Category: Human Interest
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THE LAND OF BETWEEN
(c)Vickey stamps 11/29/13 Sometimes in the land between what can be, and what should be, is a special place where magic and miracles travel hand in hand. Put on your traveling clothes and come with me to such a place. The older woman, Miss Vickey was a maker of dolls, both boys and girls. Her health had taken a…
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POEM: END OF DAY
END OF DAY © By Vickey Stamps A gently aged loved one lay Seeking peace near the end of day A ‘signature on her life’ had been signed With a body now weakened …. A face now lined As I tucked her in, I heard her say “Lord, please give me one more day, One more…
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HYPOMYCES LACTIFLUORUM
BY DONNA WESTFALL Hypomyces Lactifluorum is the Latin term for Lobster Mushrooms. I noticed an ad in Crescent City Sweet Deals for these mushrooms FREE. That’s my favorite four letter “F” word. Plus it was from someone I knew, Tonya Pearcey from the Tea Party. These mushrooms grow on her property and she’s been eating them for years. She’s…
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GOLDEN TOAD NOW EXTINCT
SUBMITTED BY NICOLA GROBE CREDIT TO ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND The golden toad of Costa Rica is now completely extinct. Found nowhere else on Earth, in only two years its population crashed along with 20 other native species of amphibians in the Costa Rican rainforest. Amphibians like the golden toad are some of the first victims…
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STORY BY VICKEY STAMPS
WE CAN DO THIS, SON! © Vickey Stamps 7-2-10 A hand reached down to help the old man up. A voice, soft, spoke to the man. “We can do this Son, together we can do this!” The old soldier’s hat was sometimes tri-cornered. Other times it became a helmet. The landscape continually changed around the…
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POETRY AND STORIES
Anneliese’s Poetry and Story Collection By Anneliese Ude Pestel Translated from German into English by Nicola Grobe “The utopian principal hope will only become true when wolf and sheep embrace one another in love.” Michael Mathias Prechtl “If it was so, could it be so; yet sneak in there doubts. How should this miracle come…
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PIERIS JAPONICA
BY NICOLA GROBE March 2013: My husband likes it cold in the house and I need it warm, this causes a constant struggle. It had been around 50 degrees Fahrenheit and 10 degrees Celsius for the first months of 2013 in our house and I was constantly on the verge of a bladder infection. One…
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THE OLD MACHINE
(C) Vickey Stamps 5/23/13 The sewing machine knew it was old. It knew it was very old indeed. Nothing was wrong with its mind however. In the dusty old attic, it had sat these many years. It was almost buried by various containers. Some held scraps of cloth cut from old clothes. There were containers…
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TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY
BY DONNA WESTFALL If you were born of Jewish faith or heritage during the years 1933 to 1945, the chances of your extermination were extremely high. Nazism rose faster than a multi-level marketing scheme. The ideology and practice of the Nazis, especially the policy of racist nationalism, national expansion, and state control of the economy…