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There's Nothing Tricky About It/Don't Tell Me This Town Ain't Got No Heart
5/20/2013 10:13:01 AM,  4 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=13BK0OT4Py0 Two songs today, for the price of one! We got back from vacation a few days ago. And I am pleased to no...  Read more

JESPAH

Sonofagun
5/13/2013 11:09:06 AM,  7 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZmCJUSC6g You're so vain. I'm vain. We're all vain. It's normal. It's probably evolutionary. ...  Read more

JESPAH

From the Past Until Completion
5/6/2013 3:00:33 PM,  10 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftJZomwDhxQ I ran my 40th 5K a few days ago, on Saturday. I shaved over 4 minutes over last week's time and came in near...  Read more

JESPAH

You Feel Joy, You Feel Pain 'Cause Nothing Will Be the Same
4/29/2013 11:24:06 AM,  9 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pav2f4b-1ZE This peppy song is a part of my 5K playlist. I don't listen to this playlist unless I am running, and we ran...  Read more

JESPAH

Tell Me Friend - Why Do You Stand Aloof From Your Own Heart?
4/22/2013 12:47:20 PM,  7 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pk7FBT4U3g You hardly need for me to rehash the incredible series of events from the past week. What is perhaps m...  Read more

JESPAH

I Love That Dirty Water
4/15/2013 6:47:00 PM,  14 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqKHqWaTv9g If you have not yet heard, I will tell you what happened today. It is the Boston Marathon today. And it...  Read more

JESPAH

I Don't Care if Monday's Blue, Tuesday's Grey and Wednesday, Too
4/9/2013 8:09:53 AM,  8 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa2nLEhUcZ0 Oops, I'm a day late with a blog. So sue me. Life is busy/I was getting up awfully late. Yesterday, I got up...  Read more

JESPAH

And So Become Yourself
4/1/2013 1:37:55 PM,  6 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx4AATLY7L8 For reasons that I will not go into, I have been rather pensive about the teachings that are being passed on...  Read more

JESPAH

Go Now, You've Been Set Free
3/25/2013 4:13:20 PM,  8 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je0_PQl78HM The truth is, I am posting pictures and songs about reptiles as they prefer the warm weather. Et voil...  Read more

JESPAH

My Castles Stand Upon Pillars of Salt and Pillars of Sand
3/18/2013 11:48:56 AM,  7 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvgZkm1xWPE And so it goes. That has been my mantra lately, it seems. I went through a marathon interviewing s...  Read more

JESPAH

And Possibly the Complications
3/12/2013 10:01:20 AM,  9 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcu7OCIqlqE I am one tired puppy. Yesterday was a LONG day. It was an enormous job interview, and I didn't even see...  Read more

JESPAH

I Could Change My Life to Better Suit Your Mood
3/4/2013 5:36:33 PM,  10 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXp413NynFk Many doings here, in Jespahland. I had an in-person interview today. And on Wednesday, I'll have a seco...  Read more

JESPAH

I Knew Just Who They Meant
2/25/2013 8:43:22 AM,  11 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXewXKFmBn0 We live in a strange world. We are in contact. But, in many ways, we aren't. Case in point. I...  Read more

JESPAH

Second Verse, Same as the First
2/18/2013 12:15:58 PM,  6 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2fbpCUmrTE In all fairness, it's not the second verse. It's actually the fifth. See, in three days, I will be cele...  Read more

JESPAH

I Feel Like I Never Should
2/11/2013 11:30:25 AM,  10 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uEBuqkkQRk It snowed a bit here - have you heard? Seriously, we got 25" of the stuff, according to the official me...  Read more

JESPAH

I'll Put the Cobwebs Back in Place
2/4/2013 7:15:28 PM,  9 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFYFj5q8_Qk Sorry I'm late. Life's getting in the way a lot more and more these days. Anyway - just a quickie as, e...  Read more

JESPAH

He Can't Even Run His Own Life, I'll Be Damned If He'll Run Mine
1/28/2013 11:14:23 AM,  10 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyTJqn7GT5s This morning, I hauled myself up and, by the time I got a chance to look outside, it was about 6:45 or so. A...  Read more

JESPAH

I Think I Know What I Want
1/21/2013 11:42:34 AM,  7 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZJNrf6NGt0 I just spent the past 2 weekends doing massive family stuff, as my mother turned 80. Two parties to accommod...  Read more

JESPAH

I'm Gonna Set Your Flag on Fire
1/14/2013 4:43:55 PM,  9 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1voj6H8CHY I am back for a few days, in between parties. My mother turned 80 and so there are 2 parties. Because, well,...  Read more

JESPAH

One for the Now, and Eleven for the Later
1/7/2013 11:12:20 AM,  11 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb5aq5HcS1A I am poised on the brink of some massive family stuff. My mother is turning 80 later this week. And so there...  Read more

JESPAH

Now is That a Light in Sky or Just a Spark in my Heart?
12/31/2012 11:25:36 AM,  8 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPvau0RBYPk I am thinking of Decembers, and of transitions. This is the end of my - no lie - 5th year at Spark. And I am...  Read more

JESPAH

Let Me Start a Fire With Your Spark
12/24/2012 12:47:45 PM,  11 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWNKHi2joJE I was thinking this could be an appropriate blog song, plus the quoted lyric is epic. I know many are n...  Read more

JESPAH

Happy Hours, Come and Gone
12/20/2012 7:12:44 PM,  4 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ETAZSFWWs Couldn't let the end of the world go by without a quick blog entry. Enjoy Graham Parker....  Read more

JESPAH

First Time I Ran Was to the End of the Block
12/17/2012 10:47:34 AM,  8 COMMENTS

www.margaritaville.com/videos.html?ma_id=5
&mc_id=569 I gotta apologize for the link, but it's the only recording I can find of that song. Bu...  Read more

JESPAH

Oh, We Won't Give In
12/10/2012 11:17:58 AM,  9 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsCyC1dZiN8 I think it's really, really easy, to just hang it all up this time of year. It's dark. There are partie...  Read more

JESPAH

Well, They Think They're so Cute When They Got You in That Condition
12/3/2012 7:16:19 AM,  8 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsEwK69LXjQ As much as I blather on about empowerment, the truth is, I am in the thick of low empowerment. And this come...  Read more

JESPAH

Voice Too Loud
11/26/2012 2:08:55 PM,  8 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wYS0u0s1Wk I don't have an enormous amount of time to post today as I am, as they say, an hour late getting up. So now...  Read more

JESPAH

I'm On That Midnight Beat
11/19/2012 9:18:07 AM,  7 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fRqgZJRtRM I guess I kinda have to be. This is a short week. And of course that means cramming in as much as possible d...  Read more

JESPAH

Not to Put Too Fine a Point on It
11/12/2012 11:32:26 AM,  8 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhjSzjoU7OQ My personal life has been quiet lately, and I gotta say I'm grateful for that, as the outside world, between...  Read more

JESPAH

I'm not a Coward, I've just Never Been Tested
11/5/2012 11:36:25 AM,  8 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIGMUAMevH0 Again, this is a song that I picked up long before Hurricane Sandy. There are quite a few images of devastat...  Read more

JESPAH

They Will Possess You Unless You Change that Number on Your Dial
10/29/2012 12:01:31 PM,  5 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ_ExkfcBao When I originally grabbed a song for this blog entry, there wasn't a huge, honkin' storm comin' up the East...  Read more

JESPAH

The Things You Think Are Useless, I Don't Understand
10/22/2012 1:37:57 PM,  7 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bwHK1xkgJA It has been an incredibly competitive few weeks, and it's not over yet. One more to go, perhaps more, but .....  Read more

JESPAH

Don't Be Sold on the Very First One
10/15/2012 11:06:22 AM,  4 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVX9RCPdOk8 I have been thinking recently about the economics of obesity and weight loss. At about the size 14 mark...  Read more

JESPAH

Gravity Won't Pull You Through
10/8/2012 9:52:36 AM,  8 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdC6Yop3XbI A lot of people have busy summers, but I rarely seem to these years. Instead, this is suddenly the re...  Read more

JESPAH

Brainstorm, Take Me Away From the Norm
10/1/2012 11:36:06 AM,  5 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY3ATmNPtWI It's a good day for a pic of a baby duck. Hence the photo. Anyway - 2 days ago, I ran my (g...  Read more

JESPAH

Wishing You Were Far Away
9/24/2012 11:01:31 AM,  9 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-H0uIH5HHQ You'd think, with all this "leisure" time I have, not working and all, that I'd be happily relaxed an...  Read more

JESPAH

You Can Knock But There's Nobody Home
9/17/2012 11:13:40 AM,  7 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4xJ1AMYOBs This is yet another pic from my birthday party. Oh, and the song? There's, erm, a few swear words in...  Read more

JESPAH

I Shouted Sayonara, It Didn't Mean Good-Bye
9/10/2012 11:28:09 AM,  7 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjtGr41PUws Another pic from the birthday extravaganza! :) Anyway, things are going considerably better as t...  Read more

JESPAH

The End of the Century
9/3/2012 3:18:30 PM,  13 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJizV-d3sEQ Well, it's not the end of the century. It's the end of the HALF-century. Yes, folks. I turned 50...  Read more

JESPAH

I Guess I Was Wrong
8/27/2012 11:35:59 AM,  10 COMMENTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ClCpfeIELw I guess we all were. 'Cause we were sold a bill of goods. What?! you say. Well, we were tol...  Read more

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