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When I picked up the Sunday Star Tribune at my corner grocery store this morning, I was expecting a bigger, heavier newspaper.The Sunday Times, it is not.

It’s important to take a look at your life periodically and ask yourself if your current situation is still working. It doesn’t have to be a formal process, and it doesn’t have to take place at a specified time. All you have to do is take a quick, honest look at the main areas of your life and ask yourself if there’s anything you need to change.

In less than two weeks a bunch of us will be hanging out together at the 2008 BlogHer Conference in San Francisco! At 11:15 on Friday morning at the conference I'll be leading a "Birds of a Feather" session for "Food, Cooking, and Entertaining" bloggers, so if you're going to be attending that, I have a little homework assignment for you.

I am an admitted Twitter addict along with so many others. It's a great place to vent, to brag, to make new friends. What surprised me several months ago was how many folk identify themselves with nicknames based upon their crafty addiction. Knitters, quilters, crafters are abundant on the site. Getting to know them in short 140 character bursts then encouraged to find them again on their blogs, on Ravelry and other places on the nets. So who are the twittering crafters?

I suppose it's newsworthy that a 70-year-old woman, Omkari Panwar of Muzaffarnagar, India, has given birth to twins. On the other hand, last year the story was that a 60-year-old woman from New Jersey gave birth to twins. We talked about that here at BlogHer, and so, we've had the "what is too old to bear children" debate already.

Bananas? A summer fruit? Well, yes, bananas are a summer fruit although truth is, banana trees produce fruit year-round so bananas are also fall, winter and spring fruits, too. Still, since bananas are available year-round, we don't see them much in summer, not while precious cherries, apricots, blueberries, raspberries and other summer-only fruits show their much-awaited faces. But this week, food bloggers had me rethinking the idea: bananas, they belong in our summer fruit panoply.

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