niece, but then I thought, Hmmm...not bad. . . .
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June 08, 2008 06:38 PM EDT --
Tipsy, just a little, is kind of funny.
But when a man has slaughtered another man's child
Under the influence? Not so funny, then.
I had an aunt once who laughed when her . . .
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June 23, 2008 12:24 PM EDT --
Imaginary people
are so much easier to deal
with than real ones.
When imaginary people
come to visit, they leave
at the appropriate time.
Their children don't call you
"Help, . . .
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February 28, 2008 03:17 PM EST --
"I think I've been depressed." I told my sister, Kathryn,
"Oh, I could've told you that." She informed me.
I swerved my head to read her eyes. "How'd . . .
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August 27, 2008 09:11 PM EDT --
Tiny hadn’t been happy for a long time, but no one could ever tell—at least not anyone who mattered.
He missed his mother. He missed his real name, John. He hated traveling . . .
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February 05, 2008 04:17 AM EST --
I was young, maybe nine or ten, when we moved to Palmetto, Louisiana in a little white house almost directly under the water tower.
My Daddy had been an unofficial preacher for years to everybody he . . .
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February 10, 2008 05:03 PM EST --
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; . . .
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July 28, 2008 04:38 AM EDT --
If only…
“There are sad words in this English language.” My grandfather mused once. “Words like ‘if only’…”
A young boy, I didn’t understand, but I nodded.
I understand now. . . .
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August 03, 2008 05:38 PM EDT --
Just wanted to tell everyone that I am going to be off of Gather for a couple of days. My father-in-law is in the hospital in Natchez and we are going over there to see about him. Say a prayer . . .
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June 24, 2008 08:19 PM EDT --
Sadie always came to the beach house to hide away from life.
Gavin was here. Not really--he'd been gone for five years. But the memory of him and the times they'd . . .
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May 10, 2008 04:15 AM EDT --
Sometimes I just say words. Or write them. Whatever.
Sometimes it's like a baby talking. A whole lot of nonsense, but it makes people smile.
Sometimes it is very . . .
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July 31, 2008 02:57 PM EDT --
I know it is a sin to talk to the dead. But I missed her so much! And I told myself that I wasn’t really trying to call her from beyond the grave, which would have been the true sin . . . .
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July 05, 2008 04:06 PM EDT --
We are all here, together,
Grown children, in-laws, Dad,
Grandchildren. And I
Don't know whether to be . . .
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June 13, 2008 03:50 PM EDT --
They do not see the man I see
When I look at you.
To fathom such a thing!
It's difficult for me to grasp.
I see a man of extreme integrity--
Heroic and assured.
They see...I'm not quite . . .
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July 14, 2008 11:57 PM EDT --
I wanted to get the word out about a group I started. It was the first one I've ever done, but an important one, I feel. Here's the link to it if you would like to go and join. . . .
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June 19, 2008 11:46 PM EDT --
If I fail to visit you
Please remember this
I can only share a portion
Of the time there is.
Friends are calling,
Chores are piling
High above my head,
Children beg me for my time
Husband . . .
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July 17, 2008 02:25 AM EDT --
What abuse does to children
Is a horrible, horrible thing.
Of course, there is the pain,
Degradation and guilt that
Nearly stifles a child's soul.
(The guilt part is crazy, because . . .
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February 04, 2009 02:11 PM EST --
When this moment is gone,
I know that I will miss it.
I look at some of the precious
People that I love, busy
With the busyness of everyday life,
And I think about how, years from now . . .
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May 04, 2008 02:14 AM EDT --
"Did you know that Home Depot is going out of business?" My husband asked me when I called him yesterday. I wanted to see what he was about to do after he dropped our son, John off . . .
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July 08, 2008 03:56 PM EDT --
I just wanted to let everybody know what a great blessing I have been given!
Renee has asked me to be the minister for The Baby James Foundation . T he foundation's page, soon to be . . .
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