MaryEllenG

@MaryEllenG (35)

United States • Age 82

Joined myLot 15 years ago

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MaryEllenG's Discussions

Freedom

MaryEllenG @MaryEllenG (35) • United States 26 Jul 09

Quote from the movie "Instinct" starring Anthony Hopkins: Freedom is not a dream. It exists outside the walls we build around ourselves. And from a thesis I wrote many years ago: Freedom is scary and unpredictable because it...

freedom

indivduals

Smoking and Unemployment

MaryEllenG @MaryEllenG (35) • United States 12 Jul 09

The unemployment rate in the United States is now 9.5% What happens when laws and taxes completely eliminate smoking in this country? There will be thousands, if not millions left without jobs: all the tobacco plantation...

taxes

tobacco

unemployment

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1 person

Night Workers and Sleep

MaryEllenG @MaryEllenG (35) • United States 16 May 09

As a bail bond agent most of my work is at night. There are very few people who get arrested during the daylight hours. Sometimes i don't get to bed until 5 or 6 AM. Even though most people know what I do for a living, I get...

night

rudeness

sleep

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Children running amok

MaryEllenG @MaryEllenG (35) • United States 5 May 09

How many of you get annoyed at out-of-control children in places of business? Yesterday I went to four different places: supermarket, department store, laundry, and library. In all these places there were children screaming,...

children

control

parents

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4 people

Do You Wear Dentures?

MaryEllenG @MaryEllenG (35) • United States 1 May 09

Today my brother-in-law told me he lost his bottom plate. He has had dentures for ten years and always takes the bottom plate out so he can eat. This time he put it in his pocet, not realizing there was a hole in the pocket, and...

dentists

teeth

Where are you from?

MaryEllenG @MaryEllenG (35) • United States 29 Apr 09

Is there anyone here from Idaho, Costa Rica, or Italy? I would realy like to get acquainted with fellow contributers from thses places.

countries

members

states

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Living Single in a Double World

MaryEllenG @MaryEllenG (35) • United States 26 Apr 09

The original intention for this discussion was treatment received in restaurants when one is dining alone. However, this thought forced me to think about the many different situations and circumstances encountered by single...

age

money

singles

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1 person

Conformity

MaryEllenG @MaryEllenG (35) • United States 26 Apr 09

I was young I rebeled My causes were the ideals of my peers I fought wasting my talents Wasting my words On ears that would not hear Now I see another's eyes Glowing with these same causes I see yesterday's...

free verse

generations

poetry

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Idaho Spring

MaryEllenG @MaryEllenG (35) • United States 26 Apr 09

Living breathing kites The gulls return helping sun and wind chase the snow

haiku

poetry

Learning A New Language

MaryEllenG @MaryEllenG (35) • United States 25 Apr 09

I taught Coversational Spanish and English as a Second Language for 14 years. All my students were adults and learned the new language within six weeks and surprised themselves when they were able to hold debates in that...

adults

books

language

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2 people