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January 
	01: Sports Stress
	(7 comments)
	 
	01: Sports Figure Speaks
	(2 comments)
	 
	02: Protection
	(6 comments)
	 
	03: The 1%
	(4 comments)
	 
	04: Insomnia
	(7 comments)
	 
	05: Insomnia Redux
	(3 comments)
	 
	06: Ancora Imparo
	(7 comments)
	 
	07: Selective Vision
	(8 comments)
	 
	08: Stuff
	(6 comments)
	 
	09: Prejudice
	(4 comments)
	 
	10: Food
	(8 comments)
	 
	11: Resolved:
	(4 comments)
	 
	12: Online Banking
	(5 comments)
	 
	13: My Personal Quest
	(5 comments)
	 
	14: Shangri-La
	(4 comments)
	 
	16: A New Wrinkle for the Sock Mystery
	(4 comments)
	 
	17: Saying Good-Bye
	(2 comments)
	 
	18: Day of Words
	(5 comments)
	 
	19: Working From Home
	(9 comments)
	 
	20: Credit Rating
	(5 comments)
	 
	21: Help--I Need Ideas
	(9 comments)
	 
	21: Closet Done (Halo, Please)
	(7 comments)
	 
	22: Self-Published Books, Novellas, Stories
	(4 comments)
	 
	23: Plan B
	(7 comments)
	 
	24: President Narcissus?
	(10 comments)
	 
	25: A Hex Key?
	(7 comments)
	 
	26: Quandry
	(6 comments)
	 
	26: Ungrateful SOB
	(12 comments)
	 
	27: Scrabble War
	(4 comments)
	 
	28: Glasses
	(7 comments)
	 
	29: How Do You Know? 
	(7 comments)
	 
	29: Sunday Morning
	(3 comments)
	 
	30: The Garden, The Garden
	(8 comments)
	 
	31: Scratching an Itch
	(3 comments)
	 
	31: Glasses:  The Trilogy
	(2 comments)
	 
 
February 
	01: And the Programmer Said...
	(2 comments)
	 
	02: Welfare Fraud
	(6 comments)
	 
	03: Watts Towers
	(1 comments)
	 
	05: While Surfing the Net....
	(8 comments)
	 
	06: Authenticity
	(3 comments)
	 
	07: Raindrops Keep Fallin'
	(4 comments)
	 
	08: Dicotyledons
	(5 comments)
	 
	09: Routine and Creativity
	(6 comments)
	 
	10: Visiting Day
	(5 comments)
	 
	11: Prep for Cleaning
	(2 comments)
	 
	11: Clash
	(6 comments)
	 
	12: Factoid of the Day
	(8 comments)
	 
	13: HTML Link, Etc.
	(2 comments)
	 
	14: Garden
	(4 comments)
	 
	15: Bureaucracy A Necessary Evil
	(8 comments)
	 
	16: Good Customer Service:  A Miracle
	(3 comments)
	 
	17: "Hot in Cleveland"
	(4 comments)
	 
	18: Dichotomy
	(6 comments)
	 
	20: Intolerance
	(3 comments)
	 
	21: Staying Close to Home
	(5 comments)
	 
	22: Bleak Midwinter (Not)
	(6 comments)
	 
	23: Oho!  Lesson Learned
	(5 comments)
	 
	25: Give Us a Real Choice
	(6 comments)
	 
	26: Income Tax
	(3 comments)
	 
	27: ROFL
	(4 comments)
	 
	27: 25 Worst Passwords of 2011
	(6 comments)
	 
	28: Easily Pronounced Names
	(3 comments)
	 
	29: It's Going Around
	(3 comments)
	 
	29: Virginia Does It Again
	(3 comments)
	 
	29: Earthquakes
	(5 comments)
	 
 
March 
	01: Clocks
	(6 comments)
	 
	03: Medical Stuff is a Pain
	(13 comments)
	 
	04: Retired AT LAST
	(10 comments)
	 
	05: Better Today
	(5 comments)
	 
	06: Keep On Walkin'
	(6 comments)
	 
	07: Hermit-age
	(5 comments)
	 
	08: Hiccups
	(10 comments)
	 
	09: A Little Help
	(7 comments)
	 
	09: Choices
	(2 comments)
	 
	10: One Reason 
	(4 comments)
	 
	11: Could Have Been Better
	(4 comments)
	 
	12: Well Begun, Best Completed
	(5 comments)
	 
	12: Reading Recommendation
	(2 comments)
	 
	13: Free Books
	(10 comments)
	 
	14: It Might Be a Poltergeist
	(4 comments)
	 
	15: Logical Fallacy
	(6 comments)
	 
	16: Polenta
	(7 comments)
	 
	17: St Patrick's Day--and Rain
	(5 comments)
	 
	19: One Friend
	(5 comments)
	 
	20: Equinox (Do I Hear Opportunity?)
	(5 comments)
	 
	20: Zucchini Squash!!
	(8 comments)
	 
	21: Before Marriage
	(6 comments)
	 
	22: Share the Tweet
	(2 comments)
	 
	22: Thoughts of Gratitude
	(5 comments)
	 
	23: Social Flutterby
	(3 comments)
	 
	24: Kitchen Time
	(5 comments)
	 
	25: Sunday and It's Raining, It's Pouring
	(4 comments)
	 
	26: Sunday's Dinner and Other Stuff
	(4 comments)
	 
	27: Information via the Internet
	(10 comments)
	 
	28: Food Pantry
	(6 comments)
	 
	29: Media Language
	(5 comments)
	 
	30: The Great Recession (humor)
	(3 comments)
	 
	31: Huffed and Puffed
	(2 comments)
	 
 
April 
	01: April, The Cruelest Month
	(6 comments)
	 
	02: Again With the Warm Weather
	(3 comments)
	 
	02: Happy Happy Happy Dance
	(3 comments)
	 
	03: Day Trip
	(1 comments)
	 
	04: Taxes Done (more happy)
	(4 comments)
	 
	05: Girding the Loins
	(2 comments)
	 
	06: Sugar
	(9 comments)
	 
	07: The First Item on the Shelf
	(5 comments)
	 
	09: Not Quite Ready for the Olympics
	(13 comments)
	 
	10: Sleep Knits Up the Ravel'd Sleeve of Care
	(12 comments)
	 
	12: Creative Financing
	(5 comments)
	 
	13: Sugar Surprise
	(9 comments)
	 
	13: Storm Watch
	(4 comments)
	 
	14: Fixed vs. Growth
	(6 comments)
	 
	14: Dog Treats
	(7 comments)
	 
	15: Dress Like an Onion
	(2 comments)
	 
	17: Foot in Mouth?  Yuck.
	(8 comments)
	 
	18: New Kindle
	(7 comments)
	 
	19: The City & The City by China Mieville
	(10 comments)
	 
	20: Health Scare of the Week (Drum Roll please)
	(6 comments)
	 
	20: Nobody Does Anything About It
	(4 comments)
	 
	21: People at Death's Door Regret...
	(4 comments)
	 
	22: Coolth
	(2 comments)
	 
	23: Native American Weather
	(4 comments)
	 
	24: To Thine Own Self Be True
	(6 comments)
	 
	26: "Storm Watch" Again
	(6 comments)
	 
	27: Above Average
	(4 comments)
	 
	28: UU District Assembly
	(0 comments)
	 
	29: Wherein I Stand Accused of Language Imperialism
	(6 comments)
	 
	30: The Lighter Side of Profiling
	(5 comments)
	 
	30: Amazon Prime
	(2 comments)
	 
 
May 
	01: All-Nighter (Almost)
	(5 comments)
	 
	01: Parkinson's Personality
	(6 comments)
	 
	02: Growing Older
	(5 comments)
	 
	03: Bragging a Bit
	(3 comments)
	 
	04: Eight Years With JournalScape
	(3 comments)
	 
	05: Full Moon Tonight
	(5 comments)
	 
	06: Feels Like Manna from Heaven
	(4 comments)
	 
	07: "Last Call at the Oasis"
	(2 comments)
	 
	08: Immigration Policy
	(6 comments)
	 
	09: Two Years of Service
	(5 comments)
	 
	10: Nomophobia
	(7 comments)
	 
	11: Graduated Scale
	(5 comments)
	 
	12: Garden Notes
	(6 comments)
	 
	13: A Chore or War?
	(8 comments)
	 
	14: ReFi
	(5 comments)
	 
	15: Everything is Blurry in its Own Way
	(2 comments)
	 
	16: Accuracy
	(4 comments)
	 
	17: Women Writing
	(11 comments)
	 
	18: Friday Schedule Blown Out of the Water
	(1 comments)
	 
	19: 50 Years Down the Road
	(4 comments)
	 
	20: NATO Demonstrations
	(4 comments)
	 
	20: I Wish I Knew
	(3 comments)
	 
	21: No, I Don't Think So
	(2 comments)
	 
	21: Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
	(3 comments)
	 
	22: "Glowing" All Day
	(2 comments)
	 
	23: Everything Old is New Again
	(9 comments)
	 
	24: 9:15 a.m. and All's Well in L.A.
	(5 comments)
	 
	25: Set Point or Setback?
	(3 comments)
	 
	26: Fund Raiser
	(2 comments)
	 
	27: Intimidation
	(4 comments)
	 
	28: A Visitor
	(3 comments)
	 
	29: Downstairs, Upstairs
	(5 comments)
	 
	30: Commentary on Medicare
	(7 comments)
	 
	31: Grace Under Pressure
	(3 comments)
	 
 
June 
	01: We're Having a Heat Wave
	(3 comments)
	 
	01: Cookie R.I.P.
	(9 comments)
	 
	02: Cell Phone, Cell Phone, Where Art Thou?
	(3 comments)
	 
	03: Tradition
	(7 comments)
	 
	04: Electronic Transactions
	(6 comments)
	 
	05: Just the Facts, Ma'am
	(4 comments)
	 
	07: Passing
	(3 comments)
	 
	08: Wish Me Luck?
	(5 comments)
	 
	08: Update
	(10 comments)
	 
	09: Propaganda
	(4 comments)
	 
	11: Strictly for the Birds
	(4 comments)
	 
	12: Larks and Owls
	(3 comments)
	 
	13: Flaunt vs. Flout
	(10 comments)
	 
	14: Refi
	(4 comments)
	 
	14: It's Better to Be a Man
	(3 comments)
	 
	15: Parkinson's Dementia !
	(7 comments)
	 
	15: Instinct
	(7 comments)
	 
	17: Fortune Cookie
	(8 comments)
	 
	18: Monday Prep for Travel
	(8 comments)
	 
	19: T Minus One (and counting)
	(8 comments)
	 
	20: Oh! Dark Hundred
	(6 comments)
	 
	21: Paz con Justicia
	(1 comments)
	 
	22: Amazing Experience
	(2 comments)
	 
	25: What I Did This Weekend
	(2 comments)
	 
	26: Poor Little Robin, Walkin,...
	(3 comments)
	 
	27: Crazy Lady
	(8 comments)
	 
	28: Irony
	(6 comments)
	 
	28: Marijuana
	(7 comments)
	 
	29: June 28, 2012
	(3 comments)
	 
	30: Here Comes Summer
	(5 comments)
	 
 
July 
	01: Blue Skies in July
	(5 comments)
	 
	02: Ain't No Stinkin' Climate Change
	(9 comments)
	 
	03: Standard Work Week/Health Care
	(2 comments)
	 
	04: Smart Phone
	(6 comments)
	 
	05: OMG The Weather
	(4 comments)
	 
	06: Laguna Sawdust Arts Festival
	(0 comments)
	 
	06: We're the Last Ones
	(7 comments)
	 
	07: Shame on Me
	(6 comments)
	 
	08: Trying to Breathe
	(3 comments)
	 
	09: Not Fond of Criticism (Who Is?)
	(10 comments)
	 
	10: Voter ID
	(5 comments)
	 
	11: Everybody Complains About the Weather...
	(6 comments)
	 
	12: Green Eyes
	(7 comments)
	 
	12: Commentary
	(4 comments)
	 
	13: Holding on to Anger
	(9 comments)
	 
	14: 'Splain This to Me
	(7 comments)
	 
	15: Growing Tomatoes CSI-Style
	(7 comments)
	 
	17: Length of Novels
	(6 comments)
	 
	18: Auditory Input
	(5 comments)
	 
	18: Beasts of the Southern Wild (Katrina story)
	(1 comments)
	 
	19: Income Tax
	(5 comments)
	 
	20: Ramadan
	(5 comments)
	 
	21: Taxation
	(3 comments)
	 
	22: Annoying My Neighbor
	(6 comments)
	 
	23: Colored Lobsters
	(4 comments)
	 
	24: Tuesday Morning
	(4 comments)
	 
	24: Trickle Down
	(4 comments)
	 
	26: The Other Neighbor
	(3 comments)
	 
	27: Walking Was Easy
	(5 comments)
	 
	28: The Ants Go Marching Two by Two....
	(7 comments)
	 
	29: Getting Ready for Hot Weather?
	(6 comments)
	 
	30: Miracle (or Magic) Fruit
	(0 comments)
	 
	31: Profanity
	(9 comments)
	 
 
August 
	01: Coyote
	(9 comments)
	 
	02: Like Mother, Like Daughter
	(3 comments)
	 
	03: Windows (not the computer's)
	(5 comments)
	 
	04: What's Important
	(5 comments)
	 
	05: Unambiguous Communication
	(10 comments)
	 
	06: Jumpin' Jehosophat, Batman!
	(3 comments)
	 
	07: Mini Field Trip
	(4 comments)
	 
	08: Very Cool
	(6 comments)
	 
	09: Oh! Dark Hundred
	(3 comments)
	 
	09: Google Doodle
	(3 comments)
	 
	10: All Good, All The Time
	(2 comments)
	 
	10: Thinking of Our Public Workers
	(3 comments)
	 
	11: What emjay Said
	(4 comments)
	 
	12: I Predict Electricity Crisis
	(6 comments)
	 
	12: 1.5%
	(3 comments)
	 
	13: Plans for the Day
	(4 comments)
	 
	14: Say a Prayer...
	(9 comments)
	 
	15: Wednesday
	(4 comments)
	 
	16: Shooters
	(6 comments)
	 
	17: It's Not the Heat, It's...
	(8 comments)
	 
	18: Exclamation Mark (or Point)
	(7 comments)
	 
	19: Abstinence
	(6 comments)
	 
	19: Social Security
	(7 comments)
	 
	20: Seeking Advice
	(8 comments)
	 
	21: going, going, gone....
	(6 comments)
	 
	22: INTJ--"The Strategist"
	(6 comments)
	 
	23: Five Years
	(5 comments)
	 
	24: Election Year Blues
	(4 comments)
	 
	25: Forever
	(5 comments)
	 
	26: Los Angeles Unified School District
	(1 comments)
	 
	27: Anticipation
	(4 comments)
	 
	28: Mayan Calendar
	(4 comments)
	 
	28: Lovely Day
	(2 comments)
	 
	29: Butt Ironing
	(6 comments)
	 
	30: U. S. Hospitals
	(6 comments)
	 
	31: Sleep Tight
	(1 comments)
	 
	31: Sue
	(2 comments)
	 
 
September 
	01: This is the First of September, Right?
	(6 comments)
	 
	02: Old Address Book
	(3 comments)
	 
	03: Living Alone
	(5 comments)
	 
	04: A Quirkitude
	(5 comments)
	 
	05: H.U.M.I.D.
	(4 comments)
	 
	05: Pernicious Ageism
	(5 comments)
	 
	06: Body Language
	(1 comments)
	 
	07: OK, Louisiana
	(3 comments)
	 
	08: Lovely Saturday Morning
	(3 comments)
	 
	08: Baking Day
	(5 comments)
	 
	10: The Week Ahead
	(5 comments)
	 
	10: Major Website Ratings
	(3 comments)
	 
	11: Good Walking Morning
	(7 comments)
	 
	12: Fear
	(3 comments)
	 
	12: Hate
	(4 comments)
	 
	13: Here We Go Again...
	(6 comments)
	 
	14: Rube Goldberg Machine
	(7 comments)
	 
	15: Saturday Just Starting Out
	(2 comments)
	 
	15: New Words
	(4 comments)
	 
	16: Soft Addiction
	(7 comments)
	 
	17: The Mailbox
	(6 comments)
	 
	18: Insult
	(8 comments)
	 
	19: Teamwork
	(3 comments)
	 
	20: What Worries Me
	(6 comments)
	 
	21: The Voice of the Turtle(doves)
	(6 comments)
	 
	21: iPad
	(4 comments)
	 
	22: Books
	(6 comments)
	 
	23: Piper Sandals
	(6 comments)
	 
	24: Comics/Funnies
	(5 comments)
	 
	26: Old Dishes
	(10 comments)
	 
	27: Open Season
	(7 comments)
	 
	27: Question of the Day
	(9 comments)
	 
	28: Mice
	(7 comments)
	 
	29: One Reason Why
	(4 comments)
	 
	30: If I Were a Rich (Wo)man
	(5 comments)
	 
 
October 
	01: The Five Senses
	(5 comments)
	 
	02: Proofing a Manuscript
	(7 comments)
	 
	03: Art & the Remote
	(6 comments)
	 
	04: Thursday (as if you didn't know)
	(3 comments)
	 
	05: Saying "No"
	(4 comments)
	 
	06: Homeschooling vs. School
	(8 comments)
	 
	08: Max R.I.P.
	(13 comments)
	 
	09: Heritage
	(7 comments)
	 
	10: Bedbugs and Library Books
	(7 comments)
	 
	11: Thursday's *Snicker*
	(4 comments)
	 
	12: What a Difference a Year Makes
	(4 comments)
	 
	13: What a Difference a Year Makes, Part II
	(9 comments)
	 
	14: Puppy Problems
	(8 comments)
	 
	15: Allergies!!
	(3 comments)
	 
	16: HorrorScope
	(6 comments)
	 
	16: FIRE !
	(9 comments)
	 
	17: So What Else is New?
	(6 comments)
	 
	19: Showers in the Morning
	(4 comments)
	 
	20: Speaking of Which
	(7 comments)
	 
	20: Self Control
	(5 comments)
	 
	21: Harvest Festival FUNdraiser
	(5 comments)
	 
	22: Time Out
	(1 comments)
	 
	23: Lovely Lovely Cool Weather
	(7 comments)
	 
	24: Pumpkin Soup Weather
	(6 comments)
	 
	25: "Private Giving"
	(4 comments)
	 
	26: Learning in Retirement
	(5 comments)
	 
	27: Smoke
	(5 comments)
	 
	28: Earthquake and Hurricane
	(4 comments)
	 
	29: Thinking of You
	(3 comments)
	 
	30: Historical Fiction
	(5 comments)
	 
	31: Potluck
	(4 comments)
	 
 
November 
	01: Pumpkin Soup
	(6 comments)
	 
	01: Feng Shui Basics
	(3 comments)
	 
	02: Election Day Prep
	(4 comments)
	 
	03: Small Group
	(4 comments)
	 
	05: Band Concert
	(4 comments)
	 
	05: Generator Works
	(3 comments)
	 
	06: November 6, 2012
	(4 comments)
	 
	07: The Morning After the Night Before
	(2 comments)
	 
	07: California Voting
	(8 comments)
	 
	08: Schizy
	(4 comments)
	 
	09: Bed Making
	(5 comments)
	 
	10: Flummoxed
	(8 comments)
	 
	11: Looking Forward
	(9 comments)
	 
	12: Dentistry Retrograde
	(7 comments)
	 
	12: Hooray for Dentists!
	(3 comments)
	 
	13: What a Beautiful Morning
	(4 comments)
	 
	14: Running So Fast I Can't Keep Up
	(4 comments)
	 
	15: Neither Lonely Nor Bored
	(8 comments)
	 
	16: Yesterday Seems So Far Away
	(5 comments)
	 
	17: North Carolina
	(6 comments)
	 
	18: Community is Lovely, But....
	(6 comments)
	 
	19: Resilient, Altruistic Persons and Pain
	(1 comments)
	 
	20: Plans and Practices
	(4 comments)
	 
	21: Prep for Tomorrow
	(4 comments)
	 
	22: Happy Birthday
	(2 comments)
	 
	23: Black Friday
	(6 comments)
	 
	24: Gratitude Redux
	(6 comments)
	 
	25: Simple Pleasures
	(6 comments)
	 
	26: Inappropriate Language
	(8 comments)
	 
	27: Direction: Forward
	(4 comments)
	 
	28: This and That
	(4 comments)
	 
	29: Halp! I Needs an Intervenshun!
	(11 comments)
	 
	30: iPhone Phollies
	(10 comments)
	 
 
December 
	01: Looking at Life
	(7 comments)
	 
	02: Obligations
	(6 comments)
	 
	03: Plop, Plop
	(6 comments)
	 
	04: He Who Pays the Piper
	(5 comments)
	 
	05: Don't Sit Down!
	(6 comments)
	 
	06: There Will Be Days Like This, My Astrologer Said
	(7 comments)
	 
	07: Introvert
	(8 comments)
	 
	08: Brrrrrh!
	(5 comments)
	 
	09: Let it Be
	(5 comments)
	 
	10: Don't Stop
	(9 comments)
	 
	11: Twosday
	(3 comments)
	 
	11: No Birdsong Today
	(4 comments)
	 
	12: 12-12-12
	(8 comments)
	 
	13: A Conundrum (For Me, Anyway)
	(7 comments)
	 
	14: OMG
	(4 comments)
	 
	15: Trees
	(1 comments)
	 
	15: Public Agenda
	(6 comments)
	 
	16: Poinsettias
	(5 comments)
	 
	17: Swimming
	(6 comments)
	 
	18: Promises
	(4 comments)
	 
	19: Cold
	(4 comments)
	 
	20: Connectivity is Wonderful and Other Trivia
	(5 comments)
	 
	21: "I don't care if it rains or freezes..."
	(12 comments)
	 
	22: Consumer Porn
	(5 comments)
	 
	23: Red and Green
	(3 comments)
	 
	24: 2nd Amendment
	(2 comments)
	 
	25: Merry Christmas
	(5 comments)
	 
	26: Squirrels
	(6 comments)
	 
	27: Scientific Studies--"Obvious" Awards
	(4 comments)
	 
	28: Breaking Up
	(3 comments)
	 
	28: Vocabulary
	(6 comments)
	 
	29: Concern
	(5 comments)
	 
	30: The Miserables
	(10 comments)
	 
	31: Fast Away the Old Year Passes
	(7 comments)
	 
	
	
 
				
	
	 
			
			 
            
			
				
					
				
			
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