I am so excited to have a New Year unfolding! writes Jeanie Spokane, Nuts & Nonsense.

• I didn't do anything extraordinary to even warrant a Christmas letter (Hi, I did dialysis 1,068 times (oops, 1,069 because one day it didn't work and I had to come back the next day) and went to about 4,000 yard sales);
• I avoided being filmed by "Hoarders" (note sentence just above) only because I kept my curtains closed;
• Thanksgiving sucked because for the first time in my sons' lives (37 & 38 years), neither one of them were here (sob). More here.

• Love/hate Christmas/A Family Runs Through It
• We're traveling all the way back to 1910/Atmospheric Ruminations
• Kootenai County studies a retrogressive sell out to voters/Bay Views
• Do you party like a real journalist?/Blush Response
• Getting to know them, getting to know all about them/Dogwalk Musings
• Failure to follow directions/From A Simple Mind
• Tuesday Twitterdeedumbsnow/Slight Detour
• What you may not know about winter running/3Rs
• Xiphias, a swordfish/Tumblewords
• Special effects in book publishing/Writing North Idaho

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Question: Will you look back fondly on 2011? Or be glad to put it in the rear-view mirror?