Instant Winner!
I am not, at heart, a gambler. (I am also not a diarist, as this is my first.) And while this may be my last diary, I don't think I've gambled my last. My corner drug store started a Game of...
View ArticleDarn Wachovia
I'm not usually into such strong language, especially for the title of a diary, so I apologize beforehand. And this won't be much of a diary, but I feel the need to vent. To rage.Please follow below...
View ArticleA March Rape for April
I found out today from an eloquent diary by Shanay that April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. I didn't know that before, because to me, every month is sexual assault awareness month. Every month...
View ArticleKosAbility: PTSD
I am on disability for aortic stenosis - leaking of the aortic valve in my heart. I am also bi-polar and have ADHD. Through medication and talk therapy I have most of the symptoms of these under...
View ArticleGa Teaparty and Our Next Prez?
On Friday evening, July 16, the Georgia Tea Party held a rally in Marietta, a few miles from my house. Had I known about it in advance, I think I would have gone, just to see first-hand what all the...
View ArticleCommunity Quilt Project to put Jack Conway in Senate
Unless, of course, you want tea partier and Libertarian Rand Paul in the Senate from Kentucky. And according to Talking Points Memo, the respected firm Survey USA had a new poll out this past weekend...
View ArticleIGTNT - The Day Before His 21st Birthday
Tonight we come to honor and remember a young marine who would have celebrated his twenty-first birthday the day after he became the latest casualty in Operation Enduring Freedom. "He which hath no...
View ArticleGUS: Fifth Day of Not Smoking
Today is my fifth day of not smoking. And it feels great. It hasn't been as hard as I thought it would be - only had one time so far that I was just simply really jonesing for a cigarette.GUS (Gave...
View ArticleGUS: 13th Day - I Want a Cigarette.
I haven't wanted a cigarette for days and now, all of a sudden, due to stress at home, I guess, I want a cigarette.GUS (Gave Up Smoking) is a community support diary for Kossacks in the midst of...
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IGTNT: A 20 Year Old Hero
The Department of Defense has announced the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.Lance Cpl. Michael E. Geary, 20, of Derry, N.H., died Dec. 8 while conducting combat...
View ArticleIGTNT: He Was Only 21
We come here tonight to celebrate the life of a 21-year-old Marine who gave his life for our freedom. Semper Fi, Lance Cpl. Jose L. Maldonado. At ease, your mission is accomplished.The Department of...
View ArticleWith Love and Gratitude
I'm not a writer or a diarist. And, though it's the holiday season, this will not be a particularly festive diary. It's not in celebration of anything and won't be particularly long. And now for the...
View ArticleGUS: Yes, I Gave Up Smoking
Just call me a Gussack. It's only been a month and five days and I know it's for good. I can be around a room full of people smoking (though I try to avoid that for health reasons) and it doesn't...
View ArticleHere's a Gentle Rape for you Mr. Boehner
This is a reprint from an April diary, April being sexual assault awareness month. But that doesn't make a hill of beans to me, as every month on any day I can be in the midst of sexual assault...
View ArticleIndigo Kalliope - Poems From the Left
Join us every Monday evening for drinks at the new Kos community political poetry club. Drop by and speak your mind in rhyme or blank verse. Let’s use language to scream our passion to the world....
View ArticleA March Rape in April
This is a reprint from an April diary of last year, April being Sexual Assault Awareness month. But that doesn't mean a hill of beans to me, as every month on any day I can be in the midst of sexual...
View ArticleIGTNT - They Made the Ultimate Sacrifice
We come here tonight to honor the life and mourn the passing of Lance Cpl. Harry Lew, 21, of Santa Clara, CA and Spc. Dennis Poulin, 26 of Cumberland, R.I. Since 2003 there have been 4445 US...
View ArticleIGTNT - A Hero Gone Home Too Soon
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom Spc. Keith T. Buzinski, 26, of Daytona Beach, Fla., died April 7 in Logar...
View ArticleThe Wasp Larvae
Once, when I was eleven, I needed my mother. I don't remember the particular reason now, I only know I thought I desperately needed her. Only she was sitting at the kitchen table working on her...
View ArticleIGTNT - First Michigan Soldier To Die This Year
Please come together tonight to celebrate the life and to mourn the passing of Spc. Robert M. Friese of Harrison, Michigan. The Department of Defense announced Sunday the death of Spc. Robert M....
View ArticleKosAbility: A PTSD Diary
The following was first published on Wed Jun 30, 2010 at 05:00 PM EDT. It's well worth re-reading and taking note of the content- CJ KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every...
View ArticleBooks That Changed My Life: Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Philosphy disguised as nonsense, nonsense disguised as philosophy. That is a description of this book in one sentence. There must be more than that, you think, and there is, I'm just not sure I can...
View ArticleWriting A Memoir: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
That is my Dickensian way of describing my life. It was truly the best of times and the worst. And to exorcise demons and leave a legacy for my children, I decided to write my memoirs. It is...
View ArticleKosAbility: Bi-Polar Disorder
I never met a danger that scared me. In my manic state, it was as if I had a motor inside me that kept churning ever faster and had no "stop" button. In my depressive state, I was most often...
View ArticleShock and Awe and a Very Big Thanks
This diary is late in getting posted. I am sorry, but have been in bad health and tonight is the first I've been able to write much. I am writing to thank two wonderful people - one I know and one I...
View ArticleBarriers & Bridges - My Black Nanncy & Going Full Circle
There are many moments and events in my life that circle back on each other and I'm going to try and coherently explain them to you. I was raised the first six years of my life - from 1944 to 1950 in...
View ArticleMy Abortion Story
I actually have two stories concerning abortions, though I've only had one. I'll tell you about my actual abortion first, then I'll fill you in on my second abortion story.I had four children, was...
View ArticleKosAbility - The Day I Almost Died
KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday and Wednesday by volunteer diarists. This is a gathering place for people who are living with disabilities, who love someone with a...
View ArticleTree Climbers - The Princess and the Pedophile
The following is an excerpt from my own copywrited material, from my autobiography, racheltracks. I was molested by my uncle, raped by my biological father and robbed and raped by a man with a gun at...
View ArticleA Plea for Help
I never thought I would be writing this diary, and I am simply because I am desperate. I live with my fifty year old daughter disabled daughter, and her husband, fifty-five, an over the road trucker....
View ArticleA Plea for Help Answered by Our Forever Hero Kossacks
A few days ago I wrote a diary titled A Plea for Help as my family and I were drowning financially and were about to lose our car, not have food to eat, have our utilities cut off and have no way to...
View ArticleA Plea for Help Part Two
I. hate. doing. this. I am sad and scared and embarrassed and don't want to do this and can think of no other choice. I need help. Very much so. I wrote a diary on the eighteenth pleading for help...
View ArticleHelp needed
Our family right now has a world of trouble and perhaps someone here in Kosland can help. I wrote a diary a few weeks ago as we couldn't pay our bills and everything was fixing to be turned off, we...
View ArticleNo Bruises - He Had a Gun - Was the Rape Legitimate?
It was March 4, 1966. I was a young, twenty-two year old recently divorced mother of a four year old. I worked in Atlanta, Ga at a moving company. We had an office inside a large warehouse that was...
View ArticleThe Days of Wine and Roses
Navajo recently had a NEW DAY diary asking how old we were and what ago we would be if we could be any age. I answered I am sixty-eight and if I could be any age, in a heartbeat I would choose to be...
View ArticleI Haven't Seen This Diaried Here About Romney
I don't do political diaries. I generally don't think I'm qualified enough. Kosability is more my style and I've done some for them. But I think I have a point I haven't seen diaried about Romney and...
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Love from the Universe - via a Breathtakingly Beautiful Love-Catcher Quilt
As some of you know, on the 19th of December, I had total knee replacement surgery. Ten days later, my knee and leg were swollen and inflamed, and, due to the fact my aortic valve has a leak in it,...
View ArticleNo TTFN's Here - I'm Staying for the Community
We all know that famous phrase - I came for the politics and stayed for the community. And that describes exactly how I feel about Daily Kos. I stumbled on it from Talking Points Memo two and a half...
View ArticleAnother Vigil, Another Good Outcome
Many of you know Nurse Kelley wrote a vigil diary for me when I had knee replacement surgery twice and coded and died and was on life support for three days last January. I believe the messages, the...
View ArticleAtlanta Area Meet-Up
This will probably be the shortest recorded diary on Daily Kos, as I don't have much to add after the title. I am looking forward to having an Atlanta or near there, depending on where people are...
View ArticleAtlanta Meet-Up
The Atlanta Meet-up will definitely be held at Manuel's Tavern in Buckhead. Following in the poll will be the two dates opol and I have thought would be good. Please vote on the date you are most...
View ArticleMother's Day - A Day Late and a Dollar Short
I never think of my mother on Mother's Day. I only think of myself and my four children. I think of my mother the day after Mother's Day with only sadness and regret and disappointment. I refuse to...
View ArticleUrgent! 2 Homeless Service dogs and their mom
Thank you all so much! We raised $393.00 last nit. We still need $2200.00. The u-haul alone is $1400 plus taxes from Huron, SD to Lebanon, TN. The woman that is going to transport is actually taking...
View ArticleEven more urgent! Out on street at midnight tomorrow night!
Thank you all so much! We raised $393.00 last nit. We still need $2200.00. The u-haul alone is $1400 plus taxes from Huron, SD to Lebanon, TN. The woman that is going to transport is actually taking...
View ArticleThree Day Reprieve for service dog and owner
I am so sorry to keep posting this. We have tried every agency in South Dakota that we can get a hold of. Even Salvation Army. Every agency that we have reached is telling us that the money they had...
View ArticleLast Time. Just a Little More Love, Please
Last time. We are within reach of our goal. Wee think we can pull this off with another $400 to $500. You guys are amazing. I can't even begin to express our gratitude at the love you guys have shown...
View ArticleReally Really the last time!
I will do anything to make this up to you guys. I know I have become very annoying and I am so sorry. I just don't know where else to turn. This is a terrible time of year for everyone, including all...
View ArticleHeroes and Angels in Kosland.
Somehow, the words "Thank you" don't even begin to express the gratitude that I feel for this community. Most of you don't have a clue who I am. Many of you know my mom, Racheltracks. Until she became...
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