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		<title>Online Dating IV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Match.com sent my “Daily 5” every morning and I looked forward to finding the profiles in my inbox. This time I had limited the criteria to men aged 63-72 who lived within 100 miles of San Jose. More realistic, I thought, in terms of who would be interested in me and how far we’d be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ellenrgreene.com/blog/?p=306</link>
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		<title>Online Dating III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the privacy of my studio apartment in San Jose, I stared at men&#8217;s photos, read what they had to say about themselves, and ruthlessly weeded them out. &#8220;Fresh meat&#8221; like me was matched with scores of men in the first month of online dating and my subscription to eharmony.com. Maybe even more than for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ellenrgreene.com/blog/?p=294</link>
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		<title>Online Dating II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Online dating II “Match.com is for dating; eharmony.com is for marriage.” So said my senior pop culture advisor, daughter Jennifer. It was June 2009, and I was ready. Not ready for marriage&#8212;why would I ever give up my all-but-free military health insurance and two widow’s pensions (thanks again, Marsh). But definitely ready for a long-term [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ellenrgreene.com/blog/?p=288</link>
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		<title>Online Dating I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first year of online dating ends next week. What do I have to show for it? you might ask. For starters, not the long-term relationship I seek. The longest relationship I managed so far lasted three months. It crashed and burned when, over the course of 72 hours, my DoD contractor friend moved from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ellenrgreene.com/blog/?p=279</link>
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		<title>Why Teachers Teach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, a  Canadian friend of mine stood outside her house in Bucerias, a Mexican beach town half an hour away from my town of San Pancho. She was talking to her neighbor, Miguel. She likes Miguel. He’s a gregarious, good-looking guy in his late twenties who works hard in his uncle’s restaurant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ellenrgreene.com/blog/?p=240</link>
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		<title>Good Eats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love stuffed peppers&#8212;sweet bell peppers or spicy poblanos&#8212;and here are two new variations I&#8217;ve added to my meal rotation: 1. Trader Joe&#8217;s bell peppers stuffed with ground turkey and rice, and 2. a Mexican food favorite chile relleno, this time low-cal and baked instead of the traditional deep-fried. The Trader Joe&#8217;s pepper is in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ellenrgreene.com/blog/?p=221</link>
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		<title>Ten Things I Learned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are ten things I learned this February, at my home in San Pancho, in no order of importance: 1.  Beto Palomera is a prince. He gives honest quotes on masonry jobs, completes work as scheduled with no cost overruns, and has an artist’s eye. My new wall and walkways look fabulous, thanks to his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ellenrgreene.com/blog/?p=217</link>
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		<title>Sleepless in San Jose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On-line dating as a 60-something widow is not for the insecure. It is incredibly hard on the ego to be judged by how you look at a time in your life when earlier generations were allowed to be &#8220;done with all that,&#8221; as my mother used to say. The new normal is not looking your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ellenrgreene.com/blog/?p=209</link>
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		<title>Groucho Marx Eyebrows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two days ago on my birthday, the Widow Greene did the unthinkable and spent the afternoon at a swanky spa, thanks to a generous gift certificate from my son. In 63 years, I&#8217;d never had a pedicure or a facial, and I can count on one hand the number of massages I&#8217;ve treated myself to. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ellenrgreene.com/blog/?p=200</link>
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		<title>In the Spirit of the Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In April, daughter Jennifer had broken the sad news to my granddaughters Lily, 10, and Anna, 8, that there was no Santa, just as they suspected. The kids, their mother, and their grandmother cried  themselves to sleep that night, lamenting the loss of the childhood icon and the end of an era. Christmas just wouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ellenrgreene.com/blog/?p=194</link>
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