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Fasten your seatbelt . . . you are about to be transported to my new blog. Just wait. A bit more. Really, keep waiting. Or just go to Actual Unretouched Photo yourself. Or wait and we'll autom...

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I mean it. No new stuff here. Go here.

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Now would be a great time to update your link to me on your blogroll! Head on over to the new Actual Unretouched Photo for new posts and let me know what you think of my almost-finished template...

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A new post is waiting for you over here on my new blog . See you there!

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Not very many of you have updated your links to my new blog address: http://unretouchedphoto.com. Will you, pretty please, with sugar on top? Thanks!

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The Tacoma News Tribune ran a story in the paper recently chronicling the poor hygiene of student athletes. Apparently, kids these days prefer not to shower in the locker room where God and ever...

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A few days ago, I received an email plea from a friend of mine. She says this: "We've been invited to a luncheon that will have a round robin reading of poems and short stories. The problem is t...

http://melodee128.blogspot.com/2006/05/helping-out-friend.html

My daughter insisted that she would sleep outside tonight, in the backyard, in her underpants, thank you very much. "Night-night, Mommy!" she waved as I opened the sliding glass door and stepped ...

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I have a big head. No, really. I mean the circumference of my head is unusually large, twenty-five inches--I just measured twice--which by anyone's standards indicates that my noggin is gigantic....

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So last night Katharine McPhee sang an entire song on American Idol while writhing on her knees. While I appreciated her blue toenail polish, I found her performance disconcerting. Why the knees...

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A few days ago, while driving down the road with my youngest two in the back of the 1987 Chevy Astro, I noticed a car slowing in front of me. Two women standing at a bus stop were pointing and la...

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A couple of weeks ago, my mother brought my grandmother to my house for Easter lunch. When they left, Grandma paced inch-by-inch down the sidewalk, clutching her walker, while my mom leaned on he...

http://melodee128.blogspot.com/2006/05/life-is-too-short.html

Good news. You can now use Bloglines.com to subscribe to Actual Unretouched Photo at the new site. (My personal new site, not to be confused with the other new site, which will be announced late...

http://melodee128.blogspot.com/2006/04/few-bits-of-business.html

I know, I know. My new website has forbidden us all to enter. I have no idea why, but my tech guy will be back in town Monday and hopefully he'll wave his magic wand and fix all my problems. Well...

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FileZilla and Wordpress make me want to scoop my brain out like a half a cantaloupe and fling it at the walls. Would it kill the writers of technical information to, oh, I don't know . . . assume...

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I may not have a book published yet, but at least I haven't had a book published and then pulled off the shelves because I plagiarized like her.

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Oh, Tulip, I hardly knew you and now you lie trampled on the ground, broken down in the prime of your life, never to bloom again. Well, until next spring, that is. At least I still have you, ...

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I bought a domain name: www.unretouchedphoto.com The site is not ready quite yet for its unveiling, but will you add it to your blogroll? Or bookmark it or add it to your Favorites or consider h...

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Hey, you may or may not realize that if you're on my blogroll, I read your blogs as often as possible. I try to read them every day, using Bloglines.com as an indicator that unread posts are wait...

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Yes, as it turns out, I do have a face. And when I wear lipstick you can even see my lips. When I was twenty-eight, I remember a forty-something mom telling me how her lip-color had faded with th...

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My daughter is three and a half and obsessed with the telephone. If you call my house, you will have to talk to her, which I know is a very annoying requirement and one I never understood before ...

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I joined Netflix and received one movie which sat in the ever-present paper pile on the kitchen counter for six weeks. Then I cancelled my account and sent it back. I love to watch movies, but ...

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Like shepherds without sheep, they wander the back yard, walking with staff-like sticks in hand, discussing important matters. I can't hear them. I would love to eavesdrop, but when I open the ...

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 Today, my mother and I forced the children delighted the children with a trip to Tacoma to watch the Daffodil Parade. Parking spot? Perfect. Transit train? Convenient. Spot on the curb? Deligh...

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 This is the hole in the ground super-cool bike ramp constructed by three eager and imaginative boys. I'm guessing if I said, "Go dig a giant hole in the back yard," I would have had a mutiny, ...

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