krisnam

I used query_posts. I am a little worried about the caveat: I was hoping someone could explain this better. It does -seem- to work for my purposes.

You should not use query_posts() to create secondary listings (for example, a list of related posts at the bottom of the page, or a list of links in a sidebar widget).

For creating secondary loops, you should make a new instance of WP_Query and use that instead. The easiest way to do this is with get_posts().

figured it the code is:
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<li class=”cat-item”>Archives

<?php get_archives(); ?>

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I was making it too complicated. (I do that a lot.)