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		<title>Families and Children:  On Teenagers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I need to rant today!  All four of our kids are home this summer.  All four of our kids are teenagers&#8211;or close enough for government work!  The youngest is 14, the oldest 23.  Here&#8217;s the deal:  they are all in transitional stages.  One is finishing up college by going to summer school.  One is doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joan Rivers: &#8220;A Piece of Work&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Charlie Rose interviews someone, I watch and listen.  I guess that makes me a Charlie Rose groupie (I rely on Tivo to get my fill).  So, when he interviews Joan Rivers about the documentary, “A Piece of Work,” I go see it.  The film, by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, spans the 40 year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/joan-rivers-a-piece-of-work/</link>
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		<title>Sadhvi Sez: Illuminating Road Trip Drink News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am about to go on a road trip to visit my family in Cleveland, Ohio.  I am really looking forward to it because I like driving and I get to spend some real time with my husband.   And, I find it so relaxing driving through parts of this beautiful country that are not considered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/illuminating-road-trip-drink-news/</link>
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		<title>Beautiful Women Over 50:  Janet&#8217;s 39-mile Walk for Breast Cancer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Author describes her participation in Avon 39-mile walk for breast cancer research in the Rocky Mountains.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/beautiful-women-over-50-janets-39-mile-walk-for-breast-cancer/</link>
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		<title>SadhviSez:  It&#8217;s time to wake up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sadhvi I need to share this.  A good friend of mine sent it to me, and asked if I could post it.  I just got done watching this YouTube video and it gave me goosebumps.  That always happens to me when I hear the Truth.  Take a look, and see how it affects you.  It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/sadhvisez-its-time-to-wake-up/</link>
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		<title>Playing Paintball at 56!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Woman of 56 describes her experience playing paintball with daughter and friends.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/playing-paintball-at-56/</link>
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		<title>Eat Pray Love: the movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sadhvi I remember reading the book, Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert when it first came out in February 2007.  It was so good that I didn&#8217;t stop until I was done, and I continued talking like Ms. Gilbert for a few weeks after.  Then again, I also dressed and talked like Diane Keaton&#8217;s character in the Woody Allen movie,  &#8221;Annie Hall&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/eat-love-pray-the-movie/</link>
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		<title>Sadhvi Loves Poppies!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the 4th of July tomorrow, so before the summer is over, I want to share some pictures of the poppies that came up this spring in my garden.  I think I might have one or two that are blooming right now, but most are gone.  I&#8217;ve seen a couple of birds eating the seeds out of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/sadhvi-loves-poppies/</link>
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		<title>Protecting Our Beloved Dogs on the 4th of July</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every 4thof July we have to be aware of making plans so that we are home by dark.  Our dog, Bello, is so sensitive to the sounds of fireworks going off, that if we don&#8217;t come home by the time the fireworks start, then he will suffer.  We didn’t know this when got him, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/protecting-our-beloved-dogs-on-the-4th-of-july/</link>
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		<title>Annice&#8217;s Secret Summer Gazpacho Recipe from the U.N.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer Gazpacho Recipe from the United Nations]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/annices-summer-gazpacho-recipe-from-the-u-n/</link>
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		<title>Social Security at Risk:  Sign the AARP Petition!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Folks, please take a moment to forward the message below to your friends and family, and, after you forward the message, please help spread the word on Facebook and Twitter. Dear friend, Did you know that Washington is considering unfairly targeting Social Security benefits for cuts?  Social Security didn&#8217;t cause the budget deficit, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/social-security-at-risk-sign-the-aarp-petition/</link>
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		<title>Oops50 Humor: My answer to this unbearable heat!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know this one has been around for a while, but, I love to watch this ad for Evian. And since it is so damned hot where I live, I can&#8217;t help but think this is going to be how I dress when I have to go out. I think diapers with a little t-shirt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/oops50-humor-my-answer-to-this-unbearable-heat/</link>
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		<title>Father&#8217;s Day: Significant Family Memories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Father&#8217;s Day, I asked my friend, Judy King-Calnek to share some of her memories about her father, who was one of the few African Americans to go to Harvard University in 1941.  Toward the end of her piece, you will find a link detailing his experience at Harvard told by the Boston Globe entitled, Southern Discomfort: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/fathers-day-significant-family-memories/</link>
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		<title>LOL: Perspective on the oil spill&#8217;s 20,000 barrels per day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sadhvi OK, I do have a Twitter account.  I think I have like 12 followers, all men in India who want to &#8220;connect&#8221;.  Awesome, huh.  Thankfully, one of my favorite people on the planet &#8220;tweets&#8221; on a regular basis.  This is a good thing because he is not only funny, but what he has to say is so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/perspective-on-the-oil-spills-20000-barrels-per-day/</link>
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		<title>ANTI-BP OIL DISASTER ART</title>
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		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/bp-oil-disaster-art/</link>
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		<title>Beautiful Women over 50:  Jean Boone Benfield</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Jean Boone Benfield decided in her early seventies to do something she had never done before:  to write a book.  Jean was born in Buncombe County, NC, and the book, Mountain Born, tells about her life growing up on a farm.  Her first inspiration for writing the book was noticing that a lot of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/beautiful-women-over-50-jean-boone-benfield/</link>
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		<title>Beautiful Women Over 50:  Barb and Gwendie’s Excellent Hot Air Balloon Ride</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The “release from liability” form required by the Asheville Hot Air Balloon company specifically asked if I was in good health and did not have any condition that could be affected by the balloon ride. Of course I said I was (in good health) and did not (have a condition), which, ahem, was a serious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/beautiful-women-over-50-barb-and-gwendie%e2%80%99s-excellent-hot-air-balloon-ride/</link>
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		<title>Oops50 Humor: BP Coffee Spill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BP Coffee Spill:Catastrophe:Disaster Oh, this YouTube clip expains everything. Take a look at how this horrible ecological disaster is being handled by BP executives, and the big chief, Kevin Costner.  I wonder if Obama finds any humor in that?!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/oops50-humor-bp-coffee-spill/</link>
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		<title>Beautiful Women over 50:  Writing My First Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Annette Dunlap is an independent scholar and author.  Her book,  Frank: The Story of Frances Folsom Cleveland, America&#8217;s Youngest First Lady, was published by SUNY Press in 2009.  She lives in North Carolina and is hard at work on her next book (because she&#8217;s not getting any younger).  She and her husband have four children, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/beautiful-women-over-50-writing-my-first-book/</link>
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		<title>Oops 50 Humor: Some New Yoga Poses to try!</title>
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		<title>BP Oil Exec wants his life back, please!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know, I tried the Twitter thing.  I just couldn&#8217;t get into it posting &#8220;tweets&#8221; myself, but I do have some very intelligent and very interesting friends who do.  Here is one that is worth sharing:  The &#8220;tweet&#8221; reads: BP CEO Tony Hayward: &#8220;I&#8217;d like my life back.&#8221; http://goo.gl/SLOA  World&#8217;s most clueless CEO? After reading [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/bp-oil-exec-wants-his-life-back-please/</link>
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		<title>BP Oil Spill disaster hits home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BP disaster hits home.  Center this map on your home town to better understand the terrifying scope. http://www.beowulfe.com/oil/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/bp-oil-spill-disaster-hits-home/</link>
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		<title>Want to Know the Latest Scoop on Bras?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read The Wall Street Journal.  I’m not kidding.  I found the most fascinating article on bras there.  Don’t know how many of you beautiful women over 50 read the WSJ, but I get it daily, and Christina Binkley’s May 13th article, “Bra Building: New Engineering for Bigger Curves”  is a gem.  Why would the WSJ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/want-to-know-the-latest-scoop-on-bras/</link>
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		<title>Sadhvi Asks: Obama, what&#8217;s up man?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  I just read Arianna Huffington’s Sunday Roundup.  It&#8217;s always interesting what this woman has to say.  She let&#8217;s me know things that I might otherwise have missed.  Like Obama is having a concert for Sir Paul McCartney next week.  Hmmm&#8230; The &#8220;Top Kill&#8221; solution of putting a ton of concrete on top of the leak [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/sadhvi-asks-obama-whats-up-man/</link>
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		<title>Sadhvi Asks: Is Mick Jagger still Rockin&#8217;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was growing up in the 60&#8242;s and 70&#8242;s, music was so much a part of my life.  I think this was true for us all.  There was the weekly countdown to the #1 song.  And everyone in our house listened to it.  There were weeks when The Beatles had a number one hit.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/sadhvi-asks-is-mick-jagger-still-rockin/</link>
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		<title>The BP Oil Disaster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are times when I feel helpless.  There are times when I feel like I have to go inside and find some sense of serenity.  I think today is one of those times.  A friend sent me some pictures of the BP Oil Disaster.  My heart feels like it is breaking.  Another friend who lives down by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/sadhvisez-the-bp-oil-disaster/</link>
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		<title>Humor for Women Over 50!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of you have probably already seen this, but it still might bring a chuckle: A group of  40-year-old girlfriends discussed where they should meet for dinner.  Finally, they agreed to meet at the Ocean View Restaurant, because the waiters  there were good looking and had buff bodies. 10 years  later at 50-years-of-age, the group [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/humor-for-women-over-50/</link>
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		<title>Update on My Weight Loss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Article looks at weight management after end of a regimented program, such as Optifast.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/update-on-my-weight-loss/</link>
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		<title>Staying Fit after 50</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone I know is either taking yoga, doing yoga, training to become a yoga instuctor, or thinking about all of the above. Growing up there was only Jack Lalanne, so I think the trend is a good sign that we all want to feel good as we get older! Here is a clip I found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/staying-fit-after-50/</link>
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		<title>Style: Update on Jane&#8217;s Red Shoes!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to visit my friend Judi last week.  After a hello and a hug, she started to tell me about this pair of shoes that she just bought.  The way she was acting, it was as if she had fallen in love with someone.  Great I said.  After years of seeing cute shoes that only go up to size 10 or 11 and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/style-update-on-janes-red-shoes/</link>
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		<title>Beautiful Women over 50: Farmer Nancy on Cutting Hay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[    Nancy, a gentlewoman farmer, beloved friend of Jane, and amazing animal rescuer/healer who has turned her farm into a haven for lost and unwanted dogs, cats, and horses, splits her time between her husband&#8217;s Republican farm in Rocky Mount, NC and her Democratic one in Hillsborough, NC.  She routinely hustles 6 dogs and 4 cats back and forth with her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/beautiful-women-over-fifty-farmer-nancy-on-cutting-hay/</link>
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		<title>Gardening and a Great Rhubarb Tart Recipe!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are certainly interesting times we are living in, don&#8217;t you think?  I mean, with so many ways to connect, everyone I talk to is simply overwhelmed with &#8220;life&#8221;?   If the call is not lost, or they are in the middle of doing something, or their computer is down, or there is another call coming in, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/its-rhubarb-time/</link>
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		<title>Donate Hair, Fur, Nylons to Help Clean up the Gulf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attention all readers:  if you have dog clippings or old furs or nylons, you can send them to a non-profit that turns them into hairmats to help absorb the oil spilled off the cost of Louisiana.  I guess not too many people will be surprised that hair actually absorbs the oil beautifully.  In any case, here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/donate-hair-fur-nylons-to-help-clean-up-the-gulf/</link>
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		<title>Grandmother-Hood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gwendie is well into her 7th or 8thlife, this one in Asheville, NC as a late-to-the-pen writer. In past lives she has been a daughter, a wife, a mother, a Professional Woman. Now she is exploring the vast universes of past and present into which she delves for stories.    I’m an old grandmother.  Well, I’m not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/grandmother-hood/</link>
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		<title>Visiting My 84-Year-Old Dad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I went to Cleveland to spend time with my aging dad.  There was concern&#8211;because he fell a few times and could not get up.   While I was visiting, various family members made comments such as, “he’s frail, he needs a walker; he might be depressed; he shouldn’t be driving,” etc.  And what did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/visiting-my-84-year-old-dad/</link>
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		<title>New subnavigation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re updating our navigation to include drop down menus. See our new topics and drop down menus at the top. Content coming soon.]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Side: My Journey With Cancer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kippy Bracke, lives in  Minnesota, where she was born and has family.  She has a love of travel, something which was developed in her at an early age as an army brat.  She recently left corporate America and has a part time job as a Tour Director with a travel agency.   It came as a surprise; it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/the-other-side-my-journey-with-cancer/</link>
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		<title>Inspirational 91 Year Old Yoga Teacher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We thought this video of a 91-year-old yoga teacher would be inspiring.  By the year 2050, it&#8217;s estimated there will be over 6 million baby boomers over the age of 100.  So, we have to figure a way to have a good quality of life and age gracefully.  This woman is leading the way!  We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/inspirational-91-year-old-yoga-teacher/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Earth Day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The First Annual &#8220;Sing to the Trees&#8221; April 22, 2010: Earth Day It is quite remarkable what one person with a vision can do.  Susan Hale used Facebook to call people together from all over the planet to sing to the trees.  She has heard from over 2400 people in 33 countries and 27 states. So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/its-earth-day/</link>
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		<title>Oh, that explains everything!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is important for me to know when the planet of communication, which includes computers, emailing, telephone messages, and just your basic &#8220;please pass the salt&#8221;,  is retrograde. Why?  Just because.  I mean, if Mercury is retrograde, then I know it&#8217;s not just me. It&#8217;s going back to whatever &#8220;normal&#8221; means on May 11th.  Good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/oh-that-explains-everything/</link>
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		<title>On Falling in Love with a Pair of Shoes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I confess:  I am in love with a pair of red shoes!  I saw them for the first time when my friend, Patricia, wore them to work.  For weeks, I worshipped them from afar, with their tiny size, their exquisite shape, their beautiful color&#8211;right down to the flowers decorating the heel.  But I knew they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/on-falling-in-love-with-a-pair-of-shoes/</link>
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		<title>Beautiful Women over 50: Sadhvi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I thought it would be interesting to ask one of the girls a few questions.  Sadhvi just turned 52, she doesn&#8217;t take or do anything (yet) to cope with the sudden change in hormonal levels, but she is chanting more and being more selective in what she does for others.  I hope you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/what-sadhvi-said/</link>
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		<title>Wanted &#8211; Laptop Coach for Women over 50!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Buying a new laptop should be easy, right? After all, I’ve been using computers for thirty years now. But I don’t trust myself to buy a new one. The husband says to buy a MAC, but then, not only do I have to drop $1500, I have to learn a whole new system – Ugh! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/wanted-laptop-coach-for-women-over-50/</link>
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		<title>Health Care Reform at the Dinner Table</title>
		<description><![CDATA[    I was going to write about my experience buying a new laptop at Best Buy, but given the historic vote on Health Care Reform, that will have to wait.  Saturday night, I had some of my husband’s friends and their wives over for dinner.  Several of the couples are retired, and while I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/health-care-reform-at-the-dinner-table/</link>
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		<title>EasyRecipes: Getting Older &amp; the Importance of Chocolate Cake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It feels like ages since I’ve posted something.  I had a really bad cold, and I didn’t feel like doing anything for a couple of weeks.  I also turned 52. I had this urge to bake a chocolate cake with white, fluffy icing just like my grandma, Mabel Carter, used to make.  I never made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/being-52/</link>
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		<title>Pharmacology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Pharmacology, all drugs have two names, a trade name and generic name. For example, the trade name of Tylenol also has a generic name of Acetaminophen. Aleve is also called Naproxen. Amoxil is also call Amoxicillin and Advil is also called Ibuprofen. The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viagra. After [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/pharmacology-2/</link>
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		<title>Getting Organized</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of a plan to get order in my life, I did something I never thought I&#8217;d do: I hired an organizer. I’ve been thinking about this move for a long time, starting probably 9 years ago, when my sisters and I had to clean out my parents’ house so that they could move [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/getting-organized-2/</link>
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		<title>Are You Safe From Hacking?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps you have received the e-mail message below. I (Regina) received it about a year ago.  After initial concern for the supposed sender, I realized no one I knew would ever e-mail me with such financial demands.  The message below was sent to everyone in mine and Gloria’s email contact list one (from us) one morning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/are-you-safe-from-hacking/</link>
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		<title>An Irishman, a Mexican, and a Blond Guy&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Irishman, a Mexican, and a blond guy were doing construction work on scaffolding on the 20th floor of a building.  They were eating lunch, and the Irishman said, “Corned beef and cabbage!  If I get corned beef and cabbage one more time for lunch, I’m going to jump off this building!” The Mexican opened [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/2566/</link>
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		<title>Reflections of a Loser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;ve been in the &#8220;medal&#8221; program for a few weeks (that&#8217;s for people who have made it through the whole Optifast program and are trying to &#8220;maintain&#8221;), I have some final thoughts on this whole process.  (A friend of mine thought it was spelled &#8220;mettle,&#8221; since that&#8217;s what is required to keep doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/reflections-of-a-loser/</link>
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		<title>Oops50 SadhviSez: I&#8217;m just a girl from the 70&#8242;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I tried to fax one piece of paper to a client of mine today.  It didn’t go through.  Hmmm, I called her to tell her that there seemed to be a problem.  I asked her if she had gotten any faxes recently?  She said no, that actually, she had never received one; she just sends [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/hey-im-just-a-girl-from-the-70s/</link>
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		<title>Oops50 Humor:  It&#8217;s almost Spring!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click on the picture of the Garden Gnome below&#8230; then click your mouse and  move it over the page. It&#8217;s almost Spring!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/smile-lines/</link>
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		<title>Oops50 Humor: THE FIRST EVER SENIOR MOMENT</title>
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		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/the-first-ever-senior-moment/</link>
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		<title>On the Passing of my Aunt Frances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[        On Feb. 17th, my dear Aunt Frances died at the age of 82.  She was the last aunt of the Brown sisters, leaving my father with no remaining siblings, and he is sad.  I understand that sadness because I know how sad I would be without my sisters and my brother.  When [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/on-the-passing-of-my-aunt-frances/</link>
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		<title>Ranting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in the mood to rant.  When I was younger, I couldn&#8217;t stand it when people in my mother&#8217;s generation would talk about how things were so much better when they were young.  It made me feel resentful and even, sometimes, like I was late for a party!  But I get it now.  To summarize my current rants: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/ranting/</link>
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		<title>Gardening: A love affair is about the begin&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where I live in Western North Carolina, this past winter has been unbearable in that there has not been a lot of sun, something I really need.  Some might say that the snow has been too much, but I happen to like snow.  There is a certain stillness and quiet that comes with snow that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/a-love-affair-is-about-the-begin/</link>
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		<title>Oops50 Humor: A Lady walks into Tiffany&#8217;s&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lady walks into Tiffany&#8217;s.  She looks around, spots a beautiful diamond bracelet and walks over to inspect it.  As she bends over to look more closely, she unexpectedly farts.  Very embarrassed, she looks around nervously to see if anyone noticed her little &#8220;whoops&#8221; and prays that a sales person wasn&#8217;t anywhere near. As she turns [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/a-lady-walks-into-tiffanys/</link>
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		<title>Travel: SadhviSez: I need a Swiss Thermal Bath right now!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend we were snowed in.  Last Tuesday and Wednesday we had a blizzard with constant winds of about 50 mph, night and day.  The weekend before we had 3 solid days of non-stop rain, with a little mud slide thrown in nearby.  Now I know, I could be 6 feet under rubble in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/i-need-a-swiss-thermal-bath-right-now/</link>
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		<title>Move Your Money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Solari Report (This is Catherine Austin Witt’s website with material back to 2004 – when she encouraged move your money.

 

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		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/move-your-money/</link>
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		<title>Oops50 Humor: An Incredible Number Puzzle to Try!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read all the following numbers slowly and in order, being careful not to miss any: 1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28   29   and 30 Good!  Now aren&#8217;t you glad to know that you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/an-incredible-number-puzzle/</link>
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		<title>One More Thing to Worry About</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got back from the blue skies and white sandy beaches of Florida.  I didn’t want to come home, but I have to get back to work, unless, of course, I am snowed in AGAIN tomorrow morning.  While I have no intention of moving to Florida, the long car ride home played havoc on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/one-more-thing-to-worry-about/</link>
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		<title>Easy Recipe: or &#8220;Chocolate:How to make February disappear!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sadhvi I have never been a big fan of February.  If February was at the beginning of winter, I think I would choose to live closer to the equator and put up with scorpions and cockroaches and hurricanes.  In Cleveland where I grew up, I don’t remember having any conversations with anyone in February simply [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/how-to-make-february-disappear/</link>
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		<title>Oops50 Humor: How to Stay Married 50 Years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At  St. Mary&#8217;s Catholic Church they have a weekly husbands marriage seminar.  At the session last week, the priest asked Giuseppe, who was approaching his 50th wedding anniversary, to take a few minutes and share some insight into how he had managed to stay married to the same woman all these years. Giuseppe replied to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/how-to-stay-married-50-years/</link>
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		<title>Week 17: Learning to Eat Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had a great session last night, which I feel compelled to write about, even if at the risk of boring everyone to death with my weight program!  We&#8217;re in &#8220;transition&#8221; now (like having a baby!), so we are transitioning back to &#8220;normal&#8221; eating (which, of course, has no relation to what we used to call &#8220;normal.&#8221;).  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/week-17-learning-to-eat-again/</link>
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		<title>Oops50:Words of Wisdom:Two Wolves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One evening an old Cherokee man told his grandson about a battle that was going on inside himself. He said, “It is between two wolves. The one wolf is evil:  Anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego. The other is good:  Joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/two-wolves/</link>
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		<title>Oops50 Humor: MY YEARLY EXAM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to my doctor for my yearly physical.  The nurse started with certain basic questions: “How much do you weigh?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;135,&#8221; I said. The nurse put me on the scale. It turns out my weight is 180. The nurse asked, &#8220;Your height?&#8221; &#8220;5 foot 4,&#8221; I said. The nurse checked and saw [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/my-yearly-exam/</link>
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		<title>Dividing Up My Parents&#8217; Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I met 2 of my sisters in Huntsville, Alabama to divide up the last of my parents’ belongings:  their books, Christmas items, and a few housewares.  My parents had a lot of books, since they were big readers themselves and also had inherited a bunch.  I got some treasures:  my great-great grandmother’s leather hymnal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/dividing-up-my-parents-books/</link>
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		<title>SadhviSez: Feeling Overwhelmed with it All!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know about you, but I feel overwhelmed a lot of the time these days. Could it be menopause? Could it be that the planet Uranus is right on top of my Sun? Could it be that there are just too many ways to communicate, and most of the time they don’t work, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/feeling-overwhelmed-with-it-all/</link>
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		<title>Oops50 Humor: It&#8217;s Keith, the midget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every day, a male co-worker walks up very close to a woman at the coffee machine, inhales a big breath of air, and tells her that her hair smells nice.  After a week of this, she can&#8217;t stand it anymore, takes her complaint to a supervisor in the Human Resources department and asks to file a sexual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/1705/</link>
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		<title>Help for Haiti!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please see the message below and pass this on to friends or click on where it says, &#8220;Help us stand up for Haiti Now&#8221; in order to go directly to a site where you can make a donation.  This letter comes from my best friend Guitele.  She is Haitian-born, educated and raised in the U.S.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/help-for-haiti/</link>
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		<title>Oops 50 Humor: The Preacher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  A Preacher was explaining that he must move on to a larger congregation that will pay him more.   There is a hush within the congregation. No one wanted him to leave.   Joe Smith, who owns several car dealerships in the City stands up and proclaims, &#8220;If the Preacher stays, I will provide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/the-preacher/</link>
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		<title>First Week with Food!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so here&#8217;s the new me at 55.5 pounds lighter and still counting!  I thought it was a good time to change the standard photo! This was the first week with food in my mealplan, and I got to eat dinner each day!  I have to say that my first dinner of four ounces of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/first-week-with-food/</link>
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		<title>The Underwear Bomber and His Father&#8217;s Warning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve all heard, read, and seen the story of the &#8220;Underwear Bomber,&#8221; or &#8220;Christmas Day Bomber,&#8221; if you prefer.  To recap: the alleged bomber, 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, sewed a pack of explosive powder in his briefs on a flight from Amsterdam, on Christmas Day, to Detroit, with the goal of blowing up a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/the-underwear-bomber-and-his-fathers-warning/</link>
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		<title>Final Week on Only Liquids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been my last week on only liquids, and I have to admit I&#8217;m scared of adding food back into my life.  I&#8217;m scared of losing the simplicity, the order, and the no-thinking-about-food state I&#8217;ve been living in. I&#8217;m going to have to actually put all this good knowledge, and therapy into practice and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/final-week-on-only-liquids/</link>
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		<title>Sadhvi Sez: Poo Chi?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am glad the holidays are over.  I tend to bake a lot, which is a thinly-disguised excuse for me to eat a lot of my favorite cookies, tarts, and desserts.  I have to taste what I make, just in case it&#8217;s got some off-taste, or it&#8217;s really horrible.  I know I&#8217;m definitely addicted to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/sadhvi-sez-poo-chi/</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year 2010!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blessings of Lucid Fire and Secret Grace from all of us at Oops50! May the Being of the Universe breathe into you the light of blessing and ripeness, the fulfillment of health and balance. May it protect you from distractions brittle and bent with a sphere of lucid fire. May it enlighten the heart of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/happy-new-year-2010/</link>
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		<title>Entering Week 12: The Home Stretch!</title>
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		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/entering-week-12-the-home-stretch/</link>
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		<title>Junk Food Junkie Teens and Husband&#8217;s Dirty Socks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Johanna, My teenagers are all turning into junk food junkies!  They won’t eat good food, even if it is placed in front of them.  Instead, they pretend to eat it and then sneak out to the kitchen late at night for a Cheese Wiz omelet or a frozen pizza.  What’s a poor mother to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/ask-johanna-junk-food-junkie-teens-and-husbands-dirty-socks/</link>
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		<title>Happy Holidays from all of us at Oops50!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Happy Holidays from all of us at Oops50! Please accept with no obligation, implied or explicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/happy-holidays-to-all-of-our-friends/</link>
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		<title>Week Nine: Setting SMART Goals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week we talked about setting goals &#8211; SMART goals &#8211; specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and tied to a deadline.  It&#8217;s important to set a specific goal we can reach, within a specified time frame, such as “I want to start going to Pilates class on a regular basis.&#8221;  So my goal for this next week is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/week-nine-setting-smart-goals/</link>
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		<title>Some Options for Tiger’s Woes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After being snowed in for the last three days, and reading that Tiger Woods was voted Athlete of the Decade, my brain got to thinking. And, let me just say right off the bat, I do not care about Tiger&#8217;s fall from grace or the secret sex lives of the rich and famous.  They are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/some-options-for-tiger%e2%80%99s-woes/</link>
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		<title>Gluten-free Christmas Cookie Recipe from Switzerland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like to make cookies to give to family and friends around this time of the year.   They must be easy, delicious, and wildly appreciated as well!  So here is probably my favorite cookie recipe that comes from my husband&#8217;s hometown of Basel, Switzerland.  There are so many different recipes for the &#8220;Basler Brunsli&#8217;s,&#8221; but this one is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/sadhvi-sez-time-for-christmas-cookies/</link>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the Music in My Life?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I must confess:  I&#8217;m a little pathetic.  The only time I listen to &#8220;my music&#8221; is when I&#8217;m in the car, or on the treadmill listening to my Ipod.  It seems that the husband has not only commandeered the t.v. with &#8220;his&#8221; remote but has also confiscated the entire sound system that plays music in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/wheres-the-music-in-my-life/</link>
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		<title>Sadhvi Sez: Finding the Perfect Bra is a Challenge!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I really need a good fitting bra for a Christmas Party this weekend.  So instead of doing what I normally do, which is to spend hours trying on bras at department stores and hating it, I decided to order online.  Sounds easy, right?  I mean, women do it all the time, right?  Well, after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/sadhvi-sez-finding-the-perfect-bra-is-a-challenge/</link>
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		<title>Week Eight: Focus on Activity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our focus this week was on activity&#8211;and not just exercise but all kinds of activity.  The instructor talked about how important it is to move as much as we can, every day.  The lesson was filled with such interesting facts as &#8220;&#8230;riding in an elevator is only slightly more vigorous than reading.&#8221;  The important thing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/week-eight-focus-on-activity/</link>
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		<title>Sadhvi Sez: Go See &#8220;A Serious Man&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I heard that the latest Coen Brothers movie, &#8220;A Serious Man,&#8221; was playing, I knew I would have to see it.  While my husband has thousands of DVD&#8217;s in his collection and watches great movies all the time, I like to be picky about what I see, and I like to go to my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/sadhvi-sez-go-see-a-serious-man/</link>
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		<title>Week Seven: Changing Our Thinking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[              &#8220;Because your life is created from the inside out, you must first get right with yourself on the inside.  With what you will learn and do here, you will put the past behind you, and confront your personal truth about your weight.&#8221;   The Ultimate Weight Solution. I attribute [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/week-seven-changing-our-thinking/</link>
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		<title>Near Disaster for a Woman Over 50!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ There I was in NYC, the week-end before Thanksgiving, getting ready for the wedding &#8211; her first, at 53 &#8211; of one of my oldest and best friends.  Esther had never wanted to get married before, and, believe me, it&#8217;s not because no one ever asked her, but she finally met a man who changed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/near-disaster-for-a-woman-over-50/</link>
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		<title>Sadhvi Sez&#8230;Chestnut &amp; Bacon Stuffing Recipe!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[            Ok, it&#8217;s Thanksgving week, and lots of people have asked my husband, the Chestnut Roaster of Asheville, for a good stuffing recipe using chestnuts. Well, here&#8217;s one that I like.   It&#8217;s easy, as all stuffing recipes are, really, and it is very tasty. Chestnut &#38; Bacon Stuffing ¼ pound Bacon, chopped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/sadhvi-sezchestnut-bacon-stuffing-recipe/</link>
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		<title>Week Six Down and Heading forThanksgiving!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I realized today that I am halfway through the liquid portion of this program, so I&#8217;m feeling pretty amazed and proud of myself.  I made my first goal of 10% of my initial weight, so now I start working on the second 10%.  (The program guarantees that you&#8217;ll lose at least 20% of your initial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/week-six-down-and-heading-forthanksgiving/</link>
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		<title>On Gifts From Husbands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Johanna, For my 60th birthday, my husband decided to gift me with a new laptop.  Now, keep in mind that I have a lovely laptop that he gave me 3 years ago (with no consultation) that weighs 18 POUNDS&#8211;which may not sound like much but is too heavy for me to lug around because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/on-gifts-from-husbands/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Chick Story Farmer John lived on a quiet rural highway, but as the years went by, traffic slowly built up to an alarming rate. The traffic was so heavy and so fast that his chickens were being run over at a rate of three to six a day. Farmer John called the sheriff&#8217;s office [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/laugh-lines-5/</link>
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		<title>Easy Swiss Chestnut Soup Recipe!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Sadhvi&#8217;s Swiss Chestnut Soup! What you will need:  A pressure cooker, or pan with a tight fitting lid A pound or so of peeled roasted chestnuts Some oil, ghee or butter An onion, chopped Some water and some white wine Some salt What you do with these things:  Sauté &#38; brown the onion in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/sadhvi-seztry-this-swiss-chestnut-soup-recipe/</link>
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		<title>Jane&#8217;s World: Feeling Thankful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And grateful, too, for sunlight on the garden.&#8221;  Louis MacNeice I&#8217;m not writing about weight loss this week because, even though our upcoming holiday happens to be the one day of the year devoted almost entirely to food, I want to take just a minute to ponder the &#8220;thanks&#8221; part of &#8220;thanksgiving.&#8221;  What I realized [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/janes-world-feeling-thankful/</link>
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		<title>Annice&#8217;s Angle: My Friend Adele: Part Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[    Adele in Asheville, age 87 One of Adele&#8217;s favorite quotes &#8211; posted on her fridge: &#8220;Birth is not one act ; it is a process.  The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.  To live is to be born [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/my-friend-adele-part-two/</link>
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		<title>Oops50 Humor: The Girls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE GIRLS: Tillie &#8211; Maude &#8211; Gertrude These three old ladies and their dogs were sitting on a park bench having a quiet conversation when a flasher approached from across the park. The flasher came up to the ladies, stood right in front of them and opened his trench coat. Gertrude immediately had a stroke. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/laugh-lines-the-girls/</link>
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		<title>Jane&#8217;s World: Week Four</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been hanging back, avoiding writing,  because I was afraid that people might be getting bored with my progress, so I was completely encouraged again by the wonderful comments after my last posting.  Thank you, all of you!  I really appreciate it. So, here&#8217;s the deal:  I had my weigh-in last night, after four full weeks of liquids, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/janes-world-week-four/</link>
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		<title>Cautionary Advice from a Lucky Friend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following cautionary report comes from my good friend Welthy Soni-Myers who lives in semi-retirement in Vermont with her husband and continues to travel the country working and the world visiting.  I always pay heed to her advice and wanted to share it with other women. If you are like me, you have received emails [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/cautionary-advice-from-a-lucky-friend/</link>
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		<title>Sadhvi Sez: How to Roast Chestnuts the Right Way!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heissi Marroni! When we moved here from Switzerland, I set up our chestnut stand outside the local health food store.  In Switzerland, there was a very regular sort of exchange when someone came to buy chestnuts, and it was short, predictable, pleasant, singsong-ish &#38; fun : &#8220;Greetings! What would you like?&#8221;  &#8220;I would like a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/how-to-roast-chestnuts-the-right-way/</link>
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		<title>Grandmotherly Worries</title>
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		<link>http://www.oops50.com/index.php/grandmotherly-worries/</link>
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