Tag: mayme winters
group name: gchilddisabled
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July 03, 2008 12:48 PM EDT --
This is a very unusual story. It is one that is very difficult for me to tell. Not only because of the incident itself but trying to tell the story in such a manner that it is not crude or disrespectful. . . .
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April 12, 2008 04:41 PM EDT --
If I had to choose just one person who has affected my life more than any other individual, it would have to be Mayme Winters or "Mother Winters," as we called her at the orphanage.
I am not . . .
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May 01, 2008 07:45 AM EDT --
It was "May Day." All the children from the Spring Park Elementary School had gathered on the school grounds for the May Day Maypole dance.
This dance involves many short flagpoles, with . . .
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May 25, 2008 04:53 PM EDT --
"You ever put me in that position again and I'll cut your damn throat. Do you understand that young man?" screamed Mother Winters, the head matron of the Children's Home Society, located . . .
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August 16, 2008 01:35 PM EDT --
Well, many of my gather friends suggested that I take ten days to think things over before deciding to close our home child advocate's office. The individual who flagged my article, advising people . . .
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May 01, 2008 06:40 AM EDT --
There are many rules in life that one must follow. Most are put into place in order to help protect our rights, our freedoms and our personal space on this earth. However, once in a while a rule comes . . .
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January 16, 2008 06:46 PM EST --
I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I have always considered myself just a regular old fellow.
I live in a twenty-two year old doublewide mobile home, in Brunswick, Georgia; drive a truck . . .
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May 16, 2008 09:57 PM EDT --
If there was ever a time when I, as a child, felt totally worthless because of the actions of an adult, it would have to be when I stood before Mother Winters, the head matron of the Children's Home . . .
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August 14, 2008 11:48 AM EDT --
Hopefully, by expressing my opinion, as well as my feelings about this subject, I am not lessoning what the term slavery actually means. I know that many African Americans suffered greatly at the hands . . .
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January 18, 2008 12:57 PM EST --
This is my newest book of short stories. These are the best of my heartfelt stories, many published in Chicken Soup for the Soul Books. The title actually came form my friend Dave Thomas (Wendy's . . .
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May 18, 2008 01:56 PM EDT --
Having been raised my entire childhood in The Children's Home Society, located in Jacksonville, Florida; we children were not reared to become loving individuals. Love was not part of the orphanage . . .
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July 16, 2008 12:15 PM EDT --
"DOES THE DEVIL HAVE A HEART?"
AUDIO VERSION
http://www.gather.com/viewVideo.jsp?id=11821949021868528&nav=MyGather
I sat in Miss Cherry's third grade classroom shaking . . .
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May 16, 2008 11:33 AM EDT --
The manner in which our country has turned, I can fully understand why many children today are leery of policemen, the court system and those in power and positions of authority.
It is those same negative . . .
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