Friday, June 12, 2009
Mid-Life Reflections or Fifty and Loving Every Moment
If you think you have questions about where your life is headed at 30 or 40, wait until you get to be 50 like me! Sometimes I wonder if I am having a mid-life crisis or i ...
Posted Friday, June 12th 2009 at 6:49AM
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Hello Everyone! I am looking for a 6 month or less ESL Certification course that will qualify me to teach English to adult immigrant students. The classes must be in New York preferably Manhattan. I have my BA in English. Thanks and God Bless.
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Posted Sunday, June 7th 2009 at 6:43AM
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Friends,
I have an extra faux wood computer desk in my apartment that I don't need. If you or anyone else is interested I am selling it for between $150 and $200. Whoever buys it must be able to remove it from my house and carry it out the buildi ...
Posted Friday, June 5th 2009 at 6:13AM
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In light of the fact that this month is Father's Day I would like to take a few moments to salute a real man, my beloved late father, Edward Gordon Palmer. My Dad was everything a man and a father should be to his wife and children. He and my Mom wer ...
Posted Monday, June 1st 2009 at 8:44AM
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Essential Sufism -- James Fadiman & Robert Frager
I just wanted to preface this note by saying that I am totally and completely devoted to Jesus Christ. He is the Author and Finisher of my Faith. Because I am so strong in my Christianity I am n ...
Posted Sunday, May 31st 2009 at 10:58PM
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Wish that I could take the rest of the summer off, go to a writer's retreat, create poetry, read, research history and social issues, write book reviews and at the same time earn $500 a day. Big Dreams!! Sigh.....
Dear Lord, You know I need to be ...
Posted Wednesday, May 27th 2009 at 1:51AM
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Falling in Love with the Beloved and Losing myself in Him
Every day I fall deeper and deeper in Love with the Beloved...
I become one with Him. One Flesh... United in Spirit, Mind, Soul and one day when I receive my Heavenly Body.
I'm ...
Posted Saturday, May 23rd 2009 at 3:07PM
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My parents had a loving relationship for 40 years. By the time I was 39 they had both passed away and then began my downward slide into abusive relationships with men. I suppose I was afraid of being alone and I wanted to be loved and cherished. But ...
Posted Monday, May 11th 2009 at 11:25PM
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The Black Book -- Orhan Pamuk
Currently on Chapter 19, page 210. This story like the novel Snow is not your traditional mystery. It weaves together several levels and it is really a psychological drama. Sometimes it can be disturbing and frustr ...
Posted Monday, May 11th 2009 at 7:12PM
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God answers Prayer through His Word, the Holy Bible, people be they Christians or unbelievers, dreams, your body, even through a pet cat or dog! The Lord has many ways to respond to us, however sometimes He says wait or like our parents God says No b ...
Posted Thursday, May 7th 2009 at 8:03AM
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BOOK REVIEW - ACT LIKE A LADY -- THINK LIKE A MAN, STEVE HARVEY
This book was a quick read. Took me only about 2 days. He does make some valid points about how men differ from women and in my relationships I have found some of them to be true. Fo ...
Posted Tuesday, April 28th 2009 at 8:36PM
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Transition Meal
If I could have lunch or dinner with those who have crossed over into Eternity I would choose Frantz Fanon, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Barbara Jordan, WEB DuBois and Edward W. Said.
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Posted Monday, April 20th 2009 at 6:07PM
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Emptiness, Loneliness and Pain
My Life is a Hopeless Void where I am a meaningless creature
I dissolve into my Nothingness...
I sit here in sackcloth and ashes...
My Hopes and Dreams have Faded...
I'm past my prime...
Life and Lo ...
Posted Saturday, March 28th 2009 at 7:56PM
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Edward Gordon Palmer. Photo was probably taken around 1934 or 1935. Photographed by James A. Vanderzee.
G.G.G. Photo Studio, Inc. 2065 Seventh Avenue, At 123rd Street, New York. Phone: Cathedral 8-4070 ...
Posted Thursday, February 26th 2009 at 6:41PM
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Eva Sophronia Gordon Palmer. My Dad's Mom. She married my Grandfather William Julius Palmer on Jan. 15, 1919. My grandmother was 27 when she got married to my grandfather who was 40. My grandmother was a Milliner, my grandfather a shipping clerk. I h ...
Posted Thursday, February 26th 2009 at 8:13AM
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This is my Beloved Aunt Thelma. My father's sister. She was my favorite Aunt when I was growing up. We spent many fun times together. She never had any children of her own. I believe that this photo was taken in either the 1940s or 1950s. Sadly Aunt ...
Posted Thursday, February 26th 2009 at 7:29AM
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My father Edward G. Palmer and I at a function back in the late 1970s. I was around 15 years old when this photo was taken. Notice the huge Afros. My Dad passed away in 1995 and I miss him more and more as the years go by. He was the best Father ever ...
Posted Friday, February 20th 2009 at 11:23AM
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This is a photo of the name of my great, great grandfather who served in the Civil War in the 29th Colored Regiment out of CT. ...
Posted Monday, February 9th 2009 at 6:02PM
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