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member name: Mike Walton
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January 02, 2007 02:36 PM EST --
The question was posed to one of the Yahoo groups: "Have you seen the movie with the penguins? They would tap their feet to a song and wait for their mate to tap their feet to the same song . . .
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December 24, 2007 06:24 PM EST --
"Micheal!"
Somehow when she calls me "Micheal," it is as smooth and soft as, well, a Southern Belle would say the word. It is like she's singing a song, and want to add the . . .
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November 06, 2006 03:11 PM EST --
(From "Eagle Feathers" by Mike Walton (c) 2003 Settummanque!)
(The issue was that a group of Scouts cleaned a yard and did some home sprucing for a family that was really bad-off, . . .
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October 16, 2006 07:47 AM EDT --
(From "My Life with Buttercup", by Mike Walton (c) 2004 Settummanque)
"I hate office parties!" I was combing what little I had of my hair, looking at myself in the bathroom . . .
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November 17, 2006 07:45 AM EST --
This is based upon an Internet "story" going around purportedly to be true... I don't know...but it's funny!!! It's kind of an Art Linkletter/Bill Cosby knock off...
[The . . .
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February 13, 2007 02:40 PM EST --
That card made my eyes water heavily as I walked down the front of the headquarters company building, the building in which I worked in. Even more than the card I received two weeks before from my wife, . . .
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September 19, 2006 10:00 AM EDT --
(Go with me on this, okay...AFTN doesn't really exist, or else I'd be a rich young man and we would have some really great television to watch!)
You didn't get to see this...during the Emmy . . .
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September 21, 2006 10:41 AM EDT --
(From "My Life with Buttercup" (c) 2000 Settummanque)
There was a silence in the room when the door leading to the garage opened
and Barbie came through the door, holding the day's . . .
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October 07, 2006 10:29 AM EDT --
She wanted me to call her Mary Kay. When she walked into the room, carrying documents under her left elbow, I stood and offered to take them.
"I'm fine. Thanks for offering. . . .
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March 21, 2007 07:33 AM EDT --
The man was Hispanic, and spoke in a slow but highly accented Spanish. His face was a rough texture of age, combined with years spent outdoors in some sort of manual work. Perhaps he was a farmer. . . .
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February 11, 2007 05:02 PM EST --
Seeing how Scout Sunday (the day closest to the Anniversary Day) this year is on this coming Sunday, and since the poster provided me the best opportunity to post my reflections, I'm forwarding this . . .
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February 12, 2007 01:13 PM EST --
Have you seen our Supermen lately? Those boys dressed in tan shirts with olive pants. They wear red shoulder loops as a symbol of their passion: to help other people at all times. To be an example of . . .
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February 13, 2007 02:31 PM EST --
On Feburary 8th in Washington ninety (now ninety-seven) years ago, officials of a new youth-service organization filed paperwork to incorporate and federally charter something called the Boy . . .
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February 14, 2007 01:40 PM EST --
Like many of my peers, and as a visible example to youth whom I would come in contact with today, I wore my Scout uniform instead of my normal "street clothing".
The current Scout field uniform, . . .
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February 16, 2007 01:32 PM EST --
(From "Eagle Feathers" by Mike Walton (c) 2003 Settummanque!)
My mother told me once that you can stop being a daddy but you can never stop being a mother. It wasn't until I saw the Blue . . .
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August 06, 2008 10:19 PM EDT --
When I turned 13 (the "age of work" in our family: when you turned 13, you could now work outside the home for money -- and you get to keep every dime, every penny, every dollar!), I simply could . . .
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September 04, 2008 02:00 AM EDT --
"Freedom is..." She stammered with the title of her paper. The truth was, she only had four lines on an otherwise empty sheet of paper.
She was told to stand and read her essay aloud, part . . .
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October 16, 2006 08:24 AM EDT --
(based upon the song "My Traveling Star" as performed by James Taylor, one of my favorite musical artists.)
The early morning light barely made it over the trees before she woke. She
calmly . . .
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November 19, 2009 04:31 PM EST --
(pilot, need some feedback please -- thanks. If you want to hear theme music for this, it's "Kid Zero" from Foreplay (Fourplay X) Enjoy!)
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The dumpy kid . . .
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September 20, 2006 09:45 AM EDT --
In 2004, I attended my high school's reunion. Everyone asked me two
questions: "Where are you now and are you working with Scouting?" and "What ever happened to Brenda and you?? . . .
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