Portia Placino

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2011 in review

*Here is how WordPress summarized my blog in 2011! Much better than 2010. Here is to a new year and more blogging ahead! 

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 19,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 7 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

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This is my first post for 2012, and here is what Erasmus has to say about it… Yes, my love for writing continually grows.

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