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		<title>My life as a cartoon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Seattle + snow</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a moment to consider these beautiful scenes &#8211; probably unfolding in your neighborhood right now &#8211; before getting in your car today:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigolddaddy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1505983&amp;post=1994&amp;subd=bigolddaddy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a new year&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I plucked this beautiful thing from one of the Momotaro vines in our garden today.  Edgar said it best in Act V, Scene II of King Lear:  &#8220;Ripeness is all.&#8221; Amen.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigolddaddy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1505983&amp;post=1946&amp;subd=bigolddaddy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daddy&#8217;s little girl&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doesn&#8217;t seem like that long ago that we brought her home from the hospital as a baby&#8230;   Our friend Nathaniel Solis took these photos.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigolddaddy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1505983&amp;post=1924&amp;subd=bigolddaddy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plan C</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plan A was not to have a dog. As a little girl, Lauren became something of an expert on dogs.  She pored over gigantic books from the library, and could rattle off origins and personality traits of species I&#8217;d never &#8230; <a href="http://bigolddaddy.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/plan-c/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigolddaddy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1505983&amp;post=1897&amp;subd=bigolddaddy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buying a car</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 06:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[O faithful readers, please forgive my long absence.  In starting a new business I have neglected the exercise of writing for enjoyment.  Hope to get back into the habit, and appreciate your patience while I was otherwise occupied. The tragic &#8230; <a href="http://bigolddaddy.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/buying-a-car/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigolddaddy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1505983&amp;post=1887&amp;subd=bigolddaddy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 06:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although this happened many years ago, we still laugh every time we recall the story, as we did again last weekend&#8230; Lauren&#8217;s first grade class had an end-of-the-year party on the last day of school.  One of the traditions was &#8230; <a href="http://bigolddaddy.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/making-ice-cream/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigolddaddy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1505983&amp;post=1874&amp;subd=bigolddaddy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teen driving:  The Agony</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received a very distraught phone call from Our Daughter on a recent evening.  She just hit another car.  She was unhurt, for which we are most thankful, and she wasn&#8217;t too far, so I got to her in short &#8230; <a href="http://bigolddaddy.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/teen-driving-the-agony/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigolddaddy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1505983&amp;post=1846&amp;subd=bigolddaddy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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