Tag: love
member name: Aileen F.
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July 17, 2006 05:24 PM EDT --
In my mind, he was graduating high school on a football scholarship and enjoyed racing midget cars.
On my calendar, he was 13 weeks gestation.
In my womb, he'd stopped growing at 9 weeks and had . . . more
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April 06, 2006 08:21 AM EDT --
It's funny what an effect those words can have on you. I expect them from my daughters and my mom. It is understood. They had better miss me, or else!
I have never been one to cultivate many friendships, . . . more
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April 18, 2006 11:25 PM EDT --
I was reading another Gather posting by a nice young man named Joshua. In one of his comments he made reference to being open to anyone's single daughter. He seems like a nice enough guy, but rather . . . more
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December 19, 2006 10:11 PM EST --
I didn’t know it at the time, but it was the last Christmas of my childhood.
My husband and I had announced just before Thanksgiving that we were expecting. That baby was the first grandchild . . . more
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June 12, 2006 08:21 PM EDT --
I Wish You a Wedding to Forget
by
Aileen Fish
Originally published in the Newhall (CA) Signal, March 9, 1989.
I can't believe my brother wants to get married this June. It's not the normal . . . more
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January 01, 2007 01:37 PM EST --
Several years ago, an online friend wrote to our group of friends and said she had fears about taking a promotion she'd been offered. There were so many "what ifs" involved, and her biggest . . . more
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August 03, 2006 01:08 AM EDT --
Seasons of Love by Jonathan Larson
525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear.
525,600 minutes - how do you measure, measure a year?
In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee.
In inches, . . . more
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April 05, 2006 07:35 AM EDT --
It is always important to make a good first impression, right? Just last week before I hopped in the car to head to the airport and meet the man I hoped would fall head over heels for me, our corporate . . . more
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April 18, 2006 08:11 AM EDT --
I found an old journal this past weekend and made the painful choice to read through it. It is almost twenty years old, and it covers most of two years with a few pages of the years after. Those were some . . . more
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June 13, 2006 11:37 PM EDT --
I Wish You a Wedding to Forget
by
Aileen Fish
Originally published in the Newhall (CA) Signal, March 9, 1989.
I can't believe my brother wants to get married this June. It's not the normal . . . more
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December 01, 2006 06:35 PM EST --
The holidays can be a rough time for those without families, or worse, those not communicating with loved ones for whatever reason. We get lonely and depressed.
One of the best cures for depression I . . . more
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February 19, 2006 09:55 PM EST --
There was no other way we could have found each other. Our paths would never have crossed. His life was up on the mountain above the desert; mine was half a country away in green rolling hills. His revolved . . . more
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March 01, 2006 08:10 AM EST --
It truly amazes me that something as exquisite as a bouquet of flowers can draw out such hateful feelings from the beholder. I know it happens, because it's happening to me.
I have on my desk a striking . . . more
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February 23, 2006 08:17 AM EST --
I have never pretended to be normal, and there are times when those differences are awfully clear. Like yesterday.
There are times in my life when I knew a major shift was coming. I was never quite . . . more
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February 27, 2006 07:51 AM EST --
She comes around behind my desk and hands me a lined 3x5 card. "This is me."
I take the card. In her elegant script are a collection of words. English French Plays Theatre.
"You were a . . . more
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March 14, 2006 08:17 AM EST --
It is how we cope. I realized that this morning. My daughter and I have battled life-threatening illnesses for most of her life. These aren't the typical illnesses that one considers when one thinks . . . more
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July 08, 2006 03:09 AM EDT --
"Do you remember it, dear?" She leaned forward and brushed aside the grass cuttings that had gathered on the stone. "I was there this morning, looking for you, but of course, you didn't . . . more
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November 29, 2006 02:15 PM EST --
I am from laughter and the stage, outward smiles and hidden depths.
I am from race cars and computers, perfectly tailored and detailed clothing, the farm, lives caught on film.
I am from . . . more
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February 24, 2006 08:24 AM EST --
On Sunday we will say our good-byes to a very sweet woman who recently made the life-end journey to be with her husband. It's not my place to go into the family dynamics that shocked so many of us . . . more
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February 27, 2006 09:22 PM EST --
I've lived my past in tepid judgement
allowing the current to take me where it will
following the ebb and flow of those around me
never choosing, never reaching
never demanding
I live my present . . . more
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