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| https://www.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/878406-1945-THE-VERY-FIRST-BARBIE-DO... of course its my blog that I kept for over ten years at Writing.com.. You might want to read more entries... |
| I don't come to WDC as often as in the past because the pass of 79 years has affected my memory and life. I am too forgetful nowadays and hope is just does not get worse. One of the things I am afraid of remembering is this wonderful writing site that has led me around the world meeting many friends. I hope I do not forget to renew my dues so my 999 items stored in my account will continue to be shared with world friends both present and new. I hope to do whatever it takes to have my port turned white before I die just so future WDCers will learn about lives and stories and poetry of people like me who lived through a world war, humans going to the moon and back, and all the other marvelous things I have had the privilege of doing in my years. Unfortunately, my memory is fading so I do not remember how to do all the creative writings like in my past. I do, however, intend to keep my paid membership up to date until some future fateful day. I have loved this wonderful home for writers more than ten years; and hope to enjoy it many more. Bless ALL of you My Friends. Ann Patterson, Oregon, U.S.A. |
| w is saying today on msnbc Like Rachel Maddow who is exposing the way trump and repubs gladly distract via his tweets what is really happening in congress. They are colluding in that way to distract Americans from what is really happening. When will Congress impeach him? It must happen soon. HIs visits with Puten are a real danger to America. All Americans must make sure to learn true news instead of trumps distractions and lies. America is being attacked from the White House and more. Fearful events that are severely harmful to all of us. |
| My spam folder will not delete or purge...HELP because it is 12 short of being full but When I purge it does nothing...soon it will be overloaded...what can I purge it and it really does purge ....can someone send help do me by storymaster or someone who can cAuse it to purge when purge msg given........ |
| At Amazon published my writings into many books of poems and short stories plus three novels and have autographed them as gifts to family and friends while some are purchased at Amazon. I encourage you to do the same some someday. Ann. Am having a good day today. |
| Special THANKS to each of you who have sent cards and gifts AND messages of encouragement. The illness relays to the brain as l age....forgetfulness is increasing and I pray it's just stress-caused and NOT the kind of slowly forgetful aging which my paternal grandmother had for 20 years before dying at 99....thats my prayer...im hoping to age to 108 in the way my maternal aged...hdr memory never failed. Wish me luck!........ANN PATTERSON of Oregon. KEEP WRITING!! |
| Living just one day at a time .same as all my online friends. Good health and memory one day then opposite the next day...while memory is weak....my body is healthy...i expect it go live to 108...my grandmother and aunt went to 99 and we 3 looked litriplets in our 30s so I expect 108 and pray my mind keeps working till then....no Alzmiers please God...i beg of you.....Ann |
| I came here today to say hello to my friends after being lost for timee while my head has felt 'airy' ...as if nothing but air there...That is a frightening place to be..........this 'aging' thing is so hazy and unreal so much of the time. Actually, I now have forgotten a million things that once were easily retrieved: mostly of recent years...so vague or actually gone or hidden in my brain AND this is so very scary as I struggle one day at a time. I'll be 79 on August 5 and always hoped my brain would stay clear the 100-plus years this body just might last.........my grandmother and her eldest daughter got to 99 AND in their middle years they and I appear like triplets in photos so there is a good chance this body will last another 25 years but will the brain? I so pray that it will be like my aunt who was still intelligently A-OK at 99 when I saw her last. Hope and pray with me for this mind/brain to be clear that long. Ann Patterson 9451 N. Polk Ave, Portland Oregon, 97203. Special thanks to each of you who have sent me a letter or gift this year. When days like this come when I can find my way to Writing.com, I feel wonderful and wish I could find my way here every day. This wonderful place for writers has blessed my heart and life for years. I am thankful to SM and SMs for creating this home of writers around the world. Blessings to them and each friend who reads this note I am able to write today. Ann Ann |
| Ann...I know your struggle. Perhaps my instances of "lost" time are not as frequent, or as complete, as yours, but I am on my way. I can only HOPE that my mind is intact enough to keep typing when I reach your age. I'm 31 years behind you, and I'm already struggling with my words. Some of the memories, I wouldn't mind losing, but my ability to communicate what thoughts, and feelings, I DO have is essential to who I am. My heart goes out to you, Love. May you stay with us a bit longer. |
| My health is not good and I lost my way back here at WDC home.i found my way back and when I can recall I will pay yrs membership and get my computer fixed then be here often. Using phone not computer is very difficult. It's my brain memormemory ability that aging has diminished. Even so my books are selling ay Amazon and kindle. I love this wonderful site. ANn Patterson 9451 n. Polk Ave. Portland Oregon 97203.. |
Like Elle  , I have a letter and package waiting to be posted to you. I will send it in a week or two... I am accepting my Canadian invite this coming week. |
| I don't come here very often these days; just getting older and more forgetful, sadly. I love living a long life, but I hate the forgetfulness that now comes with each new day. It Is so hard to deal with because I have always hoped for a mind that like the elephant, never forgets. Everyone who calls me 'friend' at WDC has been wonderful to me this past year and I hope each one knows how grateful I am. I've always hoped to live to be a hundred with a full mind and memory, however, that no longer seems possible simply because words and memories are fading now, a time when I still prefer to think of me as 'aging young' with a strong mind for many more years. Thanks to each you for being my friend these years at Writing.com. So many WDC writers have become my friends around the world. I am truly grateful. Ann Patterson, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. 97203-1630 |
| What may feel forgotten, we'll remember, Ann. WdC (and all of us here) will see to that. Wishing you all the best and sending good thoughts. |
| LETTER WRITERS GROUP .... Elle and 'company: As you know my brain problems have caused such bd forgetfulness,. For that reason, when I came to WDC today to note 'thank you' emails at the site, I just cannot remember the name of our group to thank the many of you who have sent lettrs and cards. Your thoughts touch my heart. What is the name of our wonderful group? I also need to report that I do not have a diary nor a dairy here at my home. |
| My doctor thinks the forgetting is related to Thyrod not working right or maybe medications, especially those for depression |
Hey Ann. Here's the link to Snail mail and Circle journals 
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Sorry, you're having such problems, ANN Counselor, Lesbian & Happy   . Your medication could be causing the problem, for sure. I'm on a medication that clouds my thinking, at times. Maybe you could ask your doctor to change the medication? |
| by ANN Counselor, Lesbian & Happy (531) Rated: E · Poetry · Emotional From the womb, romantic loving hearts throughout the world deserve the right to love whom they will. I wrote this with while watching a television series "A place called home" about a young man punished by the horror of medical people of last century using the horror of electrical shock to try to change the loving heart of a fine young man. So much horror and hatred without acknowledging that all hearts, including LGBTQ people with hearts from the womb, like mine. I am so glad stories like this one show the horror that hatred has caused historically and still cause in parts of America and the world. |
| An Amazing Powerfu Poem which Christoper has written. If only the world could stop Putin of Russia, The new American presidents new sweetheart friend. That makes this American, me, ashamed of every vote he received to be our President. Bosnia the Damned by Christopher Nagle (38) Rated: E · Poetry · War · #1576586 "Bosnia the Damned" Blood and Tears in the Balkans A spreading stain seeps through The tattered map of Balkan life, Pinned to a general’s table, Spiked by armies, Riddled with the holes Where they have been. Tributaries swell up And streams turn red To drain away the wounds, From a trickle to torrential rush Of blood and screams. Can tears, the waters of lament Ever wash away the torment? Can the human heart encompass all To tame the armored beast within And give the hand that says It is forgiven? Or must these sins without remorse Cascade from father down to son, To gnaw away the faces of the young And forever Join them to their bloody course? |
| I can't believe what you've said. Humanity has made changes through history, usually at a high cost in human lives, but we have to believe the good in human hearts will not always choose hatred, war, prejudice, and such. The world's best modern example is Germany of the last century; where once the world there had disaster, now we see goodness in the people there and their leader Ms. Merkel, now the free world's leader, especially important with Trump and Pence in America who cannot, will not, be trusted as "the leader of the free world" to seek and preserve world peace. |
| It's a fact, hon, not personal opinion. History confirms it and the present is hinting at it. I was born and raised there and lived through it. Humanity doesn't change much. We only find a different way of expressing ourselves. Point in case, the new president and peoples opinion about him. It's the same thing. |
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Ann, you can edit items in your notebook after posting. It's only comments that you cannot edit. Hope this helps.