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		<title>March Madness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I should take this excellent advice from England!
March madness: I&#8217;m not talking about basketball &#8230; I&#8217;m talking about living life like a hamster spinning on a hamster wheel!
What have I been doing lately?
1) answering fan mail
2) writing and rewriting Humphrey book 7
3)answering fan mail
4) writing and rewriting the first of the younger Humphrey books, aimed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HAPPY-HAPPY-HAPPY Holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[hings have been hectic as the holidays are bearing down on us &#8230; and I still haven&#8217;t finished Humphrey book seven. Eerk!
Hopefully in 2010, I&#8217;ll be back to blogging.
Meanwhile, thanks so much and Season&#8217;s Greetings to Humphrey&#8217;s friends and to the entire Sassafras Springs community!
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		<title>That sinking feeling&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fire truck caught in a sink hole near our neighborhood &#8230;.more fallout from the water main break back home &#8211; amazing video.  Our neighbor Mary called to give us an update but all is okay at our house &#8211; we&#8217;re just missing out on monumental traffic jams.
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/That-Sinking-Feeling-2-57699417.html
We spent a great day in NY yesterday, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meanwhile, Back at our Home Sweet Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Home sweet home. If the camera pointed the other direction, you&#8217;d be looking at our house.
It was such a lovely morning here in Glen Ridge, NJ &#8230; until we heard from our next door neighbor about the flood that was just houses away from our house on Coldwater Canyon Avenue in Studio City, CA. See [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SPIDER SEASON</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
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Who says Los Angeles doesn&#8217;t have seasons?
In addition to four seasons (earthquake, mud, fire, flood), we also have spider season.
I love to see the huge, elaborate webs they spin at this time of year.
I hate where they spin them. There&#8217;s one every morning across the opening in the hedge which I must break to go out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SUMMER ACCORDING TO BETTY</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve got to love summer! Even though I have more work to do than ever, summer just naturally feels more laid-back and fun than any time of the year &#8211; even here in Southern California where it&#8217;s kinda summer all year long. I guess I&#8217;ve never gotten over summer vacations. (And we&#8217;ll find out what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flat Stanley</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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Living in southern California, we get a lot of interesting visitors throughout the year. Our most recent guest was a charming guy named Flat Stanley. Stanley was sent to us from cousin Katherine Wilbraham of Connecticut. It was fun for Humphrey to meet another character from a book.











I was very privileged to have such a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things That Go BUMP in the Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a big bump &#8211; or a thump &#8211; that woke me up this week at 1:30 in the morning.  It didn&#8217;t wake Frank up but I did - I was frightened for some reason, though I&#8217;m not a panicky person. I was sure something heavy had fallen in the house. Maybe the house even shook [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Festival of Books Birthday Weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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Another year, another birthday, another Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
My signings were on Saturday &#8230; my birthday on Sunday &#8230; my postponed birthday dinner was last night. This year&#8217;s FOB was special because my sister-in-law Jane is visiting from Massachusetts and is a devoted bookophile and former bookstore owner.  It was also special because my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>QUIET, Writer at Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been so very quiet lately &#8230; and that means I&#8217;m writing on an undisclosed manuscript. I don&#8217;t have any idea how it will turn out but I&#8217;ve made some progress.
I am a social person who loves to get together with friends, loves to talk BUT I need lots of space and lots of [...]]]></description>
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