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Back in the Saddle(s) : I'm back in the saddle and--so far--have no sores to report. (posted Jan 9, 1:21pm)

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Book Review: Zone One : Considering that I identify as a huge fan of fantasy and science fiction as well as an English major and former high school English teacher, this had the potential to be a great read by combining two great tastes that go great together. Unfortunately, it was only a good read. (posted Jan 8, 7:29am)

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7 January 2011 : Hey! Neighbor! We’re counting on you here! Reset your router! Also, this is not some kind of Van Gogh take on Mickey Mouse. (posted Jan 7, 6:39pm)

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Darker Kiddie Lit : And then there's the Charlie Brown Christmas special. You know, one of the most-beloved animated holiday specials of all time. But wow. I'd forgotten just how mean the kids basically are to each other. (posted Jan 4, 8:31pm)

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Grooves and Ruts : Throughout the years, I've found breaks to sometimes be just what I needed to break out of a rut. Right now, though, I'm feeling the way that a vacation can break up good habits. (posted Jan 4, 6:35am)

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Film Review: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo : I am one of the approximately dozen Americans who has not read either this novel or its sequels. Thanks to my in-laws babysitting for us, I have see the film, and Lauren and I both quite enjoyed it. (posted Jan 3, 11:08am)

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2011: The Year in Music : I have to give them the status of top album of the year. For the record, I did buy at least one other album this year. At least. (posted Jan 2, 8:45am)

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Resolved: 2012 : With any luck, I can fail my New Year's Resolution just as spectacularly this year. (posted Jan 1, 9:15am)

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2011: The Year in Books : Each year, I like to do a post looking back at the books I read in the previous year. In past years, this hasn't told regular readers much they didn't know, because I was religious about posting book reviews. This year, not so much. (posted Dec 30, 11:56am)

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The No-Internet Blues : It seems crazy to us. With what we're ready to pay, it feels like they should want to come run the lines out to us, never mind already having them in the ground or the air or whatever. (posted Dec 29, 5:06pm)

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I pulled a fast one : Over the past several days (or weeks—maybe we should say weeks) I’ve taken in far more calories than I needed. So yesterday, our day of travel to return home from the holidays, I took in far fewer than I needed. For such a largely secular person as myself, I’ve done rather a lot of fasting in my lifetime. (posted Dec 28, 7:56am)

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Routine Holidays : But just because it's bad for a diet and exercise routine is no reason to think it's bad. (posted Dec 27, 6:57am)

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I Choo Choo Choose to Write About Trains : Trains and their tracks have criss-crossed my life for as long as I can remember, intersecting nicely with this month's writing prompts at CafeWriting. I'm adapting one of the prompts there to give you seven vignettes about trains in my life. (posted Dec 26, 2:32pm)

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Christmas: Wars, Battles, and a General History... : It's not so much that we have a war on Christmas as we have had over the centuries a lively debate about what Christmas is and isn't. And yes, through the years some people have wanted not to celebrate it at all (but mostly those people were Christians--more on that later). (posted Dec 25, 5:07pm)

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Christmas Eve: Some Assembly Required : We put stuff together for Christmas morning, and it only took 1:45 instead of 2 hours like the "idiots" complaining on-line... (posted Dec 25, 7:59am)

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Toddler Talk : For weeks now, she's been saying "Me help you," which we thought was a very nice, giving thing to say, even if we didn't need her help. Until we realized that she's actually saying that she needs our help. Which is useful information for us to know, I suppose. (posted Dec 24, 11:15am)

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Light 'em up! : Just yesterday one of our neighbors went from no decorations to enough white lights to read by without eye strain, so it's obviously not too late for us to decorate, if only we had the time or the energy. As it happens, we don't have either one. (posted Dec 22, 5:03am)

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Cookies, etc. : There's been a lot of talk lately on Holidailies about baking cookies for the holidays, and I remember that tradition fondly from my childhood. But I always seem to find myself too busy, even when I'm not moving. Maybe next year? You know, when we have two children under the age of three. (posted Dec 21, 5:58pm)

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Moving loads, mostly just dumping off : At the end of some days, you're so tired to can't sleep. Yesterday was one of those, and I feel another one coming on tonight. Now we're surrounded by boxes that, for the most part, are a random assortment of things that all just happened to fit into a box together. (posted Dec 20, 6:23am)

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The Mutiny Before Christmas : Two-hundred and eighty years ago today, one of my ancestors arrived in North America... by an act of piracy! (sort of) (posted Dec 19, 8:18pm)

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Pa rum pa pum pum : When we bought it, this seemed like a great idea: (posted Dec 18, 4:38am)

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Mental Fitness : I lead a fitness class. Sometimes things don't go as planned. Some people make the best of it when that happens, some don't. (posted Dec 17, 7:39am)

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Scarier: Santa or a 1000-pound animal? : For our 2-year-old, evidently a horse is less frightening than either a bearded man in a red suit or her own grandfather. (posted Dec 16, 7:33am)

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There's no Santa Claus?! : There's nothing cuter than hearing a 2-year-old say "I'm a nihilist." (posted Dec 15, 4:45am)

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Christmas Music : It's the music of the season that elevates Christmas above the other holidays for me--here are some of my favorite musical memories of the Christmas season. (posted Dec 14, 8:06am)

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The Present Conflict : Summary: Tales from the arms race between parents and children, to surprise children with Christmas presents, or to be surprised (just a little earlier than scheduled). (posted Dec 12, 9:10pm)

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The least-half-assed Christmas pageant ever : The pageants of Christmases past were, by and large, the usual Christian fare: Mary and Joseph and shepherds and angels and wise men and wise guys. As volunteer things not infrequently are, it was probably half-assed more often than not, put on by someone under-qualified and not particularly ambitious, either. Neither of those adjectives described my mother... (posted Dec 11, 9:45pm)

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Introduction for Holidailies : On the first day of Holidailies, I already had other things to write about... today, not so much. So here I am. (posted Dec 10, 7:01pm)

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Food Friday: Holiday Diets : I can't speak for anyone else, but it seemed like the temptations started piling up around mid-October. As soon as the air got a bit cooler and thoughts turned to Halloween, candy and junk food started appearing everywhere... and new ones keep popping up to replace the old ones! (posted Dec 9, 10:56pm)

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Oh what a night! : Summary: Why I didn't get nearly as much sleep as I would have liked on Wednesday night. Warning: contains excrement and bed-wetting (after a fashion). (posted Dec 9, 1:53pm)