Tag: family
member name: MaryBeth W.
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March 28, 2008 06:31 AM EDT --
Summer Listening for Kids & Families
Updated 2008 Edition
by Sharon Grover & AudioFile Editors
Summer is almost here, and for many families that means time spent in the car. It's . . .
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January 01, 2008 04:12 PM EST --
How do I slip out of my
ordinary existence into the
electric
sensual-ness
of your hand
it's so warm and
mine fits so snuggly against
it
I close my eyes
to imagine
my heart feels swollen . . .
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March 08, 2008 09:42 PM EST --
I wished I was still in the Parc de St. Cloud, wandering around, alone - no one crowding me, just me, enjoying the quiet of the birds and the chatter of old ladies. I had no idea what they were saying, . . .
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June 06, 2009 09:40 PM EDT --
A WINTER MEMORY
I lay in the double bed - it was the one I'd had as a small child. If you looked carefully, two of my fingerprints could be found in the paint on the the old headboard. My . . .
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March 01, 2008 10:39 AM EST --
AudioFile's editors recommend 45 must-hear audiobooks of the past year. From great literature to explorations of current events, these audio experiences represent the very . . .
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March 02, 2008 08:56 AM EST --
J.K. Rowling
Read by Jim Dale
There's only one word that can describe Jim Dale's work on HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS--"magical." Few audiobook narrators can stretch the . . .
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May 12, 2008 07:27 PM EDT --
I long
For that sun-filled eagle-walled room
of a day
breathed briefly into my life
The sun laying quietly on the
Worn golden couch
I smell the outdoors-fresh pine trees
and hear the brook-water-trickle . . .
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December 22, 2007 12:25 PM EST --
Citronella, bug-dope
child hood memories,
bug juice and
dark cold swimming holes,
water to numb the toes
stubbed on granite stepping
stones
bloody knees from bumpy, back roads
loose-dirt bike . . .
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March 12, 2008 03:40 PM EDT --
AudioFile features award-winning audiobook picks from the Audio Publishers Association, the American Library Association, the Recording Academy, and more. Visit often for updates and winners, and always . . .
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August 03, 2009 07:21 AM EDT --
"Where'd you get that pretty red hair?" Why did people have to ask that daft question - they asked it all the time!
My mother was quick to answer, "Oh, the Angles gave it to her!" and I'd smile sweetly . . .
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February 01, 2008 07:11 AM EST --
I wanted
to beat him
beat him to within an inch of his life
I wanted him to feel
this pain and suffering
we all stood here and felt now
But how could I demonstrate
the mental anguish
. . .
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January 25, 2008 07:01 AM EST --
I watch as my dear father shuffles laboriously across the bumpy ice. I agitate with false starts towards him and then back away for I want to carry him to saftey but dare not touch him.
He winces with . . .
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January 25, 2008 07:06 AM EST --
I made a joke
(at least it made me laugh)
in my email to "bro"
but as he read it
in some dinky shack
in Chad
he didn't think it was funny
He doesn't understand
if I don't . . .
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December 09, 2007 08:18 PM EST --
Was the expression "queer as a 2 dollar bill"? or
Was it a 3 dollar bill?
My mind wandered in its confusion. Why was
This here?
Then the past
Rushed in
Flushing my face as I thought . . .
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December 12, 2007 01:13 PM EST --
I long
For that sun-filled eagle-walled room
of a day
breathed briefly into my life
The sun laying quietly on the
Worn golden couch
I smell the outdoors-fresh pine trees
and hear the brook-water-trickle . . .
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December 12, 2007 02:36 PM EST --
So after our cool lunch at the big olive press table in the cool cellar, Aunt Norrine gave in. She put more sun lotion on me, made me wear a tee shirt, put a big sun hat on me and sent me on my way. . . .
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December 12, 2007 02:33 PM EST --
Aunt Norrine had told me many times how important it was to take a siesta.
?But I?m 10 and I don?t take naps anymore!? For goodness sakes, I?d thought at the beginning of the vacation; I may be the . . .
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January 23, 2008 06:16 AM EST --
Death sometimes
creeps around on little
delicate sneaky feet
but not this time
It comes crashing in,
a bull in a
china closet,
smashing ruthlessly
painfully
Death lingers and teases . . .
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December 07, 2007 09:43 AM EST --
What will I say
when I stand there finally
looking at my mother's stone
When I was last there, it was
drizzling and gray and I stood
watching her ashes disappear into the . . .
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February 01, 2008 07:02 AM EST --
"A brave man!" we all thought as my father, seated in this tiny room with seven others crammed into it, seated in a wheel chair, explained his "exit plan". The palliative care team . . .
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