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Sep.09.2011
Staring at the head on the alter, brings up a dark fascination. I want to see it up close. Her head decapitated after death and placed here. Her body is at another church in Rome. My stomach churns but I can't keep my eyes off the head on the altar, a 100 feet away. I want see it...
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May.06.2011
Looking back over my childhood, I realize I had the perfect mother for the fifties. There was no way of her, or I knowing the following decade would bring the sexual revolution, women’s liberation, and the culture of doing your own thing. Not that my mother was perfect, no mother is except the...
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May.05.2011
Although I did not read every blog on “Writing for Free”, I did read a few from both points of views. The writers, who don’t mind working for free, write sloppily. Common errors I found were misspelling, ending sentences with prepositions, overuse of that, very, and other adverbs. In addition, they...
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May.04.2011
Thoughts on Mother's DayMy mom died years ago so Mother's Day is bitter sweet for me. Although I make every effort to get along with my mother in law, our relationship is much like a slow waiter and a poor tipper. I often feel like an orphan on Mother's Day. Being a mom myself, I feel the...
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May.04.2011
I don’t blog or write free. I don’t agree with the concept, after writing a free column for two publications. I love reporting, writing, and do so for several publications that pay, so why should I write for someone free? When a skilled writer spends time researching and crafting words, they...
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Nov.19.2009
H1N1 Exactly What is Going On?
I've never been concerned about affects of vaccines, until an online friend sent me a link to a 60 Minute segment from Nov. 4, 1979. There was Mike Wallace interviewing Judy Roberts, a woman paralyzed from Gullain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), as a side effect of the 1976...
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About Gayle
I am a writer, photographer, mother and grandmother. I enjoy my work and interactions with people. My writing is mostly non fiction and news. Although at times I do write poetry and short fiction as an escape. I have worked three newspapers: The Argus...