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When I was first incarcerated in 1987, the hardest part of doing prison time was being away from my children. This is common with most of the women in prison, so often stories of our children are shar...
日期：2016-05-13
It is the last day of the school year and I stand empty-handed with no gift to give you.It isn't that I haven't tried to think of something thoughtful and kind-quite the contrary. For months, I have c...
日期：2016-05-13
I started to shake with anticipation as I hung up the phone. Could it really be true that I would be playing a round of golf at the hallowed ground of Augusta National?The generous offer had been exte...
日期：2016-05-13
Until I started playing golf, I thought that wine tasting had to be the most confusing thing I'd ever done. People with names like Higgins rambling on about residual sugar and tannin, describing each ...
日期：2016-05-13
For twelve years, my church has participated in the Appalachia Service Project. One week each summer, volunteers travel to Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia or West Virginia to repair or build homes for f...
日期：2016-05-13
It was the night before Christmas, and all through the evening I reminisced, fondly reliving past Christmases spent with my family. As a second year nursing student, just nineteen, this was to be the ...
日期：2016-05-13
The time that I've wasted is my biggest regretSpent in these places I will never forget.Just sitting and thinking about the things that I've doneThe crying, the laughing, the hurt and the fun.Now it's...
日期：2016-05-13
Some time ago during my vacation period, I had the pleasure of travelling to Europe to tour the various regions of France. Our tour group was comprised of forty-five travellers from a variety of count...
日期：2016-05-13
All day long, I had been very busy. Picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms and scrubbing floors were all on my agenda for the day. My grown children were coming home for the weekend. I went grocery shop...
日期：2016-05-13
It would be safe to say that I was definitely not looking forward to my first Christmas after moving to south Georgia, away from the comforts of my home, friends, and family back in Baltimore. Of cour...
日期：2016-05-13
It was one of those sweltering, hot days in the middle of July when all you can do is dream of the cold winter days that you hated only months earlier. One of those sultry days when you either yearn f...
日期：2016-05-12
This spring is my sister's fortieth birthday. More to the point, that means my fortieth birthday can't be far behind. Since my sister is only eighteen months older than I am, I followed a year behind ...
日期：2016-05-12
I could say that a winter breeze had sent snow flurries dancing against our windowpane as we cuddled in front of a glowing fire, sipping spiced cider, alternately nuzzling each other and cooing about ...
日期：2016-05-12
On Christmas Day, all the joys of a close family relationship radiated throughout our parents' home. The smells of roasted turkey, Southern?baked ham and homemade bread hung in the air. Tables and cha...
日期：2016-05-12
When the one-year anniversary of my mother's passing came around, I found myself in the kitchen preparing some of her favorite dishes. I hadn't planned this, but there I was one hot August afternoon, ...
日期：2016-05-12
