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525,600 Minutes - How Do YOU Measure a Year?

I was just about to turn off the computer and my daughter (who is 6) bring me the movie Rent and asks to watch it. We've watched it before and I love the music and anyway - this isn't a movie review...but the song started going through my head: 525,600 minutes, how do you measure a year in a life? I decided to write about that very question and the children are now watching twenty minutes of one of the Star Wars Trilogy before bed. So now you know the history, let's get back to the topic at hand. This post isn't going to be very long because I want to hear from you instead of chatting your ear off with my own ideas. Do you measure your year by: *Work days? *Vacation days? *Chemo treatments? *School days? *Cups of coffee? Would you measure the year differently if you were given only a year to live? I can tell you that having children changed how I measure things. Can you believe that in less than ten years my daughter will be driving? That's rig...