<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2024 07:10:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>Mental Hygiene</category><category>Natural Phenomena</category><category>Arts</category><category>Philosophy</category><category>Beliefs</category><category>Organizational Behavior</category><category>Popular Culture</category><category>Relationships</category><category>Fashion</category><category>Adages and Advice</category><category>Advice</category><category>Vocations</category><category>Vices</category><category>Culture</category><category>Family</category><category>Food</category><category>Seasons and Weather</category><category>Aphorisms</category><category>Domestic Arts</category><category>Holidays</category><category>Manners</category><category>Pastimes</category><category>Strange Phenomena</category><category>Strange Convergence</category><category>The Canon</category><category>Technology</category><category>Travel</category><category>Flora and Fauna</category><category>Rituals</category><category>Unnatural Phenomena</category><category>History</category><category>Hygiene</category><category>Inexplicable</category><category>Marriage</category><category>Religion</category><category>Research</category><category>Communication</category><category>Literature</category><category>Public Safety</category><category>Vegetable Matter</category><category>Public Policy</category><category>Sex and Gender</category><category>Entertainment</category><category>Adages</category><category>Afterlife</category><category>Health</category><category>Higher education</category><category>Liquid Refreshment</category><category>Sleep</category><category>Vocabulary</category><category>Age</category><category>Beyond Categorization</category><category>Education</category><category>Enterprise and Commerce</category><category>Foreign Affairs</category><category>Geography</category><category>Libraries</category><category>Pets</category><category>Children</category><category>Gardening</category><category>Insults</category><category>Parenting</category><category>Recreation</category><category>French Culture</category><category>Last Words</category><category>New York Cultural Treasures</category><category>Politics</category><category>Science</category><category>Seasons</category><category>Sustainability</category><category>Institutions</category><category>Longevity</category><category>Media</category><category>National Defense</category><category>Personality Theory</category><category>Photography</category><category>Physical Culture</category><category>Transportation</category><category>Cognition</category><category>Coiffure</category><category>Discourse</category><category>Environment</category><category>Etiquette</category><category>Gender</category><category>Linguistics</category><category>Metacognition</category><category>Morality</category><category>Mortality</category><category>Philanthropy</category><category>Public Service</category><category>Self control</category><category>Sports</category><category>ice cream</category><title>A Wide Range of Normal</title><description></description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>730</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><xhtml:meta content="noindex" name="robots" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"/><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-7431457395529185415</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-30T07:00:05.043-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">National Defense</category><title>Be prepared?</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhktR4cukhDPb3NuFSGxOh625bcCWwN6D31jeZ5I1F5hRoRQEGOOpXCO0VZSUw2QHBge0VA9f-QsjM9KdaUhs9GTbWtGbDwqh5jQ35okbSg5IOTeobDKneGK9SILEqt5yspITPknm_Fg84/s1600/boy_scouts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhktR4cukhDPb3NuFSGxOh625bcCWwN6D31jeZ5I1F5hRoRQEGOOpXCO0VZSUw2QHBge0VA9f-QsjM9KdaUhs9GTbWtGbDwqh5jQ35okbSg5IOTeobDKneGK9SILEqt5yspITPknm_Fg84/s200/boy_scouts.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.&lt;br /&gt;
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Blake Clark&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/12/be-prepared.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhktR4cukhDPb3NuFSGxOh625bcCWwN6D31jeZ5I1F5hRoRQEGOOpXCO0VZSUw2QHBge0VA9f-QsjM9KdaUhs9GTbWtGbDwqh5jQ35okbSg5IOTeobDKneGK9SILEqt5yspITPknm_Fg84/s72-c/boy_scouts.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-4231919747957418093</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-30T07:00:01.501-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Mental Hygiene</category><title>Unproductive behavior?</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NGSAMn5LQSw/TR3wSp_2JZI/AAAAAAAABn8/zUDb0rbUi60/s1600/bubble+gum+lady.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NGSAMn5LQSw/TR3wSp_2JZI/AAAAAAAABn8/zUDb0rbUi60/s200/bubble+gum+lady.jpg" width="146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"&gt;Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Baz Lurhman&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/12/unproductive-behavior.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NGSAMn5LQSw/TR3wSp_2JZI/AAAAAAAABn8/zUDb0rbUi60/s72-c/bubble+gum+lady.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-2342641213094789643</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-30T07:00:03.794-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Vocations</category><title>Write on?</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NGSAMn5LQSw/TNciYKZvxVI/AAAAAAAABio/li1Dd6T7zG0/s1600/Historian.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="129" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NGSAMn5LQSw/TNciYKZvxVI/AAAAAAAABio/li1Dd6T7zG0/s200/Historian.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"&gt;Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.&lt;br /&gt;
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Leo Tolstoy&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/12/write-on.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NGSAMn5LQSw/TNciYKZvxVI/AAAAAAAABio/li1Dd6T7zG0/s72-c/Historian.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-3762770169156026882</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-29T07:00:12.827-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Mental Hygiene</category><title>There was never a child so lovely</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo7G-AfiRzX1zEB2ayyX3_90eYVOigBKUCa2RG0depCRjvtrBfkicaJCWWc8RHHbwW4ctcNW4fYCYB4MSqTAPNdYCAkNSRkhn2TOOo3ByGCJ70g2oZa7_ipeFMvKZMOC0iIaPc2enI6Pw/s1600/nap9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo7G-AfiRzX1zEB2ayyX3_90eYVOigBKUCa2RG0depCRjvtrBfkicaJCWWc8RHHbwW4ctcNW4fYCYB4MSqTAPNdYCAkNSRkhn2TOOo3ByGCJ70g2oZa7_ipeFMvKZMOC0iIaPc2enI6Pw/s200/nap9.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt; ... but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Ralph Waldo Emerson&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/12/there-was-never-child-so-lovely.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo7G-AfiRzX1zEB2ayyX3_90eYVOigBKUCa2RG0depCRjvtrBfkicaJCWWc8RHHbwW4ctcNW4fYCYB4MSqTAPNdYCAkNSRkhn2TOOo3ByGCJ70g2oZa7_ipeFMvKZMOC0iIaPc2enI6Pw/s72-c/nap9.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-5931119703545104115</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-16T07:00:16.792-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Rituals</category><title>Face the new day?</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijN02VIbvN2Bj9Vsayexrfg8Eq8jd5Mze7We1fNOPCF5cdyZMrzbwsN1gfegMgRVoI2zjtXGy-pxh5RyuEkX2eMe0CVCtubrq8msMRrJup9RE8Runka0huAoYXsrwX18jfibn-quRuJAs/s1600/getting+dressed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijN02VIbvN2Bj9Vsayexrfg8Eq8jd5Mze7We1fNOPCF5cdyZMrzbwsN1gfegMgRVoI2zjtXGy-pxh5RyuEkX2eMe0CVCtubrq8msMRrJup9RE8Runka0huAoYXsrwX18jfibn-quRuJAs/s200/getting+dressed.jpg" width="172" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous. &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Mary Schmich &lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/12/face-new-day.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijN02VIbvN2Bj9Vsayexrfg8Eq8jd5Mze7We1fNOPCF5cdyZMrzbwsN1gfegMgRVoI2zjtXGy-pxh5RyuEkX2eMe0CVCtubrq8msMRrJup9RE8Runka0huAoYXsrwX18jfibn-quRuJAs/s72-c/getting+dressed.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-6005695766836600011</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-06T08:45:01.015-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Adages</category><title>On your way?</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaJuQAbIiWIv3kq0n2ad-A2ZtSfYE7MBg-38NQWvRGwfIRAXw8iLcQzg7Ii0IMH4EdnUH-YbXkDx74UIJxfgIsnvJiDIKvFpqp9e-ZI1flpGMdlx3ky3eLyZw_SvNHJXNR64K2TppsmQ4/s1600/crossroads3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaJuQAbIiWIv3kq0n2ad-A2ZtSfYE7MBg-38NQWvRGwfIRAXw8iLcQzg7Ii0IMH4EdnUH-YbXkDx74UIJxfgIsnvJiDIKvFpqp9e-ZI1flpGMdlx3ky3eLyZw_SvNHJXNR64K2TppsmQ4/s200/crossroads3.jpg" width="182" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.&lt;br /&gt;
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Yiddish Proverb&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/12/on-your-way.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaJuQAbIiWIv3kq0n2ad-A2ZtSfYE7MBg-38NQWvRGwfIRAXw8iLcQzg7Ii0IMH4EdnUH-YbXkDx74UIJxfgIsnvJiDIKvFpqp9e-ZI1flpGMdlx3ky3eLyZw_SvNHJXNR64K2TppsmQ4/s72-c/crossroads3.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-379308987034494817</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-16T06:49:26.754-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Travel</category><title>We have moved</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlWvBJBjLvImjBXjO9QejPPakHJS8GXg1oH6dTSapo1IJoirHhxJdBYC3UKFiM5fsiB4qmovn0i43FWnKNUk6cnyuTKmtgPwAky_e0yUESLDDzXvHm1_P7mIsORSM_T0E9uLxTr4Zh9tY/s1600/ennui.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlWvBJBjLvImjBXjO9QejPPakHJS8GXg1oH6dTSapo1IJoirHhxJdBYC3UKFiM5fsiB4qmovn0i43FWnKNUk6cnyuTKmtgPwAky_e0yUESLDDzXvHm1_P7mIsORSM_T0E9uLxTr4Zh9tY/s200/ennui.jpg" width="169" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://widerangeofnormal.tumblr.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;http://widerangeofnormal.tumblr.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/06/we-have-moved_15.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlWvBJBjLvImjBXjO9QejPPakHJS8GXg1oH6dTSapo1IJoirHhxJdBYC3UKFiM5fsiB4qmovn0i43FWnKNUk6cnyuTKmtgPwAky_e0yUESLDDzXvHm1_P7mIsORSM_T0E9uLxTr4Zh9tY/s72-c/ennui.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-5600628256879411677</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-14T06:40:12.224-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Public Safety</category><title>We have moved</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidbqJrzze-1GSeH-rrTk23Msg_bCrw4F-IIqyIbYLKBXKxL8bb8JZsJqnOm_lMuMhJHbzzngWuZihiXEhKZxeP9UYpDj7QpV9UK4-yC2LigCha-kT9Id9JWuEb8oJaJu3qbLhvx4p9lgU/s1600/moving+day.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidbqJrzze-1GSeH-rrTk23Msg_bCrw4F-IIqyIbYLKBXKxL8bb8JZsJqnOm_lMuMhJHbzzngWuZihiXEhKZxeP9UYpDj7QpV9UK4-yC2LigCha-kT9Id9JWuEb8oJaJu3qbLhvx4p9lgU/s200/moving+day.jpg" width="165" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;New address:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://widerangeofnormal.tumblr.com/" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;widerangeofnormal.tumblr.com/&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/06/we-have-moved_14.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidbqJrzze-1GSeH-rrTk23Msg_bCrw4F-IIqyIbYLKBXKxL8bb8JZsJqnOm_lMuMhJHbzzngWuZihiXEhKZxeP9UYpDj7QpV9UK4-yC2LigCha-kT9Id9JWuEb8oJaJu3qbLhvx4p9lgU/s72-c/moving+day.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-1264008297705140612</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-13T06:42:59.147-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Communication</category><title>We have moved</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigEGCryfTKLZA1n5hahYQEKsMAQ7rOwJrgB0CS9Hkkr9BtSgm-9M0rwPxi61QDW9R48GqC8QEQvyhg8a2FKCItR3PK0qLjyd7hLZBARGncvQw7W3xzoGMtYTpH5fO2veMR748B_vfwwLI/s1600/hand+misswallflowertumblrcom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigEGCryfTKLZA1n5hahYQEKsMAQ7rOwJrgB0CS9Hkkr9BtSgm-9M0rwPxi61QDW9R48GqC8QEQvyhg8a2FKCItR3PK0qLjyd7hLZBARGncvQw7W3xzoGMtYTpH5fO2veMR748B_vfwwLI/s200/hand+misswallflowertumblrcom.jpg" width="151" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;New address:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://widerangeofnormal.tumblr.com/"&gt;widerangeofnormal.tumblr.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/06/we-have-moved_13.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigEGCryfTKLZA1n5hahYQEKsMAQ7rOwJrgB0CS9Hkkr9BtSgm-9M0rwPxi61QDW9R48GqC8QEQvyhg8a2FKCItR3PK0qLjyd7hLZBARGncvQw7W3xzoGMtYTpH5fO2veMR748B_vfwwLI/s72-c/hand+misswallflowertumblrcom.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-3076789411015005070</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-13T06:31:48.085-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Travel</category><title>We have moved</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0ZpsbwvTiCw49WZylzOPYBUSLg2OGTcZBSQ-WWbEBzGDy1OxgQCi0yIg7CUdtPPssX3IqhnUNGiizf1CkkWkrDFIu6PyijCnVhUdogE6z068M9Nt9RUOICDRMJ1hUNuryPulf6mJXU8M/s1600/suitcase+%2528weheartit%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0ZpsbwvTiCw49WZylzOPYBUSLg2OGTcZBSQ-WWbEBzGDy1OxgQCi0yIg7CUdtPPssX3IqhnUNGiizf1CkkWkrDFIu6PyijCnVhUdogE6z068M9Nt9RUOICDRMJ1hUNuryPulf6mJXU8M/s200/suitcase+%2528weheartit%2529.jpg" width="137" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;New address:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://widerangeofnormal.tumblr.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;http://widerangeofnormal.tumblr.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/06/we-have-moved.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0ZpsbwvTiCw49WZylzOPYBUSLg2OGTcZBSQ-WWbEBzGDy1OxgQCi0yIg7CUdtPPssX3IqhnUNGiizf1CkkWkrDFIu6PyijCnVhUdogE6z068M9Nt9RUOICDRMJ1hUNuryPulf6mJXU8M/s72-c/suitcase+%2528weheartit%2529.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-7295824864776018793</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-12T08:10:03.468-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Insults</category><title>Baaaaad news?</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghHCR0Z7Iwns-wvfXJfmgLqivErh6YVOGaJcOkRThP835svX7q1Ao5Y_6Fg_V-4peN-o2Q1tkGZMX1gYmRc7GVy7UfoCxZYQUyX7eCMUhsS0qWXAUCbgSUVa6tBy5lRdlp9Jw53SQmfYc/s1600/sheep.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghHCR0Z7Iwns-wvfXJfmgLqivErh6YVOGaJcOkRThP835svX7q1Ao5Y_6Fg_V-4peN-o2Q1tkGZMX1gYmRc7GVy7UfoCxZYQUyX7eCMUhsS0qWXAUCbgSUVa6tBy5lRdlp9Jw53SQmfYc/s200/sheep.jpg" width="176" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Christopher Moore &lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/06/baaaaad-news.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghHCR0Z7Iwns-wvfXJfmgLqivErh6YVOGaJcOkRThP835svX7q1Ao5Y_6Fg_V-4peN-o2Q1tkGZMX1gYmRc7GVy7UfoCxZYQUyX7eCMUhsS0qWXAUCbgSUVa6tBy5lRdlp9Jw53SQmfYc/s72-c/sheep.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-4835430864413564389</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 12:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-11T08:57:13.692-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Inexplicable</category><title>No answer</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRCsXwlC_FVZpQkOJ_84-YiWj69YigPZDU9qfW-hl8J_s8boWgjs55K6V2OKGLAfjRh9hJAAyxIH3cy6BXreVbsevoIh9RIzGMzz1Oj6ZVGBEkE9VmlaQs9ncjEZkqE4tQtHBfp7LGcR8/s1600/yellow-door-500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRCsXwlC_FVZpQkOJ_84-YiWj69YigPZDU9qfW-hl8J_s8boWgjs55K6V2OKGLAfjRh9hJAAyxIH3cy6BXreVbsevoIh9RIzGMzz1Oj6ZVGBEkE9VmlaQs9ncjEZkqE4tQtHBfp7LGcR8/s200/yellow-door-500.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Mark Twain &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/06/no-answer.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRCsXwlC_FVZpQkOJ_84-YiWj69YigPZDU9qfW-hl8J_s8boWgjs55K6V2OKGLAfjRh9hJAAyxIH3cy6BXreVbsevoIh9RIzGMzz1Oj6ZVGBEkE9VmlaQs9ncjEZkqE4tQtHBfp7LGcR8/s72-c/yellow-door-500.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-4656629164011400265</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-10T06:35:44.727-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Gender</category><title>You must be mistaken</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgglqlUjbNa2A6X2PV4WNtOhdNm1TVrQYSMXrRgyoL_yMwTSSJZsHsx2SLuRJKAfynr9-5lHhYi12utWaZhhCpvg2xBt7ctZFVm9c_meta1657YQl-Afq3jaluP0G_AhhW-qBcMIxUg3AQ/s1600/five+gals.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgglqlUjbNa2A6X2PV4WNtOhdNm1TVrQYSMXrRgyoL_yMwTSSJZsHsx2SLuRJKAfynr9-5lHhYi12utWaZhhCpvg2xBt7ctZFVm9c_meta1657YQl-Afq3jaluP0G_AhhW-qBcMIxUg3AQ/s200/five+gals.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Anna Quindlen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/06/you-must-be-mistaken.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgglqlUjbNa2A6X2PV4WNtOhdNm1TVrQYSMXrRgyoL_yMwTSSJZsHsx2SLuRJKAfynr9-5lHhYi12utWaZhhCpvg2xBt7ctZFVm9c_meta1657YQl-Afq3jaluP0G_AhhW-qBcMIxUg3AQ/s72-c/five+gals.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-3226422231392044881</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-09T06:35:23.195-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Literature</category><title>Lethal weapon?</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikCBRm6_fncsDuim780dvizZw5UXH5SWrApciIjNBR_q6Qb154XW_TnC_PLtovqEAsF7uZBlrDv83sCnyqHsjsiMndeBWmMDcBKdTj0IlMrc0WFeFJoDq1MLii1F_pKU9dvEIHagTS4aE/s1600/nap+book5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikCBRm6_fncsDuim780dvizZw5UXH5SWrApciIjNBR_q6Qb154XW_TnC_PLtovqEAsF7uZBlrDv83sCnyqHsjsiMndeBWmMDcBKdTj0IlMrc0WFeFJoDq1MLii1F_pKU9dvEIHagTS4aE/s200/nap+book5.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt; It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Rose Macaulay&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/06/lethal-weapon.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikCBRm6_fncsDuim780dvizZw5UXH5SWrApciIjNBR_q6Qb154XW_TnC_PLtovqEAsF7uZBlrDv83sCnyqHsjsiMndeBWmMDcBKdTj0IlMrc0WFeFJoDq1MLii1F_pKU9dvEIHagTS4aE/s72-c/nap+book5.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-8306800180791622802</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-08T06:33:49.977-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Natural Phenomena</category><title>Eat or be eaten?</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLx0mZ18XD-Okh1ez25Mvt2anK1nNFLdAxRaX6t2aIune8OHqZ2VT_i9VFlZ-SyuDR2RUCk8VZiLbAAXaSTxFxQGYLYDS5Ike-OqDJQdpwvNr4rhhY-mRMIeCQhy3SSIdX8KfWW0i9Yc/s1600/plate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLx0mZ18XD-Okh1ez25Mvt2anK1nNFLdAxRaX6t2aIune8OHqZ2VT_i9VFlZ-SyuDR2RUCk8VZiLbAAXaSTxFxQGYLYDS5Ike-OqDJQdpwvNr4rhhY-mRMIeCQhy3SSIdX8KfWW0i9Yc/s200/plate.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Michael Friedman&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/06/eat-or-be-eaten.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLx0mZ18XD-Okh1ez25Mvt2anK1nNFLdAxRaX6t2aIune8OHqZ2VT_i9VFlZ-SyuDR2RUCk8VZiLbAAXaSTxFxQGYLYDS5Ike-OqDJQdpwvNr4rhhY-mRMIeCQhy3SSIdX8KfWW0i9Yc/s72-c/plate.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-6543034230393970665</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-07T06:19:47.390-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Advice</category><title>Twelfth law of fashion</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSECnwikqMQOUEDuIPwhFA38v0JUfC93j7QYhIdKyzWgchB8hujhC79eaY6C13BpYC7IzqggNn5g18E5KJ-Tx7mBJoV8wASaT-GK0OcfsEDIH_fGSf2mLQ0NdTIyxmypJD0S7JLv2po4Y/s1600/pointed-shoes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSECnwikqMQOUEDuIPwhFA38v0JUfC93j7QYhIdKyzWgchB8hujhC79eaY6C13BpYC7IzqggNn5g18E5KJ-Tx7mBJoV8wASaT-GK0OcfsEDIH_fGSf2mLQ0NdTIyxmypJD0S7JLv2po4Y/s200/pointed-shoes.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Anon.&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/06/twelfth-law-of-fashion.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSECnwikqMQOUEDuIPwhFA38v0JUfC93j7QYhIdKyzWgchB8hujhC79eaY6C13BpYC7IzqggNn5g18E5KJ-Tx7mBJoV8wASaT-GK0OcfsEDIH_fGSf2mLQ0NdTIyxmypJD0S7JLv2po4Y/s72-c/pointed-shoes.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-7558245134319881096</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-06T06:28:51.248-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Mental Hygiene</category><title>Perfection gone awry?</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoUdzsi9uPOcy-Mpp_Ncwue8XUnBPLK9KemFPyHnESMXXzlhg1BxfIdPfChyjJktzCjAqU5YkIAae9z6m8qPfGMDbZO_I8e5JgV8UePml0PmAayZaJUvDIiJ8nX5pvmcHIaAgSeDryjB8/s1600/man+with+glasses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoUdzsi9uPOcy-Mpp_Ncwue8XUnBPLK9KemFPyHnESMXXzlhg1BxfIdPfChyjJktzCjAqU5YkIAae9z6m8qPfGMDbZO_I8e5JgV8UePml0PmAayZaJUvDIiJ8nX5pvmcHIaAgSeDryjB8/s200/man+with+glasses.jpg" width="186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;There was a snake in his Garden of Eden, a crumpled leaf  in his bed of roses, a grain of sand in his spiritual spinach.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;P.G.  Wodehouse&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/06/perfection-gone-awry.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoUdzsi9uPOcy-Mpp_Ncwue8XUnBPLK9KemFPyHnESMXXzlhg1BxfIdPfChyjJktzCjAqU5YkIAae9z6m8qPfGMDbZO_I8e5JgV8UePml0PmAayZaJUvDIiJ8nX5pvmcHIaAgSeDryjB8/s72-c/man+with+glasses.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-8046189069733887301</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-05T08:08:43.588-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Linguistics</category><title>Upon further reflection</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGB-gxqkWYNn5_bnbAnuTUHYjePIduYtyipZBSLxmOeZGtBlC-_1d35tjyW9UNyQugkPq-9YiWdQ4YRyzMuqXYN3FR2k6IkijfYraKKyAvmababoFroqYaXDk1ZvbWfb3aOlBItxZNC2U/s1600/cat+staring.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGB-gxqkWYNn5_bnbAnuTUHYjePIduYtyipZBSLxmOeZGtBlC-_1d35tjyW9UNyQugkPq-9YiWdQ4YRyzMuqXYN3FR2k6IkijfYraKKyAvmababoFroqYaXDk1ZvbWfb3aOlBItxZNC2U/s200/cat+staring.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Doug Larson  &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/06/upon-further-reflection.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGB-gxqkWYNn5_bnbAnuTUHYjePIduYtyipZBSLxmOeZGtBlC-_1d35tjyW9UNyQugkPq-9YiWdQ4YRyzMuqXYN3FR2k6IkijfYraKKyAvmababoFroqYaXDk1ZvbWfb3aOlBItxZNC2U/s72-c/cat+staring.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-1043499174827687396</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-04T08:19:09.550-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Culture</category><title>Huh?</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh22w2afS4cOGuR2ek6JCiGM8-nWyQNxlfj3NKaINmeLZWyqlykKxtbty5ET_g8_ca6lMGg8F_ynXWilyJV4AD95i51TGzf0sI8X0A95K2z13LJ4vt3sdAj0_q3WNPVe0yGBBkbJX7jvZE/s1600/spaced+woman+at+desk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh22w2afS4cOGuR2ek6JCiGM8-nWyQNxlfj3NKaINmeLZWyqlykKxtbty5ET_g8_ca6lMGg8F_ynXWilyJV4AD95i51TGzf0sI8X0A95K2z13LJ4vt3sdAj0_q3WNPVe0yGBBkbJX7jvZE/s200/spaced+woman+at+desk.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;"&gt;What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;"&gt;Mignon McLaughlin&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/06/huh.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh22w2afS4cOGuR2ek6JCiGM8-nWyQNxlfj3NKaINmeLZWyqlykKxtbty5ET_g8_ca6lMGg8F_ynXWilyJV4AD95i51TGzf0sI8X0A95K2z13LJ4vt3sdAj0_q3WNPVe0yGBBkbJX7jvZE/s72-c/spaced+woman+at+desk.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-7956563204009653153</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-03T06:38:45.523-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Literature</category><title>Light weight reading?</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6jkq1Qc4MQ25qAdpa5jD8O6MQb8zVXdE54-ESyfQ_iIZGHnHSSiyjGLdu9wKK9WFQh-RLIngpGIU3Zx-2Ol_EQ_oNOZbhGb7ZVROaFS7jPp0m8XiQW7oFNtRwOmMsiTZnWoIvdIUNEl0/s1600/paperback+book.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6jkq1Qc4MQ25qAdpa5jD8O6MQb8zVXdE54-ESyfQ_iIZGHnHSSiyjGLdu9wKK9WFQh-RLIngpGIU3Zx-2Ol_EQ_oNOZbhGb7ZVROaFS7jPp0m8XiQW7oFNtRwOmMsiTZnWoIvdIUNEl0/s200/paperback+book.JPG" width="159" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Alfred Hitchcock &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/06/light-weight-reading.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6jkq1Qc4MQ25qAdpa5jD8O6MQb8zVXdE54-ESyfQ_iIZGHnHSSiyjGLdu9wKK9WFQh-RLIngpGIU3Zx-2Ol_EQ_oNOZbhGb7ZVROaFS7jPp0m8XiQW7oFNtRwOmMsiTZnWoIvdIUNEl0/s72-c/paperback+book.JPG" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-8838026207385638783</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-02T06:16:39.063-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Public Safety</category><title>Way out?</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghDKhtfjxUneaHYuzSMjKq1f_kqyTwyWrdUqpj0LpkvKUNnV6tf6E5Pyq4MPPFh-OgtBa5w7-KUfFe21FCeAm1Xb_LNUVFTSpplDpWGeAU7wbK3WcpUts78LhuchV5Khpxv5n6ejks4pc/s1600/exit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghDKhtfjxUneaHYuzSMjKq1f_kqyTwyWrdUqpj0LpkvKUNnV6tf6E5Pyq4MPPFh-OgtBa5w7-KUfFe21FCeAm1Xb_LNUVFTSpplDpWGeAU7wbK3WcpUts78LhuchV5Khpxv5n6ejks4pc/s200/exit.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;The exit is usually where the entrance was.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Stanislaw Jerzy Lec&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/06/way-out.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghDKhtfjxUneaHYuzSMjKq1f_kqyTwyWrdUqpj0LpkvKUNnV6tf6E5Pyq4MPPFh-OgtBa5w7-KUfFe21FCeAm1Xb_LNUVFTSpplDpWGeAU7wbK3WcpUts78LhuchV5Khpxv5n6ejks4pc/s72-c/exit.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-232957042586728848</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-01T06:29:33.643-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Media</category><title>Time to recalibrate?</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOK_A53E6PiiSzDpvjLJGXni-33gWe3wTYEGRmmCZOLThbw928oBhUFu6Iu-905A3apXFQX-V1BXhjPjsrfM3hD_YZ4nlj4WiCZwLRBV2L9c1VqTIicz335ffV3hnsyyz7slZBqWfIgXs/s1600/1960s_wood+tv.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOK_A53E6PiiSzDpvjLJGXni-33gWe3wTYEGRmmCZOLThbw928oBhUFu6Iu-905A3apXFQX-V1BXhjPjsrfM3hD_YZ4nlj4WiCZwLRBV2L9c1VqTIicz335ffV3hnsyyz7slZBqWfIgXs/s200/1960s_wood+tv.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called 'brightness', but it doesn't work.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Gallagher&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/06/time-to-recalibrate.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOK_A53E6PiiSzDpvjLJGXni-33gWe3wTYEGRmmCZOLThbw928oBhUFu6Iu-905A3apXFQX-V1BXhjPjsrfM3hD_YZ4nlj4WiCZwLRBV2L9c1VqTIicz335ffV3hnsyyz7slZBqWfIgXs/s72-c/1960s_wood+tv.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-6128342982077463333</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 10:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-31T06:22:29.128-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Public Policy</category><title>Upon reconsideration</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH91HxJ7Zo92RDL8Xx43f_hnsDSCMyNwnqlCJfYwsGgxfoj3WWSz4sTiPtuNcR7R2zxXljdeRowQbbzXzkit3EJoaeqiOCONZWKhHT-SbDcXYuO_0c_npVi9dZO1WvVPgnrw4HMX-eICk/s1600/lock+deadbolt2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH91HxJ7Zo92RDL8Xx43f_hnsDSCMyNwnqlCJfYwsGgxfoj3WWSz4sTiPtuNcR7R2zxXljdeRowQbbzXzkit3EJoaeqiOCONZWKhHT-SbDcXYuO_0c_npVi9dZO1WvVPgnrw4HMX-eICk/s200/lock+deadbolt2.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Doug Larson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/05/upon-reconsideration.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH91HxJ7Zo92RDL8Xx43f_hnsDSCMyNwnqlCJfYwsGgxfoj3WWSz4sTiPtuNcR7R2zxXljdeRowQbbzXzkit3EJoaeqiOCONZWKhHT-SbDcXYuO_0c_npVi9dZO1WvVPgnrw4HMX-eICk/s72-c/lock+deadbolt2.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-2722579164436347129</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 11:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-30T07:44:20.498-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Recreation</category><title>No go</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBB0FQRpXyHiOp5Qcv5UFhl450d-u3ucWuceIX0ZZfSFa-Zu7h-Ly-4edW7B8hofW3TdX2b4YaOsqKRk3102vUdja-JOtm9sWztD5xORpG3ttakAjdWLi7-N5VPsanIXwcousc-CfqnLo/s1600/ambulance2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBB0FQRpXyHiOp5Qcv5UFhl450d-u3ucWuceIX0ZZfSFa-Zu7h-Ly-4edW7B8hofW3TdX2b4YaOsqKRk3102vUdja-JOtm9sWztD5xORpG3ttakAjdWLi7-N5VPsanIXwcousc-CfqnLo/s200/ambulance2.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Erma Bombeck&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/05/no-go.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBB0FQRpXyHiOp5Qcv5UFhl450d-u3ucWuceIX0ZZfSFa-Zu7h-Ly-4edW7B8hofW3TdX2b4YaOsqKRk3102vUdja-JOtm9sWztD5xORpG3ttakAjdWLi7-N5VPsanIXwcousc-CfqnLo/s72-c/ambulance2.jpg" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252035344681235388.post-2280626248782780744</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 12:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-29T08:55:19.586-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Beliefs</category><title>Karmic justice?</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT89B8iVoJOJmFrsJQSpqHfEFB1hyphenhyphenQEbJ_ig54osM_gw8kehcdtEN1DchMlBPy5Gpj2JiKo0FvLDbcZsPDcgQhFrKlVOPsKaRk3hMkc4HZ2KuritxkdbpM3qE6gIqP5-WsJTSoyspOVd0/s1600/pigeon+on+head.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT89B8iVoJOJmFrsJQSpqHfEFB1hyphenhyphenQEbJ_ig54osM_gw8kehcdtEN1DchMlBPy5Gpj2JiKo0FvLDbcZsPDcgQhFrKlVOPsKaRk3hMkc4HZ2KuritxkdbpM3qE6gIqP5-WsJTSoyspOVd0/s200/pigeon+on+head.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Scott Adams&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://widerangeofnormal.blogspot.com/2011/05/karmic-justice.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (S. Hayes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT89B8iVoJOJmFrsJQSpqHfEFB1hyphenhyphenQEbJ_ig54osM_gw8kehcdtEN1DchMlBPy5Gpj2JiKo0FvLDbcZsPDcgQhFrKlVOPsKaRk3hMkc4HZ2KuritxkdbpM3qE6gIqP5-WsJTSoyspOVd0/s72-c/pigeon+on+head.jpg" width="72"/></item></channel></rss>