Tag: gather
member name: X Tabber
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March 25, 2008 04:05 PM EDT --
How many of you have been approached by Becky E. Colgate Smile to be connected as her "friend"?
I generally look at members who want to connect with me, and I was not amused.
Seems . . .
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May 20, 2006 10:12 PM EDT --
George Corneliussen inspired this article with his terrific article:
When Records Ruled : Turntables
I started thinking about how wonderful it was to bring home that big square of cardboard, . . .
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April 04, 2006 09:09 AM EDT --
Several folks have posted about the pending "value" of Gather points (see Monica's article).
This article started as a response to Monica's timely question: "Where are the point . . .
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May 19, 2006 11:01 AM EDT --
This debate can be every bit as rancorous as Dem vs. Pub, Catholic vs. Protestant, Israeli vs. Palistinean...
But, since we're all adults here, which do you prefer and why?
Are you the prototypical . . .
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March 27, 2008 04:46 PM EDT --
No, not Christmas. By the time March rolls around, I'm half insane. Missouri just isn't good to ride much in the wintertime anyway. This season, we had snow and ice so often, . . .
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April 01, 2008 12:20 PM EDT --
In a story I wrote a while ago, Incident at the Gully Wash Cafe , the protagonist, Biker Dan, finds himself faced with an interesting challenge. Poet, the Gully Wash Cafe's proprietor . . .
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April 14, 2008 04:42 PM EDT --
Wednesday, November 24: I think my first hint that something had changed was the Breaking News labels on television. I wasn't really watching TV, but it was on and the characteristic . . .
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March 02, 2006 11:21 AM EST --
I was traveling this week. I had the good fortune to be invited to a conference in Ft. Lauderdale, and, anxious to leave St. Louis chill behind, I gladly accepted.
Sitting on the plane, waiting . . .
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May 24, 2006 05:25 PM EDT --
We inhabit two worlds, those of us online. We live and breathe in the real world and play and interact in the virtual.
Sometimes, certain people from your virtual world become very real to you, . . .
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February 07, 2007 04:53 PM EST --
I drift between these two states
At once alive and at once dead
Alive, . . .
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August 13, 2007 12:41 PM EDT --
Ugh. I want a do-over for this morning. In fact, I want to roll back to early Sunday night, and then skip today all together.
My Sunday evening ended as normal, but I had heard about the Pleiades . . .
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March 24, 2008 12:53 PM EDT --
My parents -- now retired -- decided recently that they would make the journey from Washington, DC to St. Louis to visit with me and their grandkids. They normally fly, but with the extra time on . . .
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October 16, 2008 12:16 PM EDT --
Blank white canvas with no expectations
Smooth cloth grain, thirsty to absorb pigment
Catching light and reflecting back all, indiscriminately
Dip a putty knife into a pool of pigment, thick . . .
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October 18, 2008 01:04 AM EDT --
Did you ever think in your wildest dreams
That you would put fun after work?
Play after responsibility?
That a drink with friends would be with one eye on . . .
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April 21, 2008 10:32 PM EDT --
The wizened black man climbs carefully up the stairs of the bus. A young boy, no more than 10 years old follows him closely, holding his small suitcase and the old man's hat. Family . . .
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May 15, 2006 09:51 AM EDT --
People endlessly debate the definitions of "art" vs. "craft".
For me, the definition of craft suggests that the object being "crafted" has a utilitarian purpose, or something . . .
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May 25, 2006 09:29 AM EDT --
I'm sure many of us have favorite songs, songs that evoke deep meaning for us, or just simply make us want to dance.
But, what about that song that is SO GOOD that you just wished that it had come . . .
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June 16, 2006 01:58 PM EDT --
Beneath the ash sky, trees look like dry bones
Reaching up to take hold of a sky like old stone
A stiff breeze was blowing, first out from the west
Then from the north, it continued its quest
Across . . .
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March 02, 2006 03:05 PM EST --
The Motorcycle Clubs do, and they care a lot.
A friend of mine relates a story about riding through a well-known Motorcycle Club's area wearing a vest with a large backpatch for his riding club. . . .
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November 06, 2007 03:53 PM EST --
A couple of Gatherers asked about the symbols used in the Native American rock art I received as prize for Birdie Jaworski's contest a while back.
I dug into the internet and found enough . . .
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