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Not the Same Old Lang Syne

2007-12-17T13:06:12Z

I got up to a Twitter update from George letting me know Dan Fogelberg had died. That news added a layer of sadness to my day. On Saturday B and I were driving around my hometown and "Same Old Lang Syne" came on the radio. I tried but couldn't ...

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Fleur

2007-11-26T14:41:31Z

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Memory Walk 2007

2007-08-28T15:07:56Z

We're less than two weeks away from the Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk 2007 here in Louisville and I'm asking for sponsors. We participate in this event every year. As a geriatrician B sees the effects of Alzheimer's on both patients and thei...

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Mr. Brilliant

2007-08-27T17:10:28Z

There is a brilliant probably partially homeless, possibly (B says probably) schizophrenic man who hangs out nearly everyday at the bread shop or the coffee shop in our neighborhood. He reads the paper or a magazine and openly discusses what he's ...

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Summer Vegetable Saute

2007-08-01T23:49:56Z

This is cross posted from A Healthy Appetite. It will be a little redundant for some of you, sorry. We moved back to Louisville a couple months ago. We were very lucky and landed exactly where we wanted to be. Our neighborhood is incredible, abs...

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A Place in the World

2007-07-27T12:36:04Z

I'm 31 today. I've been on The Plan for a year and a month, I've lost 140 pounds, we live in Louisville, I'm applying for a grant to partially fund a photography project that I've already been working on for a couple months (anyone want to write m...

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New Clothes, New Computer

2007-07-25T19:15:47Z

I'm sure it's a combination of factors (significant weight loss, aging, happiness quotient, etc) but my taste in clothes has changed quite a bit of the last year or so. It's hard for big girls to find cute clothes, much less really big girls. Star...

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Looking Glass

2007-07-10T17:37:50Z

Something that I've been thinking about a lot lately is how I'm seen now that I've lost 132 pounds. How I see myself, how strangers see me, how my family who saw me at my heaviest now see me, how my family who saw me heavy but not nearly my heavie...

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Facts and Figures: 132, 31 volume

2007-07-10T15:11:32Z

I've now lost 132 pounds. This summer has been an interesting time for my weight loss/healthy journey. At the beginning of summer I was losing a crazy amount of weight a week (like 5-7 pounds a week) because I was doing so much work around the hou...

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Some Facts and Figures Volume 2 and a Louisville Update

2007-06-15T13:29:22Z

At this point I've lost 126 pounds. I can't remember if I said this or not but when I started this journey I didn't really have a goal weight I wanted to reach. I threw out a number here and there but truthfully I didn't really care about that num...

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