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Musings on Life in my Fifties . . .

I had lunch with a friend yesterday who quit her corporate job some months ago and has done incredible things traveling to exotic locales and working her tail off while coordinating volunteers to help get Obama elected, (see her post about it today on Daily Kos). But now the real world has set in and she is looking for that next thing. Having taken that plunge myself very many years ago, I was giving her advise. You see it is always so much easier to tell other people what to do. My friend has a blog, Look Don’t Leap, and she was going to document her year off and how it would take her to the next big thing… whatever that was. Only it

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My friend Claudia made me take a tour of the white house once, for which I am now grateful, since I would never have stood in a hot, two hour line without her urging and cajoling, but the tour didn’t include the oval office.

Recently, the Press made a big deal out of the fact that Bill Clinton gushed over how much he liked the new Oval Office rug during a meeting hosted by W. for the former living Presidents. I thought I would check it out.

The Oval Office was created in 1909 when William Howard Taft expanded the West Wing of the White House. The White House already had an

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Ben & Jerry’s is launching their inaugural ice cream – Yes Pecan!

by Ben Shlesinger, DC Tourism Examiner

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It was a late Sunday morning, the day before Amanda, her Brazilian boyfriend Leandro, and Michael were leaving to go skiing for a week and then back to school after a long Winter Break. Time for a last family dinner with my two Atlanta sisters and their families. “What should we make?” asked Mary, as she thumbed through a gourmet cookbook she got for Christmas. “There is a great

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My sister, Edna, called me Saturday thrilled to have found an engraved invitation to the Inauguration in her mailbox that afternoon. She loved getting it, feeling it and smelling it. We kind of figured that she got it for making several substantial donations to Obama’s campaign along the way. I also made donations throughout the campaign as well as worked on it and I didn’t get one. But hey, I wasn’t going to waste any time feeling slighted because what I realized in a split second was that

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My friend Joe says there are definite signs that I am in between jobs and have what he calls “too much time on my hands”. One of them is when my dogs start blogging. A few years ago, I signed up for a Dogster account and fooled around with that for a bit. That is actually what prompted me to start my own blog. I went into Google and searched on my business name, J.C.Knight Properties, Inc, and what came up in the search engine was my dog, Craig’s Dogster Diary. That was a wake up call and a lesson on search engine optimization. It seems that there are several reasons blogs are cruised by the bots more regularly one is that the content is updated more frequently, another is that they like the linking that goes on in most blogs.

Shortly after that lesson I started my Word Press blog. I have been having fun with it but haven’t really optimized it to bring in more business. My original website, I did back in the Dark Ages with Microsoft ‘s FrontPage, is still up. I have been meaning to incorporate all of the content with my blog, but haven’t. It is more fun and easier to

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I have been working with Word press, updating Danneman’s website by transferring it to a blog. That way the owners, Joe and Kate, can make modifications and keep the site up without having to know programming languages or web authoring software. The new site should be live soon. Since I have been spending so much time working with their site I have not had time to blog on my own site. Shame on me. But tonight I went ahead and upgraded my blog to the new Word press version 2.7 and this is the trial run.

One good thing is that I finally figured out

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Knowing how much I love the design of the Ace Hotel, Kate, Barrista extraordinaire at Danneman’s Coffee, sent me a link to a New York Times article about the design of the latest Ace Hotel which will open in March in New York City at 20 West 29th Street ( Broadway). There is also an [...]

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