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	<title>Notes From My Easel</title>
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		<title>A Postulate to the Universe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life hands us two certainties.  The first is that we have made the right decision.  The second is that we haven&#8217;t.  So it came to me as no surprise when Lennie phoned me on Saturday evening saying that he had just rented a car and was going to drive 150 miles to Los Angeles for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hamiltonartist.com/blog/?p=208</link>
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		<title>A BAD DAY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago when I had cancer I would always go to the Cancer Centre in Hamilton by myself.  I didn&#8217;t really feel that I needed a support person with me and there were always plenty of magazines to read anyway.  But that&#8217;s just me.  Most of the people there had someone with them and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hamiltonartist.com/blog/?p=202</link>
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		<title>A HEARTFELT THANK YOU</title>
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A heartfelt thank you to all of the friends/customers that came over to my home on the weekend and either purchased a piece of artwork or gave me some uplifting stories and support.  I received nutritional samples, books on cancer therapy and many, many stories of people that had beat the odds and were cured [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hamiltonartist.com/blog/?p=194</link>
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		<title>Lennie&#8217;s treatment begins in Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my first report on Lennie&#8217;s Cancer treatment in Mexico.
Thursday (August 26) was Lennie&#8217;s birthday.  He started bleeding from the rectum when he woke up.  That same morning we got his CEA result of 47.9 (this is a blood work tumor marker that should have a normal range of 0 &#8211; 4). His blood [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hamiltonartist.com/blog/?p=176</link>
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		<title>FOR THE LOVE OF LENNIE</title>
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What a year it has been!  An incredible, beautiful year spent with Lennie &#8211; the man that I love.  We have travelled back and forth from Hawai&#8217;i to Hamilton to be able for each of us to stay in the other&#8217;s country for 6 months each.
There have been fun times and some incredible times.  We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hamiltonartist.com/blog/?p=163</link>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like Christmas&#8221;&#8230; sort of</title>
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It&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like Christmas; at least in my studio.
My newest print is titled &#8220;Ancaster&#8221; and as the name implies, it is a view of the beautiful old Town Hall on a Winter&#8217;s evening with the overtones of Christmas evidenced by the Christmas ornamentation and Victorian Carolers.  Chaucer and Catya make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hamiltonartist.com/blog/?p=156</link>
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		<title>Hawai&#8217;ian Coconut Cake</title>
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It&#8217;s June 24th.  Today is my birthday.  A lot has happened in the past few months.  I have met the man that I am going to spend the rest of my life with.  His name is Lennie.  He lives in Hawai&#8217;i.  That means that we both have started to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hamiltonartist.com/blog/?p=152</link>
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		<title>CAA DISNEY DAYS/children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are the answers for all you children who helped color the &#8220;Pirate&#8217;s Cove&#8221; &#038; &#8220;Cinderella&#8217;s Castle&#8221; wall murals at the Stoney Creek &#8211; Centennial Pkwy location of CAA on &#8216;Saturday, May 2nd.
&#8216;Cinderella&#8217;s Secret&#8217;
     Cinderella knows that to be beautiful on the outside, you also need to be beautiful on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hamiltonartist.com/blog/?p=144</link>
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		<title>A Christmas recipe worth repeating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a Christmas recipe worth repeating.
Nothing beats brining when it comes to the most delicious and moist turkey that you have ever tasted.Â 
Brining a turkey is very easy and is little more than a salt water bath with the addition of herbs and fruit.Â  This must be done however on a thawed or preferably [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hamiltonartist.com/blog/?p=138</link>
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		<title>Paying it forward this Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a variety of definitions for the word &#8216;charity&#8217;.Â  Two of those definitions are:Â  &#8220;a generous action&#8221; and &#8220;something given to someone in need&#8221;.Â  Taking these two definitions to heart in their most literal translations this Christmas, I have decided that charity doesÂ begin at home, or at least close to home.
I&#8217;m not going to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hamiltonartist.com/blog/?p=137</link>
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