Tag: family
group name: mnreaders
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May 24, 2007 09:23 AM EDT --
In the latest "What are you reading?" discussion I noticed a few people mentioned reading aloud, myself included. It made me wonder how many people read aloud and how they do it.
Despite . . .
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September 14, 2007 09:25 AM EDT --
Chat transcript follows.
Although you may have missed the chat, Robert Goolrick notes you can email him directly. "At inquiry@algonquin.com - they'll forward it to me."
MPR's Midmorning . . .
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July 28, 2009 10:26 AM EDT --
This morning in the 10 a.m. hour of Midmorning, Kerri Miller talks to Julie Metz, a writer and graphic designer who discovered only after her husband died that he had been unfaithful. It's the subject . . .
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February 15, 2007 02:56 PM EST --
WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE LUTHERAN AIR IS NOW
OPERATING IN MINNYSOTA. ALSO SERVING VISCONSIN, NORT AND
SOUT DAKOTA.
If you are travelin soon, consider Lutran (Lutheran) Air, da no-frills airline. . . .
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December 20, 2006 03:13 PM EST --
I favor mysteries for light reading – Brother Cadfael (Ellis Peters), Adam Dalgleish (PD James), Lord Peter Wimsey (Dorothy Sayers) and, of course, Agatha Christie and Dick Francis. But . . .
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July 22, 2006 09:32 PM EDT --
I come before you humbled and admonished.
My son said, "Mom, how could you?"
My husband said, "But Beryl . . ."
Sportsmen said "You didn't!"
Yes. I have sinned . . .
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October 31, 2008 11:08 PM EDT --
They have been the light of my life this year. I'm talking about two puppies who have made a home at my house. Of course, I also have a 28 year old son who has made his way home, again, for "awhile". . . .
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January 30, 2007 11:13 AM EST --
In the past few years, I find myself getting into a “focus of the month” mode. It is an interesting exercise. I’m not sure how it started. . . .
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September 26, 2007 03:43 PM EDT --
Join us here at 2-3pm ET on Friday, September 28th for an interactive interview with Mike Linderman, child therapist and author of The Teen Whisperer.
Mike Linderman is a teen therapist unlike . . .
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March 17, 2008 12:16 PM EDT --
Today is brisk and sunny, the calendar says spring is seven days away, my turtles agree, rustling back from hibernation. Warmer days have coaxed determined shoots of crocus to burst from the muddy tree . . .
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July 06, 2008 05:06 AM EDT --
If you've been a faithful regular consumer of tofu and now are mortified by the finding that regular consumption of tofu may raise the risk of memory loss, take heart. As always with studies . . .
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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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August 13, 2009 10:26 AM EDT --
Most of us read Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl in school, or at least on our own - it holds an important place in our literary canon. With the 65-year anniversary of the Franks' capture this . . .
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June 16, 2007 02:44 PM EDT --
I wanted to write this now while the thoughts are running in my mind.
If you had a gun in your hand, could you shoot someone?
Recently, a young friend of mine has been thinking about purchasing . . .
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January 29, 2008 10:41 AM EST --
Today we are celebrating the launch of Patry Francis's The Liar's Diary. Patry, a Gather member as many of you know, has been recuperating from serious illness and surgery. To assist this wonderful . . .
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October 23, 2006 02:35 PM EDT --
I read Augusten Burroughs book, "Running with Scissors" when it came out in 2002 and was excited to see that it was being made into a movie. The movie opened in selected theaters this past week-end . . .
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December 05, 2008 12:15 PM EST --
She was in bed when she heard the car door slamming and his heavy boots plodding. The blankets pressed down her feet and as she peeked at the back of her sister lying in bed across the room, she . . .
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August 30, 2007 05:03 PM EDT --
Mike Linderman is a teen therapist unlike any other. A real-life cowboy, he wakes up at the crack of dawn, works the cattle on his ranch, and then counsels some of the country's most troubled teens, . . .
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October 03, 2006 05:10 PM EDT --
I've been indulging myself recently, reading books written by Gather members: Damian McNicholl's A Son Called Gabriel, Moya Goatley's Basket of Rain, and Brazil, the spectacular historical . . .
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April 16, 2007 12:44 AM EDT --
An incident: a woman I had regarded as my best friend for ten years invited me for coffee. "So lovely to hear your voice," she'd said in her voicemail mesage, a response to my having called . . .
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