Tag: storytelling
member name: Chris Gattis
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April 22, 2006 09:20 AM EDT --
My childhood was about playing, football, baseball, basketball, swimming, bike riding, tree climbing, fort building, whatever. Any kind of sport or outside activity, especially in the summer. We were outside . . . more
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May 14, 2008 09:07 PM EDT --
As a kid I remember, generally with dread, report card day. It's not that I was a particularly bad student. I was an average student. Not all A's, (or were the E's back . . . more
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April 27, 2008 04:00 PM EDT --
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Stephen left today. Trey and I spoke with him last night. His mother was there to wish him off. His father had been to see him on Friday, I think. . . . more
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February 21, 2006 07:57 PM EST --
It's the shoes! Everyone knows that. Do you think Michael Jordan would have been half as good as he was if he had crummy shoes? How do you think he got all that AIR anyway? It was the shoes. Everyone . . . more
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March 01, 2006 08:51 PM EST --
In addition to being generally tough and somewhat self-sufficient, my mother required that we helped out with the chores around the house. When we were smaller, we would do inside work and as we got older . . . more
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May 23, 2006 10:25 AM EDT --
When I was a kid, kids were dorky, at least mothers dressed kids dorky. I offer as evidence, the Car Coat.
During the winters in Alabama when the temperature plunged to the bone chilling 40's on . . . more
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June 18, 2006 04:08 PM EDT --
Father's Day was not officially recognized as a holiday until 1972. Mothers have had their day since 1914. I wonder shat took so long for fathers to have their own day. I guess father's . . . more
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July 15, 2006 06:34 PM EDT --
What made mothers put socks like this on a kid in the first place. Did someone decide it made the kid look cute or something. Okay, I was a little ball of fat when I was a kid, chubby little arms and legs. . . . more
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July 26, 2006 08:41 AM EDT --
It seems like we did a lot of posing in the yard or on the front porch on Sundays. When you have three boys you have to find activities for them that require a lot of standing around so you can keep them . . . more
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April 28, 2007 09:40 AM EDT --
In a family of storytellers, my Grandmother was a listener. Almost all the adults in my family, cousins, uncles, parents and grandparents, were storytellers. My paternal Grandmother was probably . . . more
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June 17, 2007 04:11 PM EDT --
This is one of my favorite pictures of my Dad. It was probably taken in February, 1961, not too many days after I was born. I have the greatest Dad in the world and I love him and appreciate . . . more
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June 04, 2008 09:11 PM EDT --
A few weeks ago, Trey and I went to get a haircut. It was his first haircut since he'd been living with us. When we first picked him up, he was buzzed. I'm sure his father . . . more
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June 08, 2008 03:18 PM EDT --
At 'school,' Trey gets a note each day from the teachers about their day. The notes tell what activities they did and what subjects they are studying and so forth. Today we got . . . more
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February 24, 2006 09:43 PM EST --
We were rough and tumble kids. We didn't hang around the house watching TV or reading books or practicing the piano. We were outside people. After mom would get us up and feed us . . . more
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March 05, 2006 08:13 PM EST --
My mother is not much of a chef. What I mean by that is that she really doesn't like cooking. It was a chore for her. Most chef's love to cook, to create new dishes, to experiment with new ideas. . . . more
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May 14, 2006 08:27 PM EDT --
Mother's Day was always a special Sunday at church. Besides Easter, it was the next most important Sunday until Christmas. We had a very strong church organization run almost entirely by . . . more
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September 19, 2006 09:14 PM EDT --
Kids love forts. We were always building one somewhere, in the woods behind our house, at the end of the street, under a bush, in the creek. We build a fort anywhere we happened to be or could . . . more
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March 10, 2006 06:59 AM EST --
When we were kids, we would go to my grandparents house for every Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday. That meant packing up the car and driving eight and a half hours from Huntsville, Alabama to Belmont, . . . more
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May 04, 2006 09:02 PM EDT --
Belmont was a small sleepy mill town in the 1960's and 70's. It had considerable charm and hadn't changed much in the past fifty years. Then in the 1980's it seemed to be discovered . . . more
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July 05, 2006 09:27 PM EDT --
I have many fond memories from my childhood; playing sports, visiting my grandparents, growing up in Cleaverland just to name a few. These memories bring me great joy. I look at old family . . . more
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