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		<title>Grateful&#8230;&#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband and I are reading a great book by Dr. Andrew Weil called &#8220;Spontaneous Happiness&#8221; and I would recommend it to any of you who struggle with the whole concept of &#8216;what is happy?&#8217;. Huge numbers of us are on anti-depressants; something like 1 in 6 Americans!  Dr. Weil has been working toward a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janelondon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11094545&amp;post=585&amp;subd=janelondon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll let you be you; now let me be me&#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The week between Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Day is kind of a netherworld between regret over the past year and the exciting potential to begin anew.  Time to mull over what worked and what didn&#8217;t, while you try and formulate the way forward into another year. Maybe the past year was rough, maybe it didn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janelondon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11094545&amp;post=555&amp;subd=janelondon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And so, this is Christmas????</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it&#8217;s because I don&#8217;t have kids or maybe it&#8217;s because of the way my wonderful parents raised me, but Christmas doesn&#8217;t stress me out.  I do very little shopping and my siblings and I agreed years ago that none of us &#8216;need&#8217; anything and since we&#8217;re spread out from coast to coast, we all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janelondon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11094545&amp;post=546&amp;subd=janelondon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Money, money, money&#8230;.shhhhhhh!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s talk about money.   I&#8217;ll go first:  I like it, I&#8217;m for it and I want to collect as much as I can.  I know this is a very unfashionable thing to say, but I&#8217;m past worrying about fashion.  Here&#8217;s what I think; I think that most of you feel exactly the same way, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janelondon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11094545&amp;post=540&amp;subd=janelondon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My annual realistic Christmas letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends and Family: Another year has passed and I hope this holiday season finds you well.  As I write this,  Junior our 1 year-old Jack Russell terrier is resting comfortably on the couch after a harrowing night of vomiting that had me scrambling for paper towels and carpet cleaner. Junior joined the family about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janelondon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11094545&amp;post=517&amp;subd=janelondon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What the hell are we thinking?????</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tend to be pragmatic and I try to be proactive.   These are the two &#8220;p&#8217;s&#8221; that are currently propelling my philosophy.  Okay, I guess that&#8217;s 4 &#8220;p&#8217;s&#8221;. Last year at this time, I was focusing on defining my spiritual life and after a fair amount of reading, thinking, writing and arguing I&#8217;m not much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janelondon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11094545&amp;post=508&amp;subd=janelondon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In search of simplicity&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://janelondon.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/in-search-of-simplicity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband and I live in a small town in the mountains northwest of Denver.  Neither of us cares much for crowds or traffic; we&#8217;re more comfortable with wide open spaces and fewer people.  Most folks who live in the mountains tend to be a little (or a lot) reclusive. People sometimes complain about how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janelondon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11094545&amp;post=484&amp;subd=janelondon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Mom and Dad: thanks for the genes&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, my parents are celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary.  I&#8217;ll let that sink in.  They&#8217;ve been married for 70 years.  To each other. They are also approaching their 91st birthdays.  When I tell people those facts, they always say, &#8220;wow, you&#8217;ve got some good genes&#8221;.  Quite honestly, that scares the crap out of me. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janelondon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11094545&amp;post=464&amp;subd=janelondon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reality doesn&#8217;t bite&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://janelondon.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/reality-doesnt-bite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made it through a week without Facebook.  I also cut back drastically on my surfing, emailing, Blackberry and iPad use.  Here is what I learned:  my time on Facebook is driven by a need to be heard, to be seen, to be accepted, to educate, to manipulate and a healthy dose of needing to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janelondon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11094545&amp;post=455&amp;subd=janelondon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My so-called virtual life&#8230;.bah!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying to figure out when I abandoned my real life for my virtual life.  I&#8217;m pretty sure that I crossed over after I opened my Facebook account.  Several friends were urging me to sign up in the same way that I encouraged some of my high school friends to start drinking.  &#8220;Come on, what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janelondon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11094545&amp;post=446&amp;subd=janelondon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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