Charles William Spratt

OH BOY ; OH BOY ; OH BOY

Oh Boy ; Oh Boy ; Oh Boy Week 2 of the December Legacy Story Prompt is a doozey : Describe an egregious act that is still too difficult to forgive or that you have since forgiven. As a Christian I know that I am supposed to forgive those that trespass...
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December Story Prompt- Week 3

Topic "Wisdom and Opinions" Our world is changing faster than civilization is able to keep up. These changes are sometimes for good and others not so. Sharing each others' insights can open our eyes to things we may not be aware of. On the flip side we can have that same...
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Diane Mason Gray Court Record Mgr for CLCT

Court Reporters: Please read this first

Did you ever return from a job and say to yourself, I ought to write a book, but it's just too overwhelming, and who's got the time? Here's a free place to chronicle those unusual days and odd occurrences in snippets before you forget about them. I've already written a couple,...
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Golden V. Adams Jr.

If I Could live it over. . . .

Prompt:  If you could go back and relive any part of your life what would you do differently and why? Over the many years since I was a child, I have had many experiences that have been a result of some of the mistakes I made as a youth.  Would I...
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Rachel Johnson

If I Could Go Back and Do Something Differently.....

The most important thing I have ever done, I did when I was still quite young myself.  I was a married girl of 20 when I became a mother.  I was separated from my husband at 21 and divorced at 22.  I then became a single parent.  Though I did the...
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Sandy Jones

20/20 Vision

20/20 Vision
This months' story prompt is: "If you could go back and relive any part of your life what would you do differently and why? I've heard people say "I wouldn't do ANYTHING different, because it made me who I am". NOTHING? Really? Sure we learn from our mistakes and foolish behaviors,...
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Charles William Spratt

What I Could Change In My Life

The November Story Prompt is a tuff one . If you could go back in your life and change something what would you change. I read my cousin Millard Don Carriker’s story and I pretty much agree with him. Where would I be now if I changed anything. If I would...
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December Story Prompt- Week 1

One of the greatest rewards of having lived a long life is the perspective gained from experience. In every culture since the dawn of man the elders shared their wisdom with the young. Sharing this wisdom not only enriches the lives of those with whom it is shared but also provides...
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Redefine Life TV

Family Pickle

Family Pickle
Family Pickle is as fast and frenetic as New York itself, a show about a family dynasty that flourishes in clamor, a maelstrom of histrionics, laughter, and sandwiches so big that “if you can put your mouth around them then we made a mistake,” says Sandy, who—with wife, Marian—runs the Carnegie...
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Annie Payne

Christmas Baking

Christmas Baking
Last Sunday I spent the day baking the first of my Christmas baking - 9 Christmas cakes. I started the process a month ago by digging out my special Christmas fruit jar and filling it with dried currants, sultanas, raisins glace cherries, candied orange peel, chopped dried apricots, glace peaches and...
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Barbara A. Hotelling

Sydna's Childhood Memories

   Here are some memories for you:                 During wwII, while living at grandparents house, at 7 yrs. old;  I wanted a dog, so seeing a huge conch shell being used as a door stop-I got the idea to make that my dog and put a rope around it and drug...
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Susan Darbro

Holiday Cranberry Salad

Although we never lived near the rest of our family, my mother always made an effort to connect with them durig the holiday season - which was a great thing, since my grandmother was the best cook in the entire universe. (Go ahead; put up your dukes. I stand by my...
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Barbara A. Hotelling

My Memories of the Farm

Yes, Bo, I remember the Farm very well. I remember spending the night with Grandmother and Grandaddy Anthony and then coming home telling my mom about the awful stuff Grandmother had me take before I went to bed. Turns out it was castor oil. I don't remember any sleep overs after...
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Barbara A. Hotelling

From Cousin Bo

Hey Barb ! It's little Dwight Beau (Bo) Hall ! Sydna was telling me about you wanting to share memories we have about the country -  H.C. / Grannie / Bill / etc. You know I lived there from about 7 to 12 years of age and you guy's visited often...
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Barbara A. Hotelling

Daycare

One of my earliest memories of childhood with Barbara was during the summer time when we were out of school. I don't remember how old we were. Mom and Pop both worked and I guess there was a lapse in childcare so we got to go out with Granddaddy "Pop" Dodson...
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Annie Payne

Australian Christmas Memories of a New Bride

Australian Christmas Memories of a New Bride
Christmas Memories Being born in Brisbane, Queensland and having always lived in Australia, I find it difficult to connect to the northern hemisphere’s images of a white and snowy Christmas. The festive season is an entirely different type of celebration in Australia, where temperatures on The Big Day can often push...
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Janet Holt

Close Encounters in Baja

Close Encounters in Baja
Recently, a friend forwarded a story to me about the 2005 rescue of a Humpback whale. The whale was spotted off the northern California coast, hopelessly tangled in crab trap lines that had begun to cut into her flesh. The divers who rescued her talked about how the 50-ton animal made...
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Ellen Fernandez-Sacco

A Nuyorican Thanksgiving

Holidays in our home meant company, and the preparation of a table weighed with food.  Hours of preparation yielded a large mound of pasteles and a huge pot of arroz con gandules , in addition to a turkey and a roast pork shoulder, a stand-in for puerco asado, roast suckling pig....
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Annie Payne

Christmas is coming, time to start baking!

Christmas is coming, time to start baking!
The Jacaranda trees are in full bloom here in Adelaide, South Australia as spring rushes into December and the start of summer. Last weekend, Santa arrived in Adelaide as the last float in the Adelaide Christmas Pageant, a tradition which has run annually for 79 years through the streets of the...
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Patricia White

Christmas 1949

The Christmas I was seven,  I have nothing but happiest of memories about.  That year of all wonderful things we somehow got to be in Virginia on Christmas Eve.  Usually, we had to wait until at least Christmas Day to head out from Tennessee because of my dad's church commitment , but this year was different.  We were...
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