<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Self @ emperorp.blog-city.com</title><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Self) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 emperorp.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:16:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Self @ emperorp.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Foot Heaven</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/foot_heaven.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/foot_heaven.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=foot%5Fheaven</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Today I have a reflexology session with Jennifer. It sounds so plain and simple for what really is an hour of heavenly bliss. My friend Rosemary has agreed to watch the girls, so that I can still keep my appointment now that the girls are out of scho]]></description></item><item><title>Housekeeping: The Baker&apos;s Dozen</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/housekeeping_the_bakers_dozen.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/housekeeping_the_bakers_dozen.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=housekeeping%5Fthe%5Fbakers%5Fdozen</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I feel like I've semi-retired from my blog these last few months. I say "semi" because although I haven't added many posts my mind is constantly thinking about my poor neglected blog and mentally creating entries that so far haven't been posted (or]]></description></item><item><title>Puget Sound Race for the Cure 2008</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/puget_sound_race_for_the_cure_2008.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/puget_sound_race_for_the_cure_2008.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=puget%5Fsound%5Frace%5Ffor%5Fthe%5Fcure%5F2008</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Bosom Buddies of Ballard, including Ashley and I, completed the Puget Sound Race for the Cure. 14,500 people participated and raised about $1.65 million. Thanks to everyone who supported us and all of you who gave donations. Rosemary exceeded her]]></description></item><item><title>Being the Change</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/being_the_change.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/being_the_change.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:46:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=being%5Fthe%5Fchange</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Those who think-and their name is legion-that they know how the universe could have been better than it is, how it would have been if they had created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without life, are unfit for illumination. Or]]></description></item><item><title>An Evening with Jhumpa Lahiri</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/an_evening_with_jhumpa_lahiri.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/an_evening_with_jhumpa_lahiri.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=an%5Fevening%5Fwith%5Fjhumpa%5Flahiri</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Although it's Monday night, which means Yoga Night, I'm keeping up the recent pattern of getting to class every other week. Tonight I chose to skip class to attend a reading by author Jhumpa Lahiri at the Central branch of the Seattle Public Library]]></description></item><item><title>Scrapbooking Weekend Here I Come</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/scrapbooking_weekend_here_i_come.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/scrapbooking_weekend_here_i_come.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=scrapbooking%5Fweekend%5Fhere%5Fi%5Fcome</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This morning I leave for my third scrapbooking weekend in La Conner. I will be putting together an album of our trip to Paris last summer. Photos, friends, food, walks, 7am hottubbing and freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and milk as our 10pm snac]]></description></item><item><title>What I&apos;m Reading 2008: February Update</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/what_im_reading_2008.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/what_im_reading_2008.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:40:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=what%5Fim%5Freading%5F2008</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. -Henry David Thoreau This year I've decided to take Thoreau's advice]]></description></item><item><title>Resurfacing for Some Air</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/resurfacing_for_some_air.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/resurfacing_for_some_air.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=resurfacing%5Ffor%5Fsome%5Fair</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Contrary to popular belief I have not fallen off the face of the earth. I have been submerged in our garage for the final surge at getting this house in order. Starting last November I felt the need to clear out all the stuff that we just have not]]></description></item><item><title>Convalescing Valentines</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/convalescing_valentines.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/convalescing_valentines.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=convalescing%5Fvalentines</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We celebrated a quiet Valentine's Day, as Ashley and Caitlin are still in the throes of illness and James returned to work. They were disappointed to miss the Valentine's celebrations at their respective schools so we surprised them with a dressed up]]></description></item><item><title>Sweetly Sick</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/sweetly_sick.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/sweetly_sick.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:14:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=sweetly%5Fsick</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Caitlin has been sick. When I picked her up at noon from school on Monday she was waiting at her classroom door, zipped up in her coat with tears streaming down her eyes. Her teacher told me she had been sad for about an hour. She and her co-teacher]]></description></item><item><title>Yoga Week 5: Warrior Pose</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/yoga_week_5_warrior_pose.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/yoga_week_5_warrior_pose.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=yoga%5Fweek%5F5%5Fwarrior%5Fpose</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[With Jennifer still recovering from hip surgery I found myself adjusting to a new teacher's style for the first 15mins of class. It always strikes me in such moments of change what creatures of habit we humans can be. Once I got out of my head and on]]></description></item><item><title>Remember What&apos;s Important</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/remember_whats_important.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/remember_whats_important.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=remember%5Fwhats%5Fimportant</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Our relationship is more important than...]]></description></item><item><title>Yoga Week 3: More Balancing</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/yoga_week_3_more_balancing.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/yoga_week_3_more_balancing.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=yoga%5Fweek%5F3%5Fmore%5Fbalancing</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tonight in our Yoga class we continued working on balancing poses:

Vrksasana (Tree pose, a favorite of mine that was also included in last week's class)

Garundasana (Eagle Pose, pictured above) I haven't practiced this pose in a number of years]]></description></item><item><title>Children Need</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/children_need.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/children_need.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:05:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=children%5Fneed</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I came across the following at the pre-school of our little friend Katie. It made me smile. Children Need by Meiji Stewart Appreciation, for all they bring into our lives. Balance, somewhere between too little and too much. Commitment, it's the littl]]></description></item><item><title>My Favorite Things: Squirrels</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/my_favorite_things_squirrels.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/my_favorite_things_squirrels.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=my%5Ffavorite%5Fthings%5Fsquirrels</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One of the things I most love about living in Seattle is the enormous populations of squirrels. It seems like not a day goes by that I don&rsquo;t see squirrels during the course of my day. We are even fortunate to have at least two families of squir]]></description></item><item><title>Yoga Week 2: Balance</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/yoga_week_2_balance.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/yoga_week_2_balance.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=yoga%5Fweek%5F2%5Fbalance</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My second yoga class this year was so much fun. Jennifer focused on balancing poses and we enjoyed wobbling our way through Padangusthasana, Vrksasana and Natarajasana (Lord of the Dance Pose). After backbends, I particularly enjoy poses that work on]]></description></item><item><title>My Favourite Things: Quotations Pt 1: Reading</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/my_favourite_things_quotations_pt_1_reading.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/my_favourite_things_quotations_pt_1_reading.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=my%5Ffavourite%5Fthings%5Fquotations%5Fpt%5F1%5Freading</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As I was writing my post about my iPod and the books I have listened to on it, I thought about some of my favorite quotations about reading and books. My favorite is the first one on the list below (see an excuse to put together another list ).]]></description></item><item><title>My Favorite Things: My iPod</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/my_favorite_things_ipod.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/my_favorite_things_ipod.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=my%5Ffavorite%5Fthings%5Fipod</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My iPod is one of my most cherished, and most used, possessions. I have the Apple 30 GB iPod Video AAC/MP3 Player White (5th Generation), which I bought 2 years ago (and for $200 less than the current price of $489.99 at Amazon???). I keep all the]]></description></item><item><title>A Year of Yoga</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/a_year_of_yoga.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/a_year_of_yoga.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:20:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fyear%5Fof%5Fyoga</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On Monday I returned to yoga at The Yoga Tree. The three classes and the retreat that I went towards the end of last year reminded me just how good I feel when I practise yoga regularly. However, 2007 was not a year of regular yoga practices for me.]]></description></item><item><title>A Happy and Successful New Year</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/a_happy_and_successful_new_year.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/a_happy_and_successful_new_year.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fhappy%5Fand%5Fsuccessful%5Fnew%5Fyear</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Wishing you all a Happy and Successful New Year with the following thoughts to start out your year:&quot;He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much;who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little chi]]></description></item></channel></rss>