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Another earthquake hits Sichuan province in China.

There's a lot floating around in my mind right now- I suppose there always is after big life events. I'm digesting the end of law school and exams and the beginning of my life as a full-time working mom, wife, and attorney.

Jade is a Southern kinda gal, a twenty-something college student. She’s silly and sassy and I think I’d enjoy sitting down to share a cup of cofee and some conversation with her, because she’s also got a head on her shoulders. Her personality bubbles through to the surface in everything she writes.

There have been somewhere near 100 aftershocks following Tuesday’s 5.4 Chino Hills temblor — but the good news is that they’ve all been relatively minor. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there was a 3.8 some 11 minutes after the initial rattler, but all of the rest have been less than 3.0.

Just as Nicci and I were opening a can of whoop-ass on some fleas that may or may not be nesting in my bedroom, the walls and floor of my apartment began to rumble. It was an earthquake! The quake itself and the aftershocks were much stronger and more-easily felt than the one I experienced last summer.

One of the recurring flashbacks/nightmares I have about the DCFS investigation involves me sitting in the little windowless room in the hospital with the police detective, frantically trying to figure out how I could convince him that neither I nor JP hurt Landon.

Today JP, Landon, and I traveled to The Picture People in coordinating outfits for Landon's 1 year portraits. And despite Landon's preference for crawling around the room at high speed, and his indignant fury at the suggestion that he remain still, I think we came away with some good ones.

Earthquake Kills 2 in Southern Greece ATHENS — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 rattled southern Greece on Sunday, killing two people, injuring dozens more and damaging scores of homes, officials said. The earthquake, which struck at 3:25 p.m., was centered ne... World 0

A 2.5 magnitude micro earthquake was one of several to rattle the Rancho Cucuamonga area Monday evening. The first temblor hit at 5:50 p.m. 5 miles north-northeast of Rancho Cucamonga and 16 miles west-northwest of San Bernardino and at a depth of 4 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Aftershock spurs landslides in quake zone 9 06 2008 Engineers and soldiers are still trying to safely drain a lake created by the earthquake. QINGLIAN, China (AP) — Chinese soldiers used anti-tank weapons to blast away rocks and mud holding back waters in an earthquake-formed lake that threatens more than 1 million people living downstream.