INSERT INTO `wp_d8mand_ak_twitter` (`id`, `tw_id`, `tw_text`, `tw_reply_username`, `tw_reply_tweet`, `tw_created_at`, `modified`) VALUES
(6046, '6955530642', '@ChristiBowman it''s a bar night away from a bar. :)', '', '', '2009-12-23 05:38:55', '2009-12-22 21:45:59'),
(6047, '6956476196', 'Now Yahtzee on what appears to be vintage 1956 score cards. We''re all about the dice tonight.', '', '', '2009-12-23 06:22:01', '2009-12-22 22:52:29'),
(6048, '6970727694', 'Merriment and misery: joy to a dark world. http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=547', '', '', '2009-12-23 17:25:47', '2009-12-23 09:25:56'),
(6049, '6971600043', 'Running errands, which in my hometown means Kmart and the post office (across the street from the scene of many dreaded piano recitals).', '', '', '2009-12-23 17:57:29', '2009-12-23 10:00:35'),
(6050, '6976370117', '@JebDickerson thank you, friend. I think when things are hard to learn, it''s a good sign that you''re learning them right. :)', 'JebDickerson', '6972266337', '2009-12-23 20:57:30', '2009-12-23 13:06:42'),
(6051, '6981797222', 'mom wasn''t  amused by the shark attack victim cookie by @bill_of_lading. http://tweetphoto.com/7054367', '', '', '2009-12-24 00:24:29', '2009-12-23 16:45:45'),
(6052, '6991603271', '@JebDickerson I let him know. :)', '', '', '2009-12-24 06:15:02', '2009-12-23 22:32:40'),
(6053, '6991588097', 'And did I mention chex mix? Mmm hmmm.', '', '', '2009-12-24 06:14:26', '2009-12-23 22:32:40'),
(6054, '6991507589', '@MoJoJules you are the best!', '', '', '2009-12-24 06:11:19', '2009-12-23 22:32:40'),
(6055, '6991494048', 'Playing Carcassonne (great game) & drinking gin-honey-lemon cocktails w J, dad & bro. #iheartvacation', '', '', '2009-12-24 06:10:48', '2009-12-23 22:32:40'),
(6056, '6992416397', '@expatminister so funny that you mention how addictive it is. Almost 2 am here and we''re talking about playing "just one more."', '', '', '2009-12-24 06:51:50', '2009-12-23 23:02:49'),
(6057, '6992654620', 'I would be so happy if I could stay up every night until 2 and take a 2-hr nap every afternoon.', '', '', '2009-12-24 07:05:38', '2009-12-23 23:36:53'),
(6058, '7006183069', '@TrinaMb thanks Trina, you too! I hope you and your family enjoy the right combination of peace and fun together.', 'TrinaMb', '7002238880', '2009-12-24 17:44:31', '2009-12-24 09:55:32'),
(6059, '7006137901', 'love my family but I''m reaching that point: too much chaos, all to the soundtrack of too much choral music recorded in Cambridge, Eng.', '', '', '2009-12-24 17:42:54', '2009-12-24 09:55:32'),
(6060, '7006778738', 'When you''re on vacation without a schedule, it''s amazing how washing your face & brushing your teeth can turn things around.', '', '', '2009-12-24 18:05:32', '2009-12-24 10:25:51'),
(6061, '7013647179', '@McMer314 merry Christmas to you too! I know how much you love it!', '', '', '2009-12-24 22:30:47', '2009-12-24 14:44:49'),
(6062, '7020057638', '@rharlow love it. Hugs to all of you!', '', '', '2009-12-25 02:54:47', '2009-12-24 18:55:05'),
(6063, '7020025992', 'Heading to church. As a kid I always *loved* staying up late for the candlelight service, but our kids seem less thrilled.', '', '', '2009-12-25 02:53:31', '2009-12-24 18:55:05'),
(6064, '7024439430', 'We''re leaving the lessons & carols service. Highlights: parts of Handel''s Messiah, Lo how a rose ere blooming, peppermints & note passing.', '', '', '2009-12-25 05:43:17', '2009-12-24 22:11:54'),
(6065, '7027624228', 'RT @bill_of_lading: just finished 2 hours (post midnight service) of wrapping, stocking stuffing, and whiskey/ginger-ale drinking. Kampai!', '', '', '2009-12-25 08:29:02', '2009-12-25 00:52:01'),
(6066, '7027609775', '@lje2me thinking of you, too (and wondering why you''re awake!). Hope you had a nice evening. Merry Christmas!', '', '', '2009-12-25 08:28:08', '2009-12-25 00:52:01'),
(6067, '7033413169', 'Stocking time! I think, as a kid, I loved stockings more than presents. Such fun little treasures.', '', '', '2009-12-25 14:38:28', '2009-12-25 06:48:44'),
(6068, '7036394591', 'RT @Neilochka: I love Christmas because it is one of the few big holidays that celebrates some Jewish guy.', '', '', '2009-12-25 16:47:47', '2009-12-25 08:50:48'),
(6069, '7036367339', 'Not only do I like stockings more than presents but I like Christmas breakfast better than dinner. #smallisbig', '', '', '2009-12-25 16:46:34', '2009-12-25 08:50:48'),
(6070, '7046719277', 'All 9 grownups napped as the house grew dark & the kids wandered around w flashlights saying "there are sleeping bodies all over the house!"', '', '', '2009-12-26 00:44:40', '2009-12-25 16:59:04'),
(6071, '7050412726', 'Karaoke party in the family room. As I type, my in-laws are singing I''ve Got You Babe.', '', '', '2009-12-26 03:16:42', '2009-12-25 19:30:57'),
(6072, '7051352179', 'RT @jason_berg: @bill_of_lading singing some enchanted evening  http://tweetphoto.com/7270198 #familyroomkaraoke', '', '', '2009-12-26 03:56:16', '2009-12-25 20:03:56'),
(6073, '7051055228', 'Now my mom and mother-in-law are singing These Boots Are Made For Walking. I''m not joking. #familyroomkaraoke', '', '', '2009-12-26 03:43:42', '2009-12-25 20:03:56'),
(6074, '7052185733', 'Now @bill_of_lading is singing Sinatra''s The Lady is a Tramp. Amazing, my bro.', '', '', '2009-12-26 04:31:42', '2009-12-25 20:37:11'),
(6075, '7052878468', '@heysonnie I am such a fan of lemon curd. Never made it, though.', '', '', '2009-12-26 05:02:07', '2009-12-25 21:08:52'),
(6076, '7054256813', 'We can''t stop playing Carcassonne. Addictive.', '', '', '2009-12-26 06:07:24', '2009-12-25 22:11:23'),
(6077, '7055204901', '@SugarJones all that back at you! Merry Christmas!', '', '', '2009-12-26 06:58:46', '2009-12-25 23:14:38'),
(6078, '7064577683', '@adamwc so have you played Carcassonne? You might even like it better. :)', '', '', '2009-12-26 16:42:52', '2009-12-26 08:48:48'),
(6079, '7064533440', 'Sitting around the breakfast table. My mom is telling my in-laws some family history I''ve never heard before. #sothatswhathappened', '', '', '2009-12-26 16:40:52', '2009-12-26 08:48:48'),
(6080, '7067432241', 'Nothing takes me back to 13 like hanging out w my BFF since 7th grade.  It had been more than a yr since we''ve seen each other.', '', '', '2009-12-26 18:50:57', '2009-12-26 11:00:28'),
(6081, '7080478180', 'Last day of vacation ended on a great note: 12 of us playing tip-it, a game my British g-pa played w his family when he was a kid.', '', '', '2009-12-27 04:28:29', '2009-12-26 20:59:42'),
(6082, '7104680935', 'Safely home after delivering kids to their other families. took the pup for a walk in the fluffy snow, now ordering Thai take-out. content.', '', '', '2009-12-28 00:03:41', '2009-12-27 16:05:07'),
(6083, '7104748657', '@lje2me we''re home! Thanks for your good thoughts. :)', '', '', '2009-12-28 00:06:15', '2009-12-27 16:41:32'),
(6084, '7108632216', 'After 5 nights of heading to bed at 2 or 3 am, tonight we''re home & in bed by 8. Scary and wonderful.', '', '', '2009-12-28 02:27:20', '2009-12-27 18:43:32'),
(6085, '7110945086', '@rk_p that''s one of the luckiest things, indeed. my family and my husband''s family just spent Christmas all together & had a wonderful time.', 'rk_p', '7110608454', '2009-12-28 03:48:12', '2009-12-27 19:48:57'),
(6086, '7127008744', '@mattChevy nice!', 'mattChevy', '7126885149', '2009-12-28 16:27:35', '2009-12-28 08:28:05'),
(6087, '7126277561', 'I''m happy to be back in Urbana, to have some alone time, to be writing. the pup is not so thrilled after a wk of non-stop fun & attention.', '', '', '2009-12-28 16:01:39', '2009-12-28 08:28:05'),
(6088, '7126212681', 'RT @JebDickerson I think my NY''s resolution will be to stop reflecting & start enjoying the glimpses. Anywhere & everywhere they happen.', '', '', '2009-12-28 15:59:29', '2009-12-28 08:28:05'),
(6089, '7127855819', '@jenluit one of the few benefits of divorce: a wonderful, full week w the kids, now a wonderful full week without them. + they''re happy too!', 'jenluit', '7126389250', '2009-12-28 16:57:20', '2009-12-28 08:58:28'),
(6090, '7127815004', '@mattChevy it has been too long! my paying work is keeping me extra busy (no complaints), which means I have less time for social media. :(', 'mattChevy', '7127384751', '2009-12-28 16:55:55', '2009-12-28 08:58:28'),
(6091, '7127126314', '@faithbookjesus that''s wonderful news! blessings on your venture.', 'faithbookjesus', '7126937928', '2009-12-28 16:31:43', '2009-12-28 08:58:28'),
(6092, '7127085015', '@RobertaFKing that''s beautiful. congratulations!', 'RobertaFKing', '7126454048', '2009-12-28 16:30:17', '2009-12-28 08:58:28'),
(6093, '7128739420', '@Momologist @cumomOf2 @ldclower @devivo @DenaCR @mrschicken me too! (but what is an HLG?)', '', '', '2009-12-28 17:28:09', '2009-12-28 09:28:33'),
(6094, '7128684302', '@mattChevy that would be great! we''ll be there for 24 hrs this weekend, but it''s packed with family gatherings. I''ll keep you posted.', 'mattChevy', '7128111976', '2009-12-28 17:26:11', '2009-12-28 09:28:33'),
(6095, '7128648079', 'I have a feeling this will be great. RT @magpiegirl Registration for Flock, a soulcare spa w Magpie Girl is now OPEN! http://bit.ly/5aywJJ', '', '', '2009-12-28 17:24:55', '2009-12-28 09:28:33'),
(6096, '7128590282', '@Momologist that must be endlessly maddening. I''m afraid I would start getting really rude with people.', 'Momologist', '7128012077', '2009-12-28 17:22:51', '2009-12-28 09:28:33'),
(6097, '7129664441', 'the crap of life is sticky, but sometimes life snowballs in a good way: http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=548', '', '', '2009-12-28 18:00:50', '2009-12-28 10:28:48'),
(6098, '7131178397', '@realsarah who knows what else you might find in one of those purses! :)', 'realsarah', '7131027913', '2009-12-28 18:55:08', '2009-12-28 10:59:42'),
(6099, '7131085273', '@magpiegirl well, @jenlemen is exactly right! you are "a curator of everything exquisite & salvageable from the spiritual traditions."', 'magpiegirl', '7130830738', '2009-12-28 18:51:42', '2009-12-28 10:59:42'),
(6100, '7130931097', '@realsarah those must be some big purses. :)', 'realsarah', '7130441372', '2009-12-28 18:46:07', '2009-12-28 10:59:42'),
(6101, '7134665678', '@McMer314 good thing you love them, eh? to get through those less likable times.', 'McMer314', '7134590412', '2009-12-28 21:02:27', '2009-12-28 13:02:46'),
(6102, '7134558576', '@bernthis I''m with you far more than I want to be on that one. :)', 'bernthis', '7132873217', '2009-12-28 20:58:44', '2009-12-28 13:02:46'),
(6103, '7134498149', '@hughlh I''m on it!', 'hughlh', '7133502916', '2009-12-28 20:56:30', '2009-12-28 13:02:46'),
(6104, '7134482325', '@MoJoJules ah, love! when do you get to see each other?', 'MoJoJules', '7133556356', '2009-12-28 20:55:55', '2009-12-28 13:02:46'),
(6105, '7134410225', '@JohnnyBTruant yes, far too often. maybe give yourself 30 min to talk to someone about it then try to move on?', 'JohnnyBTruant', '7134165906', '2009-12-28 20:53:18', '2009-12-28 13:02:46'),
(6106, '7135074226', 'OK, this is the perfect week to spoil myself with some good fiction. any suggestions? (new or not.)', '', '', '2009-12-28 21:17:03', '2009-12-28 13:33:12'),
(6107, '7135714837', 'thanks for the great book suggestions! @TrinaMb @JebDickerson @McMer314 @igrewup @BFMack @shaindelr @bernthis', '', '', '2009-12-28 21:39:27', '2009-12-28 14:03:41'),
(6108, '7141913305', 'listening to The Very Best of The Staple Singers, a Christmas gift from J. it''s good-mood-infectious. also got The Avett Brothers & MGMT.', '', '', '2009-12-29 01:17:58', '2009-12-28 17:38:14'),
(6109, '7141852561', '@lje2me that might be just the ticket. I''ll let you know if I don''t find anything I''m excited about in the next couple of days.', 'lje2me', '7139545102', '2009-12-29 01:15:50', '2009-12-28 17:38:14'),
(6110, '7141835300', 'thanks for more great book suggestions, @dtatusko @swallner @JaneAdamsBooks and @lje2me!', '', '', '2009-12-29 01:15:15', '2009-12-28 17:38:14'),
(6111, '7141687448', '@shaindelr wow, it almost made me tear up. nothing makes me happier than being able to offer support & encouragement through my blog.', 'shaindelr', '7139239572', '2009-12-29 01:10:08', '2009-12-28 17:38:14'),
(6112, '7143238478', 'Also shouldn''t fail to mention the tart cherry juice- lemon juice-gin cocktail we started with.', '', '', '2009-12-29 02:03:10', '2009-12-28 18:12:15'),
(6113, '7142969651', 'J is schooling me on cuts of beef as we eat the amazing NY strip he grilled. Also: a pear, pommegranate, clementine, tart cherry salad.', '', '', '2009-12-29 01:54:10', '2009-12-28 18:12:15'),
(6114, '7145342305', 'At Borders w a bit of Christmas $$ and a stack of books recommended via FB and Twitter. How will I decide?', '', '', '2009-12-29 03:11:54', '2009-12-28 19:15:10'),
(6115, '7146638202', 'About to see Avatar 3D. Dude who works here chased me down on the way to the bathroom to tell me the theater I wanted was the other way.', '', '', '2009-12-29 03:53:51', '2009-12-28 20:17:54'),
(6116, '7152398821', '@mksteele wow, such a big day! I hope everything goes as smoothly as possible.', '', '', '2009-12-29 07:26:54', '2009-12-28 23:27:26'),
(6117, '7152229790', '@JebDickerson very true. There''s not much customer service left out there--it''s nice when someone cares at all.', '', '', '2009-12-29 07:19:05', '2009-12-28 23:27:26'),
(6118, '7162268888', '@JebDickerson yours are on my library list. :) I have strange ideas about which books I should purchase & which I should borrow.', 'JebDickerson', '7147397514', '2009-12-29 15:41:36', '2009-12-29 07:41:43'),
(6119, '7162222190', '@MoJoJules I guess I should have waited & read the rest of your tweets. that''s frustrating, for sure. what''s the best way to support you? xo', 'MoJoJules', '7162055126', '2009-12-29 15:39:57', '2009-12-29 07:41:43'),
(6120, '7162154456', '@shaindelr I am so honored! praise from a great writer means SO much. just knowing people are out there reading & enjoying does, too.', 'shaindelr', '7142890874', '2009-12-29 15:37:30', '2009-12-29 07:41:43'),
(6121, '7162000362', '@MoJoJules that''s amazing! what a perfect way to love & honor yourself. :)', 'MoJoJules', '7161963726', '2009-12-29 15:32:02', '2009-12-29 07:41:43'),
(6122, '7161830004', '@ssrebelsam which song? I want the full picture!', 'ssrebelsam', '7160959839', '2009-12-29 15:25:57', '2009-12-29 07:41:43'),
(6123, '7161794770', '@cumomOf2 me too! last minute "planning" can be the best kind.', 'cumomOf2', '7161163884', '2009-12-29 15:24:42', '2009-12-29 07:41:43'),
(6124, '7162303436', '@eburkmartin in 2008 we were in LA and went to a MGMT-Spoon-Beck concert at the Hollywood Bowl. I still can''t believe that lineup.', 'eburkmartin', '7145535715', '2009-12-29 15:42:49', '2009-12-29 08:13:15'),
(6125, '7165973862', 'responded to comments on my post abt spending Christmas w my family AND my in-laws. yes, at the same time. http://tinyurl.com/yejtbhf', '', '', '2009-12-29 17:46:56', '2009-12-29 09:48:07'),
(6126, '7166029330', '@hughlh every few hours seems hardly enough! I would want updates on the half hour. so heart-wrenching. thank God for the holy spirit, yes?', 'hughlh', '7165662672', '2009-12-29 17:48:47', '2009-12-29 10:20:59'),
(6127, '7171480843', 'I never reported: #Avatar 3D was great. impressive effects in an imaginative world w good character development. the writing was just so-so.', '', '', '2009-12-29 20:56:40', '2009-12-29 12:58:51'),
(6128, '7172733605', '@shaindelr definitely not sick of you! I''ll respond soon. :)', '', '', '2009-12-29 21:41:05', '2009-12-29 14:05:10'),
(6129, '7175665429', 'Huh. You can''t answer an iPhone w gloves on. Or with your nose, as I discovered (but you can look ridiculous trying).', '', '', '2009-12-29 23:24:44', '2009-12-29 15:38:13'),
(6130, '7175208413', 'I still don''t know if J & I should be getting our hair done by the same guy. Seems wrong on a privacy level & stylistically.', '', '', '2009-12-29 23:08:48', '2009-12-29 15:38:13'),
(6131, '7182263975', 'Heading out to meet friends we hardly ever see. I keep telling myself I can''t actually be as sleepy as I feel, but I''m not convinced.', '', '', '2009-12-30 03:09:50', '2009-12-29 19:13:57'),
(6132, '7182167396', '@jilliob I think I could do it if I just practiced! It was a placement issue (or maybe my nose was too cold).', '', '', '2009-12-30 03:06:30', '2009-12-29 19:13:57'),
(6133, '7197301091', '@beckyandhollee I feel like I could go to bed at 9 most nights, then I push through and stay up until 12 or 1! Will I never learn?', '', '', '2009-12-30 14:37:14', '2009-12-30 06:49:55'),
(6134, '7197184487', '@bernthis yes, we''re old. You might as well just say it.', '', '', '2009-12-30 14:32:31', '2009-12-30 06:49:55'),
(6135, '7197152253', '@Momologist that''s amazing! Sleep is a powerful thing.', '', '', '2009-12-30 14:31:13', '2009-12-30 06:49:55'),
(6136, '7199758742', 'super interesting story on Morning Edition: Rick Moody on e-books and even books written via Twitter:  http://tinyurl.com/yemmrkx', '', '', '2009-12-30 16:04:31', '2009-12-30 08:25:29'),
(6137, '7203561218', 'I feel like I should be writing a NY''s reflection/resolution post, but I''m blank, like I can''t think clearly beyond today, tomorrow. ugh.', '', '', '2009-12-30 18:07:50', '2009-12-30 10:30:10'),
(6138, '7203371332', '@jenluit seriously? oh, girl. remember: you are a strong & loving mom, God is an even stronger, more loving father.', 'jenluit', '7201345373', '2009-12-30 18:01:36', '2009-12-30 10:30:10'),
(6139, '7208774455', 'I thought I was walking home for leftovers. instead, J picked me up & we went to the new (ish) Holy Land on Neil. we are instant fans. YUM!', '', '', '2009-12-30 21:06:43', '2009-12-30 13:18:17'),
(6140, '7208659832', '@JebDickerson oh, so you''re one of those connect-the-dots guys! :) (btw, I''m using a recent tweet of yours in my blog post—look for it soon)', 'JebDickerson', '7208299700', '2009-12-30 21:02:39', '2009-12-30 13:18:17'),
(6141, '7210683129', '@JebDickerson dude, you''re hard-core! but wait, how can I tell if you''re actually running? anyway, my post with your tweet is up. :)', 'JebDickerson', '7209698998', '2009-12-30 22:15:14', '2009-12-30 14:18:58'),
(6142, '7210632887', '@DenaCR yum! what''s your favorite thing there? we ordered way too much because we wanted to sample the hummus & falafel, too. so tasty.', 'DenaCR', '7209036145', '2009-12-30 22:13:25', '2009-12-30 14:18:58'),
(6143, '7210563359', 'everyone''s looking forward or back, & all I''ve got is a lousy anti-reflection/resolution post. http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=550', '', '', '2009-12-30 22:10:54', '2009-12-30 14:18:58'),
(6144, '7212371038', 'Clementine cuties are almost too cute for me. I''m never quite satisfied with just one.', '', '', '2009-12-30 23:15:01', '2009-12-30 15:20:40'),
(6145, '7214471149', '@dtatusko I love that sound, too—it''s the best (although for me it''s always been little girls).', 'dtatusko', '7214200606', '2009-12-31 00:28:32', '2009-12-30 16:31:02'),
(6146, '7214034284', '@mikelarussell let me know if it works! if so, maybe I''ll try it, too.', 'mikelarussell', '7213751352', '2009-12-31 00:13:21', '2009-12-30 16:31:02'),
(6147, '7214009700', '@daisy17 a perfect re-entry choice!', 'daisy17', '7213806493', '2009-12-31 00:12:29', '2009-12-30 16:31:02'),
(6148, '7213577841', '@jenlemen not a bad idea. they are as much fun to peel as pistachios are to shell. (hmm...pistachios WITH clementines. now we''re talking.)', 'jenlemen', '7212480800', '2009-12-30 23:57:39', '2009-12-30 16:31:02'),
(6149, '7219171405', 'I fixed the living room! OK, I cheated, but all that matters is how serene I feel now when I''m there.', '', '', '2009-12-31 03:04:26', '2009-12-30 19:06:27'),
(6150, '7219299288', 'Now we''re heading out to celebrate a friend''s b-day. Bye for now!', '', '', '2009-12-31 03:08:30', '2009-12-30 19:36:53'),
(6151, '7219260751', 'By "cheated" I mean I took clutter to the basement, flipped the sofa cushion & hid the rug stain under a coffee table. :)', '', '', '2009-12-31 03:07:16', '2009-12-30 19:36:53'),
(6152, '7222259565', 'At bar having a good convo w 2 people about rich-poor disparity. Someone joins us & says "some poor people choose to live like that." WTF?', '', '', '2009-12-31 04:43:56', '2009-12-30 20:46:49'),
(6153, '7236609546', '@hughlh that is great news. it''s hard to believe where you were yesterday at this time. 24 hours later, all has turned toward newness.', 'hughlh', '7236001049', '2009-12-31 15:14:53', '2009-12-31 07:35:41'),
(6154, '7236431701', 'I seem to be stuck in the now this week, so I wrote an anti-reflection/resolution post. http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=550', '', '', '2009-12-31 15:09:29', '2009-12-31 07:35:41'),
(6155, '7236343875', '@hughlh that''s what I''m finally beginning to grasp: waffles are not just for Saturdays & big families & house guests. what a revelation!', 'hughlh', '7236225345', '2009-12-31 15:06:54', '2009-12-31 07:35:41'),
(6156, '7236279214', '@bralts wow, that''s such an evil perspective. and to say it in front of a bunch of teens, some who come from poor families. my blood boils.', 'bralts', '7222391478', '2009-12-31 15:05:03', '2009-12-31 07:35:41'),
(6157, '7236210959', '@surrealsparrow I know—it''s so hard for me to say something calm and rational in response to a person who thinks like that.', 'surrealsparrow', '7222304974', '2009-12-31 15:03:14', '2009-12-31 07:35:41'),
(6158, '7236118024', 'decided I''ve been craving waffles long enough so I made some—yes, on a weekday for just two of us.', '', '', '2009-12-31 15:01:03', '2009-12-31 07:35:41'),
(6159, '7238948814', 'SO true: RT @david_a_zimmerm People will go to great lengths to avoid the other. Jesus takes the direct route and seeks the other. #Urbana09', '', '', '2009-12-31 16:27:06', '2009-12-31 08:35:51'),
(6160, '7238798526', 'have I mentioned how in love I am with my two biggest projects right now, and the people I''m collaborating with? #freelance', '', '', '2009-12-31 16:22:29', '2009-12-31 08:35:51'),
(6161, '7240129408', '@jenluit Amen to that! I''ve been thinking about you lots, the past 24 hours. wish I could fanagle some girl time with you, too.', 'jenluit', '7239844118', '2009-12-31 17:02:21', '2009-12-31 09:05:58'),
(6162, '7241252382', '@realsarah I say historical! the magi were pretty amazing/interesting.', 'realsarah', '7241182412', '2009-12-31 17:35:11', '2009-12-31 09:37:27'),
(6163, '7240627240', '@realsarah take a walk & think about it. that always seems to work for me with blog posts. the more I sit w my computer the less I have!', 'realsarah', '7240508405', '2009-12-31 17:16:46', '2009-12-31 09:37:27'),
(6164, '7242422084', '@hughlh we love huge-ass pots of chili! and we have some new games that are SO addictive. pack Renee up in the car and get on the road!', 'hughlh', '7241516877', '2009-12-31 18:10:36', '2009-12-31 10:11:57'),
(6165, '7241359223', '@MoJoJules drive up to Urbana! celebrate with us! we''re just hanging out at home w food, drinks, games & a couple of friends. :)', 'MoJoJules', '7241326830', '2009-12-31 17:38:23', '2009-12-31 10:11:57'),
(6166, '7241334330', '@ssrebelsam don''t know if you noticed, but I skipped looking forward or back, entirely! honesty was again the best blogging policy. :)', 'ssrebelsam', '7205637030', '2009-12-31 17:37:39', '2009-12-31 10:11:57'),
(6167, '7248463804', 'torture: J''s home from work early but I have to keep working. trying to get him to leave me alone for an hour.', '', '', '2009-12-31 21:39:37', '2009-12-31 13:46:55'),
(6168, '7249508066', '#10yearsago I was 6 months pregnant & lugging around a stubborn toddler, living in a different city & state, married to a different man.', '', '', '2009-12-31 22:18:33', '2009-12-31 14:21:56'),
(6169, '7249419938', 'I don''t know what New Year''s Eve is supposed to feel like, but this hasn''t felt like it all day.', '', '', '2009-12-31 22:15:26', '2009-12-31 14:21:56'),
(6170, '7260412165', 'Also listening to Guns & Roses, oddly enough. How did that happen?', '', '', '2010-01-01 05:20:50', '2009-12-31 21:34:16'),
(6171, '7260387456', 'Playing Carcassonne & eating bacon-wrapped dates, mushroom chive crostini, green beans w chevre dip & salted brown butter rice krispies.', '', '', '2010-01-01 05:19:59', '2009-12-31 21:34:16'),
(6172, '7272525038', '@cumomOf2 happy new year! So glad we met. :)', '', '', '2010-01-01 16:26:58', '2010-01-01 08:35:23'),
(6173, '7272513493', 'At the gym (I know, how cliche). There''s a guy walking on a treadmill sipping a Starbucks. Love it.', '', '', '2010-01-01 16:26:25', '2010-01-01 08:35:23'),
(6174, '7274063136', '@claypeck love that. So true of my life.', '', '', '2010-01-01 17:36:41', '2010-01-01 09:38:51'),
(6175, '7274038697', 'Now this stud is sipping his Starbucks while doing leg machines. Cracking me up. Wish I could sneak a photo for y''all.', '', '', '2010-01-01 17:35:35', '2010-01-01 09:38:51'),
(6176, '7273992163', '@ssrebelsam that''s what I was thinking! I was sort of envious.', '', '', '2010-01-01 17:33:29', '2010-01-01 09:38:51'),
(6177, '7304760413', 'On our way to Chicago for a family baby shower, then dinner w J''s cousin & her new boyfriend. Oh, and a Trader Joe''s run, too.', '', '', '2010-01-02 17:35:07', '2010-01-02 09:49:18'),
(6178, '7304660728', '@MoJoJules YES! We''ll make it happen.', '', '', '2010-01-02 17:31:07', '2010-01-02 09:49:18'),
(6179, '7305242573', 'To go w the nice shower gift, we bought "The Perfect Baby" life-sized cardboard cutout (cute crawling baby in diapers). No noise! No poop!', '', '', '2010-01-02 17:55:14', '2010-01-02 10:24:15'),
(6180, '7368844554', 'w the holidays & big client deadlines, I''ve been neglecting social media relationships, blogging & non-critical emails. must fix it this wk.', '', '', '2010-01-04 14:49:37', '2010-01-04 07:05:18'),
(6181, '7370070102', '@ashleygraceless I just clued into the news and visited your blog. congrats! that''s SO exciting. (& I made quilts for my babies, too.) :)', 'ashleygraceless', '7369864862', '2010-01-04 15:33:53', '2010-01-04 07:42:16'),
(6182, '7369816657', 'according to the data in front of me, 2 out of 3 children are VERY unhappy about the prospect of heading back to school after break.', '', '', '2010-01-04 15:24:46', '2010-01-04 07:42:17'),
(6183, '7369715562', 'I got a hipster new whistling ringtone (Peter Bjorn & John) & my 11-YO asked if it was Walking in a Winter Wonderland. so deflating.', '', '', '2010-01-04 15:21:10', '2010-01-04 07:42:17'),
(6184, '7373295205', '@angelaharms my mom has been managing her fibro for years. let me know if you ever feel like emailing or talking to her for advice.', 'angelaharms', '7373224230', '2010-01-04 17:33:38', '2010-01-04 09:52:35'),
(6185, '7376239585', 'tired of so much dry, heated air. also just plain tired. wouldn''t a nap in a rain forest hammock be nice right now? Costa Rica, anyone?', '', '', '2010-01-04 19:24:41', '2010-01-04 11:26:02'),
(6186, '7376196020', '@heathra Breakstone''s is the only cottage cheese I like, & I can only eat it w fruit. (try clementines! or grape tomatoes w black pepper!)', 'heathra', '7375009880', '2010-01-04 19:23:00', '2010-01-04 11:26:02'),
(6187, '7391250840', '@jenluit I don''t know how I can forget this every year, but January is notoriously difficult for me. And here we are.', '', '', '2010-01-05 03:50:06', '2010-01-04 19:50:31'),
(6188, '7391184196', '@jenluit yes, I have no idea what I want or what sounds good to me, & can''t even make decisions like how many carrots to put in Q''s lunch.', '', '', '2010-01-05 03:47:58', '2010-01-04 19:50:31'),
(6189, '7391114712', '@ginakay yes, out of character is a good way to put it. I''ve been clinically depressed before, & this is nowhere near that.', '', '', '2010-01-05 03:45:44', '2010-01-04 19:50:31'),
(6190, '7391069921', '@angelaharms yeah, I think I''m ok. Probably hormones, stress & not enough sleep. I know all the signs--I''ve been there before.', '', '', '2010-01-05 03:44:19', '2010-01-04 19:50:31'),
(6191, '7390817089', 'I am typically a decisive person. Indecision is a clear sign that I''m inching toward depression. Anyone else have odd red flags like that?', '', '', '2010-01-05 03:36:16', '2010-01-04 19:50:31'),
(6192, '7391572985', '@ginakay I have, but it''s been a while. I know I''m EN and I think FP.', '', '', '2010-01-05 04:00:21', '2010-01-04 20:21:05'),
(6193, '7406467668', 'writing one of those really difficult posts. I just hope I will feel better after publishing it, not worse!', '', '', '2010-01-05 15:40:31', '2010-01-05 07:45:18'),
(6194, '7407729217', '@grammercie thanks for saying that. I''m forcing myself to not go hide now. :)', 'grammercie', '7407603733', '2010-01-05 16:26:43', '2010-01-05 08:45:38'),
(6195, '7407474418', 'I have a secret. and last night I decided it was time to bring it into the light. http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=551', '', '', '2010-01-05 16:17:20', '2010-01-05 08:45:38'),
(6196, '7408404315', '@heysonnie @MoJoJules thanks, friends. I am heading to the gym now, but that''s not quite the same as hiding. :)', 'heysonnie', '7408027552', '2010-01-05 16:51:30', '2010-01-05 09:16:34'),
(6197, '7411936349', '@jason_berg so sad! and now I''m tweeting about the yummyness I cooked up! wish you were here, too. let me know if you need me to drive over.', 'jason_berg', '7411882041', '2010-01-05 19:03:11', '2010-01-05 11:17:35'),
(6198, '7411814585', 'I spent almost my entire time on the treadmill pondering what to make for lunch. and the winner was: huevos rancheros! a very worthy winner.', '', '', '2010-01-05 18:58:54', '2010-01-05 11:17:35'),
(6199, '7411746376', '@lahuber @devivo that February would be a tough month makes more sense :) but for me, it''s always January.', '', '', '2010-01-05 18:56:21', '2010-01-05 11:17:35'),
(6200, '7411680846', '@Raina_d thanks—that seems to be true! so why are we all keeping it in the shadows? I don''t get where all the stigma comes from.', 'Raina_d', '7409652212', '2010-01-05 18:53:54', '2010-01-05 11:17:35'),
(6201, '7411611342', '@eburkmartin I know how that feels! it''s funny—I saw the tweet to @jenluit and assumed it was part of our broader discussion. :)', 'eburkmartin', '7408677322', '2010-01-05 18:51:17', '2010-01-05 11:17:35'),
(6202, '7411549434', 'overwhelmed in the best possible way by all of the encouragement & support I''ve been shown today since writing my difficult post. thank you.', '', '', '2010-01-05 18:49:00', '2010-01-05 11:17:35'),
(6203, '7412879962', '@faryl thanks for the encouragement and the shout out! I feel such a sense of lightness now that I''ve let it all out.', 'faryl', '7412490503', '2010-01-05 19:37:13', '2010-01-05 11:48:20'),
(6204, '7419045056', 'to whom it may concern: if you need me to do something or want to share info that makes my life more complicated, please wait until next wk.', '', '', '2010-01-05 23:12:02', '2010-01-05 15:20:38'),
(6205, '7427500589', 'there goes the lightness & relief I felt earlier today after writing my blog post about depression! (actually, I still feel good abt that.)', '', '', '2010-01-06 03:30:50', '2010-01-05 19:54:56'),
(6206, '7427434813', 'kids are in bed but kitchen''s a mess, lunches aren''t made & I have a dozen client emails to sort through & 3 hrs of work to do. paralyzed.', '', '', '2010-01-06 03:28:56', '2010-01-05 19:54:56'),
(6207, '7428711156', '@expatminister I didn''t even mention the Christmas tree, ornaments etc waiting for my attention! watching a show would be so nice right now.', 'expatminister', '7427549109', '2010-01-06 04:06:38', '2010-01-05 20:26:21'),
(6208, '7428641763', '@suzigurl tulips?!? you shouldn''t have! thank you. :)', 'suzigurl', '7427647383', '2010-01-06 04:04:26', '2010-01-05 20:26:21'),
(6209, '7429377363', 'a lovely, honest post about worrying, by @jenluit: What I learned last night from twitter, and Jesus. http://tinyurl.com/ygmdpxd', '', '', '2010-01-06 04:28:51', '2010-01-05 20:57:51'),
(6210, '7442038680', '@eburkmartin I hear you. try to give yourself a bit of love & grace today, and I''ll try to do the same for me.', 'eburkmartin', '7429632016', '2010-01-06 14:25:01', '2010-01-06 06:55:11'),
(6211, '7443601780', '@realsarah I think her classmates are a big part of it. she just needs more kids in her class who are both smart & well-behaved.', 'realsarah', '7443433071', '2010-01-06 15:18:41', '2010-01-06 07:25:22'),
(6212, '7443489386', 'the news has been extra depressing lately. you know it''s bad when you don''t want to have NPR on when your kids are in the room.', '', '', '2010-01-06 15:14:48', '2010-01-06 07:25:23'),
(6213, '7443395923', '@jenluit thanks. moms need lots of affirmation, too. (and give your kid a big hug from CU.)', 'jenluit', '7443203927', '2010-01-06 15:11:36', '2010-01-06 07:25:23'),
(6214, '7443339927', '@swonderlin where do you teach? is it a floor pilates course? I''ve taken a few and would love to find time to get back into it.', 'swonderlin', '7429377665', '2010-01-06 15:09:42', '2010-01-06 07:25:23'),
(6215, '7443220250', 'at least S feels the expectation for perfection seems to be rooted mostly at school, not home, but that also means I have less influence. :(', '', '', '2010-01-06 15:05:32', '2010-01-06 07:25:23'),
(6216, '7443169447', 'while walking to school S said: I feel like I''m supposed to be perfect. me: you''re absolutely NOT supposed to be anything. (sigh—poor girl!)', '', '', '2010-01-06 15:03:47', '2010-01-06 07:25:23'),
(6217, '7443798011', 'if you''ve ever felt alone in your struggle w depression, go read the 20+ comments on this post: http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=551', '', '', '2010-01-06 15:25:25', '2010-01-06 07:55:44'),
(6218, '7444768172', '@realsarah I know! but I''m such a fan of public schooling, so it''s a tough thing to balance.', 'realsarah', '7443722521', '2010-01-06 15:58:36', '2010-01-06 08:25:53'),
(6219, '7446469930', 'I was thinking I''d walk to my office when it hits 15 outside, but it''s still only 5 deg! seriously? I''m liking my sunny dining room, thanks.', '', '', '2010-01-06 16:55:48', '2010-01-06 08:56:18'),
(6220, '7447127546', '@BlueDuckCopy hey! it''s so good to see you again! even with your snark. :)', 'BlueDuckCopy', '7446783842', '2010-01-06 17:17:23', '2010-01-06 09:27:18'),
(6221, '7446514819', '@realsarah ridiculous wish, but a good one to day dream about. I just might become a pushy parent & set up a meeting w the principal.', 'realsarah', '7444848098', '2010-01-06 16:57:16', '2010-01-06 09:27:18'),
(6222, '7448018954', 'RT @McMer314 Fascinating interview w Katherine Paterson about faith & belief (published in @HornBook a few years ago) http://bit.ly/62fK28', '', '', '2010-01-06 17:47:52', '2010-01-06 09:57:50'),
(6223, '7447915805', '@jenluit I really liked it, but I read it a few years ago. I found it both interesting and entertaining.', 'jenluit', '7447835925', '2010-01-06 17:44:18', '2010-01-06 09:57:50'),
(6224, '7448671471', '@btatusko yes to tired. yes to blood sugar. those are big ones. oh, and January. (I just wrote a whole blog post about my sense of sadness.)', 'btatusko', '7448633495', '2010-01-06 18:10:32', '2010-01-06 10:30:40'),
(6225, '7448638921', '@swallner wow. it doesn''t get much nicer than that! thanks so much for the super big affirmation.', 'swallner', '7448154848', '2010-01-06 18:09:22', '2010-01-06 10:30:40'),
(6226, '7451114916', 'anyone intent on torturing me need only make me spend an hour following someone driving 20 in a 30 and braking at every green light.', '', '', '2010-01-06 19:36:07', '2010-01-06 12:02:31'),
(6227, '7453421441', 'the Christmas tree went up with Sufjan Stevens and cocoa. today it shall come down with Kings of Leon and a beer. bring it on.', '', '', '2010-01-06 20:57:02', '2010-01-06 13:08:08'),
(6228, '7468583435', 'I had our tree down & all decorations packed in 90min flat. I was determined, I had beer & I had a deadline: friends coming for dinner @ 7.', '', '', '2010-01-07 05:21:29', '2010-01-06 21:32:35'),
(6229, '7482049923', 'real snow is making this Mich native happy. the surprised pup was up to her neck in it, looking like she was swimming, not running.', '', '', '2010-01-07 15:31:18', '2010-01-07 07:58:02'),
(6230, '7483725314', '@lje2me J decided to skip the shoveling and just barrel out of the drive (with the happy air of a teenage boy).', 'lje2me', '7482111026', '2010-01-07 16:25:44', '2010-01-07 08:29:17'),
(6231, '7483615269', '@brechin put on your boots and go to the neighbors! you must! that''s what neighbors are for (and snow storms always increase camaraderie).', 'brechin', '7482178805', '2010-01-07 16:22:11', '2010-01-07 08:29:17'),
(6232, '7483561596', '@LeighannMMM that''s just about one of the happiest-sounding sentences I can imagine seeing today. :)', 'LeighannMMM', '7482204625', '2010-01-07 16:20:27', '2010-01-07 08:29:17'),
(6233, '7483498743', '@genevievecharet cute new pic!', 'genevievecharet', '7482815037', '2010-01-07 16:18:23', '2010-01-07 08:29:17'),
(6234, '7483980776', '@TracyOConnor or if you plan and bring lots of sleeping bags and snacks, you could have a ditch-side picnic adventure. building memories!', 'TracyOConnor', '7483933057', '2010-01-07 16:34:06', '2010-01-07 09:00:05'),
(6235, '7483980776', '@TracyOConnor or if you plan and bring lots of sleeping bags and snacks, you could have a ditch-side picnic adventure. building memories!', 'TracyOConnor', '7483933057', '2010-01-07 16:34:06', '2010-01-07 09:00:05'),
(6236, '7483942582', '@MoJoJules @AslanWRP LOVE it! What a perfect illustration.', '', '', '2010-01-07 16:32:50', '2010-01-07 09:00:05'),
(6237, '7483942582', '@MoJoJules @AslanWRP LOVE it! What a perfect illustration.', '', '', '2010-01-07 16:32:50', '2010-01-07 09:00:05'),
(6238, '7483874767', '@TracyOConnor hilarious. long day indeed. are you snowed in down there, too?', 'TracyOConnor', '7483788083', '2010-01-07 16:30:38', '2010-01-07 09:00:05'),
(6239, '7483874767', '@TracyOConnor hilarious. long day indeed. are you snowed in down there, too?', 'TracyOConnor', '7483788083', '2010-01-07 16:30:38', '2010-01-07 09:00:05'),
(6240, '7485324750', '2nd breakfast: grapefruit & buttered toast, and snow out all the windows. the combination takes me right back to my childhood.', '', '', '2010-01-07 17:18:10', '2010-01-07 09:33:41'),
(6241, '7487415907', 'all I want to do today is eat tomato soup and grilled cheese, comment on people''s blogs, and knit. don''t think that''s going to happen, tho.', '', '', '2010-01-07 18:27:21', '2010-01-07 10:38:05'),
(6242, '7487363128', '@bloggerdad that''s super cute. when my youngest was in preschool, she had a boyfriend who covered her arms with kisses when she arrived.', 'bloggerdad', '7487299112', '2010-01-07 18:25:34', '2010-01-07 10:38:05'),
(6243, '7487318602', '@jenluit how exciting! where are you going? who with?', 'jenluit', '7487303177', '2010-01-07 18:24:04', '2010-01-07 10:38:05'),
(6244, '7486969576', 'suddenly, so much is clear. (yes, we''re in the Epiphany season, but somehow I didn''t expect to have an ACTUAL epiphany! when will I learn?)', '', '', '2010-01-07 18:12:37', '2010-01-07 10:38:05'),
(6245, '7488310315', '@dtatusko OK, I guess you can nap while I knit. soup & grilled cheese first, though.', 'dtatusko', '7487468106', '2010-01-07 18:57:22', '2010-01-07 11:08:24'),
(6246, '7488294088', '@TrinaMb I''m going to try!', 'TrinaMb', '7487481792', '2010-01-07 18:56:50', '2010-01-07 11:08:24'),
(6247, '7489289841', '@copyblogger me too. I like being able to add something, and show that my RT was intentional/personal.', 'copyblogger', '7489230827', '2010-01-07 19:29:53', '2010-01-07 11:39:37'),
(6248, '7488903546', 'yes! RT @angelaharms Ever wanted to find a more satisfying response to panhandlers? http://bit.ly/6dfz8a (Interview with ma bro @hughlh)', '', '', '2010-01-07 19:16:59', '2010-01-07 11:39:37'),
(6249, '7488846666', '@suzigurl maybe that''s what''s wrong with our wiper fluid. it''s been a royal pain the past couple of weeks—almost never works!', 'suzigurl', '7488772668', '2010-01-07 19:15:06', '2010-01-07 11:39:37'),
(6250, '7490330317', '@BrianMerritt my church, too. we have too many staff members w not enough versatility for the size of our church. what wld be yr dream job?', 'BrianMerritt', '7490102266', '2010-01-07 20:04:57', '2010-01-07 12:09:44'),
(6251, '7493883795', 'super excited to see my bro @bill_of_lading and @heathra tonight on HGTV''s "My First Place." should be a hoot.', '', '', '2010-01-07 22:04:14', '2010-01-07 14:11:20'),
(6252, '7493816102', '@norcross I already have a quote from someone, but I could get one from you, too. DM me your email & I''ll try to send info tomorrow.', 'norcross', '7493571094', '2010-01-07 22:02:04', '2010-01-07 14:11:20'),
(6253, '7493326977', '@norcross that''s good to know! what''s the plugin? I''m lining someone up now to do some maintenance work to the site.', 'norcross', '7493248827', '2010-01-07 21:46:00', '2010-01-07 14:11:20'),
(6254, '7493241807', '@dtatusko that is the most awesome feeling ever. good work! you deserve that nap (did you get it?).', 'dtatusko', '7493064575', '2010-01-07 21:43:13', '2010-01-07 14:11:20'),
(6255, '7493211240', 'this morning, I had an epiphany. (ha! take that, darkness!) http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=552', '', '', '2010-01-07 21:42:11', '2010-01-07 14:11:20'),
(6256, '7497832605', '@TrinaMb I just spent an hour talking to my mom on the phone and knitting! Glad you carved out some time for yourself.', '', '', '2010-01-08 00:14:40', '2010-01-07 16:21:21'),
(6257, '7507491857', '@jimpalmer I know that feeling! sounds like you''re living my life right now. sleep well.', 'jimpalmer', '7507408944', '2010-01-08 05:03:32', '2010-01-07 21:04:38'),
(6258, '7508218705', '@andyjames better late than never is a truism, I do believe.', 'andyjames', '7507696033', '2010-01-08 05:28:08', '2010-01-07 21:34:42'),
(6259, '7507637425', 'now that the tree is down, it''s the perfect time to sign and address Christmas cards! uh, New Year''s cards! yes, that''s what we''re doing.', '', '', '2010-01-08 05:08:01', '2010-01-07 21:34:42'),
(6260, '7519910041', '@eburkmartin is that sarcasm, or are you just a really odd bird?', 'eburkmartin', '7519815543', '2010-01-08 14:25:47', '2010-01-08 06:31:21'),
(6261, '7519866048', 'are you a fan of @magpiegirl? interested in her new soulcare spa, Flock? I''m giving away a membership! http://tinyurl.com/ybhoaw7', '', '', '2010-01-08 14:24:19', '2010-01-08 06:31:21'),
(6262, '7519466049', '@noebie I hear you! may you find some solid stretches of concentration.', 'noebie', '7518809923', '2010-01-08 14:11:09', '2010-01-08 06:31:21'),
(6263, '7519434592', '@revsongbird saying a prayer for that now. :)', 'revsongbird', '7518940290', '2010-01-08 14:10:06', '2010-01-08 06:31:21'),
(6264, '7519380556', '@magpiegirl I got my post up yesterday! I hope it starts to draw some attention. I''ll tweet it again this morning, w a flock mention. :)', 'magpiegirl', '7519162670', '2010-01-08 14:08:16', '2010-01-08 06:31:21'),
(6265, '7520189129', 'thankful for their friendship this week: @jenluit @TrinaMb @MoJoJules @JebDickerson @daisy17 @McMer314 @hughlh @Magpiegirl @ejly #FF', '', '', '2010-01-08 14:34:51', '2010-01-08 07:04:07'),
(6266, '7521888243', 'more friends I''m grateful for this wk: @themoderngal @OSG @suzigurl @ssrebelsam @espengeman @KatFrench @edcyzewski @heysonnie @bridgeout #FF', '', '', '2010-01-08 15:26:41', '2010-01-08 07:34:23'),
(6267, '7522994519', 'so stressed by the emotional state of our 9YO. every time I think or talk about it, my eyes brim up w tears. need to do something about it.', '', '', '2010-01-08 16:00:17', '2010-01-08 08:08:58'),
(6268, '7522948949', '@chambanamoms hmm...w families we know, maybe 3rd grd? I can''t rembr! the hard issue comes when they''re invited by families we don''t know.', 'chambanamoms', '7522847468', '2010-01-08 15:58:55', '2010-01-08 08:08:58'),
(6269, '7522857903', '@lje2me I think she is, which is why Q requested it. :) they compare lunches at school, and talk quite a bit about food, it seems.', 'lje2me', '7522327566', '2010-01-08 15:56:06', '2010-01-08 08:08:58'),
(6270, '7522279599', 'Q is having her new best friend over a sleepover for the 1st time. I suggested pizza or tacos, she suggested "something exotic." love it.', '', '', '2010-01-08 15:38:35', '2010-01-08 08:08:58'),
(6271, '7522217838', '@KatFrench well, I''m glad I finally got a chance to "meet" you! happy Friday.', 'KatFrench', '7521967647', '2010-01-08 15:36:43', '2010-01-08 08:08:58'),
(6272, '7524157487', '@jenluit I''m really beginning to think it doesn''t. it just gets harder and harder. a display of heartaches we can do little about.', 'jenluit', '7523887149', '2010-01-08 16:35:06', '2010-01-08 08:43:02'),
(6273, '7523755119', '@angelaharms S is 1 of 3 girls in the class who speaks Eng as a 1st language. in 2 wks there will be 2 of them. other 1 has learning disab.', 'angelaharms', '7523267762', '2010-01-08 16:23:02', '2010-01-08 08:43:02'),
(6274, '7523714347', '@MOMboTV bff moves away in 2 weeks, & S is in a very unusual classroom that leaves her feeling very isolated. she''s 1 of 3 Eng-speak girls!', 'MOMboTV', '7523029828', '2010-01-08 16:21:49', '2010-01-08 08:43:02'),
(6275, '7523645632', '@angelaharms bff is moving away in 2 weeks, & S is in a very unusual classroom that leaves her feeling very isolated. + principal is an ass.', 'angelaharms', '7523267762', '2010-01-08 16:19:47', '2010-01-08 08:43:02'),
(6276, '7524583593', '@angelaharms yes, in that "no one is like me or understands me" way. good experiences to have, but difficult, too.', 'angelaharms', '7524362834', '2010-01-08 16:48:08', '2010-01-08 09:13:17'),
(6277, '7526101267', 'Also up for today: how about a shower and some real clothes? Enough w the snowed-in-freelancer mentality. sheesh!', '', '', '2010-01-08 17:34:33', '2010-01-08 09:43:42'),
(6278, '7525891302', 'Must get out of the house! Bank, food co-op, gym time.', '', '', '2010-01-08 17:28:08', '2010-01-08 09:43:42'),
(6279, '7530659770', '@DavePeckens that''s pretty darn funny (although I''m sorry you''re learning the hard way—I tend to do that, too).', 'DavePeckens', '7530400833', '2010-01-08 20:02:51', '2010-01-08 12:16:21'),
(6280, '7531218683', 'finally! a few moments to read a few blogs. there''s so much good stuff out there.', '', '', '2010-01-08 20:21:22', '2010-01-08 12:47:53'),
(6281, '7532259765', '@marriagestudio I love it! what a fun, January idea.', 'marriagestudio', '7532236061', '2010-01-08 20:55:24', '2010-01-08 13:18:15'),
(6282, '7539886422', 'Margaritas are never an issue to make. Or drink. J is doing the hard work: chicken mole. Can''t wait.', '', '', '2010-01-09 01:10:55', '2010-01-08 17:23:02'),
(6283, '7539822826', 'Every time I make guacamole I think "I have no idea how to make guacamole." but then it always tastes like I know exactly what I''m doing.', '', '', '2010-01-09 01:08:51', '2010-01-08 17:23:02'),
(6284, '7545876629', '@Michigania wait, that''s not something an invincible-feeling person would do. he would risk all with a gluten-rich cookie! :)', 'Michigania', '7545835903', '2010-01-09 04:28:06', '2010-01-08 20:38:52'),
(6285, '7560811610', '@jbonewald love Avett Brothers. My hubs gave it to me for Christmas, along with the Staples Singers and MGMT. Quite a mix!', '', '', '2010-01-09 16:09:09', '2010-01-09 08:09:42'),
(6286, '7560693533', '@Michigania I don''t blame her. That''s a sad thing.', '', '', '2010-01-09 16:04:54', '2010-01-09 08:09:42'),
(6287, '7560634301', 'Me: why are you crying? S: I don''t know! Maybe I''m crying for all the times I wanted to cry but didn''t.', '', '', '2010-01-09 16:02:50', '2010-01-09 08:09:42'),
(6288, '7560593923', 'Me: why are you crying?', '', '', '2010-01-09 16:01:26', '2010-01-09 08:09:42'),
(6289, '7560967475', '@dtatusko I know! But I also know exactly how she feels. So articulate at 9.', '', '', '2010-01-09 16:14:43', '2010-01-09 08:39:46'),
(6290, '7563266416', 'playing a family game around the table after a b-fast of blueberry pancakes is such a rare treat. we should make it less rare, I think.', '', '', '2010-01-09 17:35:47', '2010-01-09 09:39:51'),
(6291, '7569016162', 'running errands. I have the same love-hate relationship w B&N as I do w Starbucks. fitting that they''re both here together.', '', '', '2010-01-09 21:04:32', '2010-01-09 13:10:08'),
(6292, '7568908557', '@ejly so funny, so true!', '', '', '2010-01-09 21:00:44', '2010-01-09 13:10:08'),
(6293, '7569901482', '@DDaisy apricot jam should work, and it''s easy to find.', '', '', '2010-01-09 21:36:46', '2010-01-09 13:40:52'),
(6294, '7581812392', 'Once again I''ve got that awful no-clue-what-I-want feeling. I''d much rather know what I want and not be able to have it. Is that weird?', '', '', '2010-01-10 04:25:11', '2010-01-09 20:32:18'),
(6295, '7581563442', '@Michigania yes, that''s impressive.', '', '', '2010-01-10 04:16:47', '2010-01-09 20:32:18'),
(6296, '7582478962', '@dtatusko yeah, a specific kind of certainty. I think it has something to do with knowing yourself—being in touch with yourself.', 'dtatusko', '7582123559', '2010-01-10 04:47:52', '2010-01-09 21:06:03'),
(6297, '7582401424', '@norcross especially middle-class American girls. it''s the American way.', 'norcross', '7582379225', '2010-01-10 04:45:09', '2010-01-09 21:06:03'),
(6298, '7582351191', '@norcross you''re probably right. what girl doesn''t want a pony?', 'norcross', '7581894499', '2010-01-10 04:43:22', '2010-01-09 21:06:03'),
(6299, '7582326696', '@MoJoJules I love seeing everything that happens in your life each night AFTER you announce you''re going to bed. :) I can just picture you.', 'MoJoJules', '7582250087', '2010-01-10 04:42:27', '2010-01-09 21:06:03'),
(6300, '7597262029', '@barnsey85 exactly! That was me last night.', '', '', '2010-01-10 16:41:36', '2010-01-10 08:54:42'),
(6301, '7597242898', 'Proof of my indecisive state last night: I thought I was staying in but instead got in the shower at 11 then went out to meet friends.', '', '', '2010-01-10 16:40:53', '2010-01-10 08:54:42'),
(6302, '7617097721', 'puzzles can be ridiculously addictive. we couldn''t stop looking for pieces, so the girls stayed up 30min past bedtime. did they set us up?', '', '', '2010-01-11 03:51:01', '2010-01-10 19:51:28');
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(6303, '7617124222', '@RaeWhitlock I couldn''t agree more! that''s one of the 1st things I look for in a church: weekly communion.', 'RaeWhitlock', '7617022139', '2010-01-11 03:51:54', '2010-01-10 20:22:17'),
(6304, '7630668923', 'I think my girls have figured out that the best way to push MY buttons is to push their sister''s buttons. Especially before I''ve had coffee.', '', '', '2010-01-11 14:19:24', '2010-01-11 06:24:26'),
(6305, '7632753565', '@briankellyphoto wow, such a great project to film. what a journey, indeed.', 'briankellyphoto', '7632571332', '2010-01-11 15:27:58', '2010-01-11 07:56:28'),
(6306, '7634795084', 'last night I stayed up writing, to get ahead. today I ditched it all & started over. still think last night''s wrk helped clear my head tho.', '', '', '2010-01-11 16:33:58', '2010-01-11 08:57:51'),
(6307, '7636419731', '@daisy17 I can imagine. I have Jason, so I can''t really complain, but we''re both social & wish we had super close friends to hang out with.', 'daisy17', '7636344697', '2010-01-11 17:26:59', '2010-01-11 09:29:10'),
(6308, '7636098146', 'the alternate title for this post: why do I feel like I don''t have any friends, when I have SO many friends? http://tinyurl.com/yzf4qzk', '', '', '2010-01-11 17:16:23', '2010-01-11 09:29:10'),
(6309, '7636042646', '@BlueDuckCopy I guess so. I was probably thinking about the topic all night, which made it clearer when I sat down to write this morning.', 'BlueDuckCopy', '7634862083', '2010-01-11 17:14:36', '2010-01-11 09:29:10'),
(6310, '7636004617', '@edcyzewski right! and I should also probably stop trying to be productive when I''m just too tired to be productive. :)', 'edcyzewski', '7635821462', '2010-01-11 17:13:20', '2010-01-11 09:29:10'),
(6311, '7635971736', '@kaileenelise thanks! a clear head helps, for sure. the post pretty much wrote itself this morning.', 'kaileenelise', '7634924184', '2010-01-11 17:12:15', '2010-01-11 09:29:10'),
(6312, '7635946885', 'the 4 levels of friendship (as it turns out, they''re pretty much the same for adults & kids) http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=553', '', '', '2010-01-11 17:11:26', '2010-01-11 09:29:10'),
(6313, '7637965864', '@eburkmartin I''m glad! not glad you needed it, but glad it could help. :)', 'eburkmartin', '7637763807', '2010-01-11 18:18:48', '2010-01-11 10:32:34'),
(6314, '7637664909', '@llhargrove Amen! scandalous, indeed.', 'llhargrove', '7636534890', '2010-01-11 18:08:31', '2010-01-11 10:32:34'),
(6315, '7637580370', '@JohnnyBTruant I like that, in the imperative form: Live, dammit!', 'JohnnyBTruant', '7637204841', '2010-01-11 18:05:39', '2010-01-11 10:32:34'),
(6316, '7637557810', '@LisGarrett I LOVED LOVED LOVED that book. read it on my honeymoon—so perfect.', 'LisGarrett', '7637142555', '2010-01-11 18:04:54', '2010-01-11 10:32:34'),
(6317, '7637522633', '@mksteele that''s so ridiculous it''s funny! I guess FOX isn''t even *pretending* to be an objective news source. I thought they still were.', 'mksteele', '7637364749', '2010-01-11 18:03:43', '2010-01-11 10:32:34'),
(6318, '7638775103', '@bill_of_lading good for Henry! bad for your basement. :( hope nothing important was ruined.', 'bill_of_lading', '7638592874', '2010-01-11 18:46:30', '2010-01-11 11:02:56'),
(6319, '7639503230', 'indeed. RT @Chad_Estes Sarah Palin joins FOX NEWS as contributor... Jon Stewart''s job just got a little bit easier.', '', '', '2010-01-11 19:11:12', '2010-01-11 11:35:40'),
(6320, '7640452235', '@jenluit what a relief! hugs (and naps) to you.', 'jenluit', '7639860948', '2010-01-11 19:43:40', '2010-01-11 12:05:54'),
(6321, '7640401318', '@dtatusko very true. I wish they would just call it what it is.', '', '', '2010-01-11 19:41:53', '2010-01-11 12:05:54'),
(6322, '7640361775', '@dtatusko @jenluit me too! Here''s to napping without guilt or explanation!', '', '', '2010-01-11 19:40:32', '2010-01-11 12:05:54'),
(6323, '7642738415', 'sorry for the misspelling. that question about people growing out of the need for best friends was from @zoewesthof!', '', '', '2010-01-11 21:00:40', '2010-01-11 13:06:50'),
(6324, '7642661291', 'good ? from @zoewesthoff in the comments: do some people grow out of the need for a best friend? http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=553', '', '', '2010-01-11 20:58:12', '2010-01-11 13:06:50'),
(6325, '7648780282', 'The chicken mole J made Friday has made its way into meal #3 (and I couldn''t be happier).', '', '', '2010-01-12 00:10:29', '2010-01-11 16:12:33'),
(6326, '7657062562', '3 banks plan $47B for bonuses. some individuals getting $10M+. I don''t get how anyone thinks this is justified.  http://tinyurl.com/yk4ohzz', '', '', '2010-01-12 04:16:48', '2010-01-11 20:17:06'),
(6327, '7657700351', '@eburkmartin yeah, don''t get me started on those comparisons. my dad was one of those teachers who worked 60 hrs a week just bc he cared.', 'eburkmartin', '7657257902', '2010-01-12 04:38:14', '2010-01-11 20:48:15'),
(6328, '7657112674', 'we''re supposed to understand, bc they rely on these bonuses to pay for vacation homes & to send their kids to fancy schools. poor them!', '', '', '2010-01-12 04:18:28', '2010-01-11 20:48:15'),
(6329, '7670270364', '@bill_of_lading oh no! that''s ridiculous. you really need to report your landlord. shouldn''t he have to pay for damages, etc? &lt;hug&gt;', 'bill_of_lading', '7651113521', '2010-01-12 14:25:11', '2010-01-12 06:26:12'),
(6330, '7670876694', 'J is checking out some new albums. the new Cold War Kids sounds exactly like them; the new Spoon is very different (a typical move 4 them).', '', '', '2010-01-12 14:45:00', '2010-01-12 06:56:44'),
(6331, '7670835080', '@jenluit my first response is that YOU need to move here.', 'jenluit', '7670731073', '2010-01-12 14:43:38', '2010-01-12 06:56:44'),
(6332, '7670601597', 'heading out for a work day w the designers at my museum exhibit client. collaborating w real people is always a nice change of pace.', '', '', '2010-01-12 14:35:59', '2010-01-12 06:56:44'),
(6333, '7670504936', '@jenluit preach it, girl! @MoJoJules, we''re here to work through it all with you!', 'jenluit', '7668766129', '2010-01-12 14:32:50', '2010-01-12 06:56:44'),
(6334, '7670444557', '@magpiegirl thanks for the shout-out and the comment! if only we lived in the same town, eh?', 'magpiegirl', '7669250211', '2010-01-12 14:30:53', '2010-01-12 06:56:44'),
(6335, '7686380913', 'today''s meeting/work session was productive, but 2 hrs longer than I expected. sort of messed up my entire afternoon.', '', '', '2010-01-12 23:00:16', '2010-01-12 15:18:06'),
(6336, '7686335325', '@DDaisy me too!', 'DDaisy', '7686174893', '2010-01-12 22:58:58', '2010-01-12 15:18:07'),
(6337, '7690791891', 'Finally trying The Wok--the restaurant people keep raving abt. Glad friends are doing the ordering since the good menu is all in Chinese.', '', '', '2010-01-13 01:06:41', '2010-01-12 17:20:15'),
(6338, '7694970202', '@MoJoJules ha! I''ve been out of the loop this evening, but if I had to make a bet, I would put money on the fact that you DID say that. :)', 'MoJoJules', '7694195070', '2010-01-13 03:11:02', '2010-01-12 19:27:17'),
(6339, '7696942879', '@lje2me it was really tasty, but I''ll never figure out what we ate. our friends ordered a dozen dishes for 8 people!', 'lje2me', '7696475510', '2010-01-13 04:25:40', '2010-01-12 20:27:26'),
(6340, '7697014062', 'RT @grammercie prayers for those in the dark and fear tonight. &lt;yes, so heartbreaking & horrible to imagine.&gt; #haiti', '', '', '2010-01-13 04:29:08', '2010-01-12 20:59:32'),
(6341, '7709568406', 'the pup has taken to lying on the back of the sofa in the sun, looking out the window, like a cat. has she no dog dignity?', '', '', '2010-01-13 14:26:54', '2010-01-13 06:44:12'),
(6342, '7711696844', 'finding a spirituality that fits: an interview with @magpiegirl http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=554', '', '', '2010-01-13 15:33:43', '2010-01-13 07:45:16'),
(6343, '7713403515', 'it''s been so cold—now that it''s 25 deg I swear I can detect a whiff of spring in the air. setting myself up for disappointment, eh?', '', '', '2010-01-13 16:25:27', '2010-01-13 08:47:05'),
(6344, '7714863799', 'does anyone have a great time management/to-do app for iPhones? I have so many tasks/deadlines to get a handle on right now.', '', '', '2010-01-13 17:11:02', '2010-01-13 09:17:32'),
(6345, '7715775642', 'thanks for the app suggestions @andyjames @SeanPlatt and @paulroub! I will check those out. (2 votes for THINGS!)', '', '', '2010-01-13 17:40:41', '2010-01-13 09:49:08'),
(6346, '7716320265', '@northernchick I know. it''s overwhelmingly sad.', 'northernchick', '7716190408', '2010-01-13 17:58:43', '2010-01-13 10:21:11'),
(6347, '7717662548', '@lje2me what color is it? Maybe it''s just a perfect color for you!', '', '', '2010-01-13 18:43:28', '2010-01-13 10:52:23'),
(6348, '7719607948', 'generally, I''ve never been an exclamation pt fan, but I get the feeling many people need to see them to catch the tone, so I often use them.', '', '', '2010-01-13 19:48:36', '2010-01-13 11:55:42'),
(6349, '7719568553', 'do you have a personal policy re use of exclamation points in emails, etc, or does it depend on who you''re writing to?', '', '', '2010-01-13 19:47:17', '2010-01-13 11:55:42'),
(6350, '7719922841', '@JesusNeedsNewPR No he di-int! unbelievable.', 'JesusNeedsNewPR', '7719778777', '2010-01-13 19:59:13', '2010-01-13 12:26:18'),
(6351, '7721489334', '@jenluit too funny. I am so not surprised that you do that. :)', '', '', '2010-01-13 20:51:31', '2010-01-13 12:56:50'),
(6352, '7723274568', '@jenx67 you might not want to look. it''s making me rage inside.', 'jenx67', '7723253652', '2010-01-13 21:50:15', '2010-01-13 13:57:40'),
(6353, '7723255229', '@bralts I don''t blame you at all. it''s ridiculous. but remember, all groups of people include some who spread goodness & others spread hate.', 'bralts', '7723050255', '2010-01-13 21:49:39', '2010-01-13 13:57:40'),
(6354, '7723181079', 'this is a sad reality RT @bralts It''s people like Pat Robertson & his idiotic comments about Haiti that make me steer clear of Christianity.', '', '', '2010-01-13 21:47:18', '2010-01-13 13:57:40'),
(6355, '7724203300', '@youravgpastor I don''t thnk it''s wasted  enrgy. I know many non-Xtians who say they need to be reminded not to lump all believers togthr.', '', '', '2010-01-13 22:19:42', '2010-01-13 14:28:03'),
(6356, '7731965139', 'First gym, now steak.', '', '', '2010-01-14 02:19:51', '2010-01-13 18:33:20'),
(6357, '7735436760', 'Listening to Bonnie Prince Billy. Perfectly raw.', '', '', '2010-01-14 04:03:33', '2010-01-13 20:06:01'),
(6358, '7735419454', '@grammercie that''s great. I worry that you don''t get enough breaks (not that I''m keeping track, but I know the single mom ropes).', '', '', '2010-01-14 04:03:00', '2010-01-13 20:06:01'),
(6359, '7735373438', '@angelaharms that is very well put. I''m going to work at embracing that perspective.', '', '', '2010-01-14 04:01:33', '2010-01-13 20:06:01'),
(6360, '7735336807', '@hipmomswhowork that''s so true.', '', '', '2010-01-14 04:00:25', '2010-01-13 20:06:01'),
(6361, '7735319548', '@grammercie @heysonnie I have one like that. So compassionate and so heartbreaking, at every turn.', '', '', '2010-01-14 03:59:57', '2010-01-13 20:06:01'),
(6362, '7735257782', '@edcyzewski can''t wait to read this one.', '', '', '2010-01-14 03:57:56', '2010-01-13 20:06:01'),
(6363, '7735227962', '@grammercie hug for you, mama.', '', '', '2010-01-14 03:56:57', '2010-01-13 20:06:01'),
(6364, '7750902907', 'a great post re Robertson: RT @edcyzewski Why It Matters How We Respond to Bad Theology: http://bit.ly/6Rn65O.', '', '', '2010-01-14 15:20:58', '2010-01-14 07:25:43'),
(6365, '7750768376', '@daisy17 I think I''m going to skip right over the Xians Against Xians t-shirt and go straight to the Xians Against Pat design, instead.', '', '7750469830', '2010-01-14 15:16:42', '2010-01-14 07:25:43'),
(6366, '7750736221', '@PsychMamma that''s terrible! mama knows best (and suffers most, too).', 'PsychMamma', '7750527765', '2010-01-14 15:15:41', '2010-01-14 07:25:43'),
(6367, '7750440110', 'almost couldn''t bear listening to npr''s correspondent describe the scene in Haiti. why is getting water to people so difficult? shouldn''t be', '', '', '2010-01-14 15:06:24', '2010-01-14 07:25:43'),
(6368, '7752932736', '@magpiegirl I know! so many great women with great thoughts about darkness and epiphanies, all excited about Flock. sigh.', 'magpiegirl', '7752826285', '2010-01-14 16:24:38', '2010-01-14 08:30:54'),
(6369, '7752892436', 'working on museum exhibit copy. today I''m going to do research the old-school way: at the library. with books. the Internet is imperfect.', '', '', '2010-01-14 16:23:20', '2010-01-14 08:30:54'),
(6370, '7752783387', '@bralts I really don''t understand why it''s so hard to just drop a heck of a lot of water from helicopters to the people. it''s been 2 days!!', 'bralts', '7752052798', '2010-01-14 16:19:54', '2010-01-14 08:30:54'),
(6371, '7752750794', '@daisy17 what would be best is to start with a list (Xians, Jews, Muslims, atheists, etc) and at the end just say Everyone Against Pat.', 'daisy17', '7752164138', '2010-01-14 16:18:53', '2010-01-14 08:30:54'),
(6372, '7752699349', 'only 2 hrs until the drawing on my blog for a Flock membership! I wish all 33 people could win. http://tinyurl.com/ybhoaw7', '', '', '2010-01-14 16:17:17', '2010-01-14 08:30:54'),
(6373, '7754463355', 'my 9-YO wrote a wonderful but disturbing/grotesque story for the Young Authors competition. should I be concerned?', '', '', '2010-01-14 17:13:07', '2010-01-14 09:32:50'),
(6374, '7754408950', '@jenx67 nice. no, I didn''t hear that.', 'jenx67', '7754306578', '2010-01-14 17:11:20', '2010-01-14 09:32:50'),
(6375, '7754198539', 'RT @heathra RT @kevinwmoore: Kudos to Salon for turning Pat Robertson''s racism into a teachable moment. http://tinyurl.com/ydz6dv4 #haiti', '', '', '2010-01-14 17:04:38', '2010-01-14 09:32:50'),
(6376, '7755820925', '@brechin yes, there''s definitely that. (the story is about "animals murdering people in the disappearing alley of doom." could be worse.)', 'brechin', '7755038678', '2010-01-14 17:57:57', '2010-01-14 10:04:54'),
(6377, '7755772108', '@ChristiBowman funny! great!! (just kidding. :) so what do you think? I''m sensitive to such things since I work as a writer, I guess.', 'ChristiBowman', '7755499883', '2010-01-14 17:56:18', '2010-01-14 10:04:54'),
(6378, '7755742437', '@jenniferswilson I''ve only been there once and had chicken. it would stink if the only vegetarian options were side dishes.', 'jenniferswilson', '7755624387', '2010-01-14 17:55:18', '2010-01-14 10:04:54'),
(6379, '7755365271', '@jenniferswilson besides the apple dumplin? :)', 'jenniferswilson', '7755192832', '2010-01-14 17:42:40', '2010-01-14 10:04:54'),
(6380, '7755351607', '@grammercie have a great time! tell us all about it!', 'grammercie', '7755290156', '2010-01-14 17:42:13', '2010-01-14 10:04:54'),
(6381, '7756820990', '@thinkmaya that''s amazing. you should be proud!', 'thinkmaya', '7756383131', '2010-01-14 18:31:19', '2010-01-14 10:35:15'),
(6382, '7756467593', 'http://tweetphoto.com/8709665 The winner is Luci! (I''ve never done a drawing--wanted to document it.)', '', '', '2010-01-14 18:19:20', '2010-01-14 10:35:15'),
(6383, '7756342608', 'http://tweetphoto.com/8709496 I''m about to draw 1 of 32 names in this bag for a Flock membership!', '', '', '2010-01-14 18:15:09', '2010-01-14 10:35:15'),
(6384, '7756258422', '@brechin yes! she''s always been fascinated in poetic justice & food chain/cycle of life stories in nature. many of her drawing depict it 2.', 'brechin', '7755902853', '2010-01-14 18:12:19', '2010-01-14 10:35:15'),
(6385, '7757576162', '@bralts true. it''s always easier when you''re not in charge of making it happen. I just hope it''s not red tape getting in the way.', 'bralts', '7757301097', '2010-01-14 18:57:01', '2010-01-14 11:08:59'),
(6386, '7758657194', '@bralts awesome! good work!', 'bralts', '7758637623', '2010-01-14 19:33:30', '2010-01-14 11:39:35'),
(6387, '7758619188', 'we designed and printed the cards in Dec. thankfully they''re not red & green, nor do they say anything Christmassy. they''re about peace. :)', '', '', '2010-01-14 19:32:12', '2010-01-14 11:39:37'),
(6388, '7758573693', 'w my head held high, I''m finally sending out a small stack of Christmas/New Year''s (Valentine''s Day?) cards.', '', '', '2010-01-14 19:30:40', '2010-01-14 11:39:37'),
(6389, '7769075499', 'Going out to dinner w my man. It''s been too long.', '', '', '2010-01-15 01:07:27', '2010-01-14 17:18:45'),
(6390, '7792069709', 'RT @hughlh: The message of Jesus is not that God will get you out of crap. Rather, it is that when you are in crap, you are not alone.', '', '', '2010-01-15 15:59:28', '2010-01-15 08:03:26'),
(6391, '7792033389', '@BlueDuckCopy sincere?', 'BlueDuckCopy', '7791709564', '2010-01-15 15:58:23', '2010-01-15 08:03:26'),
(6392, '7792014662', '@MoJoJules @jenluit new plan: the three of us should figure out what''s our exact mid-point and meet up for a weekend! :)', 'MoJoJules', '7791694251', '2010-01-15 15:57:49', '2010-01-15 08:03:26'),
(6393, '7791966075', '@stephenlutz I have SO been there, on all counts (even the dead car battery, which was finally replaced yesterday). peace.', 'stephenlutz', '7791918631', '2010-01-15 15:56:23', '2010-01-15 08:03:26'),
(6394, '7791950011', '@ChristiBowman me too. exactly.', 'ChristiBowman', '7791835557', '2010-01-15 15:55:55', '2010-01-15 08:03:26'),
(6395, '7791920228', '@KatFrench aww! so glad to get to hang with you here.', 'KatFrench', '7789478857', '2010-01-15 15:55:02', '2010-01-15 08:03:26'),
(6396, '7791566423', 'Feeling better about things after meeting w S''s teacher this am. A good talk is always good medicine.', '', '', '2010-01-15 15:44:24', '2010-01-15 08:03:26'),
(6397, '7792211430', '@jenluit @MoJoJules maybe not today :) but I say we look for a weekend in march.', '', '', '2010-01-15 16:03:31', '2010-01-15 08:33:50'),
(6398, '7795573429', 'something tells me this isn''t the first time I''ve quoted a @hughlh tweet in one of blog posts. he must be a wise and succinct man. :)', '', '', '2010-01-15 17:45:04', '2010-01-15 10:04:39'),
(6399, '7795388171', 'I''m feeling extra helpless this week, but I''m reminded that words matter, too. http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=555 #haiti #Robertson', '', '', '2010-01-15 17:39:22', '2010-01-15 10:04:39'),
(6400, '7796472952', 'at the same time, I need to practice being OK with that helpless feeling from time to time. the downside of being a problem-solver & doer.', '', '', '2010-01-15 18:13:18', '2010-01-15 10:35:05'),
(6401, '7796430549', 'I''ve been feeling helpless about things all week, so I was very happy to watch a friend''s kids today so she could go to a counseling appt.', '', '', '2010-01-15 18:11:56', '2010-01-15 10:35:05'),
(6402, '7801643951', 'looking forward to our small group retreat this weekend. on the docket for tonight: some time in the chapel then card/board games & snacks.', '', '', '2010-01-15 21:02:08', '2010-01-15 13:06:52'),
(6403, '7801297758', '@ejly cool—thanks!', 'ejly', '7801181013', '2010-01-15 20:50:42', '2010-01-15 13:06:52'),
(6404, '7801264977', 'no, words aren''t enough in the face of great trial, but they do matter. reflections on #haiti: http://tinyurl.com/ybya3uu', '', '', '2010-01-15 20:49:36', '2010-01-15 13:06:52'),
(6405, '7801156782', '@hughlh I''m sure I could find a few more to use. :) it''s just cooler when you tweet something that fits w what I''m already ruminating about.', 'hughlh', '7800572940', '2010-01-15 20:45:56', '2010-01-15 13:06:52'),
(6406, '7801081339', '@Mrs_PJs cool! I''d love to hear more about what people said. does being a Christian community change any of it?', 'Mrs_PJs', '7796520630', '2010-01-15 20:43:23', '2010-01-15 13:06:52'),
(6407, '7801924129', '@MoJoJules YEEE-HAWWW!', 'MoJoJules', '7801906053', '2010-01-15 21:11:20', '2010-01-15 13:37:20'),
(6408, '7803549846', '@jenluit that you would be awesome at it! I''d love to brainstorm with you more, some time, too. when''s the retreat?', 'jenluit', '7802874053', '2010-01-15 22:03:30', '2010-01-15 14:08:12'),
(6409, '7803517378', '@Mrs_PJs you start to feel like you''re protecting yourself against disappointment a lot, & viewing friendships very casually/surface level.', 'Mrs_PJs', '7803359645', '2010-01-15 22:02:29', '2010-01-15 14:08:12'),
(6410, '7803489996', '@Mrs_PJs I can really relate to that. we went out with cat3 friends a couple wks ago, who we really like, & they told us they might move.', 'Mrs_PJs', '7803296498', '2010-01-15 22:01:37', '2010-01-15 14:08:12'),
(6411, '7840147931', 'http://tweetphoto.com/8874922 walking on Lake Springfield at our small group retreat.', '', '', '2010-01-16 21:41:17', '2010-01-16 13:43:00'),
(6412, '7842539598', 'Driving home from the retreat through thick fog. Don''t know if it fits my mood or if it''s dictating my mood.', '', '', '2010-01-16 23:03:54', '2010-01-16 15:15:01'),
(6413, '7845542426', 'need knitting help! what might "cast on and knit 14sts" mean in the midst of a project? am I increasing by 14sts? and then knitting them?', '', '', '2010-01-17 00:47:57', '2010-01-16 16:48:24'),
(6414, '7846026660', 'the pesky knitting pattern, for anyone willing to help w the leg opening issue: http://www.chopped-tomatoes.com/bucalicious-sweater-0', '', '', '2010-01-17 01:04:03', '2010-01-16 17:20:24'),
(6415, '7845931676', '@jenluit dog sweater, leg openings, in the round. you''re right, you can''t cast on 14 & then knit them. I tried just cstg on & continuing. no', 'jenluit', '7845865546', '2010-01-17 01:00:59', '2010-01-16 17:20:24'),
(6416, '7845869435', '@NoodlesinCHI yeah, I thought so too, and tried it the last time around (then just ripped it all out). makes no sense to me.', 'NoodlesinCHI', '7845579268', '2010-01-17 00:59:02', '2010-01-16 17:20:24'),
(6417, '7845795744', 'am I going to have to write another blog post about how life is like knitting? I just ripped out several rows & now I''m utterly stymied.', '', '', '2010-01-17 00:56:31', '2010-01-16 17:20:24'),
(6418, '7847002294', '@brechin yeah, bc you have this random fresh start of a row. I think I must end up connecting it in the round later? will see. thanks!', 'brechin', '7846964055', '2010-01-17 01:36:22', '2010-01-16 17:51:51'),
(6419, '7846970735', '@jenmasc yes, that sort of helps! but I still feel like I''m forging ahead half blind. (life is like knitting.) thanks!', 'jenmasc', '7846585841', '2010-01-17 01:35:21', '2010-01-16 17:51:51'),
(6420, '7846935022', '@brechin hmm. I think that''s sort of what I tried this time. going to go all the way around & see what happens. thanks!', 'brechin', '7846864625', '2010-01-17 01:34:09', '2010-01-16 17:51:51'),
(6421, '7846834146', '@NoodlesinCHI nice to "meet" you, btw!', 'NoodlesinCHI', '7846366491', '2010-01-17 01:30:50', '2010-01-16 17:51:51'),
(6422, '7846819109', '@NoodlesinCHI drinking sounds like the perfect solution. :) I just have this thing about catching back up after I''ve ripped out rows. ugh.', 'NoodlesinCHI', '7846366491', '2010-01-17 01:30:21', '2010-01-16 17:51:51'),
(6423, '7846781819', '@brechin do I turn the piece around, CO to the left needle (no longer on the left) then turn it back and knit those stitches?', 'brechin', '7846747162', '2010-01-17 01:29:09', '2010-01-16 17:51:51'),
(6424, '7848025086', '@brechin glad it all went smoothly. yikes! J got stitches right by his eye when he was a kid. (& thanks for the knitting help!)', 'brechin', '7847391264', '2010-01-17 02:09:48', '2010-01-16 18:22:30'),
(6425, '7847856985', '@jenluit I am too impatient for a contact button. :) once I''ve ripped out rows, I will not rest until they''ve been replaced.', 'jenluit', '7847789364', '2010-01-17 02:04:23', '2010-01-16 18:22:30'),
(6426, '7847829943', '@eburkmartin @jenluit I flipped it around so the left needle was on my right, CO14, then flipped it back & K, joining in the rnd eventually.', 'eburkmartin', '7847232007', '2010-01-17 02:03:31', '2010-01-16 18:22:30'),
(6427, '7847787644', '@eburkmartin @jenluit the errata version is the 1 I downloaded & have been using. I didn''t use scrap yarn, but I think this time it worked!', 'eburkmartin', '7847232007', '2010-01-17 02:02:09', '2010-01-16 18:22:30'),
(6428, '7851385028', '@jenluit yes. a dog sweater. and you can just hush about it. :)', '', '', '2010-01-17 03:57:27', '2010-01-16 19:57:48'),
(6429, '7851352066', '@scheidel so sweet of you! I think I figured it out (finally). btw, I''ve been thinking about you!', '', '', '2010-01-17 03:56:21', '2010-01-16 19:57:48'),
(6430, '7851698233', '@swancommarachel so frustrating, I know. :(', '', '', '2010-01-17 04:07:30', '2010-01-16 20:29:27'),
(6431, '7851606064', '@grammercie my study bible (NIV) usually succeeds only in making me mad. so much brainwashing seems to be taking place.', '', '', '2010-01-17 04:04:30', '2010-01-16 20:29:27'),
(6432, '7851479260', '@mksteele YUM! One of my favorite cocktails, right down to those particular olives.', '', '', '2010-01-17 04:00:29', '2010-01-16 20:29:27'),
(6433, '7851419195', '@bridgeout what kind of chronic pain is it? what causes it? (saying a prayer, too.)', '', '', '2010-01-17 03:58:35', '2010-01-16 20:29:27'),
(6434, '7852807785', '@grammercie what about in James 5? (sorry--you''re trying to write a sermon, aren''t you?)', '', '', '2010-01-17 04:44:52', '2010-01-16 20:59:46'),
(6435, '7852506380', '@grammercie my other bibles are NRSV. I''ve been converted. :)', '', '', '2010-01-17 04:34:30', '2010-01-16 20:59:46'),
(6436, '7852463441', '@grammercie my favorite is when the NIV study bible finds ways to justify wealth. (ie Jesus/Paul certainly aren''t talking about YOU here)', '', '', '2010-01-17 04:33:03', '2010-01-16 20:59:46'),
(6437, '7852381950', '@grammercie my study bible is from my religion class days at Calvin College. Had to be NIV. :)', '', '', '2010-01-17 04:30:17', '2010-01-16 20:59:46'),
(6438, '7866101439', 'there''s a "freezing fog" advisory here. don''t think I''ve ever heard of such a thing. on our way to church--leading music for MLK Sunday.', '', '', '2010-01-17 15:02:52', '2010-01-17 07:08:19'),
(6439, '7883178171', 'frm This Am Life, on love: "no one ever asks ''how did you stay together?'' they only ask ''how did you meet?'''' (staying tog is the real story)', '', '', '2010-01-18 00:30:04', '2010-01-17 16:39:34'),
(6440, '7882967850', '@bridgeout so sorry—my mom has fibro so I know how it can get. peace as you take it easy.', 'bridgeout', '7868814406', '2010-01-18 00:23:59', '2010-01-17 16:39:34'),
(6441, '7885655926', '@jenluit oh, I forgot to tell you: some star runningback for the Steelers was worshipping in our church this morning. crazy, eh?', '', '', '2010-01-18 01:39:40', '2010-01-17 17:41:45'),
(6442, '7885401898', 'ran to the co-op. a few bikes at the bike rack & 3 cars in the lot--all Priuses. so wonderfully cliche.', '', '', '2010-01-18 01:32:34', '2010-01-17 17:41:45'),
(6443, '7885357759', '@TrinaMb very true! people should start asking it earlier. the work of staying together is worth acknowledging.', '', '', '2010-01-18 01:31:18', '2010-01-17 17:41:45'),
(6444, '7886893517', '@dtatusko @jenluit yes, mendenhall. He''s maybe dating (?) someone at our church (who happens to be our daughter''s youth group mentor).', '', '', '2010-01-18 02:14:29', '2010-01-17 18:20:04'),
(6445, '7891455581', '@remodelthislife me too! also, I''ve never read anything by Lamb but I keep hearing about him lately. what should I read first?', '', '', '2010-01-18 04:25:40', '2010-01-17 20:52:56'),
(6446, '7906756950', '@rk_p so true. that''s one of the hardest things about parenting, and friendship, too.', '', '', '2010-01-18 15:08:35', '2010-01-18 07:28:40'),
(6447, '7906661943', '@Mrs_PJs breakfast is probably what I miss most about living in GR! (I lived 2 blocks from Wolfgangs.)', '', '', '2010-01-18 15:05:30', '2010-01-18 07:28:40'),
(6448, '7908171812', 'if you''re the praying type, my 94-YO grandma is slipping toward death right now. prayers for peace & comfort are needed (esp for my mom).', '', '', '2010-01-18 15:52:32', '2010-01-18 07:59:28'),
(6449, '7909022524', 'thanks to everyone who''s praying for my family—I''m feeling rather numb, so knowing you''re out there, alert & aware, means so much.', '', '', '2010-01-18 16:18:41', '2010-01-18 08:29:37'),
(6450, '7911094525', 'cafe kopi is probably my favorite place to work (when I can carpool w J & not worry about parking).', '', '', '2010-01-18 17:22:19', '2010-01-18 09:31:27'),
(6451, '7910866301', 'God doesn''t make cookie cutter hearts. why do we seek cookie cutter answers & responses? http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=556', '', '', '2010-01-18 17:15:24', '2010-01-18 09:31:27'),
(6452, '7912797140', 'Picking H up at the State''s Attorney''s house, where she had a sleepover last night.', '', '', '2010-01-18 18:14:36', '2010-01-18 10:33:05'),
(6453, '7916287308', 'putting my girls to work doing research for my museum exhibit project. S has a stack of books on snakes & amphibians, Q has books abt trees.', '', '', '2010-01-18 20:01:53', '2010-01-18 12:04:57'),
(6454, '7918810968', '@bernthis that does seem like a lot for one teacher, but it completely depends on what the kids are like/if they have extra needs.', 'bernthis', '7918083710', '2010-01-18 21:21:13', '2010-01-18 13:35:26'),
(6455, '7927351955', '@mrschicken good question! I was wondering the same thing (8 hrs after my post, 0 comments). sigh.', '', '', '2010-01-19 01:40:12', '2010-01-18 17:49:35'),
(6456, '7929361551', 'S is home after audition callbacks for Aristocats. now we wait for the cast list to be posted. nervous girl (& mama).', '', '', '2010-01-19 02:39:06', '2010-01-18 18:51:08'),
(6457, '7948690200', '@daisy17 2wks, fly into SF, see city, camp Redwoods, drive up OR coast, then Portland. Uncle Bill will meet us for the camping, too!', 'daisy17', '7948587578', '2010-01-19 15:21:20', '2010-01-19 07:23:02'),
(6458, '7948600687', 'life w God is not like a test-taking anxiety dream, w you straining for the "right" answers. http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=556', '', '', '2010-01-19 15:18:39', '2010-01-19 07:23:02'),
(6459, '7948520119', '@cumomOf2 we''re so excited. San Francisco to Portland, 2 weeks. the kids will be the perfect ages, so we decided to go for it.', 'cumomOf2', '7948262360', '2010-01-19 15:16:12', '2010-01-19 07:23:02'),
(6460, '7948439645', '@jenluit that''s so awesome. (how is she doing, btw?)', 'jenluit', '7948238257', '2010-01-19 15:13:46', '2010-01-19 07:23:02'),
(6461, '7948382036', '@sduensing that''s pretty funny. I''m thinking "I''m a great copywriter!" and then I''m like "Oh."', 'sduensing', '7948241392', '2010-01-19 15:11:58', '2010-01-19 07:23:02'),
(6462, '7948168629', 'such good news in the face of so much bad: http://www.wpxi.com/news/22263919/detail.html #BRESMA #Haiti (via @TheBloggess)', '', '', '2010-01-19 15:05:24', '2010-01-19 07:23:02'),
(6463, '7947935980', '@espengeman thank you so much. I am on edge today, waiting for the phone to ring. :(', 'espengeman', '7942156275', '2010-01-19 14:58:26', '2010-01-19 07:23:02'),
(6464, '7947901963', 'last night J & I mapped out our W Coast trip for the summer & bought plane tickets! will be our 1st big travel vacation as a family of 5.', '', '', '2010-01-19 14:57:23', '2010-01-19 07:23:02'),
(6465, '7949562669', '@jenluit he''s probably right to roll his eyes. :) but that''s OK. she will find her way.', 'jenluit', '7948545097', '2010-01-19 15:47:55', '2010-01-19 07:59:08'),
(6466, '7949549337', '@bridgeout great! I can''t wait to read it.', 'bridgeout', '7948545432', '2010-01-19 15:47:29', '2010-01-19 07:59:08'),
(6467, '7949541595', '@daisy17 when are you coming to Chicago and CU? spring is nice. :) (I realize that''s not the sort of vacation you had in mind, but still...)', 'daisy17', '7948803928', '2010-01-19 15:47:15', '2010-01-19 07:59:09'),
(6468, '7956599359', 'my g-ma was always a perfect mix of jolly & feisty, & she had more faith than anyone I knew. I decided that was the best way to tackle life.', '', '', '2010-01-19 19:31:11', '2010-01-19 11:39:43'),
(6469, '7956541605', 'my grandma died this morning. she was 94. I''m trying to sort out what I "should" be feeling and what I *am* feeling—a blessed grief.', '', '', '2010-01-19 19:29:19', '2010-01-19 11:39:43'),
(6470, '7989097289', 'my g-ma had been declining w alzheimers, so it''s been years since we''ve had the woman we knew. I feel like now she has been restored.', '', '', '2010-01-20 15:28:54', '2010-01-20 07:29:00'),
(6471, '7989040339', 'thanks to everyone who has expressed love & concern for me & my family. there is real community on twitter, no matter what the critics say.', '', '', '2010-01-20 15:27:10', '2010-01-20 07:29:00'),
(6472, '7989439271', '@lje2me I am so with you. just when I thought nothing could make this day much worse, I went outside. ugh.', 'lje2me', '7987731489', '2010-01-20 15:39:09', '2010-01-20 07:59:29'),
(6473, '7989380529', '@jimpalmer sort of like just being a carpenter, eh? peace to you.', 'jimpalmer', '7986555738', '2010-01-20 15:37:20', '2010-01-20 07:59:29'),
(6474, '7989321436', '@suzigurl yay! that''s good news to hear on a day that looks about as crappy as can be from my perspective.', 'suzigurl', '7987146824', '2010-01-20 15:35:32', '2010-01-20 07:59:29'),
(6475, '7992059772', '@PsychMamma that''s great news! good work, mama!', 'PsychMamma', '7991903228', '2010-01-20 16:59:08', '2010-01-20 09:02:39'),
(6476, '7991818735', 'RT @dtatusko While people are dying & corpses rot all over Haiti, focus on the family is running a superbowl ad: http://bit.ly/5aLUTB', '', '', '2010-01-20 16:51:31', '2010-01-20 09:02:39'),
(6477, '7991651149', 'what I told my kids about my grandma''s life and death: http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=557', '', '', '2010-01-20 16:46:15', '2010-01-20 09:02:39'),
(6478, '7994564759', 'preparing to interview a woman who has a collection of 2000+ historical world instruments. then I''ll write a 1000-word article. #freelance', '', '', '2010-01-20 18:19:29', '2010-01-20 10:36:08'),
(6479, '7997219508', 'spicy red curry for lunch—just what I needed. warm & comforting w enough discomfort to remind me that a bland life isn''t a good one.', '', '', '2010-01-20 19:45:06', '2010-01-20 12:07:47'),
(6480, '8000457099', 'just finished an 80-min interview. I love asking people lots of ??s abt who they are & what matters most to them. endlessly interesting.', '', '', '2010-01-20 21:26:56', '2010-01-20 13:39:05'),
(6481, '8003145742', '@revsongbird saying a prayer for peace. I know a bit about the complexities you''re trying to balance.', 'revsongbird', '8002962748', '2010-01-20 22:49:49', '2010-01-20 15:09:45'),
(6482, '8008169921', 'Walked the dog. Brick sidewalks are less quaint during an ice storm. So is dog ownership.', '', '', '2010-01-21 01:15:54', '2010-01-20 17:47:07'),
(6483, '8011250476', 'J made some amazing mushroom w sage, white wine & cream over creamy polenta dish tonight. comfort food at it''s most rich & divine.', '', '', '2010-01-21 02:42:36', '2010-01-20 18:51:25'),
(6484, '8011125801', '@suzigurl @lje2me most definitely. Lots of great places for a town this size. I can DM you ideas. What size group?', '', '', '2010-01-21 02:39:02', '2010-01-20 18:51:25'),
(6485, '8010892786', '@c_w_s you''re makin me laugh tonight. :)', '', '', '2010-01-21 02:32:33', '2010-01-20 18:51:25'),
(6486, '8010798454', '@godgrrl so fuuny. my 9-YO loves Godspell (and she did even before I told her how I had the entire show memorized at her age).', '', '', '2010-01-21 02:29:57', '2010-01-20 18:51:25'),
(6487, '8012591687', '@DDaisy good work! Glad there are people like you who do more than talk.', '', '', '2010-01-21 03:20:52', '2010-01-20 19:22:00'),
(6488, '8012529789', '@shadow there''s no middle eastern place big enough, but I think there are a couple of delicious places that would cater. (1 did our wedding)', '', '', '2010-01-21 03:19:07', '2010-01-20 19:22:00'),
(6489, '8012279296', '@shadow ah yes. I know the type. We have good Indian, good Middle Eastern, good tapas. One of those might offer "something for everyone."', '', '', '2010-01-21 03:11:54', '2010-01-20 19:22:00'),
(6490, '8013005338', '@shadow How about if I email you some options?', '', '', '2010-01-21 03:32:50', '2010-01-20 19:54:09'),
(6491, '8012893152', 'can''t believe one of our favorite obscure bands (from Sweden no less) is playing here. Love is All at the Highdive, April 7.', '', '', '2010-01-21 03:29:41', '2010-01-20 19:54:09'),
(6492, '8030568099', '@youravgpastor I really dug season 2. We actually started w it bc I couldn''t get into season 1, then we backtracked to pick up crucial plot.', '', '', '2010-01-21 15:24:02', '2010-01-21 07:25:40'),
(6493, '8031363792', '@cumomOf2 @DoulaDeb @paulroub @lje2me I was doing OK w grey until I heard Ed Kieser''s forecast this am—no sun at the end of the tunnel.', 'cumomOf2', '8031112143', '2010-01-21 15:47:25', '2010-01-21 07:56:42'),
(6494, '8030788926', '@realsarah @grammercie do I have some stories for you. It''s especially hard bc J''s ex wife & her partner go to our church/are our community.', '', '', '2010-01-21 15:30:26', '2010-01-21 07:56:42'),
(6495, '8030717688', 'I wish the sun was for hire. I''d pay by the hour for some right about now. (I bet I could gather a decent local collection, too.)', '', '', '2010-01-21 15:28:26', '2010-01-21 07:56:42'),
(6496, '8031675402', '@dtatusko well, maybe you need it more than I do. sounds like you have a rough day ahead.', 'dtatusko', '8030784302', '2010-01-21 15:56:37', '2010-01-21 08:31:03'),
(6497, '8033463359', '@jenluit they''re playing Cat Stevens at the cafe. MAN, that makes me think about you and the Jersey shore. :)', '', '', '2010-01-21 16:50:04', '2010-01-21 09:01:28'),
(6498, '8033081940', 'is there a good way to talk to kids about death? http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=557', '', '', '2010-01-21 16:38:31', '2010-01-21 09:01:28'),
(6499, '8034847556', 'my ex just tells me he''s going to be gone most of March; I accommodate. I tell him we booked family vacation tix for late July; he''s pissed.', '', '', '2010-01-21 17:32:17', '2010-01-21 09:34:42'),
(6500, '8034404465', '@jenluit did I miss a jersey shore discussion? (and yes, our summer on the jersey shore defies all stereotypes.)', 'jenluit', '8033602585', '2010-01-21 17:18:37', '2010-01-21 09:34:42'),
(6501, '8034338767', '@ebertchicago I feel better after you tweet them, too.', 'ebertchicago', '8033973688', '2010-01-21 17:16:35', '2010-01-21 09:34:42'),
(6502, '8036194738', 'it seems so cliche to complain abt my ex. I want to put a whole new face on ex relations & co-parenting, but the frustration is still there.', '', '', '2010-01-21 18:14:55', '2010-01-21 10:38:38'),
(6503, '8037753384', '@WeParent true--I need to locate the real issue, which usually has little or nothing to do w schedules.', '', '', '2010-01-21 19:04:31', '2010-01-21 11:15:47'),
(6504, '8037719591', '@joanpball I feel like I''m personally ready for the frustration to be over, but he has this way of taking his problems out on me.', '', '', '2010-01-21 19:03:26', '2010-01-21 11:15:47'),
(6505, '8038742537', '@realsarah I know! our friend B is amazing w kids, but some parents don''t want her to teach SS. they''d rather have someone less qualified.', 'realsarah', '8038637503', '2010-01-21 19:36:22', '2010-01-21 11:46:00'),
(6506, '8038544551', 'I just took the leftover white beans J made w bacon, carrots & spinach, & turned them into a super tasty soup. just what I needed. (thx J!)', '', '', '2010-01-21 19:30:02', '2010-01-21 11:46:00'),
(6507, '8038461066', '@joanpball sounds like you know us! or maybe our issues aren''t unique. sigh. you''re right, yet my instinct is to fire off angry emails. :(', 'joanpball', '8037874863', '2010-01-21 19:27:19', '2010-01-21 11:46:00'),
(6508, '8040185412', '@realsarah @grammercie @dtatusko @jonfogle @realsarah I know! Most of those people have left my church but my friend still isn''t teaching SS', '', '', '2010-01-21 20:23:37', '2010-01-21 12:46:54'),
(6509, '8040101922', '@grammercie @dtatusko @jonfogle @realsarah knowing leads to loving/respecting, which destroys stereotypes & results in broad acceptance.', '', '', '2010-01-21 20:20:58', '2010-01-21 12:46:54'),
(6510, '8040024263', '@grammercie @dtatusko @jonfogle @realsarah I think people are afraid their kids will learn to love & respect a lgbt person. it''s that simple', '', '', '2010-01-21 20:18:30', '2010-01-21 12:46:54'),
(6511, '8042923682', '@jenmasc hey—I thought you had sunshine! stop your complaining! :)', 'jenmasc', '8042841817', '2010-01-21 21:49:45', '2010-01-21 13:51:27'),
(6512, '8042894114', '@jbonewald ok. when it''s framed in a context of honesty it makes a lot of sense & seems important.', 'jbonewald', '8042805008', '2010-01-21 21:48:48', '2010-01-21 13:51:27'),
(6513, '8042831717', '@dtatusko exactly—well put. but not all heterosexuals actually start with that disgust. (I opened your post. more work, then I''ll read it.)', 'dtatusko', '8042727345', '2010-01-21 21:46:49', '2010-01-21 13:51:27'),
(6514, '8042682227', '@jbonewald that sounds offensive, but maybe he was one of those funny guys?', 'jbonewald', '8042445796', '2010-01-21 21:42:12', '2010-01-21 13:51:27'),
(6515, '8042652597', '@dtatusko yeah, I would be cynical, too. but sometimes the more disguised & denied a prejudice is, the more insidious it is.', 'dtatusko', '8042511117', '2010-01-21 21:41:15', '2010-01-21 13:51:27'),
(6516, '8042455654', '@dtatusko interesting. your more cynical view is probably dead on for most churches, but it doesn''t really fit my church/personal experience', 'dtatusko', '8042344176', '2010-01-21 21:35:07', '2010-01-21 13:51:27'),
(6517, '8046052301', 'This evening''s walk w the dog: less icy/treacherous, more wet/miserable.', '', '', '2010-01-21 23:23:13', '2010-01-21 15:27:18'),
(6518, '8046982872', 'SO wrong: 2/3 of people in US jails are non-violent offenders who are there only bc they can''t get $$ to post bail. (via a NPR story)', '', '', '2010-01-21 23:50:55', '2010-01-21 15:59:40'),
(6519, '8053378975', '@norcross we''re paying to hold them until trial. If someone can find $750 they go home until trial (& the bondsmen profit).', '', '', '2010-01-22 02:49:40', '2010-01-21 19:07:51'),
(6520, '8053287894', '@norcross they''re innocent until proven guilty--they haven''t gone to trial yet. Someone picked up for the same thing but w $$ goes home.', '', '', '2010-01-22 02:47:10', '2010-01-21 19:07:51'),
(6521, '8058342981', 'I expect people to do inexplicable things, but when too many people do inexplicable things all in one day, I can''t deal.', '', '', '2010-01-22 05:14:28', '2010-01-21 21:16:24'),
(6522, '8058557266', '@norcross maybe it''s best if you just check this out NPR: Bail Burden Keeps U.S. Jails Stuffed With Inmates-More at http://npr.org/122725771', '', '', '2010-01-22 05:22:27', '2010-01-21 21:48:45'),
(6523, '8058395219', 'Another thing: most people don''t give a shit about issues that don''t affect them personally. I''m having a hard time coming to terms w that.', '', '', '2010-01-22 05:16:25', '2010-01-21 21:48:45'),
(6524, '8070536477', '@norcross if you listen to the entire story, 2/3 of all people in US jails are there only bc they don''t have cash for bail.', '', '', '2010-01-22 14:16:01', '2010-01-22 06:20:56'),
(6525, '8070483656', '@mkettleson do you know when people do hurtful things & you can''t tell if they''re just being clueless/thoughtless or measured/manipulative?', '', '', '2010-01-22 14:14:26', '2010-01-22 06:20:56'),
(6526, '8071374709', '@marriagestudio @kathleenquiring I love it! I''m off to follow her right now.', '', '', '2010-01-22 14:40:56', '2010-01-22 06:51:00'),
(6527, '8071340008', '@norcross there is always a solution that doesn''t discriminate. people just have to care enough to problem solve, put better plans in place.', '', '', '2010-01-22 14:39:57', '2010-01-22 06:51:00'),
(6528, '8072386070', 'sorry @norcross, but I''m repectfully bowing out of this debate.', '', '', '2010-01-22 15:09:57', '2010-01-22 07:21:59'),
(6529, '8072348748', 'debates are fun, but there comes a moment when you realize their world view is so wildly different from yours it''s a waste of time.', '', '', '2010-01-22 15:08:54', '2010-01-22 07:21:59'),
(6530, '8072261118', '@norcross they haven''t had a trial. & other people who "broke the law" in exactly the same way but manage to find enough $ are treated diff', '', '', '2010-01-22 15:06:26', '2010-01-22 07:21:59'),
(6531, '8072184328', '@norcross yet other people who broke the law in exactly the same way are getting', '', '', '2010-01-22 15:04:18', '2010-01-22 07:21:59'),
(6532, '8075865987', '@NoodlesinCHI so sorry—my family just went through that whole process w my much-loved g-ma. will say a prayer for you.', 'NoodlesinCHI', '8075649200', '2010-01-22 16:46:52', '2010-01-22 08:53:41'),
(6533, '8075615235', '@mkettleson yes! I think my main lesson this wk is learning to disengage a bit more, whether w my ex husb, a friend, or someone on twitter.', 'mkettleson', '8075421971', '2010-01-22 16:39:45', '2010-01-22 08:53:41'),
(6534, '8080123824', 'this week in the school of life: learning to disengage. http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=558', '', '', '2010-01-22 18:51:49', '2010-01-22 10:54:57'),
(6535, '8081370005', '@bill_of_lading @heathra what ARE you two talking about?', 'bill_of_lading', '8080953195', '2010-01-22 19:30:28', '2010-01-22 11:55:17'),
(6536, '8081290780', '@mkettleson our little conversation inspired me! I wrote today''s blog post on learning to disengage. :)', 'mkettleson', '8075769575', '2010-01-22 19:28:01', '2010-01-22 11:55:17'),
(6537, '8082565670', 'eating up all the bits of leftovers in the fridge is a tough job, but somebody''s got to do it.', '', '', '2010-01-22 20:09:06', '2010-01-22 12:25:21'),
(6538, '8084066996', '@grammercie I know! I have a hard time feeling sorry for the person who''s wearing a t-shirt & complaining how cold they are. #imlikemydad', 'grammercie', '8083976381', '2010-01-22 20:57:15', '2010-01-22 12:57:59'),
(6539, '8085125609', '@grammercie right. my poor in-laws wore hats to bed one time when they were visiting us. hard core.', '', '', '2010-01-22 21:29:51', '2010-01-22 13:30:42'),
(6540, '8088776036', 'Sitting on the sofa knitting & looking at the new Scholastic book fliers w the girls. they *still* give me that giddy-new-book excitement.', '', '', '2010-01-22 23:22:15', '2010-01-22 15:35:33'),
(6541, '8096226895', 'exciting Fri evening at home catching up on blog comment responses. oh, & the house is full of extra girls for a sleepover. so far so good.', '', '', '2010-01-23 02:56:46', '2010-01-22 19:09:29'),
(6542, '8098351325', 'the sleepover girls are demanding popcorn. this is when I wish I wasn''t such a popcorn snob & we did the microwave kind.', '', '', '2010-01-23 04:00:32', '2010-01-22 20:09:38'),
(6543, '8098152738', '@hartvan fun! I hope tomorrow night is a great success and that many new fans find you.', 'hartvan', '8097601707', '2010-01-23 03:54:16', '2010-01-22 20:09:38'),
(6544, '8115779707', 'survived the sleepover. since I was making popcorn for the girls last night, J & I decided to eat some too. and watch a movie, as required.', '', '', '2010-01-23 16:35:33', '2010-01-23 08:38:14'),
(6545, '8115690678', '@OraiaSpeaks love it.', '', '', '2010-01-23 16:32:41', '2010-01-23 08:38:14'),
(6546, '8115631460', '@sheepterror so many tiny blessings, indeed. I love how you put that.', '', '', '2010-01-23 16:30:48', '2010-01-23 08:38:14'),
(6547, '8115499458', '@dtatusko yep, oil in a pan on the stove, butter melting on another burner. so you swear by Orville''s?', '', '', '2010-01-23 16:26:33', '2010-01-23 08:38:14'),
(6548, '8115457239', '@hartvan let us know when it''s done!', '', '', '2010-01-23 16:25:10', '2010-01-23 08:38:14'),
(6549, '8115444259', '@grammercie really? I had no idea!', '', '', '2010-01-23 16:24:46', '2010-01-23 08:38:14'),
(6550, '8116197992', '@suzigurl you should see it! unless you like things like action and plot. #lostintranslation', '', '', '2010-01-23 16:49:13', '2010-01-23 09:14:33'),
(6551, '8116146145', '@RebeccaFH me too! I''m about 2 hrs west of you, and I''m dying for some sunshine here.', '', '', '2010-01-23 16:47:31', '2010-01-23 09:14:33'),
(6552, '8116104323', 'so has anyone figured out the balance? knowing when to engage & when to walk away. http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=558', '', '', '2010-01-23 16:46:10', '2010-01-23 09:14:33'),
(6553, '8115905094', 'we watched Lost in Translation, which I hadn''t seen since it came out. now I remember what I loved: so many visuals & facial expressions.', '', '', '2010-01-23 16:39:41', '2010-01-23 09:14:33'),
(6554, '8121260370', 'out of the house: play rehearsal for S, haircut for Q, and H is doing homework at panera w a friend. now the taxi drivers need a treat.', '', '', '2010-01-23 19:36:35', '2010-01-23 11:51:32'),
(6555, '8123352106', '@yodraws ha! clearly that''s the best kind of woman.', '', '', '2010-01-23 20:49:37', '2010-01-23 12:51:44'),
(6556, '8129877681', 'Leaving the girls w pizza & a movie. they can''t wait for us to get out the door to give them their space. "WHEN are you going to leave?!?"', '', '', '2010-01-24 00:34:52', '2010-01-23 17:00:51'),
(6557, '8129825566', 'Going to a dinner party w "miracle fruit" dessert. should be interesting. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/dining/28flavor.html?_r=1', '', '', '2010-01-24 00:33:10', '2010-01-23 17:00:51'),
(6558, '8132454634', '@dtatusko yet another love we share. #netipot', '', '', '2010-01-24 01:57:48', '2010-01-23 18:05:34'),
(6559, '8132435112', 'So has anyone out there experienced miracle fruit before? I''m so curious. I''ll report soon.', '', '', '2010-01-24 01:57:11', '2010-01-23 18:05:34'),
(6560, '8134245126', 'the miracle fruit is on my tongue at this very moment. will it work? http://tweetphoto.com/9433428', '', '', '2010-01-24 02:52:23', '2010-01-23 19:06:05');
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(6561, '8135087398', 'also tobasco, salt & vinegar chips, sips of balsamic, wasabi peas--all become dessert after you''ve coated your tastebuds w miracle fruit.', '', '', '2010-01-24 03:17:37', '2010-01-23 19:37:21'),
(6562, '8134991124', 'Wow. miracle fruit is a miracle. we''re standing around a table eating limes, tomatillo wedges, fresh cranberries & it all tastes like sugar!', '', '', '2010-01-24 03:14:47', '2010-01-23 19:37:21'),
(6563, '8137464410', 'now playing Rock Band, which is not necessarily sweeter after miracle fruit.', '', '', '2010-01-24 04:31:36', '2010-01-23 20:38:46'),
(6564, '8137411021', '@maddiemarie here''s an article about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/dining/28flavor.html?_r=1', '', '', '2010-01-24 04:30:01', '2010-01-23 20:38:46'),
(6565, '8152651671', '@lje2me it''s not too late, you know. :)', '', '', '2010-01-24 15:30:14', '2010-01-24 07:38:31'),
(6566, '8152632336', '@MoJoJules good for you for being out of touch in that way! (I am too.)', '', '', '2010-01-24 15:29:36', '2010-01-24 07:38:31'),
(6567, '8152555518', 'a thunderstorm last night & now something resembling sunshine this morning?!? what will January think of next?', '', '', '2010-01-24 15:26:51', '2010-01-24 07:38:31'),
(6568, '8153245432', 'the snow is all gone except for the walls of a huge fort next store. It looks like an alien crop circle.', '', '', '2010-01-24 15:51:05', '2010-01-24 08:09:51'),
(6569, '8154540870', 'to church! we''ll only be 10 min late. :\\', '', '', '2010-01-24 16:35:57', '2010-01-24 08:40:13'),
(6570, '8194474587', 'J & I have been married almost 3 yrs, but I still feel all bereft when he goes out of town for a few days. thought I''d be over that by now.', '', '', '2010-01-25 15:00:23', '2010-01-25 07:16:14'),
(6571, '8196380425', '@bralts wow—so exciting! you are going to be affected in so many amazing ways.', 'bralts', '8196231520', '2010-01-25 15:54:24', '2010-01-25 08:17:58'),
(6572, '8196164903', '@SeanPlatt aww! have a great day!', 'SeanPlatt', '8195657644', '2010-01-25 15:48:14', '2010-01-25 08:17:58'),
(6573, '8198210446', 'writing a blog post about my mind-blowing experience with miracle fruit over the weekend. (yes, there''s a metaphor waiting in the wings.)', '', '', '2010-01-25 16:46:40', '2010-01-25 08:48:27'),
(6574, '8199286415', '@ChristiBowman @HeySonnie yes kids make it different, for better & worse! I can honestly say I miss his company, tho, not help :) #extrovert', '', '', '2010-01-25 17:17:12', '2010-01-25 09:18:42'),
(6575, '8200084691', '@LisGarrett maybe you can gift me some of your reading time. I have 4 new books and can''t seem to find time to spend w them!', 'LisGarrett', '8200003009', '2010-01-25 17:40:27', '2010-01-25 09:49:42'),
(6576, '8199460160', 'when life gives you lemons get miracle fruit! a tale about being open to what you least expect. http://tinyurl.com/y996rb2', '', '', '2010-01-25 17:22:14', '2010-01-25 09:49:42'),
(6577, '8200504592', '@ChristiBowman that''s a good sign! :) I definitely need to escape from my kids at times, but I get to work from home when they''re at school.', 'ChristiBowman', '8200115891', '2010-01-25 17:53:00', '2010-01-25 10:21:15'),
(6578, '8200406470', '@LisGarrett we don''t even have television! we do get dvds from Netflix, though, & blogging, knitting & socializing take up most evenings.', 'LisGarrett', '8200134196', '2010-01-25 17:50:06', '2010-01-25 10:21:15'),
(6579, '8205751966', 'learning about food chains and decomposers and other things I don''t remember learning when I was a kid. what did we do in elementary school?', '', '', '2010-01-25 20:32:07', '2010-01-25 12:56:10'),
(6580, '8209934012', '@Lesley3fold thanks! it was a lot of fun.', '', '', '2010-01-25 22:34:16', '2010-01-25 14:58:11'),
(6581, '8209914300', '@Momologist so true! I think learning about food chains would have taught us much more about life.', '', '', '2010-01-25 22:33:45', '2010-01-25 14:58:11'),
(6582, '8209876315', '@dtatusko oh, right. we learned all those things we hardly ever use any more.', '', '', '2010-01-25 22:32:42', '2010-01-25 14:58:11'),
(6583, '8219047244', 'Love having friends who understand my need for adult conversation & invite the kids & I over for dinner when J''s out of town.', '', '', '2010-01-26 02:57:35', '2010-01-25 19:03:28'),
(6584, '8220808350', '@rk_p @conniejoh2o @dtatusko ...but it makes it more difficult to draw the right people & leadership. the no denom thing confuses people.', '', '', '2010-01-26 03:44:35', '2010-01-25 20:07:02'),
(6585, '8220760897', '@rk_p @conniejoh2o @dtatusko I''m a part of a "multi-denominational" fellowship, w Mennonite ties. perfect for many (cont)', '', '', '2010-01-26 03:43:17', '2010-01-25 20:07:02'),
(6586, '8222563611', '@dtatusko I agree—I have a generally icky sense about churches that call themselves non-denom, but the multi-denom seems very diff to me.', 'dtatusko', '8222508336', '2010-01-26 04:34:46', '2010-01-25 20:40:16'),
(6587, '8222419324', '@dtatusko do you mean they think of non-denom in a certain way, and make assumptions about it?', 'dtatusko', '8222312711', '2010-01-26 04:30:24', '2010-01-25 20:40:16'),
(6588, '8221902123', '@conniejoh2o the best churches are usually somewhat complicated, it seems. here are the FAQs: http://thebridge-cu.com/?page_id=72', 'conniejoh2o', '8221130846', '2010-01-26 04:15:08', '2010-01-25 20:40:16'),
(6589, '8221821935', '@conniejoh2o it started meeting in people''s living rooms abt 30 yrs ago, not surprisingly. :) (btw, I grew up in a UMC!)', 'conniejoh2o', '8221130846', '2010-01-26 04:12:48', '2010-01-25 20:40:16'),
(6590, '8221689042', '@mkettleson thanks so much for commenting on my post today (and for engaging me in the first place, here on twitter. :)', '', '', '2010-01-26 04:09:02', '2010-01-25 20:40:16'),
(6591, '8223051486', '@dtatusko I''m drawn to the lack of definition, incongruencies & twists. unfortunately those characteristics are both the solution & problem.', 'dtatusko', '8222647593', '2010-01-26 04:50:03', '2010-01-25 21:10:43'),
(6592, '8222911546', '@dtatusko yeah, there were some very emergent types back in the 70s, too, I hear. :)', 'dtatusko', '8222647593', '2010-01-26 04:45:34', '2010-01-25 21:10:43'),
(6593, '8224366639', '@heathra he watched Sleeping Beauty one too many times. or was that Beauty and the Beast? wait—do both movies have symbolic roses?', 'heathra', '8224287827', '2010-01-26 05:33:35', '2010-01-25 21:41:00'),
(6594, '8224329088', 'I know—15 yrs ago I probably wouldn''t have had ANY communication w my spouse on a busy travel day. now I''m sad abt the dying iPhone.', '', '', '2010-01-26 05:32:16', '2010-01-25 21:41:00'),
(6595, '8224241727', 'managed to chat w J for a few minutes before his phone died—he''s on the road from SF to Monterey w/out a phone charger. :(', '', '', '2010-01-26 05:29:19', '2010-01-25 21:41:00'),
(6596, '8225422284', '@heathra I''m sure the beast felt the urge to burn a pile of roses, too.', '', '', '2010-01-26 06:13:22', '2010-01-25 22:15:50'),
(6597, '8225398261', '@heathra the beast has a rose encased in glass--to break the spell he  has to give and receive true love before the last petal falls.', '', '', '2010-01-26 06:12:23', '2010-01-25 22:15:50'),
(6598, '8237527427', 'S: "when I''m trying to fall asleep & I want to think abt nothing, I try to think abt angels. or I say ''wall'' over & over & picture a wall."', '', '', '2010-01-26 14:48:32', '2010-01-26 06:48:51'),
(6599, '8237427463', 'I needed this perspective shift. RT @kathleenquiring RT @ThisIsSethsBlog Seth''s Blog: Why write a book? http://bit.ly/4yrhzQ', '', '', '2010-01-26 14:45:40', '2010-01-26 06:48:51'),
(6600, '8237077910', '@HeySonnie so sorry to hear that—wish we could all put together a care package for you!', 'HeySonnie', '8236830909', '2010-01-26 14:35:35', '2010-01-26 06:48:51'),
(6601, '8237032058', '@MoJoJules and AMEN to that! (extra hugs to you today)', 'MoJoJules', '8236784277', '2010-01-26 14:34:16', '2010-01-26 06:48:51'),
(6602, '8236994279', '@MoJoJules you glare, girl!', 'MoJoJules', '8236125190', '2010-01-26 14:33:11', '2010-01-26 06:48:51'),
(6603, '8237833669', 'my experience with miracle fruit altered my mind even more than my taste buds. http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=559', '', '', '2010-01-26 14:57:18', '2010-01-26 07:19:17'),
(6604, '8237749556', '@mrschicken uh oh. get thee to a cafe!', 'mrschicken', '8237587681', '2010-01-26 14:54:53', '2010-01-26 07:19:18'),
(6605, '8237714627', '@lizdyer she is 9, so you never know what she''ll come up with! I''ll suggest that she trying saying "Jesus." :)', 'lizdyer', '8237662912', '2010-01-26 14:53:54', '2010-01-26 07:19:18'),
(6606, '8237679750', '@MoJoJules although I couldn''t help it—inside I was standing up for you, but on the outside @rk_p & @BrianMerritt were making me giggle.', 'MoJoJules', '8237151442', '2010-01-26 14:52:55', '2010-01-26 07:19:18'),
(6607, '8238670127', '@BrianMerritt love it. now I''m going to have to listen to some Keith Green at the gym. I''m pretty sure he had the Shekinah Glory in him too.', 'BrianMerritt', '8238457209', '2010-01-26 15:20:27', '2010-01-26 07:50:20'),
(6608, '8241581177', '@rk_p @brianmerritt I love that he had God tell Noah "I''m the Weatherman!"', '', '', '2010-01-26 16:40:35', '2010-01-26 08:53:26'),
(6609, '8245701253', 'the hospital is still billing me for my daughter''s broken arm incident in Aug. what is UP insurance co? I really don''t have time for this.', '', '', '2010-01-26 18:41:05', '2010-01-26 11:06:39'),
(6610, '8248141543', '@lje2me he is golden! especially for a white male. :)', 'lje2me', '8248078360', '2010-01-26 19:55:32', '2010-01-26 12:10:49'),
(6611, '8248115099', 'at Cafe Kopi—they''re playing Iron & Wine. you know what makes me happy? seeing people caught up in deep conversation w friends.', '', '', '2010-01-26 19:54:44', '2010-01-26 12:10:49'),
(6612, '8247991855', '@ericcanaday it''s so good to see you again!', 'ericcanaday', '8247467864', '2010-01-26 19:50:54', '2010-01-26 12:10:49'),
(6613, '8249639984', '@StefanAndre it makes me realize how rare those real, face-to-face conversations are becoming. everyone''s so wrapped up in their world/media', 'StefanAndre', '8248170381', '2010-01-26 20:41:25', '2010-01-26 12:42:47'),
(6614, '8250839739', 'Q''s fave sneakers: Converse. her fave animal (since toddlerhood): pandas. would you believe they make Converse w pandas? (Q''s b-day is Sun)', '', '', '2010-01-26 21:17:05', '2010-01-26 13:18:16'),
(6615, '8250984702', '@10MinuteWriter I like "whack-happy" too, but in a different way. :)', '10MinuteWriter', '8250928785', '2010-01-26 21:21:21', '2010-01-26 13:48:33'),
(6616, '8250940350', '@PaulVanderKlay hey! it seems like I haven''t seen you in a long time! (or is it me?)', 'PaulVanderKlay', '8250542198', '2010-01-26 21:20:04', '2010-01-26 13:48:33'),
(6617, '8250889885', '@10MinuteWriter sorry about the crabby kids, but I''m just happy someone used the word "pugnacious." :)', '10MinuteWriter', '8250751347', '2010-01-26 21:18:35', '2010-01-26 13:48:33'),
(6618, '8257993975', 'took the girls out for Mexican food, now I''m the parent volunteer at a high-energy Aristocats rehearsal.', '', '', '2010-01-27 00:40:49', '2010-01-26 16:49:22'),
(6619, '8258522958', '@mkettleson so true! do you and I struggle with ALL the same issues? :)', '', '', '2010-01-27 00:55:54', '2010-01-26 17:20:13'),
(6620, '8263277386', 'whew, kids are in bed. now for a drink & part 2 of my dinner. (the single parenting act, revisited for a few days.)', '', '', '2010-01-27 03:05:48', '2010-01-26 19:23:00'),
(6621, '8266120659', '@devivo oh, so people might be inadvertently inviting me? that makes sense. I''ve heard of people accidentally setting that process in motion', 'devivo', '8265991008', '2010-01-27 04:24:15', '2010-01-26 20:24:51'),
(6622, '8265998608', '@dtatusko I def do what feels right, but I get annoyed when lots of people I''ve never interacted w in any way try to add me as connections.', 'dtatusko', '8265626792', '2010-01-27 04:20:37', '2010-01-26 20:24:51'),
(6623, '8265941403', '@shadow they''re definitely still "real." I just took the Linked In "rules" so literally, because I wanted to think the system could work.', 'shadow', '8265672737', '2010-01-27 04:19:01', '2010-01-26 20:24:51'),
(6624, '8265470543', '@lizstrauss congrats! you deserve it, for sure.', 'lizstrauss', '8265257403', '2010-01-27 04:05:19', '2010-01-26 20:24:51'),
(6625, '8265416043', 'there are definitely people I''ve gotten to know in what I consider a "real way" via social media. but someone I haven''t had an exchange w?', '', '', '2010-01-27 04:03:48', '2010-01-26 20:24:51'),
(6626, '8265350684', 'am I trying to be too virtuous & old-fashioned abt Linked-In? bc I just won''t accept an invitation from someone I don''t know in a real way.', '', '', '2010-01-27 04:02:02', '2010-01-26 20:24:51'),
(6627, '8266756661', '@paulroub are you two daring each other to play various songs, a la Live Karaoke? that would be fun. :)', 'paulroub', '8266704775', '2010-01-27 04:43:57', '2010-01-26 20:55:44'),
(6628, '8266725685', '@bralts ever?!? wow. can''t imagine all that''s going through your head. best to you.', 'bralts', '8266686508', '2010-01-27 04:42:58', '2010-01-26 20:55:44'),
(6629, '8266570281', '@expatminister @dtatusko my blog and twitter feed are SO open to all that I feel the need to keep FB more "safe" & personal.', 'expatminister', '8266475527', '2010-01-27 04:38:05', '2010-01-26 20:55:44'),
(6630, '8266537772', '@expatminister @dtatusko makes sense. I guess having a personal "policy" abt these things is what matters.', 'expatminister', '8266475527', '2010-01-27 04:37:02', '2010-01-26 20:55:44'),
(6631, '8266259146', '@jen_rose yes! a note would be nice. without the note, it doesn''t feel like they want to actually connect, they''re just adding numbers. ugh.', 'jen_rose', '8265905306', '2010-01-27 04:28:28', '2010-01-26 20:55:44'),
(6632, '8266220607', 'I need to be less easily annoyed, less critical. I need to assume the best of people—realize their circumstances are unknown & offer grace.', '', '', '2010-01-27 04:27:17', '2010-01-26 20:55:44'),
(6633, '8266155358', '@devivo yeah, a friend actually told me he did that without intending to, so when I signed up I was extra aware of what I was doing.', 'devivo', '8266087329', '2010-01-27 04:25:19', '2010-01-26 20:55:44'),
(6634, '8268730331', '@revjulie great post. and I have to ask--are you a born & raised Dutch GR girl? I''m a Calvin grad. :)', '', '', '2010-01-27 05:53:21', '2010-01-26 21:58:22'),
(6635, '8268606616', '@paulroub that''s such a great Ryan Adams song. haven''t thought about it for a while.', '', '', '2010-01-27 05:48:30', '2010-01-26 21:58:22'),
(6636, '8268575303', '@bookhouseboy me too! I don''t really have co-workers, so I have to live vicariously through @heathra and episodes of The Office.', '', '', '2010-01-27 05:47:20', '2010-01-26 21:58:22'),
(6637, '8270150709', '@bloggerdad SO true.', 'bloggerdad', '8269323131', '2010-01-27 06:53:25', '2010-01-26 23:00:55'),
(6638, '8281341466', 'once again, the universe is getting bossy with me about what I should blog about next. fine already!', '', '', '2010-01-27 14:44:01', '2010-01-27 06:50:22'),
(6639, '8281241569', 'I surprised the girls with French toast—on a school day! can I call that my big accomplishment & take the rest of the day off?', '', '', '2010-01-27 14:41:10', '2010-01-27 06:50:23'),
(6640, '8280801334', '@revjulie so funny. I survived Calvin as a brunette Methodist. :) (also, my 1st job out of college was as editor of the Cadence newspaper.)', 'revjulie', '8278145156', '2010-01-27 14:28:50', '2010-01-27 06:50:23'),
(6641, '8280734388', '@brechin @devivo but I was more than happy to connect with you--I actually KNOW you! (some people I''ve never heard of before.)', '', '', '2010-01-27 14:26:56', '2010-01-27 06:50:23'),
(6642, '8281572512', 'bracing myself: S''s best friend moves away on Friday. let''s rip this bandaid off and get it over with.', '', '', '2010-01-27 14:50:38', '2010-01-27 07:21:26'),
(6643, '8284537780', 'this am I dreamed abt a wallet I kept losing (panic!) finding (relief!) then losing again. do those anxiety dreams have their own category?', '', '', '2010-01-27 16:16:49', '2010-01-27 08:22:23'),
(6644, '8284223885', 'I''m annoyed at myself for getting annoyed w others. clearly I need a Holy Spirit chill pill. http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=560', '', '', '2010-01-27 16:07:15', '2010-01-27 08:22:23'),
(6645, '8285611713', '@10MinuteWriter I don''t know. it seems to be a fairly regulated drug. or maybe it''s just time-release. :)', '10MinuteWriter', '8284450523', '2010-01-27 16:49:48', '2010-01-27 08:54:12'),
(6646, '8287305594', '@MoJoJules that made me tear up. I love hearing about hard hearts that begin to melt.', 'MoJoJules', '8286658482', '2010-01-27 17:44:40', '2010-01-27 09:55:12'),
(6647, '8287200890', '@10MinuteWriter me too! I often worry abt the example I am to my kids. it''s good incentive to chill out (& they can learn from my mess too).', '10MinuteWriter', '8285950368', '2010-01-27 17:41:09', '2010-01-27 09:55:12'),
(6648, '8289574053', '@HeySonnie I know! I guess they''ve reached that ultra cool status, where you no longer have to even care what people think.', 'HeySonnie', '8289479414', '2010-01-27 18:54:57', '2010-01-27 10:57:16'),
(6649, '8289535893', '@marksandlin but they''re so freaking cool they don''t care? aside from the unfortunate aspect of the word "pad," it''s way too close to pod.', 'marksandlin', '8289285019', '2010-01-27 18:53:49', '2010-01-27 10:57:16'),
(6650, '8289369088', '@MoJoJules that''s what I always do, too. J usually gets first generation of things at work, so I get to see it & play but not invest. :)', 'MoJoJules', '8289189340', '2010-01-27 18:48:42', '2010-01-27 10:57:16'),
(6651, '8289242481', '@jdmcleodjr I don''t think God intended for it to apply to apple *products,* just to that original tempting apple.', 'jdmcleodjr', '8288709967', '2010-01-27 18:44:55', '2010-01-27 10:57:16'),
(6652, '8289087888', 'RT @freshgreenbeans iPad? Seriously? Clearly a man named this. Sounds like a techie feminine napkin. #NAMEFAILURE', '', '', '2010-01-27 18:40:15', '2010-01-27 10:57:16'),
(6653, '8290290952', 'OK, I''m done complaining about the name. now I just want to get my hands on an iPad.', '', '', '2010-01-27 19:15:18', '2010-01-27 11:27:22'),
(6654, '8290249365', '@thinkxd @kevinjbowman true. but how long can they keep this pattern up before it gets really ridiculous? (don''t get me wrong—I want one!!)', 'thinkxd', '8290127291', '2010-01-27 19:14:11', '2010-01-27 11:27:22'),
(6655, '8290075801', 'even if u don''t have a general issue w the word "pad," it''s way too close to "pod." it''s like naming yr kids Rob & Bob & expecting clarity.', '', '', '2010-01-27 19:09:22', '2010-01-27 11:27:22'),
(6656, '8289992299', '@suzigurl no! remember? I took a holy spirit chill pill. it''s even a time-release caplet. you should try one. :)', 'suzigurl', '8289825839', '2010-01-27 19:06:59', '2010-01-27 11:27:22'),
(6657, '8289847915', '@dtatusko yeah, it''s almost too easy. which might in the end make it more challenging for SNL to do something original & unexpected with.', 'dtatusko', '8289517503', '2010-01-27 19:02:43', '2010-01-27 11:27:22'),
(6658, '8289757507', '@marksandlin I always envied those way-too-cool-to-care kids in high school.', 'marksandlin', '8289632578', '2010-01-27 19:00:12', '2010-01-27 11:27:22'),
(6659, '8293453947', '@espengeman you need some of the Holy Spirit chill pill I blogged about today. :) I got the time-release variety.', 'espengeman', '8292671092', '2010-01-27 20:40:09', '2010-01-27 13:05:09'),
(6660, '8306261439', 'Absolutely: great education is  one of the best anti-poverty programs. #sotu2010', '', '', '2010-01-28 02:49:06', '2010-01-27 18:51:49'),
(6661, '8307481182', '"let''s seize this moment to start anew." that''s what''s key--not just being resilient, but being open to something new. #sotu', '', '', '2010-01-28 03:25:38', '2010-01-27 19:25:43'),
(6662, '8307170913', 'YES! Enough of this "don''t ask don''t tell bullshit." (apparently the military big wigs aren''t as excited about it, though)', '', '', '2010-01-28 03:16:16', '2010-01-27 19:25:43'),
(6663, '8307084354', '@suzigurl the grins up there have been precious, it''s true. (And I think all 3 of them just got their teeth whitened.)', 'suzigurl', '8306966754', '2010-01-28 03:13:45', '2010-01-27 19:25:43'),
(6664, '8306925095', '@daisy17 @McMer314 and some of them might not even be capable of showing emotion, after so many years of squelching it.', '', '', '2010-01-28 03:08:44', '2010-01-27 19:25:43'),
(6665, '8308162337', '@grammercie hilarious (and SO true).', '', '', '2010-01-28 03:47:25', '2010-01-27 19:56:20'),
(6666, '8307972684', '@thewordcellar laughing out loud over that RT. SO dead-on accurate.', 'thewordcellar', '8307796009', '2010-01-28 03:41:31', '2010-01-27 19:56:20'),
(6667, '8307845216', '@TommyGSync too funny. I was thinking along those lines, too.', '', '', '2010-01-28 03:37:26', '2010-01-27 19:56:20'),
(6668, '8307739959', '@daisy17 I KNOW! I was speechless. I kept thinking "he didn''t really just say that." but yes, yes he did.', 'daisy17', '8307567497', '2010-01-28 03:34:03', '2010-01-27 19:56:20'),
(6669, '8307529866', '@marksandlin me too! once he hit his stride, it was just right.', 'marksandlin', '8307409903', '2010-01-28 03:27:13', '2010-01-27 19:56:20'),
(6670, '8326857659', '@youravgpastor so funny. (at least the way you put it is funny. that it happened is not funny.)', 'youravgpastor', '8326372121', '2010-01-28 15:38:14', '2010-01-28 07:54:33'),
(6671, '8326686025', '@Michigania ultimately I don''t care what it''s called—I want one! but naming is something I help clients w, so I tend to be more interested.', 'Michigania', '8323907805', '2010-01-28 15:33:37', '2010-01-28 07:54:33'),
(6672, '8326397639', 'No question about it--that''s real sunshine out there. it''s been faking it for a few moments the last few days, but this is the real stuff.', '', '', '2010-01-28 15:25:53', '2010-01-28 07:54:33'),
(6673, '8328577897', '@grammercie amen to that! thanks for calling that one out.', 'grammercie', '8328448460', '2010-01-28 16:25:06', '2010-01-28 08:26:06'),
(6674, '8327522316', 'the pup seems even more amazed by the sun than I am. she had probably completely forgotten such a thing existed. (now she''s soaking it up.)', '', '', '2010-01-28 15:56:17', '2010-01-28 08:26:06'),
(6675, '8329736769', '@ChristiBowman wait! I met you on Twitter! I was drawn to you, and now I want to meet you in person! :)', 'ChristiBowman', '8329649488', '2010-01-28 16:57:01', '2010-01-28 08:57:14'),
(6676, '8329428468', '@pastordan I get the feeling that a lot of people are just learning about him now, which is a good but sad thing.', 'pastordan', '8329345579', '2010-01-28 16:48:26', '2010-01-28 08:57:14'),
(6677, '8329323785', 'someone is looking seriously at the house for sale next door. she looks like potential new bff material for me. :) does she have daughters?', '', '', '2010-01-28 16:45:28', '2010-01-28 08:57:14'),
(6678, '8328976659', '@swonderlin unbelievable, isn''t it? nothing should surprise me, and yet, it does.', 'swonderlin', '8328893239', '2010-01-28 16:35:50', '2010-01-28 08:57:14'),
(6679, '8328944585', 'want to learn more abt social justice issues? or happiness? or discuss some films? Wed evenings at my church: http://tinyurl.com/yd34273 #CU', '', '', '2010-01-28 16:34:59', '2010-01-28 08:57:14'),
(6680, '8331144053', 'I''ve had it with how critical and easily annoyed I am. http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=560', '', '', '2010-01-28 17:36:21', '2010-01-28 09:59:37'),
(6681, '8331080150', '@ChristiBowman so true! I completely hear you. :)', 'ChristiBowman', '8330100653', '2010-01-28 17:34:35', '2010-01-28 09:59:37'),
(6682, '8332080417', '@lizdyer I feel the same way. trying to take deep breaths.', 'lizdyer', '8331781595', '2010-01-28 18:03:08', '2010-01-28 10:30:37'),
(6683, '8334235400', '@Michigania I wouldn''t call it small mindedness on the part of consumers either, though. words are powerful in sound & connotation.', 'Michigania', '8333384114', '2010-01-28 19:05:09', '2010-01-28 11:31:35'),
(6684, '8334163648', '@Michigania well, if by gaff you mean oversight or mistake, no. Apple is too smart not to know what they''re doing.', 'Michigania', '8333384114', '2010-01-28 19:03:07', '2010-01-28 11:31:35'),
(6685, '8334107704', 'the day the sun comes out is the day I''m suddenly filled w ideas, plans & energy. hmm...coincidence?', '', '', '2010-01-28 19:01:32', '2010-01-28 11:31:35'),
(6686, '8337168151', 'you know when you''ve felt paralyzed by inaction, then suddenly something shifts and everything seems possible & manageable? love that.', '', '', '2010-01-28 20:32:16', '2010-01-28 12:34:27'),
(6687, '8348733505', '@Wordydiva yeah, thanks. I know you''re feeling it right about now, too. I actually thought about calling you a couple of hours ago. :)', 'Wordydiva', '8348506983', '2010-01-29 02:02:40', '2010-01-28 18:19:57'),
(6688, '8348452600', 'I''m worried about all 3 of the people I love most in the world, & am helplessly separated from all of them right now. the worst feeling.', '', '', '2010-01-29 01:55:14', '2010-01-28 18:19:57'),
(6689, '8348304609', 'it''s amazing how quickly a day can turn from the best sort of day into the worst, where everything seems to be going wrong.', '', '', '2010-01-29 01:51:09', '2010-01-28 18:19:57'),
(6690, '8351418617', '@GabbyGail aw thanks, but don''t do that. you have a lot to worry and feel sad/mad about already. peace to you and your family.', 'GabbyGail', '8350694620', '2010-01-29 03:14:00', '2010-01-28 19:21:30'),
(6691, '8351358462', '@espengeman yes! yes. I feel it too.', 'espengeman', '8350625348', '2010-01-29 03:12:25', '2010-01-28 19:21:31'),
(6692, '8350562918', '@expatminister just prayers that I can let go and see what God does with all of this. thank you!', 'expatminister', '8348623721', '2010-01-29 02:51:56', '2010-01-28 19:21:31'),
(6693, '8350517382', '@cumomOf2 thank you—I would love that. let me know what works for you. (a drink right now would be even better, though!)', 'cumomOf2', '8350065356', '2010-01-29 02:50:43', '2010-01-28 19:21:31'),
(6694, '8354046675', 'My brother called me in my distress & we talked for an hour. Love that guy.', '', '', '2010-01-29 04:23:42', '2010-01-28 20:53:27'),
(6695, '8355159385', 'I''m eating dinner at 11--a pretty good sign that things went awry this evening. The good news? J has landed in my time zone.', '', '', '2010-01-29 04:56:43', '2010-01-28 21:23:30'),
(6696, '8371068932', '@ChrisThilk sounds terrible. dare I ask which book you''re referencing? or maybe you''d rather not give it any publicity. :)', 'ChrisThilk', '8370012251', '2010-01-29 15:12:15', '2010-01-29 07:24:28'),
(6697, '8371017915', '@kateyberg thanks so much. wish we lived a bit closer and could talk the night away more often. :)', 'kateyberg', '8370346465', '2010-01-29 15:10:54', '2010-01-29 07:24:28'),
(6698, '8370980803', 'yes! RT @ebertchicago Really nice: Sundance 2010 shorts are being streamed at YouTube. The festival expands via the net. http://j.mp/dqFFvg', '', '', '2010-01-29 15:09:57', '2010-01-29 07:24:28'),
(6699, '8372429048', '@JesusNeedsNewPR that gets scary, too. Glad the dawn has come. Hope he''s all better soon.', '', '', '2010-01-29 15:47:39', '2010-01-29 07:55:11'),
(6700, '8371922516', 'I only follow 3 famous people & I highly recommend each of them for being interesting & real: @ebertchicago @jimwallis @nprscottsimon #FF', '', '', '2010-01-29 15:34:32', '2010-01-29 07:55:11'),
(6701, '8376018608', '@angelaharms sometimes when life is really really good it can feel even more scary, if that makes sense. more to lose, I guess.', 'angelaharms', '8375655144', '2010-01-29 17:20:53', '2010-01-29 09:25:40'),
(6702, '8375975955', '@angelaharms too funny. no, I meant that life finally feels right & full, so I end up stressing more abt anything that might get in the way.', 'angelaharms', '8375655144', '2010-01-29 17:19:47', '2010-01-29 09:25:40'),
(6703, '8375603669', '@bill_of_lading it''s almost like Portland in February, or something.', 'bill_of_lading', '8375532876', '2010-01-29 17:09:48', '2010-01-29 09:25:40'),
(6704, '8375588491', 'they have my back: @cumomOf2 @edcyzewski @angelaharms @jenluit @lje2me @suzigurl @MoJoJules @GabbyGail @Wordydiva @McMer314 #FF', '', '', '2010-01-29 17:09:24', '2010-01-29 09:25:40'),
(6705, '8375441931', 'some new-ish friends I''m enjoying getting to know: @espengeman @beckyandhollee @10minutewriter @ChristiBowman #FF', '', '', '2010-01-29 17:05:36', '2010-01-29 09:25:40'),
(6706, '8375367001', '@angelaharms do you think it''s harder when you''ve been through a divorce then finally met the most amazing partner for you? I do.', 'angelaharms', '8366590697', '2010-01-29 17:03:40', '2010-01-29 09:25:40'),
(6707, '8375326958', '@edcyzewski yes SIR! I''m on it! (glad to be part of such a great list.)', 'edcyzewski', '8373653689', '2010-01-29 17:02:36', '2010-01-29 09:25:40'),
(6708, '8375187097', 'as my Q turns 12, I see how she''s prepared me. the best parent training can be kid-to-mom. http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=561', '', '', '2010-01-29 16:59:02', '2010-01-29 09:25:40'),
(6709, '8377266304', '@edcyzewski never apologize for lunch updates--at least not to me!', 'edcyzewski', '8377169724', '2010-01-29 17:54:27', '2010-01-29 09:55:52'),
(6710, '8377266304', '@edcyzewski never apologize for lunch updates--at least not to me!', 'edcyzewski', '8377169724', '2010-01-29 17:54:27', '2010-01-29 09:55:52'),
(6711, '8377042274', '@bill_of_lading oh no! that''s so sad! the neighbor next door toward Mississippi St?', 'bill_of_lading', '8376743991', '2010-01-29 17:48:21', '2010-01-29 09:55:52'),
(6712, '8377042274', '@bill_of_lading oh no! that''s so sad! the neighbor next door toward Mississippi St?', 'bill_of_lading', '8376743991', '2010-01-29 17:48:21', '2010-01-29 09:55:52'),
(6713, '8376975384', 'I have a plum-colored sweater (zipper cardigan hoodie) I want to wear every day, w t-shirt & jeans. J is the only 1 who''d notice, you know.', '', '', '2010-01-29 17:46:33', '2010-01-29 09:55:52'),
(6714, '8376975384', 'I have a plum-colored sweater (zipper cardigan hoodie) I want to wear every day, w t-shirt & jeans. J is the only 1 who''d notice, you know.', '', '', '2010-01-29 17:46:33', '2010-01-29 09:55:52'),
(6715, '8376846918', '@angelaharms yeah, I guess that puts a damper on life feeling so perfect. :(', 'angelaharms', '8376063875', '2010-01-29 17:43:06', '2010-01-29 09:55:52'),
(6716, '8376846918', '@angelaharms yeah, I guess that puts a damper on life feeling so perfect. :(', 'angelaharms', '8376063875', '2010-01-29 17:43:06', '2010-01-29 09:55:52'),
(6717, '8377506354', '@espengeman nice! SO not weird. here''s my current sweater obsession. http://tweetphoto.com/9902951', 'espengeman', '8377299193', '2010-01-29 18:00:53', '2010-01-29 10:26:55'),
(6718, '8377369844', '@angelaharms I know! It''s so hard to feel like a stranger in your own house/life when you''re married to a non-soulmate.', 'angelaharms', '8377254095', '2010-01-29 17:57:16', '2010-01-29 10:26:55'),
(6719, '8378694463', '@bernthis indeed. me too. :)', 'bernthis', '8378620763', '2010-01-29 18:33:37', '2010-01-29 10:57:47'),
(6720, '8378664068', '@bill_of_lading I hear you about 2010. sorry. and I''m sorry my family woes and depressing stories aren''t helping matters. :( xoxo', 'bill_of_lading', '8378556486', '2010-01-29 18:32:46', '2010-01-29 10:57:48'),
(6721, '8378636027', 'while I''m not a fan of FB''s chat feature, I''m super happy my New Zealand cousin (who lives in London) was able to just chat me up.', '', '', '2010-01-29 18:31:58', '2010-01-29 10:57:48'),
(6722, '8378529192', '@beckyandhollee thanks so much! (I''m curious, the chill pill one or today''s, abt getting parent-training from my daughter?)', 'beckyandhollee', '8377795453', '2010-01-29 18:29:03', '2010-01-29 10:57:48'),
(6723, '8378496127', '@espengeman I know! it actually takes real talent (at least w an iPhone) to take a photo like that of yourself. we should be proud. :)', 'espengeman', '8377868497', '2010-01-29 18:28:06', '2010-01-29 10:57:48'),
(6724, '8382415108', 'good lunch w @lje2me. now to get an article written before the weekend officially begins. might even have to shut down Twitter. :(', '', '', '2010-01-29 20:21:42', '2010-01-29 12:29:34'),
(6725, '8382264269', '@beckyandhollee thanks! (and now I feel like I was fishing for compliments! sheesh!)', 'beckyandhollee', '8379006476', '2010-01-29 20:17:10', '2010-01-29 12:29:34'),
(6726, '8381936499', '@angelaharms ha! So funny. Clearly I''m of a different generation.', 'angelaharms', '8378986670', '2010-01-29 20:07:21', '2010-01-29 12:29:34'),
(6727, '8384217022', 'since she was a newborn, my daughter has been training me in how to parent an adolescent. http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=561', '', '', '2010-01-29 21:15:18', '2010-01-29 13:35:24'),
(6728, '8384047071', 'melancholy, beautiful Bach cello concertos playing as I write at Cafe Kopi this afternoon.', '', '', '2010-01-29 21:10:16', '2010-01-29 13:35:24'),
(6729, '8390674069', 'Heading out for sushi to celebrate Q''s b-day along w her dad & stepmom. Trying to pump myself up for this.', '', '', '2010-01-30 00:23:30', '2010-01-29 16:44:18'),
(6730, '8396780962', '@mkettleson thanks! I''ve enjoyed getting to know more about you!', '', '', '2010-01-30 03:20:03', '2010-01-29 19:21:53'),
(6731, '8396739055', 'the co-parenting b-day dinner was more than bearable. it was actually fun. silly, even. we had the private sunken sushi room & loads of food', '', '', '2010-01-30 03:18:50', '2010-01-29 19:21:53'),
(6732, '8400744592', 'Went to Red Star before heading home. Great atmosphere, great music, but they should hire someone who knows how to make even basic drinks.', '', '', '2010-01-30 05:21:16', '2010-01-29 21:22:09'),
(6733, '8400800341', '@queenoftheclick hormones? winter? I get like that in inexplicable ways sometimes, too. not fun.', 'queenoftheclick', '8400500847', '2010-01-30 05:23:13', '2010-01-29 21:52:39'),
(6734, '8419665531', '@jenluit you''re the sweetest.', '', '', '2010-01-30 18:07:59', '2010-01-30 10:12:16'),
(6735, '8419481145', '@MoJoJules so sorry, friend. wish I could sit w you and talk.', 'MoJoJules', '8418345713', '2010-01-30 18:02:19', '2010-01-30 10:12:16'),
(6736, '8419444309', 'at a little play S & her friends wrote/are performing: a Greek gods game show. S is Athena. impressed they put this together on their own!', '', '', '2010-01-30 18:01:13', '2010-01-30 10:12:16'),
(6737, '8423342884', 'just met w an architect to discuss what putting a two-story addition on our house would entail. sort of exciting, sort of overwhelming.', '', '', '2010-01-30 20:08:05', '2010-01-30 12:16:36'),
(6738, '8426037838', '@GabbyGail one of my favorite movies of all time.', 'GabbyGail', '8425819228', '2010-01-30 21:42:29', '2010-01-30 13:48:32'),
(6739, '8426433394', 'if you''ve never tried TJ''s dark chocolate almonds w sea salt & turbinado sugar, you really should. w an extra dark cup of coffee.', '', '', '2010-01-30 21:55:50', '2010-01-30 14:20:55'),
(6740, '8426372179', '@kttweets ha! SO true!', 'kttweets', '8426266500', '2010-01-30 21:53:53', '2010-01-30 14:20:55'),
(6741, '8426343962', '@GabbyGail that''s the most brilliant ending ever. now I want to watch it again (while eating your ravioli).', '', '', '2010-01-30 21:53:02', '2010-01-30 14:20:55'),
(6742, '8429447428', '@brechin wow! Impressive! does that stitch have a name? what are you making?', '', '', '2010-01-30 23:33:29', '2010-01-30 15:53:00'),
(6743, '8434290738', 'tonight''s dinner: I made hummus, J made Greek salad. happy happy tastes. we''re definitely trying to relive our honeymoon.', '', '', '2010-01-31 02:01:45', '2010-01-30 18:25:09'),
(6744, '8435755223', 'at @pecha-kucha_cu, then to the record release for Elsinore. Why so many fun things happening in one night?', '', '', '2010-01-31 02:44:23', '2010-01-30 18:56:37'),
(6745, '8436288081', 'such a great @pecha-kucha_cu presentation by Prairie Fruit Farms, where some of the world''s best goat cheese is made (I''m not exaggerating)', '', '', '2010-01-31 02:59:48', '2010-01-30 19:27:08'),
(6746, '8437369307', 'my neighbor, mad scientist Theo Gray (who writes a column for Popular Science) just presented at @pecha-kucha_cu. very entertaining.', '', '', '2010-01-31 03:31:01', '2010-01-30 19:57:36'),
(6747, '8441852645', 'OH in the bar bathroom: I''m tired of living in a college town. I''m too old.', '', '', '2010-01-31 05:49:57', '2010-01-30 21:57:57'),
(6748, '8441644692', 'now for the famously long Elsinore sound check. (thinking about how the 1st "real" date J & I ever went on was to an Elsinore show.)', '', '', '2010-01-31 05:42:57', '2010-01-30 21:57:57'),
(6749, '8441252102', 'listening to Brighton MA, opener #3 for Elsinore''s release show. I like em.', '', '', '2010-01-31 05:30:00', '2010-01-30 21:57:57'),
(6750, '8464261283', 'grocery dude tried weighing our parsnip as a shallot & our baby bok choy as an artichoke. Good thing J was on the ball--almost cost $6 more.', '', '', '2010-01-31 20:13:58', '2010-01-31 12:25:26'),
(6751, '8466338185', '@RebeccaFH exactly! it was almost a $6 parsnip!', 'RebeccaFH', '8464385776', '2010-01-31 21:18:26', '2010-01-31 13:28:28'),
(6752, '8466314611', 'Q is opening b-day presents. her fave type of sneakers meet her fave animal! http://tweetphoto.com/10112487', '', '', '2010-01-31 21:17:43', '2010-01-31 13:28:28'),
(6753, '8467192358', '@rk_p it IS sad, 4 sure. is it possible those moms might look at the number of books my girls read & think I am forcing them in a wrong way?', 'rk_p', '8467051134', '2010-01-31 21:44:51', '2010-01-31 13:59:54'),
(6754, '8468664472', '@rk_p I do too. all the time. my prob is that I too often believe my way of approaching things is the best way--for everyone, not just me.', 'rk_p', '8467571721', '2010-01-31 22:29:30', '2010-01-31 14:29:58'),
(6755, '8468724937', '@rk_p although there''s probably a good case for pushing daughters to be book worms over beauty queens. :)', 'rk_p', '8467571721', '2010-01-31 22:31:15', '2010-01-31 15:01:48'),
(6756, '8503769585', 'I usually start Mon morn w a blog post, but it doesn''t look like that''s happening today. sometimes you have to let go of life''s "usuallys."', '', '', '2010-02-01 16:08:42', '2010-02-01 08:38:57'),
(6757, '8507157924', '@10MinuteWriter ha! love it. I''m too into eating dinner as a family to let kids'' schedules take over. (btw I love your mean mom techniques.)', '10MinuteWriter', '8507070674', '2010-02-01 17:46:33', '2010-02-01 10:09:10'),
(6758, '8507024083', '@KatFrench that sounds like a pretty painful split. hope you get through it!', 'KatFrench', '8506705745', '2010-02-01 17:42:30', '2010-02-01 10:09:10'),
(6759, '8506999978', '@jonestony way too young. he''s a favorite of mine (especially in the fall and early winter).', 'jonestony', '8506783174', '2010-02-01 17:41:45', '2010-02-01 10:09:10'),
(6760, '8506955398', 'I honestly don''t how parents deal w their kids schedules. S has theater 3x/wk & now Q starts ice skating 1x/wk, and I''ve reached my limit.', '', '', '2010-02-01 17:40:24', '2010-02-01 10:09:10'),
(6761, '8510588283', 'I''m getting that time-to-plan-something-fun feeling. New York, maybe?', '', '', '2010-02-01 19:30:04', '2010-02-01 11:43:26'),
(6762, '8510555533', '@10MinuteWriter YES!! especially to points 1, 2, 3, 7 & 8. well put. count me in as an ASM. :)', '10MinuteWriter', '8507504711', '2010-02-01 19:29:03', '2010-02-01 11:43:26'),
(6763, '8510428800', '@jenluit impressive! you must reward yourself somehow. (and not by washing those dishes, even though I know you can''t wait.)', 'jenluit', '8510142248', '2010-02-01 19:25:08', '2010-02-01 11:43:26'),
(6764, '8516900515', '@jenluit @lje2me btw, I think we always called those cookies "haystacks." :)', 'jenluit', '8516113948', '2010-02-01 22:38:18', '2010-02-01 14:47:57'),
(6765, '8516865413', '@lje2me very retro (and very yummy!).', 'lje2me', '8515615855', '2010-02-01 22:37:19', '2010-02-01 14:47:57'),
(6766, '8516795641', 'just went ahead and bought plane tix to go to NY next week. J had to go for work, so I might as well go too, for food & friends. :)', '', '', '2010-02-01 22:35:18', '2010-02-01 14:47:57'),
(6767, '8522017685', '@daisy17 I think your other friend should win the Best News of the Day award. :) but I can''t wait to see you, nonetheless!', 'daisy17', '8517625936', '2010-02-02 01:10:11', '2010-02-01 17:22:15'),
(6768, '8522987366', '@beckyandhollee we need more opportunities to rethink why we do certain things--where the value is & where change is called for.', 'beckyandhollee', '8520461200', '2010-02-02 01:37:32', '2010-02-01 17:54:54'),
(6769, '8522912038', '@beckyandhollee it''s a great post! and it''s entertaining how riled up people can get. :)', 'beckyandhollee', '8520461200', '2010-02-02 01:35:24', '2010-02-01 17:54:54'),
(6770, '8522683019', '@McMer314 you do realize you have to tell us what you got, don''t you? I just started (and am loving) Little Bee.', 'McMer314', '8521533132', '2010-02-02 01:28:59', '2010-02-01 17:54:54'),
(6771, '8524432957', '@MoJoJules yes to the new pic! is everything getting straightened out at the bank? that sucks. :(', '', '', '2010-02-02 02:16:58', '2010-02-01 18:26:33'),
(6772, '8524370822', '@GabbyGail nine year olds! tell me about it!', 'GabbyGail', '8523408863', '2010-02-02 02:15:18', '2010-02-01 18:26:33'),
(6773, '8523724139', 'Note to self: don''t ask Q what the book she''s reading is about unless a) you *really* want to know, and b) you have 20 min to spare.', '', '', '2010-02-02 01:58:10', '2010-02-01 18:26:33'),
(6774, '8525224991', '@MoJoJules just the fact that you have a BIL who can take care of it for you is a huge relief. still stressful, but better than it could be', 'MoJoJules', '8524630881', '2010-02-02 02:38:16', '2010-02-01 18:57:07'),
(6775, '8526927009', '@jenluit true. but just think—it would only need to be washed once a week, & not even by me!! so tempting...', 'jenluit', '8526864525', '2010-02-02 03:22:36', '2010-02-01 19:29:15'),
(6776, '8526855990', '@Lindawte I know that feeling, exactly! well put! (but in the end, I always prefer essay tests over multiple choice. sigh.)', 'Lindawte', '8526745307', '2010-02-02 03:20:44', '2010-02-01 19:29:15'),
(6777, '8526759056', 'and clearly it''s been a *Monday*, seeing as how we''re ending it with laundry & Manhattans. (or we''re just celebrating our tickets to NY.)', '', '', '2010-02-02 03:18:10', '2010-02-01 19:29:15'),
(6778, '8526686193', '@jenluit absolutely. Betty Draper, all the way. (but wait. she doesn''t wash her own delicates. a Betty Draper wannabe.)', 'jenluit', '8526599036', '2010-02-02 03:16:15', '2010-02-01 19:29:15'),
(6779, '8526652531', '@NoodlesinCHI once, in a karaoke bar, a complete stranger came up to me & started yelling "stop hiccupping!" over & over. it worked!', 'NoodlesinCHI', '8526510277', '2010-02-02 03:15:22', '2010-02-01 19:29:15'),
(6780, '8526543595', 'I was just hand washing delicates in Woolite, while J was mixing Manhattans. it was like spending a moment in an early 1960s time capsule!', '', '', '2010-02-02 03:12:29', '2010-02-01 19:29:15'),
(6781, '8525963828', 'me: I''m tired. S: why? me: I worked hard all day. S: I probably worked as hard as you did, at school... maybe... sort of...probably not.', '', '', '2010-02-02 02:57:33', '2010-02-01 19:29:15'),
(6782, '8527904159', '@jenluit I was just messin with you. what were we, though? what would you call it? were we the cult or were the campus crusade people?', 'jenluit', '8527842683', '2010-02-02 03:48:05', '2010-02-01 19:59:21'),
(6783, '8527857033', '@jenluit what about Deena? maybe? and where did Mimi go? how could I forget these things?', 'jenluit', '8527812496', '2010-02-02 03:46:50', '2010-02-01 19:59:21'),
(6784, '8527812068', '@daisy17 I''d like to SEE your root cellar, missy.', 'daisy17', '8527766772', '2010-02-02 03:45:37', '2010-02-01 19:59:21'),
(6785, '8527780769', '@jenluit @dtatusko weren''t there Westminster people at our coalition for christian outreach summer cult project?', 'jenluit', '8527602199', '2010-02-02 03:44:47', '2010-02-01 19:59:21'),
(6786, '8527708322', '@MoJoJules I love your good night tweets (but I never really believe them—I know you''re not actually off to bed yet). :)', 'MoJoJules', '8527344347', '2010-02-02 03:42:49', '2010-02-01 19:59:21'),
(6787, '8527614856', '@dtatusko exactly. Woolite, though, that''s suggestive. you''re washing delicates. cocktails are a clear chaser.', 'dtatusko', '8527497131', '2010-02-02 03:40:24', '2010-02-01 19:59:21'),
(6788, '8527562423', '@daisy17 perfect! the Midwest meets Manhattan! we can celebrate the best of both our worlds! (seriously, though, Death & Co is a must. w J.)', 'daisy17', '8527472029', '2010-02-02 03:39:07', '2010-02-01 19:59:21'),
(6789, '8527448771', '@dtatusko too funny. but where''s the cocktail? I guess Fab is too wholesome?', 'dtatusko', '8527152115', '2010-02-02 03:36:13', '2010-02-01 19:59:21'),
(6790, '8527250995', '@daisy17 I hear you. I''m just saying it''s the perfect Monday mixture: something crappy washed down by something delicious. :)', 'daisy17', '8527138071', '2010-02-02 03:31:00', '2010-02-01 19:59:21'),
(6791, '8528879294', '@dtatusko yes, very. I''ve always felt at home in Pittsburgh (used to visit cousins 2x each yr). but still, there wasn''t any CCO in Mich.', 'dtatusko', '8528806846', '2010-02-02 04:15:14', '2010-02-01 20:30:01'),
(6792, '8528772302', '@10MinuteWriter hmm...you''re in Boston? that''s gonna be tough. but it could be a Mon eve thing, sort of like we''re in it together. :)', '10MinuteWriter', '8528525995', '2010-02-02 04:12:01', '2010-02-01 20:30:01'),
(6793, '8528697213', '@jenluit remember the Crusade people standing up in church & announcing how many souls they saved? we, on the other hand, were such hippies.', 'jenluit', '8527944906', '2010-02-02 04:09:47', '2010-02-01 20:30:01'),
(6794, '8528603537', '@dtatusko @jenluit it''s really strange for me to be finding out that other people know something about CCO. I''m not a Penn girl, clearly.', 'dtatusko', '8527918957', '2010-02-02 04:07:01', '2010-02-01 20:30:01'),
(6795, '8528560621', '@jenluit cause you crazy, girl. (I had some trauma in my life between then & now. I think it caused a memory fissure.)', 'jenluit', '8527918692', '2010-02-02 04:05:47', '2010-02-01 20:30:01'),
(6796, '8544614129', '@jenluit I didn''t know that abt all of them, but it''s not so strange. I was so taken w the CCO approach & worldview I thought abt staff. :)', 'jenluit', '8542358563', '2010-02-02 14:42:29', '2010-02-02 06:50:14'),
(6797, '8545307021', '@beckyandhollee I know! I''m going to link to it in the post I''m putting up this morning. :)', 'beckyandhollee', '8539079704', '2010-02-02 15:01:49', '2010-02-02 07:20:22'),
(6798, '8546056206', 'it''s time to stop blindly obeying all of our "usuallys" and "shoulds." http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=562', '', '', '2010-02-02 15:22:15', '2010-02-02 07:50:41'),
(6799, '8547246625', '@niecytaylor that''s exactly how I am, to a tee! so smart of you to adjust your day around your strengths.', 'niecytaylor', '8546509954', '2010-02-02 15:54:41', '2010-02-02 08:21:08'),
(6800, '8547196642', 'a Feb series: 28 days to make people fall in love w your brand: http://www.thesocialenthusiast.com/day-1-be-where-they-are (via @KatFrench)', '', '', '2010-02-02 15:53:18', '2010-02-02 08:21:08'),
(6801, '8548691521', 'gym time. the window between "breakfast digested" and "hungry for lunch" is closing!', '', '', '2010-02-02 16:34:46', '2010-02-02 08:51:58'),
(6802, '8554236145', 'WHY do I ever give the dog a bone hoping she''ll happily chew away for an hour? instead, she becomes a bundle of anxious animal instincts.', '', '', '2010-02-02 19:16:36', '2010-02-02 11:27:08'),
(6803, '8556195678', 'do you have too many "usuallys" & "shoulds" in your life? I do. time to smooth out some ruts. http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=562', '', '', '2010-02-02 20:14:54', '2010-02-02 12:27:19'),
(6804, '8555945682', 'group of 7 realtors (I recognize them from billboards) are meeting at the cafe. only 2 of them bought food/drink. plus they''re LOUD.', '', '', '2010-02-02 20:07:16', '2010-02-02 12:27:19'),
(6805, '8556736296', 'clarifying an issue w my museum exhibit client. pretty sure I''ve never used "carcass" or "scat" in an email before, let alone several times.', '', '', '2010-02-02 20:30:56', '2010-02-02 12:57:47'),
(6806, '8557978603', '@MoJoJules put on some good music and spend some time breathing deep, girl. xoxo', 'MoJoJules', '8557849795', '2010-02-02 21:07:04', '2010-02-02 13:29:44'),
(6807, '8557864120', '@thejustpete tempting, but I only buy from local business people who support local business people. :) (also, I don''t buy houses in cafes.)', 'thejustpete', '8557172088', '2010-02-02 21:03:52', '2010-02-02 13:29:44'),
(6808, '8559238311', '@eburkmartin didn''t know that! (and no, I''ve never used it in an email). I''m sure I can work it in, tho—I''m writing abt decomposers. :)', 'eburkmartin', '8558112964', '2010-02-02 21:40:48', '2010-02-02 14:00:49'),
(6809, '8559196004', '@thejustpete I know. I''m working on being more open-minded. :)', 'thejustpete', '8558711439', '2010-02-02 21:39:39', '2010-02-02 14:00:49'),
(6810, '8572165765', '@bill_of_lading I was noticing how little interest there seems to be, too. so glad you came through for me w your trustworthy commentary.', 'bill_of_lading', '8570549763', '2010-02-03 03:26:17', '2010-02-02 19:48:01'),
(6811, '8572014260', 'it''s only Tues & I''m completely burnt out on this week. doing minimum computer stuff then relinquishing myself to old fashioned relaxation.', '', '', '2010-02-03 03:22:15', '2010-02-02 19:48:02'),
(6812, '8571905522', '@gwengirl @RobertaFKing I''ve never seen Lost, either. nice to know we can keep each other company. :)', 'gwengirl', '8571607900', '2010-02-03 03:19:19', '2010-02-02 19:48:02');
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(6813, '8590631627', 'I''m always humored by "big" local news on the radio, like this: "the Village of Mahomet has voted in favor of legalized leaf burning." awsm.', '', '', '2010-02-03 15:03:28', '2010-02-03 07:06:03'),
(6814, '8590465828', '@magpiegirl that''s really frustrating. I have decided on some health/exercise/eating guidelines, but also decided to avoid the scale.', 'magpiegirl', '8590388986', '2010-02-03 14:59:14', '2010-02-03 07:06:03'),
(6815, '8590431731', '@youravgpastor enjoy! my favorite time to pray is when I''m walking. I have such a hard time praying while sitting still.', 'youravgpastor', '8590400033', '2010-02-03 14:58:18', '2010-02-03 07:06:03'),
(6816, '8590399334', '@espengeman thank you! I feel much better after that old fashioned relaxation (knitting & talking) and the new-fashioned virtual beer. :)', 'espengeman', '8573125635', '2010-02-03 14:57:24', '2010-02-03 07:06:03'),
(6817, '8591720835', 'our 6-YO neighbor explained to S & I the potential value of a nickle: "you can find a baby who has a dollar & they would probably trade it."', '', '', '2010-02-03 15:33:01', '2010-02-03 07:37:42'),
(6818, '8591389108', '@heatheragoodman great! let''s stay in touch. I think I''ll register this week.', 'heatheragoodman', '8591175827', '2010-02-03 15:24:04', '2010-02-03 07:37:42'),
(6819, '8591170773', '@tamaryn fun! I think I''m going to register today. I''m just starting to look into all of the details. let''s stay in touch abt it!', 'tamaryn', '8591127283', '2010-02-03 15:18:08', '2010-02-03 07:37:42'),
(6820, '8591020550', 'are any of you planning to go to Calvin''s writing conference this April? http://www.calvin.edu/academic/engl/festival/', '', '', '2010-02-03 15:14:03', '2010-02-03 07:37:42'),
(6821, '8590967661', '@jimpalmer must be exhausting—and fun? can''t wait to hear more about what you''re up to!', 'jimpalmer', '8590639972', '2010-02-03 15:12:35', '2010-02-03 07:37:42'),
(6822, '8594095457', '@Mediabistro it completely depends on the blog. some bloggers attract a solid community of thoughtful, smart readers. often not the case tho', 'Mediabistro', '8593769633', '2010-02-03 16:38:00', '2010-02-03 08:40:28'),
(6823, '8593926559', '@RobertaFKing I''m in the same boat. the price is right, isn''t it?', 'RobertaFKing', '8591683348', '2010-02-03 16:33:15', '2010-02-03 08:40:28'),
(6824, '8593886140', '@10MinuteWriter glad someone else finds that super funny! @jenluit said he sounds like a future banker. :)', '10MinuteWriter', '8593355678', '2010-02-03 16:32:09', '2010-02-03 08:40:28'),
(6825, '8594845820', '@wetzeledit I''m thinking I will go, and I''d love to meet up with you! keep me posted.', 'wetzeledit', '8594763173', '2010-02-03 16:59:10', '2010-02-03 09:11:45'),
(6826, '8594303396', 'just knowing an event like #blissdom is happening throws me into blogger identity crisis mode. I don''t *really* fit in anywhere.', '', '', '2010-02-03 16:43:51', '2010-02-03 09:11:45'),
(6827, '8598256979', '@heatheragoodman now I''m curious. what''s your favorite yarn?', 'heatheragoodman', '8597838723', '2010-02-03 18:39:11', '2010-02-03 10:45:08'),
(6828, '8597881542', '@10MinuteWriter which writers'' conference? (or don''t you know quite yet?)', '10MinuteWriter', '8597850966', '2010-02-03 18:27:58', '2010-02-03 10:45:08'),
(6829, '8597863138', '@brechin none at Michaels, but I''ll try Kitchens. thanks!', 'brechin', '8597814837', '2010-02-03 18:27:25', '2010-02-03 10:45:08'),
(6830, '8597847207', '@btatusko really?!? sweet. (yes, punny.)', 'btatusko', '8597799630', '2010-02-03 18:26:55', '2010-02-03 10:45:08'),
(6831, '8597809847', '@CrumblyTofu it gets funnier: I asked him which babies actually have dollars & he said the ones who take wallets. pickpocketing babies!', 'CrumblyTofu', '8595488695', '2010-02-03 18:25:47', '2010-02-03 10:45:08'),
(6832, '8597747913', '@10MinuteWriter I take it you''re not going to blissdom? I blog way too much in the grey areas, but can''t imagine it any other way. sigh.', '10MinuteWriter', '8595837633', '2010-02-03 18:23:56', '2010-02-03 10:45:08'),
(6833, '8597724808', '@cumomOf2 maybe not a pariah, but it certainly makes it hard to find my tribe, my conferences, my connections.', 'cumomOf2', '8595756945', '2010-02-03 18:23:13', '2010-02-03 10:45:08'),
(6834, '8597689426', 'local friends, let me know if you''ve ever seen an alphabet cookie cutter set being sold around CU. #chambana', '', '', '2010-02-03 18:22:09', '2010-02-03 10:45:08'),
(6835, '8602773603', '@devivo yes, there''s a bit of everything/everyone at BlogHer. I must just have some deep-seeded issue I have to work through! :)', 'devivo', '8598821516', '2010-02-03 20:54:55', '2010-02-03 13:18:14'),
(6836, '8602722510', '@lje2me @jenmasc alas, none at Art Mart & only 1-inch cutters at Kitchens. (what can you do w those?!?) it sounds like Michaels has em, tho!', 'lje2me', '8600455335', '2010-02-03 20:53:22', '2010-02-03 13:18:14'),
(6837, '8602658247', '@CrumblyTofu @heathra punny AND fierce. nice combo.', 'CrumblyTofu', '8600487054', '2010-02-03 20:51:27', '2010-02-03 13:18:14'),
(6838, '8617900781', '@jenluit I LOVE it! Maybe because it reminds me of "my old mango." should I write your son a letter? :)', 'jenluit', '8606585828', '2010-02-04 03:57:22', '2010-02-03 20:21:51'),
(6839, '8619797088', '@McMer314 I was just thinking the same thing, trying to figure out how I could magically squeeze a few extra hours out of each day. hmm.', 'McMer314', '8615364707', '2010-02-04 04:56:35', '2010-02-03 20:57:07'),
(6840, '8619694182', '@cumomOf2 it''s hard to find a perfect fit, isn''t it? you guys will be great there, plus it''s important for your business. have fun!', 'cumomOf2', '8598394482', '2010-02-04 04:53:06', '2010-02-03 20:57:07'),
(6841, '8619653674', '@michpendergrass that''s great! what''s the topic for the panel? (btw, it''s good to "meet" you! thanks @heatheragoodman.)', 'michpendergrass', '8616231131', '2010-02-04 04:51:44', '2010-02-03 20:57:07'),
(6842, '8619826606', '@JebDickerson too funny. I like goofy brains.', 'JebDickerson', '8605240275', '2010-02-04 04:57:34', '2010-02-03 21:27:40'),
(6843, '8635582759', '@CarolHoward @rk_p ha! love this!', 'CarolHoward', '8634986064', '2010-02-04 15:14:35', '2010-02-04 07:18:04'),
(6844, '8635559072', '@rk_p did you already define "neighbor" for us? did I miss it?', 'rk_p', '8634811531', '2010-02-04 15:13:57', '2010-02-04 07:18:04'),
(6845, '8635526317', '@cumomOf2 not all Starbucks are created equal. :)', 'cumomOf2', '8634633287', '2010-02-04 15:13:04', '2010-02-04 07:18:04'),
(6846, '8635474457', '@michpendergrass the pain sinuses can inflict astounds me. I''ve just started experiencing it first-hand the past few years. :(', 'michpendergrass', '8634852672', '2010-02-04 15:11:40', '2010-02-04 07:18:04'),
(6847, '8636062149', 'friendship used to seem so organic and seamless to me. why does it suddenly feel so complex and mysterious?', '', '', '2010-02-04 15:27:23', '2010-02-04 07:48:39'),
(6848, '8636020670', 'make a list of the people you know you can count on no matter what. are those our truest friends? or are they just loyal, responsible types?', '', '', '2010-02-04 15:26:16', '2010-02-04 07:48:39'),
(6849, '8635958556', '@JilyLand thanks so much! I was able to get some at Michaels. a friend had looked there last wk, so I didn''t think they had them, but yes!', 'JilyLand', '8598678335', '2010-02-04 15:24:36', '2010-02-04 07:48:39'),
(6850, '8635867769', '@lje2me I found some! a huge bin of letters & numbers & symbols. plastic, so they weren''t expensive. they''ll do the trick!', 'lje2me', '8613239875', '2010-02-04 15:22:09', '2010-02-04 07:48:39'),
(6851, '8635819333', '@michpendergrass I spent a full month on the sofa w my 1st sinus infection (took a while to realize what hit me). now I''m a neti pot user!', 'michpendergrass', '8635686061', '2010-02-04 15:20:52', '2010-02-04 07:48:39'),
(6852, '8637934271', '@espengeman pics of the stuffed birds, please. (really, I just want to see if you''re wearing your trusty cardigan.)', 'espengeman', '8637844669', '2010-02-04 16:17:54', '2010-02-04 08:19:12'),
(6853, '8637890121', '@espengeman baby quilts, you know. they''re small. :) & extra cute. plus I was on a deadline. (I found great vintage replica fabrics. LOVE!)', 'espengeman', '8637783668', '2010-02-04 16:16:41', '2010-02-04 08:19:12'),
(6854, '8637762579', '@PsychMamma and I thought experience and wisdom were supposed to make life easier! HA! :)', 'PsychMamma', '8636253296', '2010-02-04 16:13:16', '2010-02-04 08:19:12'),
(6855, '8637741600', '@mksteele exactly. I guess that''s what I''m trying to figure out. I even blogged about it a couple weeks ago.', 'mksteele', '8636099117', '2010-02-04 16:12:41', '2010-02-04 08:19:12'),
(6856, '8637700344', '@espengeman fun! what are you sewing? I sewed quite a bit when I was growing up, but in past 15 yrs have only made quilts for my babies.', 'espengeman', '8637606465', '2010-02-04 16:11:30', '2010-02-04 08:19:12'),
(6857, '8639522301', '@lje2me so glad you''re going! when and where? (I love the personal info card idea, too.)', 'lje2me', '8639142988', '2010-02-04 17:01:45', '2010-02-04 09:21:05'),
(6858, '8639455406', '@espengeman I''ll try to remember to take pics of the quilts later today. have to focus on true productivity now, not fun productivity. :)', 'espengeman', '8638304712', '2010-02-04 17:00:03', '2010-02-04 09:21:05'),
(6859, '8639418259', '@espengeman love it! are you my long lost sister? (and nice sewing machine, btw!)', 'espengeman', '8638217121', '2010-02-04 16:59:00', '2010-02-04 09:21:05'),
(6860, '8639385175', '@netshirley that''s really hard to not have that. and then to put yourself out there and try to trust/rely on someone is harder. try, though!', 'netshirley', '8638027315', '2010-02-04 16:58:03', '2010-02-04 09:21:05'),
(6861, '8648082269', 'An amazing husband and amazing friend save the day. grateful.', '', '', '2010-02-04 21:17:58', '2010-02-04 13:23:49'),
(6862, '8648906725', 'I wish it wasn''t so, but divorce is definitely still "An Issue" in many (most?) churches. http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=563', '', '', '2010-02-04 21:42:13', '2010-02-04 13:53:52'),
(6863, '8648787921', 'some blog posts seem to effortlessly write themselves. today''s definitely was not one of them. sheesh.', '', '', '2010-02-04 21:38:45', '2010-02-04 13:53:52'),
(6864, '8649697548', '@lje2me thank you for saying that. It was one of those times that nothing I wrote seemed to make sense.', 'lje2me', '8649463837', '2010-02-04 22:04:57', '2010-02-04 14:24:59'),
(6865, '8649649257', '@michpendergrass I had a feeling I liked you. :)', 'michpendergrass', '8649364536', '2010-02-04 22:03:35', '2010-02-04 14:24:59'),
(6866, '8651033035', 'fun! I''m finally holding a real copy of the storybook i wrote for my furniture design client: http://tweetphoto.com/10420591', '', '', '2010-02-04 22:42:34', '2010-02-04 14:56:54'),
(6867, '8653151697', 'just read @JesusNeedsNewPR''s great piece abt Amy Grant''s divorce. then I had to PREACH IT! (of course.) http://tinyurl.com/yhwxcml', '', '', '2010-02-04 23:41:00', '2010-02-04 15:57:56'),
(6868, '8652869122', '@kateyberg that really stinks. wish I could bring you some of the chicken noodle soup J made yesterday. a virtual hug seems so lame. :(', 'kateyberg', '8652668478', '2010-02-04 23:33:04', '2010-02-04 15:57:56'),
(6869, '8652825430', 'just looked at the cookbook J left opened to tonight''s dinner. got to love Nigel Slater: "a fishcake to console and another to excite."', '', '', '2010-02-04 23:31:51', '2010-02-04 15:57:56'),
(6870, '8655003137', 'I really should keep working all evening, but we have tix to the Pacifica Quartet concert. pre-paid relaxation & fun works every time.', '', '', '2010-02-05 00:32:12', '2010-02-04 16:59:48'),
(6871, '8659426333', 'I love the look of a string quartet all alone on a big stage. (and of the very particular sort of crowd chatting at intermission.)', '', '', '2010-02-05 02:33:16', '2010-02-04 19:02:56'),
(6872, '8661774843', 'Beautiful. Still can''t believe the Grammy-winning Pacifica Quartet is in residence here.', '', '', '2010-02-05 03:37:32', '2010-02-04 20:06:02'),
(6873, '8665827466', '@jenluit where are you going? (you *are* genius, btw).', 'jenluit', '8663653873', '2010-02-05 05:46:22', '2010-02-04 21:48:55'),
(6874, '8665767365', '@ssrebelsam I''m so glad. :) sometimes when I preach it I feel slightly delirious. nice to know that in the end it sort of makes sense.', 'ssrebelsam', '8664175570', '2010-02-05 05:44:09', '2010-02-04 21:48:55'),
(6875, '8665715290', '@bill_of_lading I think Pink Martini should line up a show with Pacifica here. we''re friends w the violist & 2nd violinist you know. :)', 'bill_of_lading', '8663513897', '2010-02-05 05:42:12', '2010-02-04 21:48:55'),
(6876, '8665917817', 'hanging out w half of Pacifica after their performance. I love it when super talented people are also super nice.', '', '', '2010-02-05 05:49:50', '2010-02-04 22:23:54'),
(6877, '8677736099', '@jenluit fun. Austin will be a blast. Enjoy the mother-daughter time, too!', 'jenluit', '8676810735', '2010-02-05 13:55:27', '2010-02-05 06:07:20'),
(6878, '8677679248', '@beckyandhollee I know I would be having a great time w you and the @chambanamoms crew. I''ll look forward to all your tweets!', 'beckyandhollee', '8677490677', '2010-02-05 13:53:51', '2010-02-05 06:07:20'),
(6879, '8679125199', 'dude just walked into the cafe, looked at me and said to no one in particular "someone''s in my seat." alrighty.', '', '', '2010-02-05 14:33:11', '2010-02-05 06:38:24'),
(6880, '8679063550', 'the Church has a way of spreading bad news w the good, esp pertaining to issues like divorce.  http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=563', '', '', '2010-02-05 14:31:31', '2010-02-05 06:38:24'),
(6881, '8678844135', 'Mich people: what are your fave made in MI products? "Ford" is not the sort of thing I''m looking for. :) think smaller, quirky, unexpected.', '', '', '2010-02-05 14:25:35', '2010-02-05 06:38:24'),
(6882, '8680058936', '@lje2me I know! Left the house well before 8 today. I''m sick of being this behind and this stressed.', 'lje2me', '8679521272', '2010-02-05 14:58:28', '2010-02-05 07:09:12'),
(6883, '8680019220', '@rharlow teamwork bags? What are those?', 'rharlow', '8679740861', '2010-02-05 14:57:24', '2010-02-05 07:09:12'),
(6884, '8680000678', '@ricktreur jukeboxes? Really? How fun. What''s the company?', 'ricktreur', '8678930781', '2010-02-05 14:56:55', '2010-02-05 07:09:12'),
(6885, '8681295172', '@SanChezBistro yum indeed. Thanks! (btw, I''m working on a piece for Solace magazine.)', 'SanChezBistro', '8680734684', '2010-02-05 15:30:08', '2010-02-05 07:39:25'),
(6886, '8681198394', '@ricktreur awesome! thanks for the info. I''m working on a story for Solace mag. :)', 'ricktreur', '8680583518', '2010-02-05 15:27:40', '2010-02-05 07:39:25'),
(6887, '8681158513', '@RobertaFKing love those!', 'RobertaFKing', '8680308086', '2010-02-05 15:26:40', '2010-02-05 07:39:25'),
(6888, '8683801161', '@grammercie SO true (and you have such a way with words).', 'grammercie', '8683574345', '2010-02-05 16:33:54', '2010-02-05 08:41:58'),
(6889, '8683583996', '@ChristiBowman I''m the sort of person who''s inclined to say "excuse me? do you have a problem?" but I''m trying to be better at ignoring. :)', 'ChristiBowman', '8683470516', '2010-02-05 16:28:18', '2010-02-05 08:41:58'),
(6890, '8684387505', 'getting a brain-ache reading a highly academic archeological study on the Paleo and Archaic Indians of southern IL, 11,000-4,000 BC.', '', '', '2010-02-05 16:49:20', '2010-02-05 09:12:36'),
(6891, '8686269953', '@rk_p and I supposed you bought them all up? if not, I''m road trippin to Dudikoffsontown KY this weekend.', 'rk_p', '8686203899', '2010-02-05 17:39:12', '2010-02-05 09:42:47'),
(6892, '8686228597', '@TracyOConnor good! I''ve really missed you. I hope we can make your transition easier.', 'TracyOConnor', '8676957595', '2010-02-05 17:38:05', '2010-02-05 09:42:47'),
(6893, '8685888457', '@gwengirl thanks! it was a really fun project. worked w some great designers you would love (not GR-based, tho)', 'gwengirl', '8685080968', '2010-02-05 17:28:56', '2010-02-05 09:42:47'),
(6894, '8685815147', '@rk_p I need some of your ninja skillz. where''d you get them?', 'rk_p', '8685524921', '2010-02-05 17:26:58', '2010-02-05 09:42:47'),
(6895, '8687502242', '@rk_p ok. I guess maybe Jesus can help me find the scroll? or maybe I should just ask him to help me focus and get all my work done...', 'rk_p', '8686569219', '2010-02-05 18:13:26', '2010-02-05 10:13:54'),
(6896, '8687331247', '@10MinuteWriter most definitely. and shall I make you something? my current faves are manhattans & side cars. :)', '10MinuteWriter', '8686639287', '2010-02-05 18:08:37', '2010-02-05 10:13:54'),
(6897, '8686498908', 'new friends I want my old ones to know: @beckyandhollee @michpendergrass @niecytaylor @10minutewriter @espengeman @heatheragoodman #FF', '', '', '2010-02-05 17:45:29', '2010-02-05 10:13:54'),
(6898, '8686444199', '@bernthis yay! love it.', 'bernthis', '8686319020', '2010-02-05 17:44:01', '2010-02-05 10:13:54'),
(6899, '8686425933', '@rk_p please do. especially if they refer to the samich as a "hammy sammy."', 'rk_p', '8686358557', '2010-02-05 17:43:31', '2010-02-05 10:13:54'),
(6900, '8688542298', '@10MinuteWriter sounds like a plan! I''ll bring the guac & chips, too.', '10MinuteWriter', '8687560683', '2010-02-05 18:43:05', '2010-02-05 10:44:49'),
(6901, '8691337306', '@espengeman I know! I think they''re Dutch kids rolling out the lawn so it''s nice and flat. Dutch people like things to be perfect. :)', 'espengeman', '8691291384', '2010-02-05 20:05:25', '2010-02-05 12:16:19'),
(6902, '8691311816', '@espengeman oops! just noticed that neither Peter Rabbit nor Little Bo Peep actually made it into that photo! I''ll go up & take again later.', 'espengeman', '8690818253', '2010-02-05 20:04:41', '2010-02-05 12:16:19'),
(6903, '8691207362', '@espengeman and baby quilt #2 (see Peter rabbit & Little Bo Peep?)\n http://tweetphoto.com/10496392 (both are backed w polar fleece).', 'espengeman', '8690818253', '2010-02-05 20:01:33', '2010-02-05 12:16:19'),
(6904, '8691106466', '@espengeman here''s baby quilt #1 (I love the Scottie dogs) http://tweetphoto.com/10496234', 'espengeman', '8690818253', '2010-02-05 19:58:39', '2010-02-05 12:16:19'),
(6905, '8691025739', '@espengeman wow—I really love it! you might enjoy this blog, by my close friend here in central IL: http://tumblingblocks.net/blog/', 'espengeman', '8690818253', '2010-02-05 19:56:10', '2010-02-05 12:16:19'),
(6906, '8696547084', '@lizdyer aww, thanks! you must be a fan of both Jesus and ninja powers. :)', '', '', '2010-02-05 22:35:43', '2010-02-05 14:49:14'),
(6907, '8703510215', 'Q just said "this genetics book is just STUFFED with facts! I love it! I could read the whole thing!"', '', '', '2010-02-06 01:50:09', '2010-02-05 17:58:22'),
(6908, '8708301602', 'one more cuff to knit & I''m done making this dog sweater. I still find it amusing. I know when she wears it I''ll feel both pleased & silly.', '', '', '2010-02-06 04:00:34', '2010-02-05 20:01:17'),
(6909, '8708209420', '@lje2me so strange and unsettling! so nothing seemed to be stolen? and it was Frankie who was out?', 'lje2me', '8707878280', '2010-02-06 03:57:57', '2010-02-05 20:01:17'),
(6910, '8708919167', '@beckyandhollee that''s so awesome! and here I sit on my sofa, knitting. :( we''re in different worlds.', 'beckyandhollee', '8708731432', '2010-02-06 04:18:39', '2010-02-05 20:32:12'),
(6911, '8708837456', '@bill_of_lading what''s so strange is that they hardly look like dogs, either, let alone sound like them! does H still bark at horses on TV?', 'bill_of_lading', '8708240566', '2010-02-06 04:16:12', '2010-02-05 20:32:12'),
(6912, '8708682445', '@TrinaMb I didn''t realize your son is just a year older than my daughter! Hope you have a great day together tomorrow.', 'TrinaMb', '8708108733', '2010-02-06 04:11:34', '2010-02-05 20:32:12'),
(6913, '8708597666', '@lje2me @artistrobin she didn''t try us, you know. J thinks you should have called him to go. Glad you''re safe.', '', '', '2010-02-06 04:09:05', '2010-02-05 20:32:12'),
(6914, '8708549172', 'Squeezing in as many simple pleasures as possible tonight: played games w the girls, worked on my knitting, next I''ll read for a bit.', '', '', '2010-02-06 04:07:40', '2010-02-05 20:32:12'),
(6915, '8708340205', '@bill_of_lading that''s so funny! our friend''s dog does exactly the same thing with the same movie!', 'bill_of_lading', '8708240566', '2010-02-06 04:01:38', '2010-02-05 20:32:12'),
(6916, '8725576166', 'Dropped the girls off at the library, we''re at the gym. we''ll meet up later for breakfast at the Courier.', '', '', '2010-02-06 15:34:29', '2010-02-06 07:35:56'),
(6917, '8727314488', 'on the treadmill: first listened to Obama''s DNC speech, then to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah on my iPod. how fitting. (Obama was ON.)', '', '', '2010-02-06 16:25:37', '2010-02-06 08:37:03'),
(6918, '8733176922', 'also, I tried to clarify the 1st sentence of my post, about a church that showed me more judgment than love. http://tinyurl.com/yhwxcml', '', '', '2010-02-06 19:22:20', '2010-02-06 11:40:35'),
(6919, '8732845796', '@Michigania nice! a perfect addition.', 'Michigania', '8720821648', '2010-02-06 19:11:58', '2010-02-06 11:40:35'),
(6920, '8732834236', 'whew! trying to carefully respond to some big messy issues in my divorce-and-church post. http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/?p=563', '', '', '2010-02-06 19:11:36', '2010-02-06 11:40:35'),
(6921, '8733878096', '@dtatusko I feel so inept when it comes to a theological response to these issues. all I have is my experiences and my gut about Jesus.', 'dtatusko', '8733688322', '2010-02-06 19:44:46', '2010-02-06 12:11:17'),
(6922, '8733820091', '@edcyzewski @Angelaharms thanks, friends. these issues can be so exhausting. it''s good to feel some love. :)', 'edcyzewski', '8733464672', '2010-02-06 19:42:54', '2010-02-06 12:11:17');

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(2, 36, 'Mike B', 'mikeb@wecanhelpit.com', 'http://www.wecanhelpit.com/', '128.174.73.159', '2008-07-18 12:02:42', '2008-07-18 16:02:42', 'It''s interesting that you wrote this because it was something I have been unconsciously doing but probably need to consciously do. As a sort of test of whether I should pursue a PhD, I want to write a book on IT management to see if I can stay focused on such a long term project like that and drive it through to completion when I only have myself to stay accountable. I have been working a lot on campus to build by name recognition and have been writing columns for a couple publications, but I think I need to find a shtick yet. The last paragraph really strikes home in that I need to spend more time defining my core values in the IT management context. While I know what they are, I haven''t really thought about how they exactly translate into what I want to write.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(3, 39, 'Patrick Bowen', 'patrickbowen@unraveledideamill.com', 'http://www.unraveledideamill.com', '207.181.17.23', '2008-07-18 13:57:26', '2008-07-18 17:57:26', 'I don''t have children.  Just had to say that for frame of reference.  Your post did, however, remind me of a few things from when I was a kid that make me think... be thankful you didn''t have boys.  From knocking my brothers teeth out to having him put a dent in the wall with my back I am picturing what I would have done with a bowl full of marinade and how my parents would have reacted.\r\n\r\nScenario:  Dad, Pat, and brother outside by the grill.\r\n\r\n- I throw the bowl of marinade on my brother.\r\n- He tackles me, punches me, bloodies my nose, and covers me in marinade\r\n- My mom yells out the window for my dad to grab the both of us\r\n- My mom runs outside and hoses both of us down while my dad, none to pleased, gets wet as well\r\n- Both of us dragged inside to sit in our rooms\r\n- Dinner is late and cold\r\n\r\nNow I feel bad for my parents. Sorry mother, father, brother, and Kristin for this wasteful post.\r\n\r\nEnjoy the summer. :)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(4, 48, 'Lorna', 'lengels@uillinois.edu', '', '128.174.138.78', '2008-07-31 15:41:00', '2008-07-31 19:41:00', 'Well, it seems like I''ve heard the "I found everything I was longing for when I least expected it" story much more often than the "this is the crazy, messy, yet lovely life I live" story. For what its worth.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(5, 48, 'dorie', 'tumblingblocks@gmail.com', 'http://tumblingblocks.net/blog/', '12.207.181.192', '2008-07-31 21:44:20', '2008-08-01 01:44:20', 'my vote goes to the humorous, down-and -dirty look at blended families.  I think your honesty here will make for a very interesting read.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(5816, 464, 'Leslie', 'CoachLesB@aol.com', 'http://blog.lifeconcoctions.com', '173.74.107.26', '2009-09-08 08:07:07', '2009-09-08 12:07:07', 'Well said, Kristin.  I haven''t been able to figure out what all the fuss was about regarding our president speaking to our nation''s children.  You''ve reminded me that fear is a powerful motivator, and it''s been my experience that many organized religions are very fear based.  I hope that religious leaders can shift to a more loving, less fearful, style of influence.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/530.19.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.2 Safari/530.19', '', 0, 0, 'Y'),
(8, 48, 'Anja', 'anjathiessen@gmx.de', '', '84.177.79.166', '2008-08-23 17:35:23', '2008-08-23 21:35:23', 'I would agree with the two comments above, although I hope to hear more about sotry #2. But as for now, I''m really looking forward to the crazy family story.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(11, 55, 'Lisa B-K', 'lisabk@gmail.com', 'http://www.wordydiva.com', '209.175.177.100', '2008-08-27 10:47:52', '2008-08-27 14:47:52', 'Hey!\r\n\r\nI read this with great interest, as ) you wrote it and b) I just returned from Lilly''s school and am having some serious trepidation about the upcoming year. My concerns are academic, not social (her class size is small, she knows kids, it''s a good mix); I''m not worried about the teacher (quite decorated) as much as I am about academic groundwork that was laid last year having every appearance of being ignored.\r\n\r\nI felt good after the first day drop-off the last two years; this year, I''m not so sure.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; InfoPath.1)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(12, 55, 'Arathi', 'arathi.kylasam@gmail.com', '', '128.174.60.182', '2008-08-27 11:16:59', '2008-08-27 15:16:59', 'Hey -- just discovered your blog and am reading with interest..... hope all is well. \r\n\r\nHugs\r\n\r\nA', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(14, 59, 'adriana', 'adrianajk@yahoo.com', '', '190.57.98.139', '2008-09-03 17:07:26', '2008-09-03 21:07:26', 'dear kristin...what a great surprise to find out about your blog (thanks to your status update on facebook. hehe)  i loved reading what you have to say.  it reminds me again of what amazing people both you and jason are and how truly happy i am to have you in my life, even from a distance.  every time i think of you guys there, halfway to normal, my heart is fills with joy for who you guys are, the life you are trying to lead, the fun times we''ve shared together.  \r\n\r\ni''m feeling stuck between a variety of worlds that don’t always blend nicely....and look forward to reading more of what you have to share.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-AR; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(16, 63, 'Lorna', 'lengels@uillinois.edu', '', '128.174.138.78', '2008-09-09 15:37:24', '2008-09-09 19:37:24', 'Sending you freedom and peace to write what you need to, in the way that you need to, and still meet deadlines and expectations.  (not asking for much!)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(17, 67, 'KarenDV', 'karen@devriesfamily.us', '', '75.48.223.246', '2008-09-15 18:12:17', '2008-09-15 22:12:17', 'Let me know when you get those T-shirts printed up.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(18, 67, 'Rachel Bass', 'basszim@hotmail.com', '', '98.212.200.115', '2008-09-20 14:00:08', '2008-09-20 18:00:08', 'i''ll take a medium in the "not all christians are like that, I swear" on the back.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(163, 150, 'Daisy', 'okaybyme@gmail.com', 'http://compostermom.blogspot.com', '75.62.43.76', '2008-11-15 14:51:08', '2008-11-15 18:51:08', 'Frankly, I like the Web''s stupid side.\r\nHave you tried writing Lunes? They use a 5-7-5 format, but it''s 5 words, 7 words, then 5 words rather than syllables. It feels strange after writing Haiku, but it''s an interesting challenge.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; Media Center PC 5.0)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(20, 69, 'Becca', 'becca@belz.net', '', '76.175.219.159', '2008-09-23 00:57:45', '2008-09-23 04:57:45', 'Wow, beautifully written and so nice to have a "snapshot" in language of the weekend and our friendship. Thank you!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(22, 71, 'Nancy Pagaduan', 'nancy@miia-moocreations.com', '', '24.7.246.51', '2008-09-25 18:05:56', '2008-09-25 22:05:56', 'Reading your post and coming across that same contest for free groceries made me stop and wonder why does there have to be a"Family Day" and what is it that keeps families from sitting down together for dinner. I have a lot of thoughts on this but two really stick out in my mind.  1) Not all families have the benefit of parents that work the same shifts/hours and 2) Maybe we''re overextending our children''s extracurricular time so that outside activities overlap dinner times.  I could go on but maybe the comment section is not the place for this.  Just thought I''d get that out there and also let you know that I''m enjoying your halfway to normal blog!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(23, 67, 'debby topliff', 'debby@fireflylife.com', 'http://www.paintingrevelation.com', '98.243.60.184', '2008-09-25 20:52:26', '2008-09-26 00:52:26', 'I echo your sentiments. Somehow I felt better that the New Yorker outed the phoney Focuson-on-OUR-Family-only. You wonder what bible they''re reading!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/312.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.6', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(25, 75, 'Noel', 'blog@noelheikkinen.com', 'http://www.noelheikkinen.com', '99.147.188.115', '2008-09-26 20:39:55', '2008-09-27 00:39:55', 'Good thoughts on this, Kristen.  I''m pretty stoked about this series, especially since the blog post.  To be honest, the responses were not what I expected.  Now I have a totally different direction for the messages than I thought I was going to have.\r\n\r\nLove how that works.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008091618 Firefox/3.0.2', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(26, 75, 'Alyssa', 'alyssalin06@gmail.com', '', '208.119.151.49', '2008-09-27 11:52:08', '2008-09-27 15:52:08', 'Oh, how I miss all of you!!! I miss going to small group with ya''ll.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(27, 78, 'molly', 'mccracken.molly@gmail.com', 'http://www.cygnetsmall.wordpress.com', '71.163.39.126', '2008-09-30 12:57:53', '2008-09-30 16:57:53', 'The bullet point from Sept 28 sounds just about exactly like Eleanor. :)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(28, 45, 'Elaine Tolsma-Harlow', 'reoharlow@hotmail.com', '', '24.231.153.122', '2008-10-03 09:22:32', '2008-10-03 13:22:32', 'Hi My old friend, (but really not that old)\r\n\r\nI have been slowly reading through your blog.  I just found out Rick is following you on twitter &amp; he suggested I start reading this.  I have greatly enjoyed what I have read so far, agreeing with you on politics &amp; the Christians against Christians slogan (it causes me some discomfort living in W. Michigan).  I too am amazed how the internet has opened up worlds for me from people from my past, some good, some not-so-good.  I am sorry that you had many messy, complicated years &amp; pray that the joy you have now found is forever.  We have taken very different journeys, but both suffer scars from the past &amp; hopefully can rejoice in a cup running over.  I am now a 8 year cancer survivor still battling the effects &amp; popping meds to keep me up and moving.  I would love to get back in touch with you.  Feel free to email me or connect with me on facebook.  Rick decided I needed to be on facebook almost a year ago, it was left dormant until a high school friend contacted me &amp; have found it to be very much like you described in your blog.  \r\n\r\nBlessings to you &amp; your family,\r\nElaine', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(30, 78, 'Arathi', 'arathi.kylasam@gmail.com', '', '128.174.60.182', '2008-10-06 11:43:32', '2008-10-06 15:43:32', 'Don''t make them shorter! I like your long posts!\r\n\r\nA', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(33, 86, 'Dad Berg', 'tberg@farmersagent.com', '', '70.232.9.182', '2008-10-08 14:30:23', '2008-10-08 18:30:23', 'Thanks Kristin for sharing yourself. This brought tears of joy to my eyes. You are too good to be true.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(34, 90, 'Dagny', 'empress.dagny@gmail.com', 'http://dagsempire.blogspot.com/', '76.102.38.175', '2008-10-09 02:29:16', '2008-10-09 06:29:16', 'I found my way here because you linked to Neil''s blog in this post.  I was intrigued.  And I''m glad that I clicked over.\r\n\r\nI started blogging because I wanted to re-find my voice as a story teller.  I don''t care about how many people to whom I connect (as evidenced by comments and links and stuff).  All I care about is that I connected with someone.  To me, upsetting are the posts for which there are no comments.  All I want is one.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(35, 90, 'Kristin', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-10-09 10:37:54', '2008-10-09 14:37:54', 'It''s good to meet you, Dagny. I know what you mean about wanting just one comment. It''s not about ego, it''s just that stories need an audience. We just want to know we''re not telling them into the dark. So thanks for reading—and commenting.\r\nK', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(36, 90, 'Arathi', 'arathi.kylasam@gmail.com', '', '128.174.60.182', '2008-10-09 12:02:54', '2008-10-09 16:02:54', 'I truly find your writing very inspiring. I think it''s wonderful that you write about daily things and make them so interesting and thought-provoking, you know? IAnd let me assure you, this is totally not inspired by any social pressure.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(37, 86, 'DaNae', 'dreynolds422@gmail.com', '', '65.175.164.46', '2008-10-09 12:43:39', '2008-10-09 16:43:39', 'Kristin, I have enjoyed your blog so much ( and this is from a very "so so" blogger by the way!  I have a hard time keeping up with my New Zealand updates!)  I just had to tell you that this entry really spoke to me and I needed to read it, thank you. 2 years ago I found myself in a place of needing to "re-define" myself, I was lost and how does one start over?  I''m still working on that, but by the Grace of God every day can  be a new beginning if I choose it to be so.  It is easy to be cautious and to keep up defensive,  it takes work, choice and a whole lot of faith to be hopeful and to pick up one foot and keep putting it in front of the other.  Thank you for the reminder of that in this post.  I am glad for a reconnection, even if it is electronic at this point, with you.  I know we are very different people then the ones we knew in college, but I am thankful for a glimpse into your life.\r\nmuch love, DaNae', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(38, 86, 'Mom (Mary)', 'mary@simplychicagoart.com', '', '66.150.110.71', '2008-10-09 12:51:54', '2008-10-09 16:51:54', 'Thank you Kristin. I am always surprised at the amount of love our hearts can hold when we allow ourselves to be vulnerable. When you think you could not possibly love any more, God brings someone else into you life and WA LA you love them too. It is wonderful when you reach a point in your life when you find out that Life is not "to good to be true" it is what you make of it. Like when your adult children not only become your friends but also your brother''s &amp; sister''s in Christ.\r\nWith love from my heart to yours.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(39, 83, 'Ahbleza', 'ahbleza13@gmail.com', '', '98.212.131.46', '2008-10-09 15:19:43', '2008-10-09 19:19:43', 'I''ve trying to think of a comment to post, but nothing significant has come to me. I ran across this today; perhaps it can be seen as relevant? \r\n\r\nBy Theodore Dalrymple\r\n\r\nThere is a fashion these days for apologies: not apologies for the things that one has actually done oneself (that kind of apology is as difficult to make and as unfashionable as ever), but for public apologies by politicians for the crimes and misdemeanours of their ancestors, or at least of their predecessors. I think it is reasonable to call this pattern of political breast-beating the False Apology Syndrome.\r\n\r\nMr. Blair, the then British prime minister, apologized to the Irish for the famine; one of the first public acts of Mr. Rudd, the Australian prime minister, was to apologize to the Aborigines for the dispossession of their continent; Pope John Paul II apologized to the Muslims for the Crusades. There are many other examples, and there are also demands for apologies by aggrieved, or supposedly aggrieved, groups.\r\n\r\nWhat is this all about, and what does it signify? Does it mean that at long last the powerful are making a genuine effort to see things from the point of view of the weak, or is it, on the contrary, a form of moral exhibitionism that subverts genuine moral thought and conduct?\r\n\r\nLet us examine briefly the apology for the Crusades as an example of the whole genre. It is not exactly a new discovery that the Crusaders often, perhaps usually or even always, behaved very badly. It is not in the nature of invading armies to behave well, even when discipline is strong, morale is high, and control of the foot soldiers is firm; it is no secret that these conditions did not exist during the Crusades, to put it rather mildly.\r\n\r\nThey were, however, rather a long time ago. The Crusades were an attempt to recover for Christendom what had been lost by force, with all the accompanying massacre, pillage, and oppression that the use of force in those days implied. No one, I think, expects an apology from present-day Arabs for the imperialism of their ancestors, either as a matter of moral duty or political likelihood. We are all born into the world as we find it, after all; we are not responsible for what went before us.\r\n\r\nOf course, we may take pride in the culture and achievements of our biological or political ancestors — indeed such pride is necessary for the preservation and development of any civilization — in which case it is only right and proper that we should also face up squarely to the less glorious aspects of our heritage. But this is a matter for genuine historical scholarship and moral reflection of the kind that leads to a determination never to repeat the crimes, not for sound-bite sloganeering. The world would be a better place if academics in the Islamic world faced up to the fact (and were free to face up to the fact) that their religion does not have a peaceful historical record, just as the world has become a better place because the Germans have acknowledged the recent historical record of their country. If large numbers of Germans, including their leaders, started to say that Germany is what it has always been, namely a land of peace, the rest of the world would have good cause to tremble.\r\n\r\nBut official apologies for distant events, however important or pregnant with consequences those events may have been, are another matter entirely. They have bad effects on both those who give them and those who receive them.\r\n\r\nThe effect on the givers is the creation of a state of spiritual pride. Insofar as the person offering the apology is doing what no one has done before him, he is likely to consider himself the moral superior of his predecessors. He alone has had the moral insight and courage to apologize.\r\n\r\nOn the other hand, he knows full well that he has absolutely no personal moral responsibility for whatever it is that he is apologizing for. In other words, his apology brings him all kudos and no pain.\r\n\r\nThis inevitably leads to the false supposition that the moral life can be lived without the pain of self-examination. The locus of moral concern becomes what others do or have done, not what one does oneself. And a good deed in the form of an apology in public for some heinous wrong in the distant past gives the person who makes it a kind of moral capital, at least in his own estimation, against which he can offset his expenditure of vice.\r\n\r\nThe habit of public apology for things for which one bears no personal responsibility changes the whole concept of a virtuous person, from one who exercises the discipline of virtue to one who expresses correct sentiment. The most virtuous person of all is he who expresses it loudest and to most people. This is a debasement of morality, not a refinement of it. The end result is likely to be self-satisfaction and ruthlessness accompanied by unctuous moralizing, rather than a determination to behave well.\r\n\r\nThe effect on some of the recipients of such apologies is likely to be very bad also, for similar though slightly different reasons. Let us take the demand for an apology for the Atlantic slave trade as an example.\r\n\r\nI doubt whether anyone could be found nowadays who would mount a moral defense of that trade. That it was hideous and cruel beyond all description hardly needs saying, and what does not need saying should not be said, at least not often, for otherwise the lady doth protest too much.\r\n\r\nThe demand for an apology supposes that there is a clearly definable person, or group of persons, who can be held responsible for the trade, or at the very least to have been the beneficiaries of it. In other words, the world can be neatly divided into historical oppressed and oppressor, victim and perpetrator.\r\n\r\nMost historical situations and their consequences are more complex and ambiguous than this simple schema would suggest, and the slave trade is no exception. For medical reasons having to do with relative immunity to malaria, if for no others, the supply of slaves depended crucially on the co-operation of African suppliers who captured slaves for sale. No apology from their descendents is required. The trade was abolished almost entirely through the efforts of white abolitionists. However discontented with their lot present-day American descendents of slaves may be, they are much better off than they would have been had their ancestors not been brought to America. Are they morally obliged, then, to offer up thanks to the slave traders who brought their ancestors to America?\r\n\r\nThus the demand for an apology for the Atlantic slave trade is a demand that people with no personal responsibility for it apologize to people who have suffered no personal wrong from it. From the point of view of morality, this is a very strange demand.\r\n\r\nIt isn’t very difficult to discern what lies behind it: money, and lots of it. Nor does it require extraordinary powers of prediction or foresight to know who would get the lion’s share of any such money that was forthcoming.\r\n\r\nBut even when money is not involved, there are deleterious effects on the recipients of what one might call class-action apologies. Just as those who give them become convinced of their own virtue, so do those who receive them. It is enough that they should be considered victims for them to conclude that they can do no wrong, or at any rate no wrong worth talking about. For what is a personal peccadillo to set beside a great historical wrong?\r\n\r\nAn apology of this kind, then, or even the supposition that such an apology ought to be forthcoming, exerts a liberating, that is to say loosening, effect upon personal morals. For what can I do wrong to compare with the wrongs that my ancestors suffered at the hands of your ancestors? How dare you even mention it, you hypocrite!\r\n\r\nThe neat division of populations into victims and perpetrators, oppressed and oppressors, sinners and saints, that public apologies for long-past wrongs both imply and strengthen means that all sense of human tragedy is lost. The situation of the Aborigines in Australia, however, was and is tragic, and would still be tragic even had the settlers behaved from the first in the best possible or morally ideal fashion. (It is not in human nature that they should have done so, least of all in a rough-and-ready and very young frontier society.)\r\n\r\nThere is no obvious or easy answer to the problem of a Stone Age people who come into close contact with a vastly superior material culture. Neither total assimilation nor preservation in what amounts to a living ethnographic museum is a complete or satisfactory solution; probably such a solution does not exist, which is the tragedy. But a blanket apology and the granting of group economic privileges is hardly the way to cultivate a sense of personal responsibility in a population now decimated by alcoholism and brutalized by family violence. Quite the contrary: psychologically, if not in strict logic, it will allow a man to beat his wife and blame history.\r\n\r\nThe False Apology Syndrome flourishes wherever there has been a shift in the traditional locus of moral concern. At one time, a man probably felt most morally responsible for his own actions. He was adjudged (and judged himself) good or bad by how he conducted himself toward those in his immediate circle. From its center rippled circles of ever-decreasing moral concern, of which he was also increasingly ignorant. Now, however, it is the other way round. Under the influence of the media of mass communication and the spread of sociological ways of thinking, a man is most likely to judge himself and others by the opinions he and they hold on political, social, and economic questions that are far distant from his immediate circle. A man may be an irresponsible father, but that is more than compensated for by his deep concern about global warming, or foreign policy, or the food situation in Africa.\r\n\r\nA false apology is usually accompanied by bogus or insincere guilt, which is often confused with appropriate shame. The German chancellor, Mrs Merkel, spoke in the Knesset recently of her shame at what Germany had done: this was the correct word to use, and precisely the right sentiment for a German who shared no part of the responsibility for what had happened. Pride in the German musical tradition; shame for what Germans had done in the 1930s and ’40s.\r\n\r\nGuilt, by its very nature, ought to be connected to responsibility; it ought, moreover, to be in proportion to the wrongdoing that is its occasion. To assume a guilt greater than the responsibility warrants is actually a form of grandiosity or self-aggrandisement. The psychological mechanism seems to be something like this: “I feel very guilty, therefore I must be very important.â€\r\n\r\nIn some case, it is a substitute for importance, or for a loss of importance. Europe (or at least its intellectual class) now feels more than ever responsible for Africa, precisely because its power over it has waned. If Europe cannot feel itself responsible any longer for all that is good and progressive in Africa, such as modern medicine, roads, railways, telephone, etc., it can at least feel responsible for all that is bad in it, such as starvation, civil wars, and so forth. For it is far better, from the point of view of self-esteem, to be responsible for great evil than to be completely or even relatively unimportant. If in the process of false apologizing the participants render Africans themselves inert and inanimate, responsible themselves for nothing, or nothing very much, that is a small price to pay.\r\n\r\nFalse Apology Syndrome — which is not yet found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association or the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases, tenth edition — is a therefore rich but poisonous mixture of self-importance, libertinism, condescension, bad faith, loose thinking, and indifference to the effects it has on those who are apologized to.\r\n\r\nI am, of course, sorry if you disagree.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(40, 90, 'JESSICA BERN', 'bernzee@mac.com', 'http://bernthis.typepad.com', '75.7.149.56', '2008-10-09 21:09:27', '2008-10-10 01:09:27', 'THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.  Your post is something I need to cut out and paste to my computer.  There are so many times when I feel like I''m once again the unpopular girl and I''m not  "in" with anything.  I start with the obsessing with the stats and the commenting, etc and then, Thank God, I am now at a point where I stop myself and say, "Why are you writing? Huh? Why?" and I have promised myself that if the answer is ever anything but "B/C I love to write" than it''s game over. \r\n\r\nThanks again.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(41, 86, 'Elaine Tolsma-Harlow', 'reoharlow@hotmail.com', '', '24.231.153.122', '2008-10-10 07:39:43', '2008-10-10 11:39:43', 'I''ve been thinking about this post for the last couple days &amp; I also read DaNae''s post with great interest.  Ironically, I have been talking to someone else about hope in the future lately so I found this to be helpful.  It is hard to have hope when you loose focus &amp; vision when you live with a chronic illness.  I have felt beat up too often to jump back up and be filled with hope.  I think somedays I''m more wary than hopeful (a dangerous place to be).  I do want to add that when you turn everything to God it becomes less about us &amp; more about Him &amp; that helps in being hopeful and regaining focus.  Thank you for your well timed post.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(42, 90, 'Elaine Tolsma-Harlow', 'reoharlow@hotmail.com', '', '24.231.153.122', '2008-10-10 07:40:54', '2008-10-10 11:40:55', 'I like my wine &amp; conversation at night with a little dark chocolate (yum!)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(43, 90, 'Kristin', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '76.199.8.13', '2008-10-10 12:02:48', '2008-10-10 16:02:48', 'Hey Jessica. It''s good to meet other writers who can empathize with how I feel! We all need to come up with a way to regularly remind each other to keep writing for the right reasons. Thanks for reading and commenting. I''ll look forward to checking out your blog, too. \r\nK', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(44, 92, 'dawn', 'dawnpatch@hotmail.com', '', '69.209.224.41', '2008-10-10 14:11:30', '2008-10-10 18:11:30', 'I remember Rhonda saying of the 1st  photos of Isabella "she looks like Clint Eastwood, go ahead make my day". My Elliot fell in love with her on sight (bla-bela!)  Sweet and brave, what a honey.  Kidnapping is not allowed, though, so we just bask in her smiles (and those of her charming/charmed brother) from over here.  \r\n\r\nGreat post!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(45, 90, 'Janet Roper', 'janetroper@mac.com', 'http://talk2theanimals.net/', '63.228.47.136', '2008-10-11 18:40:45', '2008-10-11 22:40:45', 'Hi Kristin,\r\nI''m a first time visitor, &amp; found you by searching Champaign-Urbana on Twitter.  I went to school at the U of I and IWU, which is close to Normal. I love, simply love the name of your blog, and your explanation of it.\r\n\r\nFor me, doing the social media thing is like going on a treasure hunt.  I visit a lot of places before I find one that feels ''homey''.  Glad I found yours!\r\nHarmony,\r\nJanet', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(48, 90, 'Virginia', 'vcurtis@cars4causes.net', 'http://www.cars4causes.net', '68.124.175.150', '2008-10-14 15:56:22', '2008-10-14 19:56:22', 'I am happy to see a writer blogging for the sake of it! \r\nI have been writing all my life, and I started blogging as a job for my charity, Cars4Causes. I also blog for myself on Intent.com, which is a real interesting community of writers. I am interested in social media from a business standpoint, but mostly because I want to get the word out about the good work we do here. For myself, I have been on Myspace for a couple years, and didn''t even know about all the other sm out there until I started online for my job. I agree with your high-school clique analogy completely, but there are also some real generous and wise people out there who are trying to give a hand to the small time players, and are willing to share what they know to benefit others. I am enjoying the process, as well as the opportunity to get paid for spending my days on the Internet! My daughter''s complaint? I don''t ever go on my personal Myspace anymore.After spending all day at the office watching Twitter and doing other social media as well as blogging 2 posts a week for C4C http://blog.cars4causes.net  I hardly go online for myself anymore! Ah, balance, where for art thou? \r\nGreat blog, keep it up! Cheers! V.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(47, 95, 'Dagny', 'empress.dagny@gmail.com', 'http://dagsempire.blogspot.com/', '32.155.237.7', '2008-10-13 19:11:23', '2008-10-13 23:11:23', 'In Berkeley it''s called Indigenous Peoples Day.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5F136 Safari/525.20', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(51, 98, 'Dagny', 'empress.dagny@gmail.com', 'http://dagsempire.blogspot.com/', '76.102.38.175', '2008-10-15 01:45:08', '2008-10-15 05:45:08', 'I wish the internet had been around when my parents went through their divorce.  Then, perhaps, a 10-year-old me would not have had to hear about how much pain my dad was in a result of the divorce.  When he was supposed to be talking to me about where I was emotionally.\r\n\r\nI fully support men having an emotional outlet.  Especially if it''s not their kids.  Because they''ll just end up paying for years of therapy if they rely on their kids as their outlet.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(162, 150, 'Becky', 'b.conekin@fashion.arts.ac.uk', '', '82.6.99.242', '2008-11-15 11:32:57', '2008-11-15 15:32:57', 'Mittens number one and girls shriek are my top favs. thanks for sharing this with me! (I read them to Edie, too---she likes soup and silliness best...) Big love to all of you!! xxx, Becky', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; MSN 6.1; MSNbMSFT; MSNmen-gb; MSNc00; MSNc00)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(54, 100, 'Dagny', 'empress.dagny@gmail.com', 'http://dagsempire.blogspot.com/', '76.102.38.175', '2008-10-17 00:12:52', '2008-10-17 04:12:52', 'You''re welcome.  Actually when I first clicked over to your blog from Neil''s, I read through several posts including the one on stereotypes.  I was not offended.  I got what you were saying.  Every now and then a thought enters my mind and then I have to remind myself that I am buying into a stereotype.  I try hard not to do it because I don''t want others to do that with me.  And now I have skimmed the piece from the British psychiatrist (I had to look him up.) that''s in the comments.\r\n\r\nHere''s a thought.  The reason why blacks (Yes, this is the preferred term in my family.) have wanted an apology because there is a hope that then there will be a chance to have a real dialogue of what this has meant over the centuries.  When I hear someone ask, "Why do we have to talk about slavery at all?" what I hear is, "I am not willing to admit that over 100 years since the end of slavery that I as an individual may still benefit from it on a daily basis."\r\n\r\nWhat I love about blogging is the ability to interact with one''s audience.  And I must admit that I have had a number of posts that were born from reading something that someone else has written.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(161, 150, 'Ken Wagner', 'mail@kenwagner.name', 'http://kenwagner.name', '24.47.184.69', '2008-11-14 20:22:20', '2008-11-15 00:22:20', 'Great haiku! I really enjoyed them. \r\n\r\nI am just starting to get into haiku, too, and then this Twitter contest came along. My entry was okay. \r\n\r\nI really like your first and third haiku - mittens and yarn. I think the first one would do well in the contest.\r\n\r\nThanks for sharing.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(56, 100, 'Kristin', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '99.147.6.115', '2008-10-17 11:55:56', '2008-10-17 15:55:56', 'Thanks for the interaction, Dagny, and for giving us more things to think about.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of interaction, this seems like a perfect opportunity for some of you to share with the rest of us. Tell us something you''ve learned about yourself from reading other people''s stories. Who knows—maybe your responses will become a whole new post! (Yes, I''m being a little bit lazy, but mostly I really just want to hear from you.)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(60, 100, 'Kristin', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '99.147.6.115', '2008-10-20 11:42:37', '2008-10-20 15:42:37', 'Thanks, Eliacin. It''s good to have you here. I''m also very glad I found your blog (and I happen to be a big fan of your banner, too). \r\n\r\nPeace and hope to you.\r\n\r\nKristin', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(59, 100, 'Eliacin', 'eliacin@gmail.com', 'http://www.eliacin.com', '67.170.105.90', '2008-10-19 19:34:27', '2008-10-19 23:34:27', 'Kristin,\r\n\r\nThanks for reaching out. It is always a gift to come across kindred spirits. Love your blog banner.  I look forward to hear of your story. \r\n\r\nPaz y esperanza, \r\nEliacin', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(61, 104, 'Dagny', 'empress.dagny@gmail.com', 'http://dagsempire.blogspot.com/', '76.102.38.175', '2008-10-20 23:56:46', '2008-10-21 03:56:46', 'My mom was a bio major.  She is also a huge church-goer.  Growing up I often asked her about this topic.  She taught me that the two thoughts -- religion and evolution -- could co-exist.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(62, 104, 'Lorna', 'lornae2@gmail.com', '', '128.174.138.78', '2008-10-21 14:16:37', '2008-10-21 18:16:37', 'Francis Collins of the Human Genome project calls this BioLogos, but its also known as Theistic Evolution. Collins'' book The Language of God might be interesting to you too...I''ll give it to you after our small group is done w/it in a couple weeks!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(64, 106, 'eliacin', 'eliacin@gmail.com', 'http://www.eliacin.com', '64.241.37.140', '2008-10-21 14:58:43', '2008-10-21 18:58:43', 'This is such a fantastic ideas. Thanks for the link too.\r\n\r\nPaz,\r\nEliacin', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(65, 106, 'Dagny', 'empress.dagny@gmail.com', 'http://dagsempire.blogspot.com/', '209.31.231.98', '2008-10-21 15:11:43', '2008-10-21 19:11:43', 'You''ve seen my freezer.  It''s all about leftovers.\r\n\r\nThe potluck with friends could be great -- if they actually cooked enough at a time to have leftovers.  Many of my friends cook just enough for that one meal.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; MSDigitalLocker; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(66, 106, 'Natalie Hart', 'nataliehart@sbcglobal.net', '', '70.237.121.184', '2008-10-21 16:06:29', '2008-10-21 20:06:29', 'We had that one Thanksgiving a few years back. Just little bits of everyone''s leftovers. It was great fun. At my house, we (okay, only I) call it Festival of Leftovers, and I make sure to be extra-festive when I say it.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(67, 85, 'Nathan Todd', 'nathanrtodd@gmail.com', '', '98.220.254.98', '2008-10-21 21:06:53', '2008-10-22 01:06:53', 'One of the characteristics of "whiteness", or of being in the dominant group in the United States society, is the unexamination of our own racial privilege.  We, as White people (I am a White male) don''t have to think about stereotypes or prejudice in the same ways that people of color or other minority groups do.  Often when we are confronted with our own stereotypes we feel uncomfortable, possibly bad about ourselves, and try to get away from these negative feelings as quick as possible.  At the same time, race --for whites too-- is a pervasive organizing principle in our society and the more that people who are White try to ignore race, the more we as White people fall into oppressing people of color.  And if our discomfort anything compared to the impact of stereotypes on people of color?  Instead of trying to adopt the "color-blind" race doesn''t matter attitude, we should strive to understand how race does matter on multiple levels.  Our unexamination can lead to negative consequences for others . . . our friends, neighbors, loved ones . . . is that what we want?  \r\n  Given the religious content of this blog, I also wonder the cost to our own spirituality and authentic relationship with others across difference . . . and doesn’t God over and over again cry out for those in power to examine the effects of their power and, god forbid, give some of it up for the benefit of the marginalized?  Maybe we as a Christian community should re-read the biblical prophets through the lens of God’s passion for justice . . . or maybe we would rather focus on the touchy feely good stuff of Christianity that may allow us to feel like we are good people in this world while we ignore our role in the suffering of others.  I should probably end this response before I really tell you how I really feel! \r\n  Even if you felt there was some blundering Kristin, thanks for putting some of your White experience out there.  We as White people are not going to be perfect, but hopefully by humbling examining our own whiteness we can become better racial allies to people of color (and other marginalized groups).\r\n\r\nps.  if you don''t think that being White matters, check out the following website to see how whiteness and White culture are articulated . . . \r\n1.  Stuff White people Like (http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/)\r\n2.  Stuff White people do (http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/)\r\n3.  Black peopel love us (http://blackpeopleloveus.com/)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(68, 106, 'jessica bern', 'bernzee@mac.com', 'http://bernthis.typepad.com', '71.156.50.79', '2008-10-22 15:28:07', '2008-10-22 19:28:07', 'My ex is a fabulous cook. I would look in the fridge and exclaim; "nothing, we either need to go to the store or eat out"\r\n\r\nFive minutes later, there he''d be cooking away and we never left the house.  I don''t miss him but I sure do miss that.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(73, 109, 'Kristin', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '76.199.6.172', '2008-10-24 14:12:31', '2008-10-24 18:12:31', 'Yay Elizabeth! Welcome to the conversation. I hope to hear from you often. :)\r\n\r\nKaren: Don''t get me started about Fox News...\r\n\r\nDagny: I wish I could meet your grandmother.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(70, 109, 'Dagny', 'empress.dagny@gmail.com', 'http://dagsempire.blogspot.com/', '76.102.38.175', '2008-10-24 02:33:35', '2008-10-24 06:33:35', 'Although I walked away from organized religion many years ago, most of my family is deeply Christian -- with a few Muslims thrown in the mix.  My 85-year-old Pentecostal grandmother hears stuff like this and asks, "Don''t these people understand what it means to be Christian?"  Because my grandma has no problem with ideas like gay marriage.  She says it''s not hurting her and besides her religious teachings have told her that it is not her place to judge others.  She may not agree but she shouldn''t judge.  And no, she doesn''t live in California.\r\n\r\nI have a hard time with folks like Palin because many of the folks in my family are deeply religious.  However, they also think that their religious beliefs should not necessarily shape the laws of this country.  And at times like this, I think that I am blessed to have grown up around folks who understand the word "acceptance."', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(71, 109, 'KarenDV', 'karen@devriesfamily.us', '', '75.48.223.246', '2008-10-24 07:56:45', '2008-10-24 11:56:45', 'Not to be *too* cynical, but I would not take comfort in the statistics of responses on the CNN site, because CNN is part of the "liberal media elite" and therefore cannot be trusted. Palin supporters don''t even bother going to the CNN site -- why would they when they have the unbiased Fox News site, which also tells them the preposterous claims that CNN has made in the last hour? (Don''t you just love it when news channels report on what other news channel pundits are saying instead of reporting the actual news?)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(72, 109, 'Elizabeth', 'erieke@gmail.com', '', '98.212.227.73', '2008-10-24 08:14:24', '2008-10-24 12:14:24', 'I''m finally taking the plunge and making my first ever comment on a blog!  Sad, I know.  Anyways.....\r\nFirst, wanted to say thanks for all the great posts lately.  I honestly do look forward to checking your page to see if there is something new to read.  Second, thank you, in particular, for this post.  Sometimes I get a little too comfortable within the NCF community...being a liberal female Christian is not at all out of the ordinary, probably more of the majority.  Then I find myself in a situation yesterday where I am at a patient''s home, when somehow at the very end the election was brought up.  There was a new caregiver in the home and she repeats a comment apparently made by her friend, "All Christians vote Republican".  I got out of there pretty quickly after stating that, in fact, all Christians do NOT vote Republican.  It was good to read your post....God is bigger than all this...he will do the right thing, but it has nothing to do with Republicans or Democrats.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(74, 109, 'jessica Bern', 'bernzee@mac.com', 'http://bernthis.typepad.com', '71.156.50.79', '2008-10-26 02:40:28', '2008-10-26 06:40:28', 'I''m Jewish. I don''t practice but imagine how it feels to be told that the only way to live a good life is to be a Christian?  \r\n\r\nI find remarks like that to be nothing short of anti-semitic and many who spout this point of view are in fact racists and anti-semites, homophobic and everything else under the sun except what I believe to be the real definition of a "Christian".', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(75, 74, 'molly', 'mccracken.molly@gmail.com', '', '71.191.251.40', '2008-10-26 19:12:29', '2008-10-26 23:12:29', 'How beautiful.  You''ve reminded me that I need to write my grandmother a letter too.  The phone is great, but there is something so special about planning out your thoughts in a letter.  I love seeing the picture too, Grandma T looks great -- nice to see her and her granddaughter (who by the way is so grown up!  They were such little babes at our wedding!)  xoxo', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N');
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(76, 109, 'PG', 'pg@annoyinglyboring.com', 'http://annoyinglyboring.com/', '75.67.11.60', '2008-10-26 22:46:39', '2008-10-27 02:46:39', 'good post indeed.  and it''s too bad that dagny''s gramma doesn''t live in cali.  could use her vote on prop 8. \r\n\r\nfwiw, i clicked through from the comment section on the good content/no readers post on chuck westbrook''s blog.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3 Creative ZENcast v2.00.07', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(77, 74, 'Dagny', 'empress.dagny@gmail.com', 'http://dagsempire.blogspot.com/', '76.102.38.175', '2008-10-27 03:00:26', '2008-10-27 07:00:26', 'Beautiful.  And now I need to call my one surviving grandparent.  She''s 85.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(78, 109, 'Kristin', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-10-27 10:44:16', '2008-10-27 14:44:16', 'Thanks for your perspective, Jessica. You''re absolutely right. The racist, anti-semitic, homophobic views of many so-called Christians are among the most disturbing aspects of the faith to me—particularly when those view are held not in spite of but *because* of their belief system. \r\n\r\nKristin', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(160, 150, 'Arathi', 'arathi.kylasam@gmail.com', '', '128.174.60.182', '2008-11-14 15:38:10', '2008-11-14 19:38:10', 'I like the one about silliness, the one about joy and doom, the one about the five year old''s crush.... like them all actually, not fair to make us have to choose!! :-)\r\n\r\nA', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(80, 116, 'Lorna', 'lornae2@gmail.com', '', '128.174.138.78', '2008-10-28 14:39:29', '2008-10-28 18:39:29', 'Oh! I have a project that I''ve been meaning to show you that incorporates Wordle tag clouds of my tweets into an altered book!  It was my first project in my new craft room, so has extra special significance. And it is totally about how it feels, I understand that completely.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(81, 116, 'Matt', 'jmscanlon@gmail.com', 'http://mattscanlon.blogspot.com', '198.6.202.187', '2008-10-28 15:53:39', '2008-10-28 19:53:39', 'Oh, I LURVE clouds. I spend a ridiculous amount of time each day scrying the <a href="http://www.twitscoop.com/" rel="nofollow">Twitscoop</a> cloud. It''s like reading a crystal ball!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; InfoPath.2)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(159, 145, 'Jessica Bern', 'bernthis@gmail.com', 'http://bernthis.typepad.com', '71.156.50.79', '2008-11-14 14:38:02', '2008-11-14 18:38:02', 'I had no idea about that whole 31 percent deal.   I have a five year old girl and I talk to her a lot about promises. Thank you for opening my eyes on this subject, as I will now approach the topic very differently.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(83, 114, 'Heather', 'live4him24@gmail.com', 'http://live4him24.blogspot.com', '74.183.67.232', '2008-10-28 22:35:46', '2008-10-29 02:35:46', 'What a sweet letter!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(84, 100, 'Jessica Bern', 'bernzee@mac.com', 'http://bernthis.typepad.com', '71.156.50.79', '2008-10-29 01:46:49', '2008-10-29 05:46:49', 'I couldn''t agree with you more. Sometimes I learn just how lucky I am in my life something I have a hard time seeing or certainly did up until recently. \r\n\r\nSometimes I learn how to cope better and get an enormous amount of strength from other''s bravery in the face of enormous obstacles', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(85, 114, 'Nancy Pagaduan', 'nancy@miia-moocreations.com', '', '98.228.50.108', '2008-10-29 12:38:04', '2008-10-29 16:38:04', 'Honestly, I haven''t been able to get through your letters to your grandmothers.  I have to stop for the occasional cry.  But you should know that your letters are really inspiring and it was hard not to think of my own grandmother while I was reading them.  Lola (grandma in Tagalog) was quite a special woman to me and my whole family.  She moved in with us when I was 8, my sister was 5 and my brother was a few months old.  She lived with us until I was a freshman in high school-taking care of us, cooking, helping us with our homework.  She was the 3rd parent not just a grandma.  As I look back, I realize we were so lucky to have her in our lives.\r\n\r\nPart of Analea''s name comes from my grandmother whose nickname was Ana (that''s another story) and John''s mom Lea (yet another story).  I think Lola''s spirit must be living in Analea because I''ve never known a child to babble so much as if she''s telling us a story.  And that was something that my grandmother could do ALL DAY LONG.  It didn''t matter what she was doing, she always had a story to tell us. Something would reminder her of a person or an event in her past and she would start, "When I was a little girl..."  or "Did I tell you about..."  Some days, I would think, "Oh no, not again."  But most days, I thought she was the most magical woman I knew.  How could she possibly have done so much, know so much?  I keep telling myself that I need to write as many of these stories down so that I can pass them on to Miia and Analea.  They''d make great bedtime stories.  Lola''s not with us any more so I lost the opportunity to get them directly from her again - either by letters or by recording her.  But by the time I was old enough to think to do this, Lola was becoming a different person-one that I didn''t care to recognize because I thought if this was the last memory I had of her, then I would somehow lose the stories. The woman I was hearing about didn''t match the woman who told me the stories, the girl and the woman who lived them. \r\n\r\nIn my closet-cleaning frenzy of the past few days, I found something I had written about her 12 years ago.\r\n\r\n"It''s hard for me to acceopt my grandmother as someone who is "losing it."  I will forever see her as the woman who was always full of stories of life - of her as a tomboy, a tennis player, a widow, a single mother way before her time, a woman who lost her husband and toddler son in the war, a WWII activist, an immigrant, a woman who worked for her kids and her kids'' kids because she "got out," a farmer, a schoolteacher turned vegetable seller, a remarkable person, a strong woman.  Now the stories have changed a bit.  They are no longer told by her but instead are told about her.  I am trying so hard to ignore these new stories that want to wipe her out and turn her into someone she never was in her life - weak.  I can no longer ask her to "tell me the story about the time you tried to steal fruits from the mango man" because she can no longer remember things on cue like that.  Instead, she is always in story mode and no one can make sense of what she''s saying.  Grandma is slipping away from our family into the world of "senility" or Alzheimer''s.  No one will really say which it is.  I want so bad to hold on to her stories as if that will somehow keep her with us, because someone has to remember for her, someone has to put the stories in a place other than her memory or mine.  Otherwise, he WHOLE LIFE disapears in a fraction of the time that she lived.  But what a daunting task...to remember and document someone else''s life."\r\n\r\nMy blog comment has gone on way too long!  Thanks so much Kristen for helping me remember my grandmother.  Maybe now I''ll start to remember and write down her stories.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(86, 114, 'joi tennant', 'joitennant@verizon.net', 'http://TrackBack', '98.108.10.223', '2008-10-29 14:01:49', '2008-10-29 18:01:49', 'Kristin,\r\nTo take the time to assess the value and beauty of someone whose life has touched ours, who we admire and love even more as we watch them struggling with end-of-life issues; and to share with others those thoughts, is a small portion of our own life well-spent and becomes a kind of prayer of thanks to God for this precious gift we have been given.  You are blessed to have your grandmas live so long so that you can appreciate them now in a mature way.  Thank you for reminding us about what really matters as we prioritize our time.\r\nJoi', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/312.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.6', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(87, 109, 'joi tennant', 'joitennant@verizon.net', 'http://TrackBack', '98.108.10.223', '2008-10-29 14:29:14', '2008-10-29 18:29:14', 'Your blog posting has set me thinking about the problem of "celebrities" like Palin who happen to have a public forum for what in our opinion becomes a simplistic misrepresentation of our faith in God and how we believe God works in the world. By the way, you made some very good points.  Even the most distinguished theologians, the ones we would prefer be speaking for us, explaining how God participates in our world, would vary widely on this subject.  Is there any way that God involves "himself" in the political activities of the nations of the world?  Christians believe that the closest we can get to knowing the nature of God and God''s participation with human beings is by studying and then "accepting" Jesus as God in human form.  Looking and listening to Jesus we see that he worked with individuals, one on one, planting the kingdom of God here on earth.  Jesus said that just like yeast in bread or just like a mustard seed grows into a bushy tree, so the work of God''s kingdom spreads from person to person.  Is God voting for McCain or Obama by pressing his will into our minds, thus changing the course of history?  Highly unlikely!  If it were so, the world would already look a whole lot better than it does today.  But Christians do believe that God is in the business of changing US -- how we react and interact with each other.  No matter who is elected, what happens in this world depends on how each of us behaves the day after the voting is over.  Jesus commanded each of us to love and TRY to understand the other guy as much as we love our own opinions and perspectives.  Even when we grieve the bad press that often makes a mockery of Christian faith, we are to realize our call to be even wiser -- more ready to express the essence of our belief.\r\nThis morning during my meditation time I read this poem by George MacDonald from Diary of An Old Soul.  I think it applies here.\r\n"Keep me from wrath, let it seem ever so right:\r\nMy wrath will never work thy righteousness.\r\nUp, up the hill, to the whiter than snow-shine,\r\nHelp me to climb, and dwell in pardon''s light.\r\nI must be pure as thou, or even less\r\nThan thy design of me -- therefore incline\r\nMy heart to take man''s worngs as thou tak''st mine."', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/312.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.6', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(88, 71, 'Jennifer (Conversion Diary)', 'jensblogemail@gmail.com', 'http://www.conversiondiary.com', '70.113.78.168', '2008-10-30 17:14:06', '2008-10-30 21:14:06', 'This is a great post. Thanks for directing me to it!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(89, 109, 'Alli Butler', 'alli@sydtech.com', '', '98.111.86.76', '2008-10-30 21:35:25', '2008-10-31 01:35:25', 'Religion and politics are strange and inseparable bedfellows. I share Jessica''s concern and offense at comments like "America''s Christian values". Even when McCain *FINALLY* did the right thing in stopping the flow of venom at one of his rallies by taking the mic away from a woman who said that Obama was a Muslim his response was "no, Ma''am, he''s a decent man..." as though being a Muslim and being decent are not possibly traits that can co-exist. His positive statements for Obama further villianized  non-Christians. \r\n\r\nIn the last two presidential elections I felt that religion played such a predominant role that it was implied that if you were Christian you MUST be Republican because they were the only party that "shared your values." I also heard an Ohioian state that he was voting for McCain in this election because he feels that Sarah Palin is "blessed by the Holy Spirit." Granted, some people base their decisions on the guidance of burning bushes, etc but for me, I prefer more specific qualifications.\r\n\r\nI am an independent voter. I have voted for three different parties in my 20 years of voting. I am a social liberal and a fiscal conservative. I believe in a lot of the same values as the Democratic party, but I am not a Democrat. I refuse the label because - well, what if I decide that I don''t agree with everything that they stand for? What about Republicans that support reproductive choice or gun control? What about Democrats who don''t support civil rights for homosexuals? Why must we be so extreme in our partisanship?\r\n\r\nWell, maybe that''s just me...I resist the "Christian" label as well because I don''t agree with ALL of the tenants (no pun intended) of Christianity. I am also often offended at the hatred and bigotry leveled in Jesus'' name. But as you say, Not All Christians Are Like That.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(91, 129, 'Stacey Derbinshire', 'stacey@TheEconomicAdvisor.com', 'http://www.theeconomicadvisor.com', '66.117.3.167', '2008-10-31 20:45:47', '2008-11-01 00:45:47', 'Great post. I will read your posts frequently. Added you to the RSS reader.', 0, '1', '', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(92, 129, 'Dagny', 'empress.dagny@gmail.com', 'http://dagsempire.blogspot.com/', '209.85.170.136', '2008-11-01 01:06:31', '2008-11-01 05:06:31', 'I am suddenly remembering a line from the movie "Strictly Ballroom" -- "A life lived in fear is a life half lived."', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Google Wireless Transcoder;)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(93, 74, 'Christine', 'christine@colormepink.com', 'http://colormepink.com', '71.53.231.33', '2008-11-03 12:34:03', '2008-11-03 16:34:03', 'Beautiful letter. If we could all understand the balance of life, how wise we would be.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008100716 Firefox/3.0.3 Flock/2.0', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(95, 133, 'Matt', 'jmscanlon@gmail.com', 'http://mattscanlon.blogspot.com', '198.6.202.246', '2008-11-03 18:07:01', '2008-11-03 22:07:01', 'I''m more anxious than the average bear myself!\r\n\r\nVery well put, especially re: messy pasts and second chances. We''re a country of second-chancers - it''s sort of the national mission, isn''t it?', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; InfoPath.2)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(96, 135, 'molly', 'mccracken.molly@gmail.com', '', '72.83.117.76', '2008-11-05 20:40:51', '2008-11-06 00:40:51', 'Kristin, I spent about a half hour chuckling to myself about that first paragraph.  Absolutely fabulous that you 1) wrote that and 2) knew where the journal was from when you were ten. It was especially funny since we were tossing the idea of going to Canada around here at our house, had the outcome been different last night!  \r\nHooray for Obama and for the USA! :)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(97, 135, 'Jane Next Door', 'jane@janebillman.com', '', '98.212.165.31', '2008-11-05 21:25:02', '2008-11-06 01:25:02', 'Coloring in the states!  What a great idea that was!\r\n\r\nWe had a sponge cake decorated with the Obama symbol.  It was done with strawberries, bananas and blueberries.\r\n\r\nWe''d been looking forward to this day for 4 years. . . since Obama gave his speech to the DNC.  If we''d been realistic, we would have known he would win, but were afraid to believe it could be true.  My expectations for our Country had gone so low.\r\n\r\nAnd now there''s HOPE!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/523.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.12', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(98, 135, 'Presidential Race On Best Political Blogs &raquo; Blog Archive &raquo; What will our kids remember about election day?', '', 'http://presidential-race.bestpoliticalblogs.co.uk/2008/11/05/what-will-our-kids-remember-about-election-day/', '67.222.132.75', '2008-11-06 09:30:48', '2008-11-06 13:30:48', '[...] What will our kids remember about election day? (If that isn’t obvious enough in the presidential race, just look at Elizabeth Dole’s US Senate defeat by Kay Hagan. It seems clear Dole’s fate was sealed in large part by her last-minute attack ad, accusing Hagan of being “godless.â€) &#8230; [...]', 0, '1', 'Incutio XML-RPC -- WordPress/2.6.2', 'pingback', 0, 0, 'N'),
(99, 135, 'Aaron on Nevada', 'aebata@gmail.com', '', '98.212.231.233', '2008-11-06 10:50:58', '2008-11-06 14:50:58', 'We were in a room at the Turkey Run State Park lodge when Obama gave his "race" speech late one night. Both K1 and K2 seemed to "get" that they were witnessing something important - not sure if it was something they got themselves or something they picked up from us - but to me it doesn''t really matter.  I am sure that many of our kids will long remember the night when "their candidate" won the presidency.\r\n\r\nThe last few years of the campaign have been interesting.....it let us talk with the kids about things we valued and why. What things?\r\n\r\n- Inclusion versus divisiveness (who are they referring to when they talk about "real Americans"?)\r\n\r\n- Entertaining multiple perspectives and listening to alternative proposals versus a "one-way" ideology\r\n\r\n- that patriotism sometimes requires criticism and feelings of ambivalence or discomfort and not just blind adherence to "feel good" slogans and symbols\r\n\r\n- that information and knowledge should not be feared but embraced\r\n\r\n- that using your brain and being a critical thinker should be valued rather than denigrated\r\n\r\nWe could all probably list more.....', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(100, 135, 'Kristin', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '76.199.6.17', '2008-11-06 12:12:24', '2008-11-06 16:12:24', 'Thanks, Aaron, for getting that great list going. I''d love to see people add to it, and share ideas about how to continue these good conversations with our kids. \r\n\r\nPart of what I love about parenting is that when we are deliberate about talking with our kids and explaining the world in ways they can understand, we end up learning an amazing amount about the world, too.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(101, 135, 'Alli Butler', 'alli@sydtech.com', '', '98.111.86.76', '2008-11-06 16:48:53', '2008-11-06 20:48:53', 'What a great piece, Kristin!\r\n\r\nI remember Carter being elected - I think largely because for me it was fascinating that he had a young daughter who would be living in the white house. That was new and interesting to a six-year-old. I remember the Weekly Reader poll that we had that year - and wanting to change my vote when it turned out that I was the only one who did not vote for Reagan in the class!  I very much remember watching the Reagan swearing-in. Do you remember the split-screen? One side of the screen showed Reagan being sworn in while the other side showed the hostages being released in Iran and their subsequent reunions with family. \r\n\r\nI recall that as a 10-year-old I thought it was grossly unfair that President Carter had worked so hard to free the hostages and that it happened on the day that President Reagan took office. \r\n\r\nMany of my friends and I were discussing our first time voting. For some of my friends, this was only their fourth presidential election. I remember the excitement I had registering to vote when I turned 18 - with a presidential and gubernatorial election looming in less than four months. I wasn''t a very educated voter, but I was excited to be part of the process and strangely proud to split my ticket and not go straight party line. (I voted for Dukakis and Engler - my apologies, Michigan!) \r\n\r\nI''m somewhat stunned by the fact that my son will be voting in the NEXT presidential election and I know that he knows his mind despite our influence and "brainwashing." :) His "special treat" was to have a glass of champagne while we all toasted the health and safety of our new President and our nation. Yesterday he was drinking a cup of coffee and I was apologizing for us being out of milk and he said "it''s all good - I like my coffee how I like my presidents..."\r\n\r\nYeah, there''s hope for the future. :) :) :)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(102, 135, 'Alli Butler', 'alli@sydtech.com', '', '98.111.86.76', '2008-11-06 16:51:59', '2008-11-06 20:51:59', 'Sorry, I moved the Weekly Reader sentence and it wound up changing history in my comment. I meant the NEXT election but it reads wrong. I need a continuity editor for my blog comments!!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(104, 135, 'Michael Van Houten', 'michaelvanhouten@sbcglobal.net', '', '64.199.9.162', '2008-11-07 12:59:49', '2008-11-07 16:59:49', 'My first election memory was 1980. I came downstairs the morning after the election and my mom had left a note on the kitchen table that said "Hey guys...Reagan won in a landslide!" Guess my family all thought Reagan was great back then...', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_4; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(106, 140, 'Chuck', 'cjwestbrook@gmail.com', 'http://chuckwestbrook.com', '72.54.65.194', '2008-11-07 17:08:54', '2008-11-07 21:08:54', 'I have been feeling uncool again from time to time due to social media, and that is ridiculous. I''ve had to shake myself out of it and remember why I''m doing it.\r\n\r\nGreat post!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(107, 135, 'Presidential Race On Best Political Blogs &raquo; Blog Archive &raquo; Election-day lessons for the under-aged', '', 'http://presidential-race.bestpoliticalblogs.co.uk/2008/11/05/election-day-lessons-for-the-under-aged/', '67.222.132.75', '2008-11-07 21:58:50', '2008-11-08 01:58:50', '[...] Election-day lessons for the under-aged (If that isn’t obvious enough in the presidential race, just look at Elizabeth Dole’s US Senate defeat by Kay Hagan. It seems clear Dole’s fate was sealed in large part by her last-minute attack ad, accusing Hagan of being “godless.â€) &#8230; [...]', 0, '0', 'Incutio XML-RPC -- WordPress/2.6.2', 'pingback', 0, 0, 'N'),
(108, 140, 'jnswanson', 'jnswanson@gmail.com', 'http://levite.wordpress.com', '71.97.128.239', '2008-11-08 00:30:50', '2008-11-08 04:30:50', 'not cheesy at all. \r\n\r\nAnd I have a horrible twitter ratio. It''s getting worse all the time. I might apologize for it sometime. But I''m not changing it. \r\n\r\nFor the reasons you say.\r\n\r\nNice job.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(109, 140, 'Andrea''s Sweet Life', 'Jerdre53@aol.com', 'http://blog.sweetlifesite.com', '206.170.62.70', '2008-11-08 15:26:12', '2008-11-08 19:26:12', 'Sometimes I do feel that social media brings back some of those left-out high school feelings, especially when it seems I am unintentionally trying to push into some sort of clique (which of course makes me feel inadequate).  \r\n\r\nI find that taking a break is a good way to bring back my perspective!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; SU 3.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(110, 114, 'Mary Jessup', 'jessup.m@cablespeed.com', 'http://jessup.m@cablespeed.com', '24.56.237.142', '2008-11-09 22:31:33', '2008-11-10 02:31:33', 'Kristin,\r\nYour writings are touching, well done and encouragement to try to write myself.  Reading your "grandma letters" as a grandma (and a great-grandma since July) puts this stage of life in a new perspective for me.\r\nThanks for the window into your life and family.\r\nWith a hug,   Mary', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(111, 140, 'Kristin', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-11-10 01:12:45', '2008-11-10 05:12:45', 'Thanks Chuck, Jon and Andrea, for your comments. It''s good, as always, to know I''m not alone in these silly things I stress about. That''s a big part of what community is about, on line or in person—putting things in perspective and feeling understood. \r\n\r\nAnd thanks as well, Jon, for your great post, which fed into my own thoughts so perfectly. Another great example of how important it is that we can learn from each other.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(112, 135, 'Nathan Todd', 'nathanrtodd@gmail.com', '', '64.198.255.114', '2008-11-10 17:24:41', '2008-11-10 21:24:41', 'Dear Kristin,\r\n  Thank you for this thoughtful piece, and especially for mentioning the passage of proposition 8 in California that restricts the civil rights of many American-gay/lesbian citizens.  Obama''s victory has actually been bittersweet for me; on the one hand I deeply celebrate, and on the other hand I remember proposition 8 (and another ballot measure that passed to now deny LGBT people to adopt children) and recognize how far we have to go in this country to ensure the civil liberties of all people, gay included.\r\n  I came across a very interesting blog post by Matt Black where he discusses his "coming out as a gay rights supporter" and his father, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints (a.k.a. Morman), gives his response of why the Mormon church was so supportive of this measure.  The blog site is listed below . . . thanks!   \r\n\r\nhttp://www.themattblack.com/?p=183    \r\n\r\nNathan', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(113, 143, 'KarenDV', 'karen@devriesfamily.us', '', '75.48.223.246', '2008-11-10 19:08:57', '2008-11-10 23:08:57', 'Have you read Lauren Winner''s Real Sex? She addresses these very same topics. I haven''t read the whole book yet, so I can''t vouch for any conclusions she might make, but it might be worth a look. \r\n\r\nOf particular note are Winner''s remarks about the church community''s role in "sex ed," a term I hesitate to use because it sounds finite, when instead (as Winner says) it should start at day one and continue into adulthood, even for married folk, getting progressively more detailed and complex. This culture of discussion that seems nonexistent in a religious context.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(114, 143, 'KarenDV', 'karen@devriesfamily.us', '', '75.48.223.246', '2008-11-10 19:53:46', '2008-11-10 23:53:46', 'Sorry for the superfluous "that" in the last sentence. I don''t want to raise your editorial hackles!', 0, '0', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(115, 143, 'SugarJones', 'sugar@living-intheory.com', 'http://living-intheory.com', '72.192.173.130', '2008-11-10 21:50:17', '2008-11-11 01:50:17', 'This is such a great post and so well thought out. I grew up in much the same way. Strict Catholic family living in a Bright Blue state. So of course, I ended up pregnant at 17. It was a tough situation, but I never once thought about abortion because of the "heavenly" implications. I married the young man who got me pregnant. And after one more baby, we got divorced. It wasn''t pretty. Funny thing is I had plenty of sex ed to have avoided the whole debacle. I knew I needed to be on the pill, but I had far too much Catholic guilt to get myself into a clinic and actually confess to the nurse that I was having s-e-x. I was filled with shame for having sex. Then more shame for getting pregnant. And the ultimate shame... getting divorced.\r\n\r\nI''m not following the tenets of the Catholic church any longer, but am a big old Jesus Freak Christian. I know that I''m perfect in Him. But do I want my daughters to go through this?\r\n\r\nHell no!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(116, 143, 'Kristin', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-11-11 01:12:50', '2008-11-11 05:12:50', 'Karen: Yes, I''ve also read *part* of Lauren Winner''s book, Real Sex. (If anyone out there has read the whole thing, please speak up!) The New Yorker article actually references some of Winner''s perspectives--the ones that I really agree with. But, like you, I haven''t read the whole book so I can''t say I agree with everything she says. I should probably put that back on my reading list. :)\r\n\r\nSugar: Thanks for sharing your story. I think the shame/guilt issue is huge, as you point out. It could be even bigger than the education piece, but the needs vary for different kids in different situations. So...I think you have younger kids now too, right? Do you know how you plan to address this issue of sex and guilt and religion with them?', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(117, 143, 'Dagny', 'empress.dagny@gmail.com', 'http://dagsempire.blogspot.com/', '76.102.38.175', '2008-11-11 01:29:15', '2008-11-11 05:29:15', 'I sent a link to the article to my mom.  She loved it.  She grew up in a red state.  My Pentecostal grandma never discussed sex with her.  My parents got married while they were in college and were divorced ten years later.  My mother was always open in her discussions with me about sex.  She didn''t want me to grow up the same way that she had. \r\n\r\nMy mom wanted to send the article on to one of her younger sisters -- the one who always votes Republican because according to her, Democrats have no morals.  Of course, she wouldn''t take the time to read the article if sent to her because she''d see it as just more liberal propaganda.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(118, 143, 'Jim', 'Jim.mort@sbcglobal.net', '', '75.40.255.126', '2008-11-11 10:10:36', '2008-11-11 14:10:36', 'Lots of food for thought in this post.  As a United Methodist pastor and a father of Jeremiah (18) and Rebekah (16) this is something I wonder/worry about as well.  I look forward to reading the article and possibly the book.  If anyone out there has read the whole book - let the rest of us know about it.\r\n\r\nkaren I agree that the ideal would be to talk about this from day 1.  I will not deny the church has some responsibility in this but this is not something that many families discuss openly and honestly.  The times when I have seen church(es) try to do something directly about teaching - the response from people within the church has been less than overwhelming to say the least.      \r\n\r\nSugar is right that shame / guilt can compound the problems.  This is where grace should be more readily offered and received.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(119, 143, 'Natalie Hart', 'nataliehart@sbcglobal.net', '', '69.214.13.235', '2008-11-11 13:55:42', '2008-11-11 17:55:42', 'Kristin, great post! I''ve been talking about this subject a lot with my friends lately. Gotta love it when there''s something on your mind and you suddenly see it everywhere. I highly recommend the book Growing Strong Daughters (2nd ed.) by Lisa Graham McMinn, a prof of sociology and mother of 3 daughters. This is a book I edited for Baker (both editions) and the second edition has a great section on girls and their bodies, sex included. She, too, talks about how the focus No No No before marriage can lead to many women having difficulty saying Yes Yes Yes after marriage. About how all the things many churches teach lead to the idea that sexual sins are the worst sins ever, and that sex carries a tint of shame no matter what.\r\n\r\nIn particular, I was struck by a section titled "Keeping the Value of Virginity in Perspective" where she recounts a conversation with one of her daughters where the girl says she''d kill herself if she got pregnant because it would be so bad to be pregnant before marriage that she''d rather die than people find out. When her mother told her there were a lot worse things to have happen to her than having sex before marriage, like drug or alcohol addiction, the girl was shocked. Here''s how McMinn ends that section: "While we need to teach our daughters how to recognize and avoid situations that might quickly get out of control or that might lead to date rape, we need to do so in a way that does not overemphasize their virginity as their most important quality. Our daughters'' sexuality is only one part of who they are. While it is an important part, a healthy perspective can be distorted by an overemphasis on it."', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/312.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.6', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(121, 143, 'The Nature of Christian Organization Today - Part 2 &laquo; Community of the Risen', '', 'http://coldfire.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/the-nature-of-christian-organization-today-part-2/', '76.74.255.45', '2008-11-11 17:47:39', '2008-11-11 21:47:39', '[...] article on sex that needs serious consideration.  I would suggest also looking at how the blog halfway to normal dealt with this issue of sexuality.  Carson makes the case that evangelical leaders need to stop [...]', 0, '1', 'The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- WordPress/MU', 'pingback', 0, 0, 'N'),
(122, 143, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '99.147.22.242', '2008-11-11 17:57:56', '2008-11-11 21:57:56', 'Dagny: Your mom is a very wise woman. She learned some things the hard way, perhaps, but knew how to help you avoid some of those same pitfalls. If I can do that with my girls, even a little...\r\n\r\nJim: Thanks for reading and leaving your first comment! Yes, the idea of teaching sex ed at church, in any way, is going to be controversial and probably not widely well-received. I''ve heard some really good sermons that don''t shy away from issues of sexuality, though, and I''ve heard pastors do a good job of simply mentioning sexuality along with the many other things that need to be given another look  by Christians. I think just simple mentions of the topic in church can help people think and talk about sexuality as more a part of who we are, as whole creations of God.\r\n\r\nNatalie: I *must* read that book. It sounds really good. The part you quote about keeping the value of virginity in perspective seems right on, to me. Thanks for sharing that with the rest of us!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(123, 143, 'Dagny', 'empress.dagny@gmail.com', 'http://dagsempire.blogspot.com/', '76.102.38.175', '2008-11-12 01:47:48', '2008-11-12 05:47:48', 'OK.  I''m going to take a stab at trying to put together all the things that my mother told me growing up.\r\n\r\nThe first part involved educating me about the changes that happen in the female body during puberty.  Because my mother has a sister who started her period at age 9, this education for me began around age 7 or 8.  I was told these were all normal things.\r\n\r\nOnce I started having a period (age 10 or so), my mother started discussing sex.  She felt it was her duty at this point because she had a daughter who could become pregnant.  She talked about how it was normal to have feelings.  And she put things just how the article said -- that getting pregnant young could limit my life choices.  Her preference was that I would abstain from sex but if I chose to have sex, she wanted me to be comfortable enough to discuss birth control options with her -- preferably before having sex.  (My paternal grandmother echoed many of my mother''s words during those years as well.)  When I said that I had no intention of having pre-marital sex, my mother countered with, "You say that now but sometimes you get caught up in the moment and all other thoughts are forgotten.  I just want you to be prepared for it."  My mother also stressed the importance of being in a caring relationship -- marriage was not a requirement.\r\n\r\nI waited until college.  And before having sex, I went to the doctor first to get birth control.  Because that''s what my mom would have wanted me to do if I had discussed it with her.  And because I knew that I wanted to finish college and that it would be difficult if I also had to care for a child.  (I have always been pro-choice but knew that that was a choice that would be difficult for me.)\r\n\r\nI think the key is to give your girls a strong enough foundation that even if they don''t discuss things with you, you know that they will make the best choice under the given circumstances.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(199, 158, 'Kristin T.', 'ktennant@gmail.com', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '98.108.7.237', '2008-11-28 15:12:38', '2008-11-28 19:12:38', 'Thanks for being a faithful reader, Alli, even during a busy holiday. I hope all of your hard work paid off in many blessings with people you love. We''ll miss you at the reunion (but I''m sure you''ll get to hear some tales about it here!). I''ll be sure to organize a toast to you, too.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(264, 181, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-12-13 21:52:11', '2008-12-14 01:52:11', 'middleofthepond: What a great story about your parents. I really like what you said about counting "ourselves lucky when we succeed in letting a reader in on what we see," and also your point about "inadvertent confusion" not being "inherently a failure." Watching real dialogue emerge from the mess is indeed the most gratifying part of blogging—and one of life''s most gratifying experiences, too.\r\n\r\nChuck: Thanks, as always, for being a faithful reader and encouraging friend in my blogging endeavor.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(131, 145, 'Mike', 'mikeb@wecanhelpit.com', 'http://www.wecanhelpit.com/', '128.174.73.159', '2008-11-13 12:36:00', '2008-11-13 16:36:00', 'I pledged to be obstinate. And you''ll not dissuade me from my purpose!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(132, 143, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-11-13 13:04:03', '2008-11-13 17:04:03', 'FYI: This post was published on the site Jesus Manifesto on Tuesday, and there are a whole bunch of really insightful comments there, too. There appears to be a great desire among Christians to talk about how we can do a better job addressing issues of sexuality. \r\n\r\nHere''s the link: \r\nhttp://www.jesusmanifesto.com/2008/11/11/politics-religion-and-sex/\r\n\r\nThanks again for all of your thoughts on this.\r\n\r\nKT', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(133, 145, 'Arathi', 'arathi.kylasam@gmail.com', '', '128.174.60.182', '2008-11-13 13:17:59', '2008-11-13 17:17:59', 'Great post. I agree.... keeping a promise is the important part. We may have a more sincere society if more people thought like this.  It brings to mind apologies as well. \r\n\r\nA', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(134, 140, 'Theresa', 'theresa@novistaweb.com', 'http://www.grumblengrin.wordpress.com', '96.237.105.227', '2008-11-13 13:30:11', '2008-11-13 17:30:11', 'I really enjoyed this post. I was chuckling out loud so  my partner, Michael, asked what was up. It struck me as really comical how we can grow up, have all sorts of experiences and then be stuck feeling like kids again. \r\n\r\nThe great thing for me about Twitter and Blogging is seeing how I react to the experience. I have been getting annoyed recently by folks who are clearly on Twitter just to gain followers... no subtlety at all.  And yet, I have hesitated to stop following. Hmmm... what''s that about? Good for you that you are acting with personal integrity!\r\n\r\nI am enjoying your blog and your sincerity so thanks for sharing that!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(135, 145, 'Alli Butler', 'alli@sydtech.com', '', '98.111.86.76', '2008-11-13 15:12:13', '2008-11-13 19:12:13', 'I like the poem. Very Shel Silverstein inspired!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(136, 143, 'Joseph of Antioch', 'jokjohl@sonic.net', '', '64.142.71.126', '2008-11-13 15:25:17', '2008-11-13 19:25:17', '(Also posted on Jesus Manifesto)\r\n\r\nLast night I caught part of a british made documentary on TLC about the Purity movement &amp; "Purity Balls" where girls as young as 9 or 10 pledge to abstain from sex before marriage in a public ceremony with their fathers. It was kind of creepy. In the interviews with the families it appeared to me that many of the parents had regrets about their own past actions &amp; were trying to impose an ideal of "purity" on their children as a result. There was also an interview with a young woman who was raised in the Purity movement, did &amp; said all the right things, &amp; yet still wound up pregnant by her first boyfriend, who was also in the movement. She''s now somewhat estranged from her parents and still dealing with her feelings of guilt &amp; shame.\r\n\r\nI recently finished reading The Body And Society by Peter Brown. It''s a dense history of sexual renunciation in early Christianity by a Princeton historian, &amp; well worth the effort. What I found interesting was that the sexual ethics of christian communities in the Roman Empire took many forms in different contexts. Some communities married their young people off as soon as possible as a way of keeping their sexual behavior within acceptable ethical limits. In some communities, virginity was an idealized state imbued with spiritual glamour. Some communities had problems develop when married women declared themselves widows after baptism, even though their husbands were still alive. Marriage in the Roman Empire was usually arranged, and "family values" were viewed as the backbone of the empire. A young woman could be prosecuted for refusing to marry. A good example of this can be found in the apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla.\r\n\r\nIt seems to me that the Purity movement is a form of fundamentalist reaction to our lack of community in fragmented postmodern America. It is an attempt to impose the restraints that would exist naturally in a village or a tight ethnic community. As such it tends to come off as bright &amp; shiny evangelical fascism.\r\n\r\nThe problem I have with most of the debate about sexuality in this country is that it''s simplistic. I''m sorry, but sex is complicated. It''s not a problem to be solved by imposing vows of chastity on prepubescent girls or passing ballot measures against gay marriage. (That''s a whole different can of worms.)\r\n\r\nI did like Lauren Winner''s book Real Sex, mostly because of her honesty, but felt it could have been more encompassing. Drawing on Wendell Berry, she primarily makes the point that sexual ethics are determined by community. As we live in a society where community bonds have been eroded by technology &amp; media, the question arises: How do we find &amp; form community?\r\n\r\npeace\r\njoseph', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(137, 150, 'Elaine Tolsma-Harlow', 'reoharlow@hotmail.com', '', '24.247.189.135', '2008-11-13 20:50:37', '2008-11-14 00:50:37', 'Loved them all!  Sorry, I realize that is not much help!  So, I guess my favorites were the first one (shorts vs. mittens)  or girl''s shrieking or joy &amp; doom.  \r\nHave fun choosing!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(138, 145, 'Elaine Tolsma-Harlow', 'reoharlow@hotmail.com', '', '24.247.189.135', '2008-11-13 20:59:51', '2008-11-14 00:59:51', 'The problem I find with these pledges is that these kids don''t realize what they are setting themselves up against (false ideals).  When thrown into an intense situation, the promises don''t keep them from getting a STD or pregnant.  I think what also needs to be taught &amp; what I try so hard to instill on my daughter is the concept of grace &amp; forgiveness.\r\n\r\nSaskia''s poem was wonderful!  Like dutiful kids of an artist, my kids spend a lot of their free time drawing &amp; creating.  I often look at their creations &amp; wish I could do what they do.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(300, 193, 'Elaine Tolsma-Harlow', 'reoharlow@hotmail.com', '', '24.231.153.71', '2008-12-22 10:29:15', '2008-12-22 14:29:15', 'Wishing you many unexpected blessings this Christmas.  I have found that the Christian walk is all about grace, redemption &amp; hope.  It helped my survive cancer  &amp; its awful consequences &amp; I found lots of unexpected blessings.  \r\n\r\nGod''s grace is bigger than our blunders and the failures of everyone around us.  Our hope in the future can seem pathetic but without hope what is left?  \r\n\r\nOh yes, &amp; make sure you pick up Mario Carts for the kids on the wii.  Olivia seems to take really joy in beating me in a car race!  I have become very comfortable finishing last!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(213, 164, 'Janet Roper', 'janetroper@mac.com', 'http://Talk2theAnimals', '71.34.18.50', '2008-12-04 21:49:09', '2008-12-05 01:49:09', 'Congratulations Kristin!  You''ve been awarded the Butterfly Blog Award!  Stop by my blog to pick it up.\r\n\r\nThanks for your great insights and sharing them in your blog.\r\nHarmony,\r\nJanet', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(211, 164, 'Chuck', 'cjwestbrook@gmail.com', 'http://chuckwestbrook.com', '72.54.65.194', '2008-12-04 17:55:10', '2008-12-04 21:55:10', 'Great post and great pic too.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(210, 164, 'Jody Wells', 'jodyrae4msu@yahoo.com', '', '76.252.65.225', '2008-12-04 16:07:47', '2008-12-04 20:07:47', 'Kristin I so love to read your writings-it is enjoyable, informative and it always makes me think. Makes me think about myself and life. I very much enjoyed spending time with you at the reunion, as you can tell by the picture you posted....... funny in itself! Life is full of memories, some good, some not so good but we are always making them! I''m thankful to have had many wonderful memories with you and hopefully we can make some new ones. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; IEMB3; IEMB3)', '', 0, 0, 'N');
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(209, 164, 'Alli Butler', 'alli@sydtech.com', '', '98.111.86.76', '2008-12-04 16:07:27', '2008-12-04 20:07:27', 'Isn''t it interesting to see yourself and to hear your stories through someone else''s perspective? I think that no matter how empathetic, responsible and magnanimous we are/were that as teen-agers we are essentially self-centered beings who are tuned into our own experiences. Largely, I think that this is true of all people. As emotionally well-adjusted adults (I''m assuming a lot, but work with me here...) we of course CARE about others - we know when a friend needs some extra support, we tend to our responsibilities. As parents, our children are our lives and focus - they dominate our schedules and their hurts and accomplishments affect us greatly, but they are a part of *us* and our lives. How many times have we gone about our busy lives and had some sudden memory of "oh yeah - I forgot that her mom just died this summer..." "Oh that''s right, he was having surgery, wasn''t he?" My belabored point? We all tell our own story - we all play a movie with the same cast but a different script, a different focal point, a different plot twist, story arc, even a different dénouement.  \r\n\r\nI often have those "I don''t even remember that" moments with my brothers. Something that was profound, important even life-altering for them might not have even made a blip on my radar. And vice-versa. I have had my brothers stare incredulously at my complete lack of memory concerning what was a major event in their lives. Facebook has also brought several such stories from long-lost friends who would say "remember when such and such happened in Mr. Haske''s class?" Nope. Well, it sounds like me, but...no. Heck, even comments written in my high-school yearbooks about crazy antics that were undertaken in elementary school or junior high were vague to me. Maybe I just had more crazy antics than other people, maybe I had too much going on in my personal family life (my mom was sick and died right before Junior year,) maybe I smoked too much pot, maybe I lived in my own world. Or maybe, as your blog seems to support to an extent, I was just "normal" - a teen-ager muddling through with my own life, issues, phobias, failures, successes, responsibilities and focus. \r\n\r\nDo we really *SEE* each other in high school after all? Do we really see each other at all in our daily lives? I try to, but we all play our own movie...\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nP.S. You need to post more pictures, girl! :)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(267, 181, 'Elaine Tolsma-Harlow', 'reoharlow@hotmail.com', '', '24.231.153.71', '2008-12-14 21:40:27', '2008-12-15 01:40:27', 'Why don''t you think I write more on the comment section of anything?  My writing is not the best &amp; the story I write in my head never comes out as passionate or sincere as I mean.  Its why I avoid words &amp; stick to painting.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(201, 159, 'Lesley', 'lesleymiller1@gmail.com', 'http://millersmeetsacramento.blogspot.com', '65.78.135.144', '2008-12-02 00:45:05', '2008-12-02 04:45:05', 'Very interesting post Kristin. I haven''t been a reader of your blog very long but thought this was one of the best posts I''ve read in the last few weeks. \r\n\r\nI''m with you-- no need to worry about the future of blogging. Although I love when I get new readers and hope my blog continues to grow; ultimately it''s a space for me to create, get my thoughts out, make new friends, and hear different opinions. As much as Twitter or Facebook allows me to share information, it cannot replace my blog as a forum to be creative.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(212, 162, 'the sassy kathy', 'thesassykathy@gmail.com', 'http://www.thesassykathy.com', '98.221.232.249', '2008-12-04 21:07:42', '2008-12-05 01:07:42', 'hi kristin!  chuck just pointed me to this post because i''m reluctant to get on twitter... it kind of freaks me out a little bit... enjoyed reading your thoughts on this!  thanks', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(164, 150, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-11-15 16:22:23', '2008-11-15 20:22:23', 'Thanks for weighing in, Elaine, Arathi, Ken, Becky and Daisy! I need to just make a decision now and be done with it.\r\n\r\n(Daisy, I''d love to see some examples of Lunes you''ve written, too!)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(165, 150, 'Alli Butler', 'alli@sydtech.com', '', '98.111.86.76', '2008-11-15 18:47:18', '2008-11-15 22:47:18', 'I vote for silliness because it''s truly poetic - you get the structure of haiku format but also the imagery of the metaphor. Then you get a smile. \r\n\r\n(I really did mean SMILE not simile!) :)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(166, 150, 'Nancy Pagaduan', 'nancy@miia-moocreations.com', '', '98.228.50.108', '2008-11-15 19:38:50', '2008-11-15 23:38:50', 'I vote for the yarn-lust and love my sofa ones.  And I think I might rank the sofa one above the yarn-lust haiku.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(167, 143, 'Ron S.', 'simkins@illinois.edu', '', '216.43.98.214', '2008-11-16 20:24:34', '2008-11-17 00:24:34', '(1) I really appreciate you, your faithfulness, and your thoughtfulness.  \r\n(2) I thought your comments about Winner''s research were very good and insightful. \r\n(3) The one thing that seemed to be one of her main points that I do not think is limited to the area this data looked at is that people/teens usually do not live our values if we are left to work them out individualistically, living what we believe to be best works far better when there are supported pathways, supported integrity, supported choices, supported openness, etc.  \r\n(4) I think saving the blog and reading it to each of your daughters at the proper time (as best you can gage it) and then giving them time to read it alone and respond later to you is a great idea on your part.  \r\n(5)  "halfwaytonormal" is my favorite of all site names I have seen so far. Wish I had thought of it first! (Ha!  Isn''t that an example of our wonderful self-centeredness.)  It is great.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(602, 215, 'Louisa', 'thebloggingaussie@gmail.com', 'http://ediblemoments.blogspot.com', '115.128.10.178', '2009-01-20 07:00:30', '2009-01-20 11:00:30', 'Kristen, I completely agree with you! I couldn''t believe he used the word disappointment in relation to the Weapons of Mass Destruction (disgusting) disaster! One of the reasons I fell in love with my husband was his ability to say "I''m sorry" and take responsibility for his mistakes, it''s a characteristic I have always admired in my father and now in my husband and one I need a lot of help with!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(169, 143, 'Joi T.', 'joitennant@verizon.net', 'http://TrackBack', '98.108.7.237', '2008-11-17 12:23:31', '2008-11-17 16:23:31', 'Immediately after reading your blog today my mind began to fill with what I think is the basis of the wisdom of much of the "puritanical" thinking that we all rebel against.  I need more time to work on that, and I want to assure you that I''ve thought about all of this for years!  However, this old piece that I have saved for probably 35 years is so good that I need to share it for what it may be worth in the whole realm of this very complex subject.  It''s called "Why It''s Bad to Be Lucky in Love," and it''s from a book, Evocations of Love, by Alexander King and Peter Altenberg.  This quote speaks of something that seems to have vanished in our world, beleaguered by the obsession of satisfying our sexual urges almost immediately at the expense of losing the priceless focus which should be fulfilling the heart''s deepest need for a lifetime of companionship as partners in life.\r\n\r\n"If you really love a woman, then her very breath, the emanation of her blouse, the smell of her hair, must have the power to enchant you utterly.  Everything about her should have a magical quality for you.  An ocean of longing ought to engulf you day and night while you are thinking of her, and this longing should almost make you ill, almost insane; and only then, when you have reached a state which borders on absolute frenzy, you should stretch out your arms and fold her in your embrace. On lesser terms you have no right to this happiness.\r\n    Woe to those who are lucky in love!  They are denied the joyous, painful, slow accumulation of yearning which finally fulfills itself in the heart''s ultimate ecstasy.  They have been cheated out of the most valuable gift that life has to offer.\r\n    Whom does the Don Juan, flitting from flower to flower, actually cheat?  He cheats himself."', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/312.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.6', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(208, 159, 'Knowledge Heroes &raquo; Archive &raquo; Will blogs learn to age gracefully?', '', 'http://www.knowledgeheroes.com/2008/12/will-blogs-learn-to-age-gracefully.html', '91.121.89.201', '2008-12-04 12:07:27', '2008-12-04 16:07:27', '[...] Read the full article at www.halfwaytonormal.com [...]', 0, '1', 'Incutio XML-RPC -- WordPress/2.6.3', 'pingback', 0, 0, 'N'),
(207, 159, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-12-04 12:01:44', '2008-12-04 16:01:44', 'Lesley, thanks for reading and commenting! Your point about blogs being "a forum to be creative" is an important one. That''s a part of aging with grace: figuring out which aspects of you are most vital and necessary to hang on to, even as other things change.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(206, 162, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-12-04 11:58:50', '2008-12-04 15:58:50', 'Nancy, the water cooler metaphor is spot-on. I used to work from a cafe even more regularly than I do now, because I needed those moments of connection. I think having Twitter there makes me more content to work from my dining room table. In these ways, you are my colleague, and I look forward to each of your thoughts and observations.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(608, 26, 'nan', 'mail4nan@charter.net', 'http://www.AshevillesHot.com', '68.118.30.98', '2009-01-20 10:19:44', '2009-01-20 14:19:44', 'I loved that post - well written - I''m so tired of sarcastic! - thanks for the sincerity - but not schmoopy.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(204, 162, 'Nancy Pagaduan', 'nancy@miia-moocreations.com', '', '98.228.50.108', '2008-12-03 19:11:51', '2008-12-03 23:11:51', 'For the stay/work-at-home crowd, is there really such a thing as mundane tweeting?  For me, it''s my water cooler, chit-chat during my break banter.  Before twitter, working from home (I''ve been doing it for 10 years now) would occasionally get a little lonely...then along came IM.  But, that got to be a little intrusive and twitter provides a happy medium.  \r\n\r\nBesides the chit-chat factor, I''m finding that twitter can be a valuable networking spot.  And maybe I''m a little late to that aspect of twitter.  For example, I''m trying to find eco-friendly printers and doing a search on google spits back tons of options.  Doing the same search on twitter also gives me a lot of options...but there''s a bonus in that the choices are backed by people who have actually used these printers or are these printers.  There''s a certain "live" aspect to the twitter search vs. the google search.\r\n\r\nAm I making sense?  In the end, yes I do care what you''re having for lunch or that your car''s broken down and now you have to hoof it to do your errands or that S and Q are doing hilarious middle school things.  I only hope that my relationship with coffee, my political observations/rants and my mommy moments are just as interesting to you.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(178, 152, 'Jim', 'jim.mort@sbcglobal.net', '', '75.5.228.246', '2008-11-18 11:22:10', '2008-11-18 15:22:10', 'Genuine dialogue is a true mark of dynamic community.  It is in the sharing of both common and differing viewpoints that we are offered that opportunity to grow and expand if we allow ourselves to.  That is the crux of the it - to be open and willing to participate openly and in a honest manner while at the same time respecting the others involved.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(179, 152, 'Matthew Dryden', 'me@matthewdryden.ca', 'http://www.matthewdryden.ca/', '76.64.114.45', '2008-11-18 17:12:46', '2008-11-18 21:12:46', 'I write in my journal both for the immediate reaction and the self-gratification. I love getting feedback on work that would otherwise rot in a pile on my desk or on the floor or even the garbage heap.\r\n\r\nIt''s funny how you write about this and sex in the same entry - I think that starting a blog is like the first you have sex. It''s scary, awkward, and we think we''re doing it wrong - but it''s a lie.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(603, 26, 'Louisa', 'thebloggingaussie@gmail.com', 'http://ediblemoments.blogspot.com', '115.128.10.178', '2009-01-20 07:14:53', '2009-01-20 11:14:53', 'This is a wonderful story! I actually really agree with the way you phrased it here (and I think I''ve seen you say it elsewhere) one thing is lucky, all this is God. I see Him working in my life in a similar way and encounter His grace and kindness with the reminder that it is totally undeserved.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(182, 154, 'jnswanson', 'jnswanson@gmail.com', 'http://levite.wordpress.com', '71.97.128.239', '2008-11-18 20:31:22', '2008-11-19 00:31:22', 'ah yes. Line-walking. A challenging activity. What is nice is when we find that it isn''t a line, that we are actually in a river, with banks, yes, and with a strong current, but with some room for movement and commonality. \r\n\r\nMy guess is that Francis and Franky (father and son) would have had some interesting and tense conversations (or dialogues or both). They did, if I remember correctly, not always see eye to eye while Francis was alive. But Francis was intellectual and thoughtful and respectful and inviting of thinking. \r\n\r\nAnd you are looking for that, too.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(183, 154, 'Dagny', 'empress.dagny@gmail.com', 'http://dagsempire.blogspot.com/', '71.202.235.123', '2008-11-18 23:24:51', '2008-11-19 03:24:51', 'I know that you said this is supposed to be about line walking and all but I just have to go there.  For years, I have tried to explain to folks that when I say that I am pro-choice, it does not mean that I am pro-abortion.  I just don''t think it''s my right tell other women what to do with their bodies.  And choice, to me at least, means that there should be choices available to all women in reproductive matters including education and access to services.\r\n\r\nAnd I applaud you for writing about the difficult topics -- religion, sex, politics.  So often we avoid these topics because we don''t want to ruffle feathers but I think that we do need to start talking about these things more if we are to progress as a people.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(184, 154, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-11-19 11:18:04', '2008-11-19 15:18:04', 'Jon, I love your analogy of a river rather than a line. I think as more and more people are interested in line-walking, and willing to give it a try, the lines will become more like rivers--less rigid and more forgiving.\r\n\r\nDagny, you can "go there" whenever you want to here at Halfway to Normal! I''m always very glad when you do.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(604, 67, 'Louisa', 'thebloggingaussie@gmail.com', 'http://ediblemoments.blogspot.com', '115.128.10.178', '2009-01-20 07:21:07', '2009-01-20 11:21:07', 'I can''t tell you how refreshing it is to read this post! As a Christian living in Australia where our most conservative (and recently outed) political party is less conservative than the ''liberal'' American party I constantly struggle to understand how and why the Republican party is so applauded by (many) Christians in America...though my comments and confusion are best reserved for another day when it''s not so late and my eyes, and mind, are less blurry. So wonderful to read this post!!!!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(186, 156, 'Jessica Bern', 'bernthis@gmail.com', 'http://bernthis.typepad.com', '71.156.50.79', '2008-11-21 20:08:09', '2008-11-22 00:08:09', 'I have been divorced for 4 years now. I too, was never "alone" until Oct. 30, 2004 when he left. \r\n\r\nI stayed in the marriage for way too long b/c of that fear of being alone.  It took a very long time for me to adjust and the thing is, I still haven''t done it completely and now realize that it is not possible to do so, at least not for me, who is also a big people person.  I am still single and I admit, I often hope for the day when I can find someone to share my days with. \r\n\r\nI love your blog. I relate so much to your experiences and I want to thank you for putting into words what it is I often feel.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(187, 156, 'Steve', 'sduensing@yahoo.com', '', '98.212.203.51', '2008-11-21 23:06:32', '2008-11-22 03:06:32', 'Hey. I love your writing. The title caught my eye. Very interesting. I had a very "alone" moment a few weeks ago. I was coming back home from Houston on my motorcycle. I was there visiting my sister. After over 10 hours on my bike (and several of those in the rain) I was riding between Tulsa and Joplin at night in an attempt to get home at a reasonable hour on Wed. to pick up Walter. So here I am riding in the darkness faster than my headlight could illuminate the road. I''m very cold and extremely tired when I think to myself - this sucks. I''m so alone. On a side note, I saw Jason the other night at the band concert. :)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5G77 Safari/525.20', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(188, 156, 'Paul Merrill', 'phmerrill@gmail.com', 'http://mypartofcolorado.blogspot.com/', '97.118.219.4', '2008-11-22 14:00:31', '2008-11-22 18:00:31', 'This totally doesn''t get to the hear of what you were writing this post for - but if you eat alone at a fast food restaurant, there is far less stigma attached to being alone there.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(189, 156, 'Paul Merrill', 'phmerrill@gmail.com', 'http://mypartofcolorado.blogspot.com/', '97.118.219.4', '2008-11-22 14:00:55', '2008-11-22 18:00:55', 'Oops "heart" of what...', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(190, 156, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '76.247.165.14', '2008-11-23 17:35:51', '2008-11-23 21:35:51', 'Jessica: I bet a lot of people stay in marriages too long (or for good) because of a fear of loneliness. It''s ironic, isn''t it? I also think it''s OK to admit that we''re people-people, and we need that kind of connection. I used to think that need was a weakness; now I understand it''s just the way some of us are wired. We just have to be more careful to not fall into relationships with the wrong people for the wrong reason. (Glad you relate so much to my blog, and are willing to be a part of the conversation. I really enjoy your blog, too.)\r\n\r\nSteve: Thanks for sharing your story. What''s interesting is that you had been alone a lot, on that trip, but suddenly something made the experience tip from a content aloneness to a lonely one. That''s what I''m trying to get to the heart of: what causes those tipping points?\r\n\r\nPaul: I think your observation about fast-food restaurants is a good illustration of what I was trying to get at. People get fast food when they just need to eat something and don''t have time for anything more complex, not when they want to take their time and have a meaningful conversation. I don''t think I would feel that sense of loneliness at a fast food place because I wouldn''t connect the experience to conversation and sharing. Too bad I never feel like eating fast food! :)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(191, 156, 'Cheryl', 'girlbuckeyefanatic@gmail.com', '', '69.218.228.87', '2008-11-23 22:32:55', '2008-11-24 02:32:55', 'I can relate completely.  I went from relationship to relationship and marriage #1 to marriage #2 because I had never been alone and feared it.  I was extremely lonely when I was at the end of each marriage.  When my second husband and I separated I was terrified.  I had never lived alone before and hadn''t been completely single for 18 years.  At first I was miserable.  I had two people move in with me.   After they moved out, I started to appreciate being alone.  Some nights I just sit at home and think "I actually did this. survived it, learned from it and am usually happy."  I admit, I still get lonely sometimes, especially at night and around the holidays.  However, I have really learned to enjoy being single and having complete control over my life.  Thank you for the great blog!  It really made me think.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(192, 157, 'Becky', 'b.conekin@fashion.arts.ac.uk', '', '82.6.99.242', '2008-11-24 19:37:25', '2008-11-24 23:37:25', 'Golly, Kristin!! now, you''re not only a mum, cook, knitter, and a great maker of margaritas!! but, a philosopher queen too!! Great post. big love. miss you, Becky', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(193, 157, 'Jamie Simmerman', 'mt12mindset@gmail.com', 'http://blueduckcopy.com', '70.217.191.41', '2008-11-25 18:18:09', '2008-11-25 22:18:09', 'I absolutely love this post! I''ll be combing your archives later tonight to see what else I can find!\r\n\r\nBTW, where do get your baby alpaca yarn? :D', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(194, 157, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-11-25 19:06:55', '2008-11-25 23:06:55', 'Becky, you are too sweet and prone to the loveliest form of exaggeration (but you must somehow know, all the way over there in England, how much I need the positive feedback this week). Thank you for sending some my way.\r\n\r\nJamie, I''m so glad I bumped into you in the Blogopolis today! Opportunities to meet people like you make all of the writing and wondering and laying yourself out there so worth it. (And I get my baby alpaca at knitpicks.com. Have you ever ordered from them? It''s fabulous and so affordable.)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(195, 157, 'dorie', 'tumblingblocks@gmail.com', 'http://tumblingblocks.net/blog/', '12.206.251.190', '2008-11-25 23:11:09', '2008-11-26 03:11:09', 'oh, yes.  And, I''ve yet to see the person who hasn''t screwed it up somethin royal at some point.  Personally and generally speaking, I think i am best at the avoidance part.  Currently I am avoiding a nicely ironed little piece of linen that is sitting just in the other room.  It has a deadline.  I can also think of a few conversations I am avoiding.  No deadlines there.  That I know of. :-)\r\n\r\nWish I could have been there for margaritas.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(605, 225, 'Dorie Morgan', 'doriemorgan@gmail.com', 'http://www.dorieannmorgan.com', '98.114.104.230', '2009-01-20 07:39:23', '2009-01-20 11:39:23', 'When my husband and I were in premarital counseling, we were told that most important thing we could do would be to tell our story. How we met. How we came to be. Who we were before. What it is like now. Our story was key to remember. At first we told our story only to each other but now we tell the people we meet and I tell people who come to my blog. I can''t help but smile when I hear a story that is similar to ours (my F-i-L got "high on Jesus" after years of using and M-i-L had her own family''s insanity to deal with).  The stories that shape our parents shape our own lives in unexpected ways.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(197, 158, 'Alli Butler', 'alli@sydtech.com', '', '98.111.86.76', '2008-11-27 08:24:28', '2008-11-27 12:24:28', 'HA! I enjoy the kernels of "somethingness" in your "rejects" - particularly the one about the reunion. I found that since I decided not to go that it nearly completely escaped my consciousness altogether - until today when so many facebook status updates say "Heading to MI for the reunion - see you there!" My personal ponderings are more along the lines of how we can never go home again, how I am now the matriarch of my family and preparing to spend my first holiday with my dad''s siblings since he died. I am glad to be hosting a bevy of friends, family and guests at my home tomorrow and here I am, at 4:20 in the morning having a break after working steadily for the past five hours on Thanksgiving prep. I know that sometime on Saturday as I''m enjoying my company I will think of you all and experience a moment of regret for not being there. And I will play "Safety Dance" and raise a toast to you all! :)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(299, 189, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-12-21 17:17:24', '2008-12-21 21:17:24', 'Jen, it IS good to have a friend who is asking some of the same questions, even over years and distance. I always find myself going back to the idea of how important it is to know we''re not alone.\r\n\r\nLance, thanks for bringing up so many good thoughts. Although it''s wonderful to not feel alone, I also agree that it''s good to know people who have different views than me. I guess the thing about my particular life is that I know more people with differing views than with similar views, which is why I often feel neither here nor there. That''s why finding someone who "gets" me, like Jen and my husband Jason, is so important. \r\n\r\nRegarding a definition for "normal," I think we see it the same way: there''s really no such thing as normal, there''s only each individual''s perception of normalcy. My blog is meant to highlight that irony. There are societal "norms" though--ideas that most Americans gravitate towards, like that a family has a mom and a dad and 2.5 kids, or that devout Christians are anti-abortion and likely to vote Republican. I would love to see this country move away from these assumptions about normalcy, and I would love to see more tolerance and acceptance in churches, too, as you point out. We are indeed just a bunch of imperfect people trying to figure it all out.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(298, 189, 'Lance', 'lance@jungleoflife.com', 'http://www.jungleoflife.com', '65.29.12.59', '2008-12-21 07:29:29', '2008-12-21 11:29:29', 'I question, what is "normal" anyway?  And one thing I like, anyway, that is knowing someone who have different views that me.  And, I think often that I don''t fit what "normal" is supposed to be either.  \r\n\r\nBeing able to connect with a friend from the past really is very cool.  I, too, have found Facebook a great resource for bring back the ''90s.!  I wish you well as this renewed friendship continues to grow...\r\n\r\nThe idea of religion vs. spirituality - one that I struggle with at times.  This can be a tough one, especially if something you truly believe goes against what your religion believes.  I think that''s where tolerance and acceptance come in - although this doesn''t happen in all religions, or all churches...  We are imperfect.  Me as much as you.  So, who''s to say that what I believe is any more or less "right" than what you believe.  Anyway, that''s my philosophy.  I "try" to be open and understanding to all spiritual views, and the more I am, the more I realize I don''t know...', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(297, 189, 'Jen', 'jkluit@yaoo.com', 'http://jenluit.tumblr.com', '70.177.71.147', '2008-12-20 20:01:07', '2008-12-21 00:01:07', 'Girl, you and I need to meet "halfway." I love this post. I love how it seems we are asking ourselves the same questions and finding some courage to say no the junk.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(224, 166, 'Chuck', 'cjwestbrook@gmail.com', 'http://chuckwestbrook.com', '24.98.82.135', '2008-12-06 01:33:47', '2008-12-06 05:33:47', 'This is one of my favorite posts of yours. What a neat idea and well done too.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(225, 166, 'Chris', 'cwalker2u@hotmail.com', '', '206.135.184.98', '2008-12-06 10:59:32', '2008-12-06 14:59:32', 'Oh, why was I not there with you? The warm weather in the south seems much colder when your friends aren''t around to share it with you. And after missing the trip to Chicago, your tag line seems to take on a new meaning when I think of it in literal terms. I find that I''m not truly here, and I''m certainly not there!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; GTB5; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(226, 166, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-12-06 18:49:27', '2008-12-06 22:49:27', 'Thanks, Chuck! I''m sure you saw them coming across in real time, on Twitter, but they do take on a different feeling when pulled together as a story, with the replies, don''t they? And with photos, it''s even better. I just might have to go with this posting strategy again some time.\r\n\r\nChris, we really did miss you. It wasn''t the same. One thing about being neither here nor there, though, is that sometimes it IS easier to "find yourself." You know? (I''ve got all kinds of layered meanings going on in that tagline. Such a writer thing to pull, eh?!?)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(227, 164, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-12-06 18:52:38', '2008-12-06 22:52:38', 'Thanks Chuck and Janet, for your faithful reading of my blog. It''s SO good to have feedback (not that I need to tell either of you that!).', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(228, 162, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-12-06 18:55:47', '2008-12-06 22:55:47', 'Welcome to Halfway to Normal, Sassy Kathy! Thanks for reading and for saying hi. So have we done our job and convinced you that Twitter is a good thing? I know it''s only a matter of time...make sure to follow me!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(233, 164, 'Jim Arehart', 'jim.arehart@yahoo.com', '', '70.92.232.239', '2008-12-08 18:29:24', '2008-12-08 22:29:24', 'Hi Kristen — So nice to see you again last week! Appreciate your dissection of the reunion; I certainly experienced many of the same feelings. Most distracting for me was seeing people I know intimately who are now strangers — very odd thing to reconcile. Two things I think you should keep in mind: 1. Jason was clearly the most awesome spouse there, 2. Glasses make EVERYONE look more attractive. Thanks for blogging!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(230, 157, 'Joi T.', 'joitennant@verizon.net', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '98.108.7.237', '2008-12-08 15:30:17', '2008-12-08 19:30:17', 'Kristin,\r\nI loved this!  I could totally relate, and you had each step sorted out so cleverly.  We all benefit from your ability to look at yourself honestly and with candor and wit.  I think this is worth passing on to most of the women I know!  \r\nLove you, Mom', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(231, 167, 'Arathi', 'arathi.kylasam@gmail.com', '', '128.174.60.182', '2008-12-08 16:31:55', '2008-12-08 20:31:55', 'Hmm. Very thought-provoking. My biggest gifts to myself this holiday will be/should be:\r\n\r\n- Seeing my parents. Involves lots of money to fly there but it''s more about the family ties than consumption. \r\n- Disengaging from the stresses of parenting my unruly stepdaughter without guilt and anxiety. \r\n- 10 minutes of uninterrupted time in the morning to drink my coffee and ease into the day. Every day. My favorite time of the day. \r\n- A  whole weekend of avoiding the grocery store. \r\n- A guaranteed entire weekend of time alone (nobody else, just me) once every month. \r\n- 2 extra hours of lying in bed and reading a good book in the morning on the weekends. How decadent!\r\n- Watching a good movie in the middle of the day in jammies on the weekend (in keeping with the decadence theme)\r\n- Enjoying food and drink through the holidays without guilt (I work out enough the rest of the year!)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(232, 167, 'Joi T.', 'joitennant@verizon.net', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '98.108.7.237', '2008-12-08 16:33:28', '2008-12-08 20:33:28', 'Oh, how I wish I would have figured this out for myself when my kids (you) were in elementary school!  Life would have been SO different, and probably a whole lot different for you! I have lived my life forever with a kind of pressure that demands that you can''t play until the work is done, and, as we all know, at least for some of us, the work is NEVER done.  I think that is why the first time I fully understood the intent of keeping the Sabbath -- about 15 years ago -- I realized that God knows that we all need a commandment to stop working one day a week and just forget the endless list of "shoulds", which would also include for me that make-the-most-of-each-moment concept, that drives every other day.  It was the first time I understood that I had Permission to take a nap and read a book and fritter away time. Just reading your post today made me feel a kind of lightness and a sense that God approves.  One thing I''ve recently discovered is the freedom of letting go of my daily to-do list, which usually had about 4 days'' worth of jobs jammed onto my calendar for one day.  I realized that the list actually eliminated any hope for God to squeeze an idea, even a fun idea, into my day. My drive to complete the list of work always trumped any still small voice calling me in a different direction. I just HAD to scratch things off that list!  Now I try to stay more open to the moment.  That''s why I have just allowed myself the fun of sitting here and reading your blog for more than an hour when the Christmas crunch is upon me!  \r\nLove,\r\nMom', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(311, 193, 'Lance', 'lance@jungleoflife.com', 'http://www.jungleoflife.com', '65.29.12.59', '2008-12-23 23:04:06', '2008-12-24 03:04:06', 'Kristin,\r\nWhat an honest, raw, emotional post.  And, it makes me realize - even more - that I need to cherish all the "moments" I have with my children.  See, having them around all the time, kind of like anything else that is always there (could be money, car, spouse, food, etc., etc.) - I take my kids for granted.  And I''m sure I don''t appreciate them like you do yours.  And there is something beautiful in that - in really appreciating them.  Know that.  \r\n\r\nAnd my hope for you, Kristin, is that your Christmas is joyful, and that you really have the opportunity the love that is around you...', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(236, 164, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-12-08 23:50:06', '2008-12-09 03:50:06', 'To my fellow classmates:\r\n\r\nAlli, we missed seeing you at the reunion, but I''m glad I could capture some of its essence for you. I''m also glad we''re getting to know each other again (better than we ever did, really) here, in this forum. Your comments always really make me think.\r\n\r\nJody, thanks for being such a big part of my childhood memories, and for being open to having your photo plastered on my blog. :) Next time I''m in St. Johns, we''re going to Brunos!\r\n\r\nJim, it was great seeing you at the reunion, and here at my blog, too. I’m glad I was able to capture at least some aspects of the reunion in a way that resonated with others who were there. It was not an easy task, I think because it’s such a surreal experience. Thanks for your comment, and especially for affirming my “awesomest spouseâ€ and “glasses are hotâ€ assumptions!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(317, 198, 'Mary Jessup', 'jessup.m@cablespeed.com', 'http://jessup.m@cablespeed.com', '24.56.237.142', '2008-12-29 20:07:48', '2008-12-30 00:07:48', 'Beautifully and thoughtfully written, Kristen.  This year we celebrated at our Granddaughter''s home with her parents (Cynthia and Jim) and her husband, aunt, step-daughter and baby.  Cynthia''s oldest daughter is in Hawaii leading bicycle tours.  Daughter Sharon celebrated at her home in CA but one son was on a Carribbean cruise with his girl friend and her family.  Son Don and his wife had their 3 children at home and they celebrated together.  I''m thankful for telephones and photos via e-mail to keep in touch.   No matter what your age, "family can take so many forms and fill our voids in so many ways."  Thanks for your excellent blog.  Mary', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB5; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(314, 193, 'Alli Butler', 'alli@sydtech.com', '', '98.111.86.76', '2008-12-25 04:35:36', '2008-12-25 08:35:36', 'You miss your girls at Christmas because you make wonderful memories every day. To that end, Christmas can be ANY day and EVERY day. Count your blessings and hug your babies while ye may. :)\r\n\r\nMerry Christmas &amp; Happy New Year!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(239, 174, 'Nicola', 'nicolasysyn@yahoo.com', '', '66.213.196.2', '2008-12-09 19:46:47', '2008-12-09 23:46:47', 'This isn''t an idea for you, but ten years ago, before the whole American Express ad campaign was ubiquitous, I drove past a church that had this sign on its bulletin:\r\n\r\nFree coffee, everlasting life, membership has its privileges\r\n\r\nI thought it very clever and it didn''t offend me at all, even though I''m not a traditional believer.  I have encountered many offensive signs; what''s the point?', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.2)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(240, 174, 'Joi T.', 'joitennant@verizon.net', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '98.108.7.237', '2008-12-09 23:19:30', '2008-12-10 03:19:30', 'This post really kept me chuckling!  What a great picture! David Letterman would love it.  I have cringed at similar signs for years.  A better angle for someone who feels like they want to make a bold statement about their faith would be something along the line of "The Golden Rule is our business creed."\r\nBut in answer to your sign idea challenge:\r\n\r\nHow about, \r\nYou can "come clean" with Jesus.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(241, 174, 'Mark', 'markeharvey@gmail.com', '', '99.147.164.53', '2008-12-10 00:06:57', '2008-12-10 04:06:57', 'Do you think some people might see a "Christians Against Christians" shirt as just another "sign" poised for misunderstanding?', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/5G77', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(242, 174, 'Jeanne', 'jhiggs93@yahoo.com', 'http://flitknits.blogspot.com', '76.254.112.220', '2008-12-10 00:45:03', '2008-12-10 04:45:03', 'I can forgive him almost anything, he sells Mieles;-)\r\n\r\nI know this because it is where I bought the bags for mine. Jesus was there even then, but I don''t remember what he was preventing at the time!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(243, 174, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-12-10 01:55:42', '2008-12-10 05:55:42', 'Nicola, thanks for commenting! I agree—signs that are at least clever are much less offensive. I think it''s because such signs demonstrate a person''s (or church''s) ability to laugh at themselves, which is always an appealing quality. It shows that they''re human.\r\n\r\nJoi, I love your "you can come clean with Jesus" concept! Made me laugh out loud. On a more serious note, in my post tomorrow, I''m going to address signs that churches put up. I''ll include my thoughts about better messages we could be sending people, if we think signs are important.\r\n\r\nMark, thanks for visiting my blog. I definitely think some people might misunderstand the Christians Against Christians shirt. Pretty much everything is bound to be misunderstood by someone. I should mention that this shirt doesn''t really exist (not yet, anyway!). It''s a logo of sorts for use on my blog. What I''m trying to do is point out that there are plenty of Christians against non-Christians, and plenty of non-Christians against Christians, but it''s important for people to know that not all Christians think alike or see things in the same way. The tagline, I hope, makes people stop and think "What is that about? She''s clearly for Jesus but at the same time not thrilled with everything all Christians do or stand for." Have you seen the new Rob Bell book "Jesus Wants to Save Christians"? It''s sort of along those lines, at least in construct. Anyway, I''d like to hear more of your thoughts on this, if you feel inclined!\r\n\r\nJeanne, no one loves her vacuum cleaner as much as you! :) Having you show up on this post made me smile, because the other thought I always have when I pass by the vacuum store is about YOU. A much nicer thought than aggravating signage.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(244, 167, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-12-10 02:04:34', '2008-12-10 06:04:34', 'Arathi, I love your list! I have a feeling it was VERY easy for you to write, and in that case it''s very important for you to follow through with as many of those gifts to yourself as possible. You need them!\r\n\r\nMom, I''m sure some of your tendencies to put too much pressure on yourself rubbed off on me. But, more importantly, you''ve always shared with me what you''ve learned along the way, and I know I have benefited from those lessons. I''m sure that''s why I''m able to at least ruminate on these ideas at all, even if I''m not always successful at acting on them. How wonderful that I can continue learning from you even here on my blog!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(245, 174, 'Lesley', 'lesleymiller1@gmail.com', 'http://millersmeetsacramento.blogspot.com', '65.78.135.23', '2008-12-10 02:59:27', '2008-12-10 06:59:27', 'It was strange timing to to see your blog post today for a few reasons. First, I was in San Francisco last weekend and some crazy "Christians" were out on the street corners waving banners and shouting damnations in megaphones. (I put Christians in quotations because based on their actions, I don''t even know if I can call them Christians. It was that bad.) Then, my friend Emily who lives in San Francisco and should be used to these vocal types, was in Seattle last weekend and just posted a picture on her blog of similar signs. She also called the people "fundamental Christians". \r\n\r\nI guess I wondered-- what are fundamental Christians? How would you define them? Is it up to us to define them? I know I don''t like the signs they''re holding or the things they''re saying, but I also don''t get rubbed the wrong way by a simple "Jesus Saves" sign either. To me, "Jesus Saves" is not offensive or in your face. \r\n\r\nI suppose, as your blog tagline says, "I''m neither here, nor there." Thoughts?\r\n\r\np.s. Emily''s blog, if you want to check out her funny picture, is: http://emilykatz.blogspot.com/', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(246, 164, 'Greg St. John', 'stjohn.acorn@sbcglobal.net', '', '75.43.117.206', '2008-12-10 10:12:48', '2008-12-10 14:12:48', 'Kristin,\r\nI''m just now getting back to you blog, I started reading this one a couple of weeks ago, and got interupted.  Now I''ve got a bunch to catch up with.\r\nSince I have started on Facebook, and reconnected with you, I have been reading your blog-and thoroughly enjoying them.  I remember back in yearbook class how great of a writer you were, and see now how you have seasoned your skills and passion into what I hope are your dreams.\r\nJason sure seems to be the real deal, and you deserve the best, congratulations!  Your girls are beautiful and I''m sure have a great combination of the best of you and Jason.  I had a lot of fun catching up with old friends at the reunion, but wouldn''t want to go back for anything!\r\nKeep up the awsome blog!\r\nLove Ya!\r\nGreg', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(248, 174, 'carma', 'carmasez@bellsouth.net', 'http://www.carmasez.com', '68.222.134.34', '2008-12-10 14:55:33', '2008-12-10 18:55:33', 'I know this is off-topic, but I loved  your comment on Chuck''s site about your mom commenting and being one of your biggest fans.  If it wasn''t from my mom showing an interest I would have probably quit blogging several times over by now.  Even at my age she still encourages me in all of my crazy ventures that never quite seem to pan out :)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)', '', 0, 0, 'N');
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(249, 174, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '76.199.2.239', '2008-12-10 15:26:54', '2008-12-10 19:26:54', 'Lesley, your friend''s photo is really funny. The timing of these things is certainly interesting. I couldn''t believe that in the course of a single day I encountered two different examples of the same problem. Regarding Fundamentalists, I think it is a term that is used rather loosely (and as a writer, I should be careful how and when I use it). I think it''s generally understood, though, to refer to Christians who act like they have a corner on the Truth, and tend to defy reasonable debate and ignore any evidence that might contradict the Bible as the absolute truth. This isn''t my expertise, though! Anyone else want to jump in?\r\n\r\nCarma, I''m so glad you found my blog and commented. It''s funny--my mom is Joi (above). Sometimes she comments as "Mom," like if she wants to reference the fact that she knows me well, and other times she sticks with Joi. I''m really happy for both personae. :)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(250, 167, 'Arathi', 'arathi.kylasam@gmail.com', '', '128.174.60.182', '2008-12-10 15:49:30', '2008-12-10 19:49:30', 'How''d you know? The list pretty much just flew out of my mind through my fingers into the keyboard and onto the screen. LOL. I;m definitely going to try. I hope you have plenty of luck with yours too. \r\n\r\nLots of hugs and happy, happy holidays to you and your family. \r\n\r\nA', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(251, 174, 'Arathi', 'arathi.kylasam@gmail.com', '', '128.174.60.182', '2008-12-10 15:57:57', '2008-12-10 19:57:57', 'The timing of this is too weird (makes me wonder about the collective consciousness). This morning, I was sitting at the light at First and University, and happened to see this exact same sign in this store''s window. It definitely made me look because of the sheer unexpectedness of it. Vacuums and eternal fires? I too wondered what makes a store that sells vacuums put up a sign like that. And why there? Juxtaposed next to the types of vacuums it sells?  \r\n\r\nYesterday, I was going on my daily lunchtime walk around the quad and saw two guys wearing sandwich boards with "you will burn in hell if you don''t believe in Jesus"-type comments on them. I wondered what motivated them to stand there in the freezing cold with these boards that I don''t think Jesus would be okay with. I don''t think he''d have liked the "...or else...." subtext.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(252, 179, 'Arathi', 'arathi.kylasam@gmail.com', '', '128.174.60.182', '2008-12-10 16:01:08', '2008-12-10 20:01:08', 'Great post, Kristin. Just finished reading and commenting on Part 1 of this as well..... I wish more people thought about religion this way. The world would be a much happier place.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(253, 156, 'Molly Horan', 'boojie93@wowway.com', '', '198.208.251.21', '2008-12-10 17:44:17', '2008-12-10 21:44:17', 'Hi, Kristin, I am just now reading up on your blogs...they really do hit home!  I really enjoy your writing.\r\n\r\nI was the youngest in my family, dated all through college and then one month after graduating, got married.  14 years later found me separated for 2 months and learning how to live with just myself.  I''ve never lived alone!  \r\n\r\nThe first year of being alone was ok because my family &amp; friends were always making sure I was busy and I went on vacation over Christmas...but now, 8 months into my second year alone...it sucks.  \r\n\r\nI agree with you, being alone definitely doesn''t mean you''re lonely...but for me stringing all those "alone" days together makes for lonliness (and like you, I''m a huge extrovert, and my dogs don''t talk back!).  \r\n\r\nGranted my marriage was a lonely place at times...but there are days I''d take it back in a minute just knowing there was someone on the other side of the bed and not just pillows.  That''s a feeling I hope will change with time!\r\n\r\nKeep writing!  You do a wonderful job.  I''m glad there are people out there who feel like I do!  I''ll keep coming back... :)  \r\n\r\nbtw, it was great seeing you at the reunion!!  I''m so glad you''re happy and I use your "love story" as an inspiration.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; H010818; GM_UserLogonTimeUTC: 2008-12-10 19:20:03; GM_UserLogonTimeBias: 300; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.2)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(254, 179, 'Mark', 'markeharvey@gmail.com', '', '136.181.195.31', '2008-12-10 18:02:48', '2008-12-10 22:02:48', 'Crap.  I wrote this lengthy comment after yesterday''s post.  And now just read today''s entry.  I am putting it down anyway...since I took the time to write it even though it seems redundant.  Did you already have today''s written and waited to post today as a hook?  Please say no!\r\n\r\nFrom yesterday''s post:\r\n\r\nKT, I want to preface that, in the end, I probably agree with most of what you said and maybe I am just being argumentative.   \r\n\r\nOf course "Pretty much everything is bound to be misunderstood by someone" that''s not really the point is it?  If so, why bother writing the post?  I have heard Rob say and maybe write in one of his books that he doesn''t consider himself a Christian, rather a follower of Jesus. I haven''t read his latest book so maybe he develops that thought. My point is that the word "Christian" is corrupted. The ichthus on all the cars is no longer a secret sign--it''s a club sticker  (and your shirt is real, whether it''s on fabric or not).\r\n\r\n[A quick sidebar, have you read Phyllis Tickle''s "The Great Emergence?"  I am still finishing it but it talks about the watershed moment Christians (or followers of Jesus, etc) are facing at this time.]\r\n\r\nWe seem be at a time where we need to find a new way to focus on Jesus and his sometimes uncomfortable, unconventional and unfathomable measures of grace and love.  Maybe "Christians against Christians" is one way to get people like Ryan''s attention.  Maybe it''s clever for some and offensive to others.  I guess you can''t avoid that.  It just seems too clever to me.  \r\n\r\nWhat do you think would happen if you wore the theoretical shirt into the vacuum store?  I bet if you actually talked to the owner of the vacuum store you would agree on many points concerning Jesus (i.e., he is love, salvation, grace etc).  Maybe that is a pointless exercise anyway.  Regardless, without dialogue, signs probably offend a far greater number than they reach.   \r\n\r\nHow can anyone begin to think differently unless we engage them in dialogue instead of with signs?   Maybe it is the signs, clever or idiotic, that get us to the dialogue.  I guess that has happened here.  Wow, I guess I just talked myself in a circle.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(255, 179, 'Angela Harms', 'angela.harms@gmail.com', 'http://lifelovefood.com', '71.237.171.53', '2008-12-11 16:10:45', '2008-12-11 20:10:45', 'I love this post *so much* that it has it''s own spot on my bookmarks toolbar, so I can read it again and again. Srsly. Thanks very much. So glad to have discovered you.\r\n\r\nBTW, shouldn''t it be Christians against Christianity?\r\n\r\nAngela', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(256, 179, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-12-11 17:07:06', '2008-12-11 21:07:06', 'Arathi, thanks again for your perspective on these two pieces. I''m just curious--do Christian churches in India try to share their beliefs on signs?\r\n\r\nMark, I did write both posts at once, but not for the purpose of being a trick or hook! I just tend to write really long posts, so I decided at the last minute to split the one into two. Thanks for sharing your thoughts again, though. Obviously, I think dialogue is the important thing--we just need to figure out the best ways to get the dialogue started. If there was someone always standing by every sign, ready to have a conversation, that would be one thing. Maybe that''s one of the problems with signs, along with the fact that there''s not much room for explaining yourself. Blogs seem to be a good alternative, eh? The right people just need to find the right blogs.\r\n\r\nAngela, I''m so glad you found my blog and tracked me down on Twitter! Regarding Christians against Christianity, hmmm...that''s very interesting. It depends whether you''re talking about generic Christianity--what most people today tend to think of when they think of Christianity--or if you''re talking about the ideal Christianity--what it really means to follow Jesus. I wouldn''t want people to think I''m against that. I''m just not right in step with everyone who claims the faith, I guess.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(257, 179, 'Arathi', 'arathi.kylasam@gmail.com', '', '128.174.60.182', '2008-12-11 18:46:09', '2008-12-11 22:46:09', 'You know, I never noticed.... I''ll have to pay attention when I head over there later this month. I went to a Catholic, all-girls school too (in a primarily Hindu country!) but I don''t ever recall feeling forced about any conflicting beliefs.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(260, 174, 'Alli Butler', 'alli@sydtech.com', '', '98.111.86.76', '2008-12-12 17:57:33', '2008-12-12 21:57:33', 'Funny &amp; timely! (Well, it would have been if I were keeping up...)\r\n\r\nRight around Thanksgiving I saw a sign at my local auto body shop that also gave me pause and a moment''s reflection. I should admit to the fact that I am an insane apostrophe-misuse critic. Those over-used and mis-used apostrophes drive me crazy! In the case of the auto body shop, however, it was the lack of apostrophe that changed the meaning and message for me.\r\n\r\nMAY WE ALL BE THANKFUL FOR GODS BLESSINGS\r\n\r\nWithout the apostrophe I decided that this was a multi-ethnic, far-reaching, meaningful message that was embracing all gods and the universe in giving thanks for our many blessings. Of course, there probably just wasn''t a plastic magnetic apostrophe for the sign, but I chose to internalize and give myself a smile at the potential meaning. Of course one could argue that we all interpret faith, spirituality and input from others in our own way, but that''s a whole other post! :)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(261, 181, 'middleofthepond', 'info@tongueuntied.com', 'http://middleofthepond.wordpress.com/', '76.227.79.60', '2008-12-12 21:47:02', '2008-12-13 01:47:02', 'Oh, can I relate! I once had an entire group of friends rushing to comfort me over my father''s death when I wrote that I was "heartened to see that my mother was coping so well in my father''s absence." My father, rather than dead, was on a month-long trip to Scotland. \r\nTo your more significant point, I do think it is incredibly difficult to remember that no one but us is looking from our point of view. And even when do we happen to see the same exact thing (like a sign in a vacuum store window), the *way* we see it is guaranteed to be different.\r\nSo, it seems to me that instead of feeling stupid for mangled prose, we writers might simply count ourselves lucky when we succeed in letting a reader in on what we see. \r\nAt the same time, I don''t think that inadvertent confusion or the resulting reader agitation is inherently a failure. It''s just not the outcome we intended. But remarkable things can follow. Just look through the comments on your "signs" post -- actual dialogue! Nice work.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(1143, 263, 'Ashley', 'ashleygvelez@gmail.com', 'http://www.ashleygraceless.com', '68.153.33.3', '2009-02-11 13:53:50', '2009-02-11 17:53:50', 'I''ve often wondered about this.  To me, it''s more of a "will my children want to sit in front of the tv watching cartoons and playing video games?" question.  I also want them to have plenty of time to do whatever moves them - fashion shows, drawing, riding bikes, playing games, whatever it may be.  Most importantly, I want them to feel free to use their imaginations in any way they choose.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(2516, 343, 'Tracy', 'tracy.oconnor@gmail.com', 'http://www.ihatemymessageboard.com', '70.145.133.65', '2009-05-05 15:18:20', '2009-05-05 19:18:20', 'Oh before I leave, it kind of surprises me how many people are somewhat astonished at how often they see us walking. We live in a compact city area with almost everything you''d need on a daily basis in a one mile radius. Why wouldn''t we always be walking!?', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10', '', 0, 0, 'Y'),
(6570, 514, 'Trina', 'colour144@yahoo.com', '', '75.158.132.136', '2009-10-26 16:53:02', '2009-10-26 20:53:02', 'We had this campaign come to Calgary too. Unfortunately the "we''re right-you''re wrong\r\n'' mentallity overwhelmed the media coverage. \r\nOpening up dialogue, listening to others, never means you have to compromise your position. I guess that is where my ''go-with-the-flow'' attitude, which you commented on in an earlier post, comes from.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)', '', 0, 0, 'Y'),
(6571, 514, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2009-10-26 17:18:18', '2009-10-26 21:18:18', 'Margo, that is such a good point! When I first heard about the ads, it was through the article I linked to, which referenced the campaign as "atheist" right in the headline. I didn''t mean to leave it more ambiguous in my blog, but I''m glad I did! It just demonstrates how many different ways there are to understand and think about something, and how we''re all influenced by a variety of internal and external forces. There is no black and white, indeed! Thanks for your comment.\r\n\r\nJason, your broader research and links about this campaign are really helpful. Thanks for doing some of the legwork! And I completely agree that the tone of Christian statements (bumper stickers, etc.) tends to be more along the lines of "we have the corner on Truth," rather than "here are some different ways to think about the world and spirituality." It''s something that bothers me, because it seems like Christians are more interested in claiming their rightness than they are than in opening dialogue and thought. Jesus was all about opening dialogue and pushing people to think in new ways, and come to their own conclusions.\r\n\r\nEd, now I''ve heard about the book "Good without God" twice today! I''m going to have to check it out. Regarding you comment, I think I understand what you are saying, and I agree with it, particularly your second paragraph. I think people can live a "good life" (in both senses of the word good) without God, but I believe that to be at our best and to see the world at its best, we need to be living and seeing, thinking and acting within God''s grace. In any given day, I see the whole range of examples in my own life, from the "lost me" to the "good me," and sometimes I even get glimpses of the "best me."\r\n\r\nJason, I can''t answer for Ed, of course, but my thoughts about your questions are somewhat embedded in my response to Ed. I don''t think that it''s a matter of believing in this Christian God and being ultimately good, versus not believing and being bad. I believe it''s a spectrum, and we''re all moving back and forth along it, sometimes getting close to reaching our potential, and many times falling short. There''s plenty of room for lots of good in individuals and the world, but I personally don''t believe I can be my very best without God. (Not a specific Christian God, but God—my God.)\r\n\r\nRon, I think your third point, in particular, is really important in making sense of this complicated issue. How would you explain what happens when we move from being a person "stamped" by the image of God to someone completely immersed in the image of God? And what about the many many staged in between? Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts—I know you do because you''re a fan of ideas, thought and conversation, not just because you''re my pastor and you want to support me. :) Anyway, feel free to use some ideas!\r\n\r\nMeredith, yes, you''re exactly right. As I mentioned in my response to Margo, my original take on the ad was really colored by the news headline I read first. And the whole "good" versus "good" issue is really important, too. I read the ad as meaning "I''m OK without God—I''m getting through life just fine, and don''t see how believing in a God would make my life better." The ambiguity can definitely be a good jumping off point for dialogue, as long as the ambiguity is recognized and pointed out by thoughtful people like you. :)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009082706 Firefox/3.0.14', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(6569, 512, 'Trina', 'colour144@yahoo.com', '', '75.158.132.136', '2009-10-26 16:30:30', '2009-10-26 20:30:30', 'Yikes, cant believe I missed #thelovelist Friday, especially since Lance, you covered one of my favourite parts of being - nature. The vivid colours, the feel and scent of the air, the vistas, being able to see as far as the eye can see. The variety of hues to the sky. The way the mountains can look blue, yet you know they are rock coloured. I could ramble on. The overall impact nature has for me is one of joy, be it visual or aural. Appreciating the beauty of nature around me leaves me feeling centered. Thank you for sharing your moment and reflections Lance.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(2986, 355, 'Elaine Tolsma-Harlow', 'reoharlow@hotmail.com', '', '24.231.246.103', '2009-05-20 15:45:34', '2009-05-20 19:45:34', 'This post has given me hope.  My dining room is my studio space, which needs to be set up and taken down each time I work (gives very little room for spontaneous work) but I''m grateful for any space &amp; I have learned to make it work really well.  I just know that someday I will be over the moon to have my own studio space to make my own creative messes that don''t need to be cleaned up at the end of the day.\r\n\r\nHave fun!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(2987, 355, 'Trina', 'colour144@yahoo.com', '', '75.159.46.147', '2009-05-20 15:55:30', '2009-05-20 19:55:30', 'Congrats on the transition to where there are no " ", and the new space of course :-)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(2515, 343, 'Tracy', 'tracy.oconnor@gmail.com', 'http://www.ihatemymessageboard.com', '70.145.133.65', '2009-05-05 15:17:27', '2009-05-05 19:17:27', 'For starters how cool is the CROP walk idea? I looked and there aren''t any scheduled for my area, and I''m not a member of any Church, but somehow I need to find a way to do this.\r\n\r\nAs a stay at home mom, walking is my life saver. It''s often the only time I can be "alone" and not doing anything during the day without feeling guilty. Whenever possible I walk both of the older boys to school, then the two little ones home in a double stroller. By this time, the babies are quiet and mellow and enjoying the ride, and I have some time alone with my thoughts.\r\n\r\nI also love talking with the boys while we walk and seeing all the neat things they observe. It''s great bonding!\r\n\r\nSpeaking of, time to get everyone up and ready to go get big brother from school. I will have to read your post again, it really spoke to me.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10', '', 0, 0, 'Y'),
(263, 181, 'Chuck', 'cjwestbrook@gmail.com', 'http://chuckwestbrook.com', '24.98.82.135', '2008-12-13 10:24:16', '2008-12-13 14:24:16', 'Enjoyed this post, as usual, Kristin. You''re right about my telephone game tweet lining up with this post, too.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(265, 181, 'Jessica Bern', 'bernzee@mac.com', 'http://bernthis.typepad.com', '71.156.50.79', '2008-12-14 05:03:42', '2008-12-14 09:03:42', 'The big down side to email, Facebook, all of them is your ability to be "you" and not have it misinterpreted, especially when "you" as in "me" can be somewhat sarcastic at times. \r\n\r\nI prefer the phone quite frankly.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(266, 181, 'Lance', 'lance@jungleoflife.com', 'http://www.jungleoflife.com', '65.29.12.59', '2008-12-14 07:37:51', '2008-12-14 11:37:51', 'Hi Kristin,\r\nI enjoyed this post very much - because we DO speak from our perspective, and that''s not always that same perspective that others "see".  And, without a rich and genuine conversation, we can easily take what has been said in the wrong context.  It reminds me that I do need to question more often, not just accept that I understand...', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(268, 181, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-12-15 01:17:15', '2008-12-15 05:17:15', 'Jessica, you''re so right. It''s one thing to get people to see what we''re seeing. But to use words to get people inside your head, in tune with your own brand of sarcasm and other quirks? That often feels like an exhausting task. (I should add, though, that you manage it very well on your blog.)\r\n\r\nLance, thanks for reading and commenting. I, too, need to be more quick to ask "What do you mean?" It somehow feels rude when I''m the one who''s thinking of asking, but not at all when I''m the one being asked. Now if we can only find a few extra hours every day for all those genuine conversations we want to have, right?\r\n\r\nElaine, I have often thought "word people" have an unfair advantage in the world, no matter how visually-oriented we are and how much we love art. I would LOVE it if you could leave a painting here as a comment, but I also love when you decide to leave some words. They always communicate something meaningful to me.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(321, 200, 'blackwasp19', 'joshuacanada@gmail.com', 'http://www.blackwasp19.wordpress.com', '67.162.88.111', '2008-12-30 08:41:15', '2008-12-30 12:41:15', 'There is a thin-line, but important distinction, between intentional and contrived. I can be intentional about being in the community, giving myself the opportunity to meet and interact with others. Or I can contrive interaction by saying I am going to go “hereâ€ to try to meet “himâ€ and talk about “thisâ€. \r\n\r\nIt seems we often get these two concepts confuse and use them interchangeably.  Instead of living life with intention we try to control and contrive aspects and minute details of life. This is what leads us to exhaustion. We are so pre-occupied with control that we forgo the experiencing the opportunities of life.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(329, 200, 'Rachelle Mee-Chapman', 'moi@magpie-girl.com', 'http://www.mapgie-girl.com', '87.52.21.168', '2009-01-05 07:41:29', '2009-01-05 11:41:29', 'This is so So perfect for me. My gremlins are so noisy about "which decision." That''s why I''m Embracing Whimsy in 2009. Let''s go be unintentional together!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; Zune 3.0)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(272, 183, 'Joshua Canada', 'joshuacanada@gmail.com', 'http://www.blackwasp19.wordpress.com', '67.162.88.111', '2008-12-16 00:34:24', '2008-12-16 04:34:24', 'Krisitn, \r\n\r\nThanks for your words. It is interesting because the whole concept of Advent was not something that I grew up with. I came into learning about it in college. The churches I went to utilized the spirit of Advent, but not in a formal manner. \r\n\r\n"Advent is ultimately about having hope that with God’s guidance, we’ll emerge from the darkness, back into the light"\r\n\r\nThis quote of yours is so true. We can get caught up into the tradtion and into the prescribed "meanings" of ritual that the value is rote as best.  I pray that we can find the hope we have through Jesus Christ in genuine trationtion and everyday occurances. \r\n\r\nI hope you, Jason &amp; the girls are doing well.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.2)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(336, 202, 'Mark', 'Markeharvey@gmail.com', '', '99.147.164.182', '2009-01-05 14:11:35', '2009-01-05 18:11:35', 'Well good, I find your blog very interesting and your writing very engaging.  I just wanted you to know I wasn''t trying to be a jerk or arguing for the sake of arguing.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5G77 Safari/525.20', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(335, 200, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2009-01-05 14:06:33', '2009-01-05 18:06:33', 'Rachelle, I''m so glad to know I''m not alone on this quest. I''d love to figure out how we can actively support and encourage one another as we give it a try in 2009. Any ideas?\r\n\r\n(For those of you who are wondering about Rachelle''s reference to "gremlins," check out her great blog post on the matter: http://www.magpie-girl.com/20081228/quiten-down-how-to-shut-up-your-gremlins/)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.20) Gecko/20081217 Firefox/2.0.0.20', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(878, 250, 'Cobalt-Blue', 'michelle.feelingroovy@gmail.com', '', '69.221.239.196', '2009-01-31 08:35:00', '2009-01-31 12:35:00', 'Just wondering why no mention of pets, especially a dog, considering that you work at home (when not at the cafe : ), have side walks in the neighborhood for walking, and a big, fenced-in back yard for keeping the dog safe. The lessons in responsibility and caring for animals that a dog brings are priceless for children, not to mention the loyal, companionship, too. Is there a dog in your future and if not, what are your past experiences with pets?', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(279, 183, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-12-17 03:05:25', '2008-12-17 07:05:25', 'Josh, thanks so much for your comment. I grew up in a church that celebrated advent, but I always thought of it more as a time of anticipation and preparation. Thinking about it this year more as a time of being guided out of the dark, toward the light, has really given me a different perspective on it. I think what you said in your comment about finding hope in both "genuine tradition and everyday occurrences" is key. Figuring out how to bring the tradition and the everyday stuff all together, and make it into a cohesive faith, is the challenge.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(334, 202, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2009-01-05 14:02:29', '2009-01-05 18:02:29', 'Mark, thanks for following up. I wasn''t offended at all! The best thing about the blogging format is the instant feedback--having someone raise a flag when my logic and/or communication is fuzzy. Your prize for raising the flag is that I''m writing my next post around it! :) I think the question you raise is a great one: Can we really be intentional about being more open, or does one preclude the other?\r\n\r\nThanks again for your comment, and stay tuned for my follow up post!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.20) Gecko/20081217 Firefox/2.0.0.20', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(289, 187, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-12-18 11:56:51', '2008-12-18 15:56:51', 'Jen, I think it was in writing various blog posts that I started thinking about you again, after so many years. You most likely came to mind because you were always one of those rare people who seemed to GET and accept my halfway to normal state--perhaps even before I did, myself. Anyway, I''m so glad you''re "here" on my blog and FB, and I would LOVE for you to drive up so we could catch up in person.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(333, 202, 'Mark', 'markeharvey@gmail.com', '', '136.181.195.31', '2009-01-05 13:17:22', '2009-01-05 17:17:22', 'Hey, my tweet only meant to point at a little bit of irony.  To me, the idea of being less intentional is a lot like grace--we can pray for it, be thankful for it and then try to practice it in turn.  Many times we are aware if it until the moment has passed. Just sounded like you are doing what you are trying not to do--over plan.  I don''t think you can be less intentional until the moment is upon you and you have to make a fairly quick decision about whether you''ll let go or get wound up about it (no matter how much you say you plan on being more open to such situations).  Sorry if you were offended.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(286, 187, 'Jen Luitwieler', 'jkluit@yahoo.com', '', '70.177.71.147', '2008-12-17 20:25:37', '2008-12-18 00:25:37', 'Sister,\r\n\r\nI have spent the last hour trolling your marvelous blog feeling so many things. I love your work, the pics of your kids are amazing and you are lovely and engaging as ever. I have a pit of sadness in my stomach for what it appears you went through, starting so many years ago. I am thrilled that you have "come out'' on the other side. My mind is racing with questions and an overriding desire to drive up to where you are to sit for a long long long cup of coffee. My hope is that you will have time to check in with me again. You have no idea how happy I am you found me on FB.\r\n\r\nJen', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(553, 223, 'susan lieberman', 'susan@lieberman.net', 'http://www.motherinlawsmanual.com', '99.182.52.159', '2009-01-18 12:47:18', '2009-01-18 16:47:18', 'You have just MADE MY DAY.  I spent two years working on a book about MILs for MILS and I keep wondering just where are these awful, mean, malevolent people I hear about on mommy blogs come from?  Sure, there are always a few crazies...in every category...but I interviewed scores of women and most of them seemed quite sane...some, as you describe Mary, really wonderful. So hurrah for this post.  \r\nsusan lieberman, MIL...and MUCH MUCH more.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(301, 193, 'Angela Harms', 'angela.harms@gmail.com', 'http://angelaharms.com', '71.237.171.53', '2008-12-22 13:41:14', '2008-12-22 17:41:14', 'You''ve said this beautifully.\r\n\r\nWhen mine were little, one of them picked up a kids'' picture book about divorce, and I explained that such a thing would never happen to us. Hmph. Now mine are gone for three weeks during the summer and a week in January, and it breaks my heart every time.\r\n\r\nThanks once again for sharing your journey.\r\n\r\nAngela', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(302, 189, 'Keith', 'bigdoglamb@yahoo.com', '', '12.235.117.212', '2008-12-22 14:52:37', '2008-12-22 18:52:37', 'Kristin, thanks for the interesting discussion and thought process for which your blog has created.  You can really understand where a person is at in lifes journey as the need for friends and family arises.  \r\n\r\nI too found it encouraging and exciting to recently find a friend at our class reunion (go St. John Redwings).  It is always thought you would stay in touch but to find that person from your past who you believe "really" understands what is going on inside us.  I believe that is why we all seek for friendships and relationships that touch that inner point of "they really understand me".', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(303, 193, 'Arathi', 'arathi.kylasam@gmail.com', '', '128.174.60.182', '2008-12-22 15:00:28', '2008-12-22 19:00:28', 'Hey there -- lovely post. Sending you a big hug -- I am sorry you''re sad. I do understand -- even if I don''t experience the exact same thing...\r\n\r\nA', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(304, 193, 'Marty Wondergem', 'xmartinj@gmail.com', '', '69.129.41.26', '2008-12-22 15:02:50', '2008-12-22 19:02:50', 'This was a great post Kristin. Blessings to you and your family.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(305, 193, 'Mark', 'markeharvey@gmail.com', '', '136.181.195.31', '2008-12-22 15:13:31', '2008-12-22 19:13:31', 'Grace and Peace Kristin.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(306, 193, 'Candace Walsh', 'candace.walsh@gmail.com', 'http://www.mothering.com/candacewalsh', '206.169.194.27', '2008-12-22 15:50:26', '2008-12-22 19:50:26', 'This is beautiful, AND I relate.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.26.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2 Safari/525.26.12', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(307, 193, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-12-23 00:38:43', '2008-12-23 04:38:43', 'Elaine, Angela, Arathi, Marty, Mark and Candace (and the many people who contacted me on Twitter and Facebook): Thank you for your warmth and compassion, and for connecting to different parts of my story in your own unique ways. Having a supportive community--and knowing I can be open and share, even before I have it figured out--makes a world of difference. Peace and joy to all of you this season.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(308, 193, 'Dawn', 'dawnpatch@hotmail.com', '', '69.209.237.242', '2008-12-23 01:36:42', '2008-12-23 05:36:42', '"Redemption, from what I can tell, is about gathering the pile of mess to you and offering it up, to see what beautiful new thing can be made from the wreckage."\r\n\r\nI think you just knocked 6 months off of my therapy. My shrink will be so bummed. I''m going to go have a cry now, but in a good way.  xxo dp', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(313, 196, 'Lance', 'lance@jungleoflife.com', 'http://www.jungleoflife.com', '65.29.12.59', '2008-12-24 06:17:15', '2008-12-24 10:17:15', 'That''s a wonderful Christmas story, Kristin.  Thank you for sharing a piece of your writing past, and reminding us about what Christmas is all about - being together, family, and the light in our world - the birth of Jesus.  Merry Christmas...', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(354, 204, 'Mark', 'Markeharvey@gmail.com', '', '99.147.165.125', '2009-01-07 21:19:39', '2009-01-08 01:19:39', 'A final thought: look at your life the last 4-5 years.  Are they not only  picture of God''s grace but also your willingness to be open and less intentional? How else would you have made it to where you are now? It''s quite a story.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5G77 Safari/525.20', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(312, 193, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-12-24 01:28:35', '2008-12-24 05:28:35', 'Dawn, reading your comment made me both laugh and tear up a bit. We all need more free therapy during this economic downturn! I’m so glad my stories can help. There’s no better reason to write them.\r\n\r\nLance, I know I took my kids for granted, too, before my divorce, and there''s still so much in my life that I take for granted. I''d like to say I''ve been cured of that disease, but I''m afraid it isn''t possible. It''s such a part of being human. Other people''s stories do help put things in perspective, though, and I''m grateful. Thanks for your encouragement and joyful Christmas wishes.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(318, 200, 'Barb Chamberlain', 'barbchamberlain1@gmail.com', 'http://www.biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com', '67.185.251.249', '2008-12-29 23:29:51', '2008-12-30 03:29:51', 'I love this, especially as someone who frequently vows to be more mindful--and no, the opposite of that shouldn''t be mindless, to extend your reasoning.\r\n\r\nMuch of my life I''ve had the great joy of working in jobs that I fully believe in and can give myself to. This hasn''t come about because of any well-thought-out or "intentional" plan. It''s been serendipity, which I like to think of as "the things that happen to those who pay attention." I wouldn''t have it any other way.\r\n\r\nHere''s to letting it happen.\r\n\r\n@BarbChamberlain', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; SU 3.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(319, 200, 'Jodi', 'Jodi_Rosenberg@yahoo.com', '', '32.172.70.140', '2008-12-29 23:41:43', '2008-12-30 03:41:43', 'Thought provoking.\r\n\r\nMakes me think about the importance of living in the moment.  Or crafting the plan, but holding it loosely.  We need to be open to our current location, those we meet, the situations we stumble upon,  and the opportunities we have.  \r\n\r\nEnjoy your 2009, I am sure your new focus will be a blessing.\r\nJodi', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5G77 Safari/525.20', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(320, 200, 'Deb', 'deb@debworks.com', 'http://www.debworks.com', '99.151.65.71', '2008-12-29 23:49:18', '2008-12-30 03:49:18', 'Intentional - opposite would be accidental.  I can go with accidentally meeting new people, finding new things to read, etc. \r\n\r\nIt''s scary to me to venture from the tried and true path to where I want to go.  So if you don''t mind - I''ll be following you to see how it is working for you.  \r\n\r\nAnd I think I''ll just veer a little, every once in awhile!\r\n\r\nGreat post, thanks.\r\nDeb @debworks', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; GTB5; FBSMTWB; SU 3.1; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; eMusic DLM/3; eMusic DLM/4)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(322, 109, 'Wellsy', 'joshua.c.briscoe@gmail.com', 'http://osservivedono.blogspot.com/', '75.108.226.86', '2008-12-30 08:57:51', '2008-12-30 12:57:51', 'I don''t think we can leave religion out of politics completely. Whatever you might practice, if you define yourself by what you believe, it''s going to be an integral part of who you are (obviously) and that will be taken into account when you vote on this or that, sign that law in or veto that one. It''s inevitable. To ask that religion be left out is to ask that these people deny a significant part of themselves for secularism.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(490, 215, 'Brent Couzens, Houston, TX', 'brent.couzens@att.net', '', '134.163.255.24', '2009-01-14 15:02:54', '2009-01-14 19:02:54', 'Hey Kristen,\r\nI watched the press conference on TV Monday morning from a cozy, warm place in Mexico.  I wonder what the local people who happened to be watching it thought.  I have to admit, I have the same reaction as you.  I have this reaction at work to.  Substituting "disappointment" for "mistake" is a very common corporate behavior, designed, I suppose, to cover your backside.  It is even part of our annual review process - "what were your successes and disappointments for the year?"  Kind of humorous, but you hit a key point that if you do not think of some "disappointments" as your mistake caused by your error in judgement for what ever reason, you deny yourself the opportunity to learn and grow.  Wouldn''t it be great to hear our leaders say "I made this mistake ..., and I learned that ..."?  Maybe we''ll start to see that more often.  I hope so.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; MS-RTC LM 8)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(324, 200, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2008-12-30 19:41:12', '2008-12-30 23:41:12', 'Barb, thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts. The fact that being less intentional made you think of serendipity is exactly where I was headed. I love your definition of serendipity, too. I was already thinking through a follow up post to this one, about paying attention. \r\n\r\nJodi, I really like how you describe this approach to balance: "crafting a plan, but holding it loosely." You also used the phrase "be open," which is key to what I''m trying to do. I suspect that exciting things are happening around us all the time, and that we miss them by our lack of openness. Thanks for your comment, and may 2009 be a blessing for you, too!\r\n\r\nDeb, I think "accidental" can be one way to think about the opposite of "intentional." Isn''t it interesting how "accidental" seems to carry negative connotations? (Even though you rightly point out that accidents can be happy ones.) I guess what I don''t like about that word here is that is suggests that things just happen to us, willy nilly. I believe there''s something bigger going on, and that my gut or my instincts or the nudging of God''s spirit (or whatever you want to call it) is often more spot-on than my logic and intellect. I agree--it can be scary, though! I will try to write some follow up posts about my little baby steps forward and back. Thanks for reading!\r\n\r\nblackwasp19, I''m really glad you brought the word "contrived" into the conversation. I guess that''s what I often feel the result is when I think through things a bit too much and try too hard to make a specific thing happen. It''s like trying to find a spouse, right? The more you come up with a plan for meeting the perfect person, the less natural (and probably less successful) the search becomes. Ultimately, I do think living intentionally is a really good thing. It''s finding that thin line, as you pointed out, that''s important.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.20) Gecko/20081217 Firefox/2.0.0.20', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(338, 202, 'Alli Butler', 'alli@sydtech.com', '', '98.111.86.76', '2009-01-05 20:31:16', '2009-01-06 00:31:16', 'Amen, sister! I have spent most of my life trying to take care of everyone, be the perfect hostess, plan great parties, etc and I spend a ton of time being tense and terse before big events - making lists, trying to attend to every detail. This organization before the fact helps me be able to relax and enjoy the event itself, but I am occasionally reminded that some of our best times have been spur-of-the-moment parties, dinners and get-togethers wherein I throw toilet paper down the stairs, apologize for the dog hair on the babies and just enjoy the companionship and fun. Perhaps the trick is to lower everyone''s expectations in the first place! :) \r\n\r\nFor me, it''s about allowing myself to enjoy and not feel like I have to be in charge of everyone else. If all else fails, open another bottle of wine!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(339, 193, 'Jill', 'jill_peter@mcgraw-hill.com', '', '173.19.237.218', '2009-01-05 22:25:46', '2009-01-06 02:25:46', 'Ah...my first Christmas in the land of the divorced--I can definitely relate to this!  You''ve said it eloquently!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; MS-RTC LM 8)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(340, 183, 'Joi T.', 'joitennant@verizon.net', 'http://TrackBack', '98.108.124.14', '2009-01-05 22:42:48', '2009-01-06 02:42:48', 'Kristin,\r\nI just read this tonight, and I wish everyone I know would read it.  I''m so glad you took the time to put Judy''s story into writing and publish it in this context.  I have always felt like my precious wooden baby Jesus became a much more perfect symbol for me after he was chewed and marred like that.  I cried big tears when I first discovered what had happened to him.  I was actually horrified by it. But my horror gradually became a deep ache as I recognized the reality of the reminder of what it meant for God to take on flesh and dwell among us.   \r\nFor a very long time in my life I honestly expected that somehow my faith would result in creating the "good life"-- that God would save me from the bad stuff and make everything turn out right.  In more recent years I have come to see that life is more like the book, "Pilgrim''s Progress," with many "dangers, toils and snares" and occasional places like small oasis''s of refreshment along the way where God''s Spirit is so real and beautiful, giving us courage for the journey and awesome hope in every circumstance of life''s adventure.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/312.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.6', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(341, 193, 'Joi T.', 'joitennant@verizon.net', 'http://TrackBack', '98.108.124.14', '2009-01-05 23:00:03', '2009-01-06 03:00:03', 'Wow, Kristin, this really tugged at my heart in a huge way. Thank you for being so open and vulnerable and honest!\r\nLove you,\r\nMom', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/312.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.6', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(342, 196, 'Joi T.', 'joitennant@verizon.net', 'http://TrackBack', '98.108.124.14', '2009-01-05 23:07:01', '2009-01-06 03:07:01', 'Dear Daughter,\r\nYou have blessed me with all these beautiful posts!\r\nMom', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/312.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.6', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(345, 202, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2009-01-06 18:47:04', '2009-01-06 22:47:04', 'Alli, I think your mom would be very pleased that you''ve learned so much about the art of hosting and the art of enjoying yourself. My mom is always saying to me, about various life lessons, "I wish I had figured that out when I was your age." \r\n\r\nThanks, as always, for sharing your thoughts!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.20) Gecko/20081217 Firefox/2.0.0.20', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(346, 206, 'Lance', 'lance@jungleoflife.com', 'http://www.jungleoflife.com', '65.29.12.59', '2009-01-07 00:12:37', '2009-01-07 04:12:37', 'Hi Kristin,\r\nI think that some quiet time, in general, is good for everyone.  A little time to reconnect with self is important.  And, hey, I hear you about house guests.  As nice as it is to have visitors, it can also sure be relaxing when they leave...   So, I say - enjoy those moments of solitude!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N');
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(666, 231, 'Jen', 'jkluit@yaoo.com', 'http://hollyhousestudio.blogspot.com', '24.253.247.173', '2009-01-22 18:16:21', '2009-01-22 22:16:21', 'I love holding hands. When I''m near my mom I still hold hers. My kids love it when I hold their hands and lightly pinch their fingers from the webbing to their tips. It makes them sleepy. Kurt is a major toucher, he loves hand holding. And my best friend and I, when we are together, walk with linked arms. How pleasant.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.20) Gecko/20081217 Firefox/2.0.0.20', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(663, 231, 'ejly', 'eva.lyford@gmail.com', 'http://www.ejly.net', '207.250.76.6', '2009-01-22 15:25:56', '2009-01-22 19:25:56', ': ) what''s Mission #2?', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/1.0.154.43 Safari/525.19', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(664, 26, 'Westbrook Introduces Kristin Tennant &amp; Halfway to Normal &laquo; The Sky&#8217;s the Limit', '', 'http://adamtree.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/westbrook-introduces-kristin-tennant-halfway-to-normal/', '74.200.245.226', '2009-01-22 17:40:53', '2009-01-22 21:40:53', '[...] A turning point with a street address [...]', 0, '1', 'The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- WordPress/MU', 'pingback', 0, 0, 'N'),
(1024, 256, 'TJ Hirst', 'tj@tjhirst.com', 'http://www.tjhirst.com/', '97.112.31.244', '2009-02-06 16:58:15', '2009-02-06 20:58:15', 'I love your comparison of online communities versus real-life one. I think we talk online as if the only communities that exist are those, but like you said, I, too am "still a big believer in the power of sitting down and breaking bread with others. Nothing virtual will ever take the place of that." Fun way to make the routine 25 things more palatable and connective.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(665, 181, 'Westbrook Introduces Kristin Tennant &amp; Halfway to Normal &laquo; The Sky&#8217;s the Limit', '', 'http://adamtree.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/westbrook-introduces-kristin-tennant-halfway-to-normal/', '74.200.245.227', '2009-01-22 17:43:39', '2009-01-22 21:43:39', '[...] Yes, even &#8220;real&#8221; writers say it wrong [...]', 0, '1', 'The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- WordPress/MU', 'pingback', 0, 0, 'N'),
(660, 229, 'Urban Panther', 'urbanpanthers@gmail.com', 'http://www.urbanpantherslair.com', '24.202.155.36', '2009-01-22 09:38:54', '2009-01-22 13:38:54', 'There are events that I cannot do alone, although I LOVE a quiet peaceful house, with the just the occasional yowl from the Siamese.  Being Canadian, the inauguration wasn''t one of them, but I appreciate that for you it was. Obviously the tragic unfolding of 9/11 could not be experienced alone. We huddled in boardrooms at work, and at home the children and I snuggled on the couch and tried to make sense of it all. On a more upbeat-ish note, I cannot do Remembrance Day alone. I have tried to just sit and listen to the radio, but have discovered that I really need to attend the service in person, even if I am simply surrounded by complete strangers.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SU 3.1; GTB5; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(671, 229, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2009-01-22 23:31:14', '2009-01-23 03:31:14', 'Urban Panther, it''s so interesting to hear which events motivate different people to seek out companionship. You''re right, it so depends on who and where you are, and what touches you. Sept. 11 was perhaps the most universal of such moments. I was feeling VERY alone, as I had just moved to a new town where I didn''t have any local friends yet. My husband was at work, and I was at home with my 1- and 3-year-old children, who were of course oblivious to everything unfolding on the news. Our personal experiences definitely play into how we feel about and remember that day.\r\n\r\nThanks for joining your stories and perspective to my story.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(672, 231, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2009-01-22 23:48:39', '2009-01-23 03:48:39', 'ejly, good question! I have to admit, my husband is such a great match for me, there haven''t been many other "missions" I''ve set out to accomplish. I also learned, as my first marriage fell apart, that setting out to change someone is usually a recipe for disappointment, and even disaster. :)\r\n\r\nJen, how great is that, that you still hold your mom''s hand? How many grown children do that, I wonder? Hearing you talk about your love for touch reminds me how warm and affectionate a friend you are (even though it''s been more than ten years since I''ve directly experienced that warmth).\r\n\r\nUrban Panther, hearing about how your heart bursts when your husband/partner reaches for your hand makes my heart burst. I didn''t intend to get mushy with this post, but I''m clearly a hopeless romantic.\r\n\r\nDaisy, I did get to see some footage of Barack and Michelle at the balls. I was sitting on a weight machine at the gym watching the TV, transfixed by their love (probably annoying someone who was waiting to use the machine, but I was unable to budge!).\r\n\r\nDorie, in the end, we DO just want to smile, and hand-holding inspires that. (And yes, I have been interviewed by the TV news twice now in two years, even though I don''t have a TV. Very interesting, indeed.)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(680, 231, 'mommyknows', 'kim@mommyknows.com', 'http://mommyknows.com', '68.150.199.3', '2009-01-23 20:19:42', '2009-01-24 00:19:42', 'What a great post! My husband and I are hand holders too! I was the one who never like to hold hands and he''s coaxed me out of it over the years. \r\n\r\nI still have 2 of 4 hand holders left :)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(1821, 290, 'Jonelle', 'jonellewarnock@yahoo.com', '', '66.193.128.97', '2009-03-09 18:29:22', '2009-03-09 22:29:22', 'What a thought-provoking post that has me smiling a little more on a cold Monday in Idaho.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB5; InfoPath.1)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(1044, 256, 'The Modern Gal', 'themoderngal@gmail.com', 'http://themoderngal.blogspot.com', '67.187.116.24', '2009-02-07 12:24:11', '2009-02-07 16:24:11', 'I''ve really enjoyed your answers and the diverse questions. Thanks for doing this.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(676, 231, 'Zoe', 'zoe@zoewesthof.com', 'http://www.essentialprose.com', '125.25.42.71', '2009-01-23 11:42:35', '2009-01-23 15:42:35', 'I am an incurable hand-holder! Think of all the different sorts -- the hand squeeze, the hand-hold with a thumb caress, the interlaced fingers, the cupped hands... it''s one of those things that almost never fails to reinforce a feeling of love, support, with tingles of excitement included :)\r\n\r\nBy the way, I was obsessed with the Beatles'' "I wanna hold your hand" song when I was a kid.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(366, 206, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2009-01-08 11:50:59', '2009-01-08 15:50:59', 'Lance, thanks for your comment. It''s good to know I''m not alone in how I feel (even when I want to be alone!).', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.20) Gecko/20081217 Firefox/2.0.0.20', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(367, 204, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2009-01-08 11:58:38', '2009-01-08 15:58:38', 'Mark, thanks so much for saying that. It IS quite a story. I think a big part of what I''m trying to do, by intentionally being open, is not lose that story, or the momentum. Does that make sense?\r\n\r\nIt''s true that the last 5 or so years of my life are the picture of God''s grace and his ability to redeem anything and everything. This is why I blog. There is also plenty of evidence that I was being open to that grace during that time. I just can''t help but think if I had been open sooner and more consistently, the whole experience would have been far less painful. (But that would be a different story, wouldn''t it?) Now that my life is "back in order," so to speak, the temptation is to take control of things again, because I feel empowered. Sometimes it''s easier to be open when everything''s a mess. Now I have to be intentionally unintentional. :)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.20) Gecko/20081217 Firefox/2.0.0.20', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(679, 231, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2009-01-23 17:55:30', '2009-01-23 21:55:30', 'jenx67, that''s a really interesting way to look at it. I feel kind of torn. On one hand, I do believe that even the best marriages require a lot of hard work (and yes, prayer, as Hillary said). It''s easy to be happy and in love when everything''s going your way. But I also think it would be naive of us to assume that the Obamas'' marriage has been all fun and parties. The Clinton''s problems were very public, but that doesn''t mean people without such public problems aren''t working through tough things. My guess is that the Obamas have had to work through a lot of stuff, too, and that they''ve just done it in a way that allows them to grow closer through the struggle. (But obviously right now I''m all starry-eyed about them, and prone to think only the best thoughts!) This is a good issue to think through more. Thanks for bringing it up!\r\n\r\nShell, thanks for reading and commenting! I don''t know if you''re referencing the photo of the Obamas or the flickr photo I used for this post, but either way I agree—I love both of them!\r\n\r\nZoe, you''ve added such sweet images and ideas to this post, with your descriptions of different types of hand-holding, and how it makes you feel. I''m curious, have you felt that way about hand-holding as long as you can remember?', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(1093, 260, 'Jane Next Door', 'jane@janebillman.com', '', '98.212.165.31', '2009-02-09 14:10:20', '2009-02-09 18:10:20', 'Glad you got rid of that fairy stuff.  It was intended for a 3 and 5-year old!  What color did you paint the room?  Your kids really know about helping out with the family.\r\nGreat lessons for us all.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/523.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.12', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(709, 229, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2009-01-24 22:19:24', '2009-01-25 02:19:24', 'Brent, thank you SO much for sharing your inauguration day experiences with the rest of us. I''ve been very anxious to hear these first-hand stories from people who were there. I especially love how you put this: "...it seemed as though everyone realized that everyone else mattered...."', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(1080, 258, 'TJ Hirst', 'tj@tjhirst.com', 'http://www.tjhirst.com/', '97.112.9.138', '2009-02-08 22:14:20', '2009-02-09 02:14:20', 'Wow. You''re brave. I''m pretty good at talkign about my faith and why I have it with other people that believe what I do. But it''s not so hard to explain to a broader audience all the time, is it. Congratulations on your effort. You did better than I might have. Maybe it will prompt me to do so as personally as you did, too.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(708, 233, 'TJ Hirst', 'tj@tjhirst.com', 'http://www.tjhirst.com/', '97.112.15.200', '2009-01-24 21:47:47', '2009-01-25 01:47:47', 'I don''t think it is a coincidence, and I do think He shows us he''s aware of us in small ways every day, if we''re looking, even during hard times. Last January I started keeping a journal to record when I notice these kinds of "coincidences." I keep it nightly, and I definitely notice more of it happening. Some would argue it''s just me looking at the brighter side of life. And if that''s what they think, I''m happier for it anyway. Pretty regularly I use these moments as a blog post because they always get me thinking beyond myself.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(687, 231, 'Lance', 'lance@jungleoflife.com', 'http://www.jungleoflife.com', '65.29.12.59', '2009-01-24 08:41:28', '2009-01-24 12:41:28', 'Hi Kristin,\r\nI can relate - in that I was not much of a hand holder - and now I do it more often with my wife.  And it does feel good - good to be connected.  \r\n\r\nThe last line about your kids and holding hands.  I have one left, too, who will still hold my hand.  And I realize everytime we do this, how this is a fleeting moment that will be gone all too soon, like his brother and sister who are too old for that now.  And it makes me want those moments to last forever...', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(378, 211, 'Lance', 'lance@jungleoflife.com', 'http://www.jungleoflife.com', '65.29.12.59', '2009-01-09 06:09:35', '2009-01-09 10:09:35', 'I find this fascinating, Kristin.  It is, because - looking at two churches - one small and one big - the logical conclusion is that the big church is "successful".  In fact, it reminds me of a moment from this past autumn.  We attended a anniversary rededication ceremony for some friends celebrating 25 years of marriage.  They attend a mega church.  And we went - and I was a little envious, to be honest.  It all seemed so grand.  And yet - when I really look at where we are - our "smaller" church - and I''m reminded that there is much good in small too.  And I''m comforted by that...', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(688, 229, 'Brent Couzens-Schultz', 'brent.couzens@att.net', '', '70.241.87.97', '2009-01-24 11:46:04', '2009-01-24 15:46:04', 'The one thing I was not: alone for the inauguration.  \r\nRight after Obama won the election an old friend, Stephen, called me and said: "We are going to D.C.  I have a friend who lives on Capitol Hill and will let us use his house to stay for the inauguration".  Bobby and I were in immediately.   I scoured the web for plane tickets.  They were almost immediately $1000, but I eventually found one with a stopover that I could buy with miles in an account I rarely use and quickly hit the purchase button.  It was more than worth it and I cannot thank my friend enough for including us.\r\nOn Tuesday morning, I woke up to sirens that seemed to be continuous for the next several hours as the police escorted in all the busses, bands, dignitaries, etc.  I got up, made coffee and got everyone else out of bed.  We left the house by about 7 AM, and by then the throngs of people were already thick.  We took two and a half hours to walk about halfway down the Mall to a point where they were accepting people.  The National Park Service had already shut the front portions.  We got to our space at about 9:30 and staked out a small stone ledge we could stand on to see the monitors.  Over the next hour people filled in around us, and our space slowly shrank as we all jostled around to make sure everyone could see.  \r\nThe mood was ebullient.  People were holding their ground, but they were chatting, smiling, cheering, sharing stories and basically rejoicing.  I had no idea so many people could get together and be so patient, so kind, and so silent when needed.  It reminded me of a college football game ten times over, but everyone in the crowd was on the same team and no one was disorderly.  Even when we left, the streets were so full of people for blocks and blocks that in some places you could barely move, yet somehow no one shoved (hard anyways), no one swore and it seemed as though everyone realized that everyone else mattered and had friends or family they were trying to keep together.\r\nThe only negative time was when GW Bush appeared and the crowd booed him.  After the ceremony, we all saw him take off and fly over us in a helicopter.  That’s when I sensed the sigh of relief in everyone and a few people chanted “hey, hey, hey, good bye…â€.  Then we all started to make our way home, to another TV where we could watch the rest of the day, finally grab something to eat and have a glass of champagne to celebrate.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(689, 231, 'V-Grrrl', 'veronica@v-grrrl.com', 'http://www.v-grrrl.com', '72.196.223.218', '2009-01-24 11:54:53', '2009-01-24 15:54:53', 'My husband is not a hand holder. He''s not a hugger. He''s not going to reach out and touch someone other than his children.\r\n\r\nWe''ve been together for decades, and it still bothers me. A lot. I''m Italian and his "touch-free" zone feels so unnatural.\r\n\r\nAnd to answer the obvious question: when we were dating, he always held my hand, hugged me, touched me, put his hand on the small of my back. Sigh. I''ve been a victim of bait and switch.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; SU 3.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; IEMB3; IEMB3)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(696, 157, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2009-01-24 18:13:51', '2009-01-24 22:13:51', 'Dorie, isn''t it funny? Not only does life imitate craft, but we find we have the same particular weaknesses in on as in the other. Good luck facing all that you''re avoiding!\r\n\r\nMom, you''ve taught me much of what I know about both craft and life! And there aren''t many adjectives I could appreciate more than "candor" and "wit," when it comes to complimenting my writing. Thank you. \r\n\r\nDaisy, no, I haven’t read it, but I will be sure to put it on my library list. Thanks for the recommendation!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(697, 231, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2009-01-24 18:27:42', '2009-01-24 22:27:42', 'mommyknows, I''m glad you have so many hands to hold in your life. Thanks for reading and commenting.\r\n\r\nZoe, that''s what I find so interesting—hand-holding has so many dimensions. As a parent and a wife, I''m finally beginning to see how all those dimensions are related, at their core.\r\n\r\nAnnieH, two things that struck me about your comment are the "not trying to hide it" reference and your use of the word "refreshing." Yes, too many people feel too uncomfortable in their expressions of love, so the easiest approach is to hide it. And yes, when two people are able to let it shine, it''s very refreshing.\r\n\r\nLance, watching our children grow up is so very bittersweet, isn''t it? Perhaps the hardest thing is watching that self-consciousness gradually rise to the surface, and seeing how they react as they become aware of how they might be perceived by others. \r\n\r\nV-Grrrl, I''m so sorry. It just doesn''t seem fair, particularly when the "bait and switch" factor is in play. I''m going to assume, though, that you''re feeling love via other forms of delivery? (Btw, thanks for checking out my blog.)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(701, 233, 'CJ', 'cejay@christopher-williams.com', 'http://cjw666.wordpress.com', '80.30.118.3', '2009-01-24 19:04:17', '2009-01-24 23:04:17', 'Since I don''t really believe in a god, I find it difficult to use Him (or Her) as an explanation for such things. As you yourself say, it''s difficult to figure out why such things happen if they are the hand of God, because they more often DON''T happen than do.\r\n\r\nHowever, I AM a believer in coincidence and I''m also a believer in the ide a that some people (lucky people??) have good timing. How or why I don''t know, but some people do seem to have a knack of being "in the right place at the right time".\r\n\r\nPerhaps THAT''S the subject we should all be investigating - how to have good timing - any tips?', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(703, 206, 'ChangeForge | Ken Stewart', 'ken@changeforge.com', 'http://www.changeforge.com', '74.171.140.2', '2009-01-24 19:48:07', '2009-01-24 23:48:07', 'Kristin, I can really identify with the last section of this article. I spend my time interacting with people all day, every day, and carrying on 3 or 4 conversations at once, with someone in my office, someone on the phone, an e-mail chiming in, an IM popping up, and maybe even a cell phone caller wanting attention.\r\n\r\nAnd then I close my eyes, breath, and recall why I do all of these things. A Saturday to relax and recuperate, time to spend with my family, and I might just feel recharged to face the daunting work week again.\r\n\r\nLife is most certainly a roller coaster, of which I have learned to enjoy. Like a good wine or a bitter blend of coffee never tasted before, life has flavors that I enjoy sipping at times. However, I do not relish being a drunk or drinking coffee all the time ;-) Once cannot substantiate a life by over-indulging.\r\n\r\nAnd so I withdraw from the public and enjoy curling up to a great movie or wonderful book; I enjoy tickling my daughter or getting a tight hug from my loving wife. Those help me to recharge, as I''m sure you have found as well.\r\n\r\nNow my challenge is to not allow myself to get stuck in a rut - it is time to take up the challenge of being a life-long learner and live my life just a little differently. Not so much that I react like a cranky toddler ;-) but just enough to know that change is still good for me, that embracing life''s challenges can be wonderful.\r\n\r\nI am glad to see that you can make peace with who you are. That is a sign of a strong mind and connected spirit. In the end I try to remember that life is going to happen, but how I react towards those happenings is my choice to make!\r\n\r\nWarmest Regards,\r\nKen Stewart', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(2264, 322, 'Jennifer', 'hollyhousestudio@me.com', 'http://hollyhouse.blogspot.com', '70.177.70.72', '2009-04-09 21:13:59', '2009-04-10 01:13:59', 'My dad used to make a huge deal out of Lent, and of course specifically the week leading up to Easter. Being a pastor, he sort of made the entire community take notice of Lent. I remember Passover Seders in the basement of the Presbyterian church. That was pretty interesting. I am always surprised by Christians who simply cannot understand why another Christian would want to remember Jewish customs. I woke up thinking about what life was like for the disciples during this week we are remembering. If we would recall the origins of Christ, it makes perfect sense that you would go to a seder. Even more so when you tell me about these remarkably fun people. I wish I knew them.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(2265, 320, 'Jennifer', 'hollyhousestudio@me.com', 'http://hollyhouse.blogspot.com', '70.177.70.72', '2009-04-09 21:19:51', '2009-04-10 01:19:51', 'We have a cat rule in our house. (2 cats, 2 dogs, lots of hair). If the cat is on you sleeping, you must stay where you are...you may not move. You may not do chores. You must sleep. Its a rule. It comes in handy.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(6577, 514, 'jen', 'jenx67@cox.net', 'http://www.jenx67.com', '68.227.97.30', '2009-10-26 23:42:25', '2009-10-27 03:42:25', 'great post, kt. \r\n\r\nit was never about being good. it was about being surrendered.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; GTB6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; InfoPath.2; Alexa Toolbar; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(6578, 508, 'jen', 'jenx67@cox.net', 'http://www.jenx67.com', '68.227.97.30', '2009-10-26 23:44:46', '2009-10-27 03:44:46', 'i so understand this, kristin. i''m jut not brave enough to write about it. before i had more children in my second marriage, my life literally went on hold during the weekends i didn''t have my daughter. i''ve been saying this for 10 years: it doesn''t get easier, i just get better at saying goodbye. you inspire me. sorry i''ve been away so long. just so much to do.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; GTB6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; InfoPath.2; Alexa Toolbar; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(2058, 308, 'Lesley', 'lesleymiller1@gmail.com', 'http://millersmeetsacramento.blogspot.com', '65.78.135.144', '2009-03-25 22:23:06', '2009-03-26 02:23:06', 'I just met a friend through Twitter-- and experienced a similar evening at a local coffee shop. It COMPLETELY felt like a blind date at the beginning (what if she doesn''t like me? What if she thinks my clothes aren''t cute? What if we have nothing to talk about?) You''ve conversed with Karen a lot longer than I''ve known Kelli... so I can''t imagine how much fun it must have been!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
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(694, 67, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2009-01-24 18:07:16', '2009-01-24 22:07:16', 'Daisy, I know—"stranded together" is a realistic yet beautiful way to think about life, isn''t it?', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(692, 233, 'Steve Fridsma', 'sfridsma@progressiveae.com', 'http://archinecture.blogspot.com', '99.180.72.228', '2009-01-24 17:34:12', '2009-01-24 21:34:12', 'In the Mary Doria Russell book, "The Sparrow", a Jesuit Priest calls these apparent times of God''s intervention "like finding a turtle on a fencepost". When questioned, he explained, "If you ever find a turtle on a fencepost, you KNOW somebody had to have put it there."', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; GTB5; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(693, 26, 'Kristin T.', 'KTENNANT@GMAIL.COM', 'http://www.halfwaytonormal.com/', '216.43.98.214', '2009-01-24 18:03:44', '2009-01-24 22:03:44', 'Daisy, it is a challenge. The times I''ve felt most hopeless in my life have not been when things weren''t working out like I wanted; they were when I had no idea what I really wanted for in the first place, regardless of whether I could have it.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(385, 206, 'Jennifer (Conversion Diary)', 'jensblogemail@gmail.com', 'http://www.conversiondiary.com', '66.68.31.160', '2009-01-09 18:53:07', '2009-01-09 22:53:07', 'I can totally relate to this! One of the most life-changing things I ever did was have this fancy personality test thing done (a Birkman inventory) where they combine the results of your test with individualized counseling to help you meet your goals (most people use this for career-related stuff, e.g. to decide whether to go into sales or engineering). I only did it because the school where my husband teaches was offering it for free, but it turned out to be amazing.\r\n\r\nIt showed that I was an extreme introvert, and I''ll never forget the counselor lady looking me in the eye and saying, "Look. You need alone time like other people need air. Your life will run a lot more smoothly when you factor that into your routines."\r\n\r\nEver since then my husband and I made it a big priority to make sure that I get regular "introvert" time, and it has made SUCH a difference! Of course there are sometimes when it''s not possible and my duties as mom of lots of little ones prevent that, but simply recognizing it as a very high priority (and not just something that would be "nice to have" like some of my extroverted friends) has made a lot of things fall into place.\r\n\r\nSorry for the long comment. Just wanted to say that I can totally relate!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.20) Gecko/20081217 Firefox/2.0.0.20', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(702, 233, 'Daisy', 'okaybyme@gmail.com', 'http://compostermom.blogspot.com', '75.62.43.76', '2009-01-24 19:42:59', '2009-01-24 23:42:59', 'Many years ago I dreamt of a college friend with whom I''d lost touch. She showed up the next day -- in the coffee shop where I was a waitress, about 100 miles from the town in which we attended school, even farther from her home. \r\nThese "vibes" can''t be total coincidence. Husband would say they''re good luck; I lean more to your explanation.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; Media Center PC 5.0)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(707, 233, 'LisaNewton', 'lisajnewton@gmail.com', 'http://www.travelinlocal.com', '76.166.207.239', '2009-01-24 21:41:16', '2009-01-25 01:41:16', 'I believe that most of us need to slow down and take it easy.  I know if I make a conscious effort to do just that, I notice things and things notice me.  \r\n\r\nDoes that sound strange?', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; GTB5; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; Media Center PC 5.0)', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(391, 213, 'Elaine Tolsma-Harlow', 'reoharlow@hotmail.com', '', '24.231.153.71', '2009-01-09 21:50:37', '2009-01-10 01:50:37', 'I love to share the story of how 9 years ago I was told I needed a bone marrow transplant or I would die a horrible death.  It defines who I am as a person now.  There is life before cancer &amp; life after cancer and the one after is richer, wiser &amp; very, very blessed.  I don''t look at the future very much anymore, I look at today, and maybe tomorrow.  God''s grace in my life is like manna.  He provides my daily fill &amp; I need to just marvel and praise him for this &amp; in the hope that tomorrow I will have additional blessings.  \r\nI didn''t turn a corner, I was shoved off of a cliff &amp; fell into inky blackness.  Is it horrible to say I couldn''t even pray?  I just held my breath and let the intercession of others &amp; the gift of the spirit carry me down.  And you know what?  God blessed me with a whole new immune system from a non related donor that has carried me to over 8 years of remission.  \r\nIts hard to go into the unknown, wether a sickness or divorce or loss of job, but if you take it day by day, blow by blow, there can be healing and hope and at the end of the day isn''t that the greatest gift?  Hope...wow!', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(710, 233, 'mommyknows', 'kim@mommyknows.com', 'http://mommyknows.com', '68.150.199.3', '2009-01-24 22:44:06', '2009-01-25 02:44:06', 'I don''t have a clue what to call it, but I do feel like there is a force larger than ourselves and it''s extraordinary when we see it in our lives.\r\n\r\nI''ve had a couple of situations like this. Great post.', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(1094, 260, 'Jeb Dickerson', 'jebdickerson@mac.com', 'http://www.howtomatter.com', '71.237.106.69', '2009-02-09 14:11:12', '2009-02-09 18:11:12', 'Hey KT...\r\nSuch a great lesson. Well, two great lessons, actually. First, that "I want" doesn''t automatically and instantaneously mean "I get". Patience is a disappearing virtue in many kids today and there is tremendous value in denying (whether it''s a financial necessity or not) instant gratification. Your kids may not be thrilled with the concept today, but as they make their way in the world as adults, they''ll be grateful.\r\n\r\nSecond, and this is something I spend a lot of time thinking/writing about @ HTM...there is an alternative to consumption when we''re looking to meet a need/desire/whatever. There are so many options for just about everything today, and the obvious effort that has taken place over the past generation or two to turn all of us into good consumers, often makes us think first about consuming what we''re after. But the alternative - production...creation - still exists. And by teaching your kids to produce what they want/need/desire rather than consume it, you''re giving them an amazing gift. \r\n\r\nThere is such a benefit for us, individually as well as collectively, in this idea. And because of the tough financial times we''re experiencing, I feel it taking hold when it otherwise might not. Having to ''make do'' sort of requires this shift in focus. My hope is that it persists even after we''re through this mess, because not only is ever expanding consumption not sustainable, it''s simply not desirable...not in any meaningful way.\r\n\r\nThanks for doing your part KT...:)', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(712, 231, 'Lance', 'lance@jungleoflife.com', 'http://www.jungleoflife.com', '65.29.12.59', '2009-01-24 23:59:06', '2009-01-25 03:59:06', 'Yes, that is so hard to watch.  Yet...yet, it will happen.  I do love seeing them grow into confident and productive young people, but...I miss the innocence that starts to escape, the "I love my daddy no matter what" days, the "life is great when I''m with you" days...', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5', '', 0, 0, 'N'),
(735, 233, 'Anne', 'annewillis2@gmail.com', '', '70.230.163.72', '2009-01-25 12:39:58', '2009-01-25 16:39:58', 'I love it when things like that happen! Although your friend''s Costa Rica story is absolutely wild - major goose bumps, wild. In fact, I can''t stop thinking about it!\r\n\r\nMy (super-fab) mother-in-law DOES think coincidences like that are your angels looking out for you and lining things up for you. She also thinks they "whisper" to you - although sometimes you''re too busy with normal life to listen. That''s a little "new-agey" for me, I don''t know what I think it is - but do love wondering all the same...\r\n\r\nI''ve had wonderful coincidences in addition to strange ones that aren''t nearly as nice as running into your friend. We had a lovely, huge tree in our front yard and for some reason I had a dream it fell down. In my dream it hit our house and the room where our at-the-time baby was sleeping. I woke up upset and told my hubby - I remember thinking if I don''t tell him now he''ll never believe I dreamt this if it does happen. Later that day we had a freak storm and the tree was uprooted and completely fell - thankfully it didn''t hit our house in a terrible way like it did in my dream - only with minor damage. \r\n\r\nThe tree wasn''t sick - so I don''t know why I was even thinking about it. It was winter so I don''t know why we had a crazy wind storm (in STL). I thought I was a sleep-deprived panicky new mom until the tree really fell. Now I think I''m psychic and give Tarot readings on the side - totally kidding. Kidding!\r\n\r\nI think these nudges are definitely for a reason and are out of our control. You and your friend clearly both needed one another. Your Costa Rica friend needed solace. I needed (and still need) to relax, stop worrying so much and try not to control everything. It''s our job to stand back and be open...', 0, '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1', '', 0, 0, 'N');
