Tag: christopher bell
member name: Christopher Bell
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May 14, 2006 01:08 AM EDT --
One of my favorite AA meetings met every Thursday evening in my church's library. One such Thursday evening, my first guide dog, Kanga, and I both got a little disoriented while we were trying . . .
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May 13, 2006 10:54 PM EDT --
Long ago and far away, when I was still a young lawyer in my late 20's, I decided to visit a friend from law school who was living in concord, New Hampshire. I flew from Washington, D.C., where . . .
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September 17, 2006 10:03 PM EDT --
Being able to hear well, or at least well enough, is an important ability for one who is blind. For example, being able to hear traffic patterns is what enables me to cross streets safely because . . .
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January 11, 2007 05:52 PM EST --
I cannot control other people, neither can you nor can George W. Bush. We all are powerless over what other people choose to do. We cannot keep Shiia and Sunni from killing each other. We cannot . . .
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May 19, 2006 05:24 PM EDT --
(Republished as revised and reformatted)
I have struggled with "toxic shame" almost my entire life. By "toxic shame" I mean a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach accompanied by . . .
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July 09, 2006 02:49 AM EDT --
"Being right is a form of violence," says Eckhardt Tolle, author of "The Power of Now." An interesting idea, no? From Tolle's perspective, our need to be right . . .
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November 16, 2006 12:19 AM EST --
On November 13, barely one week after the mid-term elections cost the GOP control of congress, Secretary of Health and Human services announced the Administration's opposition to the Democratic proposal . . .
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July 15, 2006 06:06 PM EDT --
There is a debate on gather.com as to whether it is virtuous to hold one's tongue when one feels angry, frustrated or slighted by another gather member's writings. Several articles attacking . . .
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August 02, 2006 11:26 PM EDT --
I have been afraid to go swimming in my apartment complex's pool since it opened in May. Even on the hottest of days, I could not bring myself to do it. Why? I was afraid. I . . .
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November 05, 2006 01:19 PM EST --
I was really wired about going on the gather cruise to Bermuda. Ryan and I left Minneapolis early Wednesday morning, October 25 to fly to Boston. We took an Air Tran Airways flight departing . . .
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May 26, 2007 01:24 AM EDT --
Too many Americans have accepted at face value President Bush's misleading and simplistic rationale for the Iraq war that "either we fight ‘em [[terrorists] over there [Iraq] or we will . . .
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January 24, 2007 01:40 AM EST --
I don’t think I understand the new health insurance initiatives contained in the President’s “state of the union” address this evening. At least I hope my understanding is . . .
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May 08, 2006 04:46 PM EDT --
1. I was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1951.
2. . . .
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July 01, 2007 03:07 PM EDT --
A friend of mine sent me the e-mail copied below on the subject of gratitude. I do not know the original author of the e-mail’s content or I would attribute it appropriately. Notwithstanding, . . .
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