Tag: life
member name: Mark Jepsen
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November 05, 2006 09:03 PM EST --
Tender Strength (For a beautiful friend)
Such beauty, soft and tender,
eyes piercing lights of blue,
her hair cascading in my mind
my thoughts are hers to rule,
how could a man cause . . .
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August 02, 2007 11:50 PM EDT --
Our Connections in Life: So Important, so fragile.
When our children reach young adulthood, we remind ourselves that we must take advantage of the opportunities to connect with them because all too quickly . . .
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February 24, 2009 10:29 PM EST --
Many of my Gather friends may know that I have children. What they may not know is that I have three children. Two of those children (the two oldest) are sons, and they are both attending . . .
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January 20, 2009 08:09 PM EST --
[ Note: This was originally posted as a comment in reply to Sandy K's item RESURRECTION SUNDAY: Reverend Stanton . I removed it afterwards because it seemed a bit unwieldy as a comment. . . .
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November 25, 2006 02:35 PM EST --
Silently he watched
weathered hand on gnarled wood
yielding, resisting,
shaped, smoothed, each by the other
rich veins of shared memory
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January 17, 2009 09:25 PM EST --
I'm not a regular user of Twitter . (I can't stand the 140 character comment limit... if I did everything from a cellphone, then MAYBE I could live with it... but I don't. Talk about . . .
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November 05, 2006 08:18 PM EST --
No Reward
Temptation so taboo,
their unmatched rings a threat,
they danced around desire
in a place removed from trust
Down her gentle neck and back
her hair was softly flowing,
his eyes . . .
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January 11, 2009 11:16 AM EST --
I grabbed my mail as I walked out of the apartment building yesterday. I was on my way to our house to meet up with my erstwhile spouse and our son, 19, who would be driving back to his college . . .
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January 23, 2009 07:38 PM EST --
I teeter-tottered upside down
I thumped my head upon the ground
my feet up to the sky did reach
blood now flushing every cheek
a new perspective can do wonders
to help forget those little . . .
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January 29, 2009 10:59 AM EST --
It Wasn't God Who Made Coffee Cup Gremlins... an Homage to Kitty Wells
As I sit here with the brewmaster makin'
the java that will get me crankin' inside
As I'm lookin' for . . .
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January 10, 2009 02:02 PM EST --
There Are Unused Icons On Your Desktop
Every so often I'm greeted by this message when I boot up my notebook computer. At times it's annoying, at times just one of those things to be . . .
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January 15, 2009 03:40 PM EST --
It's time, people. We've avoided the truth for too too long. You know. I know it. And the gremlins know it! Especially the gremlins!
Of course you're pretending . . .
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November 23, 2006 02:44 AM EST --
[And before for he was uncool again.]
Sometimes, for no particular reason, we're moved in ways that we don't immediately understand. Let me explain…
It was ten years ago, . . .
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November 22, 2006 04:18 PM EST --
From the department of random late night musings:
As often happens, I awake in the wee hours of the morning
after a miserably insufficient amount of sleep. (Why does my
my mind sabotage my body . . .
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January 04, 2009 11:16 PM EST --
I tried to post this on Gather as a video, but apparently the FLV file type isn't supported here. So I'm going to share it as a regular post and place a (hopefully " clickable ") link . . .
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January 09, 2009 03:55 PM EST --
[I may be an ass , but I'm a principled ass !]
My 16 year old daughter and I went shopping for ice skates yesterday. I picked her up from school and we headed to an adjacent suburb known . . .
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April 03, 2009 10:52 AM EDT --
My NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday Puzzler Experience! (Almost)
I didn't want to jinx the process, and bragging about it would have done just that. One needs to be discreet when on the verge . . .
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January 13, 2009 03:00 AM EST --
[What I was going to post on January 2nd:]
I've been living a rather blissful life until today. Sure, I've had a few setbacks along the way. To be honest, the 21st century has . . .
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November 27, 2006 07:23 AM EST --
Rudely awakened at 3:43 a.m. after another too-brief night of fitful sleep, my incredible high-tech wireless indoor-outdoor temperature gauge is beeping like crazy. I have had this wonderfully . . .
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