December Week 3 prompt What Changes Have I Witnessed WOW

As you look back, what are the three most incredible changes you have witnessed? Legacy Story Prompt December Week 3 OK ; I’m not as old as some of you but I’ve been around the block a time or two. I’ve worked on copying machines most of my life so I...
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Oh, For The Good Ole Days. Not!!!!

Automatic washing machines as upposed to wringer washers.  Clothes dryers instead of clotheslines,  (although I loved the way the clothes smelled when I took them off the lines) ,  Pampers, which I never had the pleasure of using,  Garbage disposals (now that's a big one),   Medicine for anything that ails you, it...
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Forgive

Forgiveness is such a powerful action.  I call it an action, because it takes conscious effort to go through the process of forgiveness.  It doesn't just happen by itself, and it is actually an attribute to which we should all aspire.  The result of an unforgiving spirit is bitterness.  And bitterness...
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On either or both sides, what kind of work did your grandparents do?

I was indeed fortunate to know both my maternal grandparents and my paternal grandmother. My paternal grandfather, Stephen Harry "Dick" Mason, died many years before my birth, so I only know what I have been told and what information I located doing genealogical research in the Prairie County, Arkansas, Courthouse in...
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If I Could go Back and Talk to Ancestor Who Would it Be and What Would I Ask...

Really - only ONE ancestor?? Come on - you have to know me better than THAT!!  Me who is working on a book about time travel and going back to watch my ancestors and maybe interact with them.... (still working on plot and story line).  So I cannot limit it to...
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To Forgive or Be Forgiven?

Forgive?   I have much more to be forgiven for than to forgive.   The years between 1950 and 1979 are filled with things I did to hurt other people.   It wasn’t deliberate or malicious but that doesn’t excuse the fact that I did hurt people, sometimes severely.   I either didn’t know or...
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FORGIVE...7 simple letters but a tough word for sure

To FORGIVE.... that is tough... Different from forgetting... I have had to learn that to forgive someone of something doesn't mean you have to forget they did it.  And that is a HUGE difference as well as a HUGE gap to cross... A tough lesson to learn and actually follow.  I...
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A Christmas Memory

The Spirit of Christmas is the Spirit of Christ. As my son, Golden, was reading a story from Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it triggered a memory in my mind that had been long forgotten. On Christmas...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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