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	<title>The Joy Year</title>
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		<title>Hitting the Road</title>
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Yesterday I joined up with my great friend, the now Dr. Kristin Webster, to drive from the right to left coast of our dear country.
Driving cross country was never on my life&#8217;s To Do list. Unlike many of my friends, I never really wanted to do it, that and run a marathon. I think I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejoyyear.wordpress.com&blog=2366142&post=267&subd=thejoyyear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thejoyyear.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/hitting-the-road/</link>
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		<title>Something I Love About Myself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After 29 years of not having this experience, in the past four months I have been pooped on by a bird twice!  Today being the second time.  What I love about myself is that, both times my reaction was to laugh out loud.  I like that in certain circumstances I don&#8217;t take myself too seriously, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejoyyear.wordpress.com&blog=2366142&post=265&subd=thejoyyear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thejoyyear.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/something-i-love-about-myself/</link>
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		<title>I Am 16 Going on 17</title>
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They say 40 is the new 30.  Could that mean 30 is the new 16?  That is sort of how it is looking for me, and I am trying not to be embarrassed by it.
I just bought my first car.  Sandy.  That is her name, and she herself is 16 going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejoyyear.wordpress.com&blog=2366142&post=253&subd=thejoyyear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thejoyyear.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/i-am-16-going-on-17/</link>
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		<title>We Just Never Know, Do We</title>
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My Jewish friends have told me about a liturgy recited at Passover that recounts the story of the Exodus. (I think Harry also explains this to Charlotte when she is converting in season 5 of Sex in the City.)  Anyway, the recurring theme is that if God had only done one miracle for the Israelites [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejoyyear.wordpress.com&blog=2366142&post=255&subd=thejoyyear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thejoyyear.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/we-just-never-know-do-we/</link>
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		<title>The Scene of the Crime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This thing has seen better days,&#8221; he said as they walked through the damp grass toward the gazebo.  She looked up to notice that indeed it had.  The awning was falling apart, whole parts of the roof were decaying and the paint was chipped, but in the gray light of the cloudy day she hadn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejoyyear.wordpress.com&blog=2366142&post=251&subd=thejoyyear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thejoyyear.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/the-scene-of-the-crime/</link>
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		<title>This Little Petunia</title>
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I just moved back home with my parents.  Not something I ever wanted, or thought I would be doing.  There is so much to say, and maybe I will start saying it regularly on this blog again, but not tonight.  What I will say is that day one of my new old [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejoyyear.wordpress.com&blog=2366142&post=246&subd=thejoyyear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thejoyyear.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/this-little-petunia/</link>
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		<title>Puzzles</title>
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So, sometimes life gets difficult, and I can do nothing about it but wait.  I think it is important when I am waiting, to try my best not to KILL time.  There are moments where I am crippled by anxiety, hurt or disappointment and can only count out the next second, minute, hour [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejoyyear.wordpress.com&blog=2366142&post=235&subd=thejoyyear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thejoyyear.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/puzzles/</link>
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		<title>Day 24&#8211;Family</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made it, 24 days of thankfulness.  Coming home today felt like the closing of a very eventful year, and now I have a couple weeks to rest before starting head first into the next one.   It&#8217;s so nice to spend sometime with family and get a change of scenery.  I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejoyyear.wordpress.com&blog=2366142&post=229&subd=thejoyyear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thejoyyear.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/day-24-holiday/</link>
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		<title>Day 23&#8211;A bit of clarity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Went to the doctor&#8217;s today about the voice problem I have been having, four hours later, exhausted but encouraged, I left with a better understanding of what is wrong.  Then I went to the Hard Rock Cafe with Jeremy.  Tomorrow I leave for a two week holiday.  Thank God!
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		<link>http://thejoyyear.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/day-23-a-bit-of-clarity/</link>
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		<title>Day 22&#8211;Bowling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Started and finished my Christmas shopping this evening.  That felt good.  Chris&#8217;s cousin Jeremy came to visit for a couple of days.  He requested asian food for dinner, so we went out for Thai and then decided to head over to the local bowling alley.  There was a wait for a lane, but in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejoyyear.wordpress.com&blog=2366142&post=224&subd=thejoyyear&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thejoyyear.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/day-22-bowling/</link>
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