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		<title>to remember</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Miranda and Henry grow, I don&#8217;t think I should tell all of their stories. Even if they are funny. Darn ethics, I thought I had squashed you. But Bella &#8211; in preserving the big kids&#8217; privacy, I am not recording the moments I&#8217;ll forget in her life. And I want to remember. This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>morning light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, I missed December entirely. Let&#8217;s see. We shopped. We wrapped gifts.We played in the snow. We adored Uncle Nate&#8217;s dog Mac. Wash, rinse, repeat. We also played dreidl with Bubbe Fran. Had a delightful visit from Santa and a nice gathering with my mom&#8217;s family. We had friend&#8217;s over for New Year&#8217;s. 6 month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And so another November has come to a close. And with it, so many dreams. Wow, I am coming from somewhere dark. It is dark outside &#8211; the incredibly shrinking daylight is getting to me. I am considering the idea that having snow on the ground might reflect some light from the moon. It has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spooky drifts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that Halloween and the election is over, we can pack away the fear, the costumes, the hauntings. We had quite a costume year &#8211; I miss our group costume years. This year, we cavorted as a punk zombie, a witch, a gold-medal Olympics speed skater, a wolf, Obi Wan Kenobi, a Texas hipster and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>failing NaBloPoMo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It somehow seems nicer to just fail at NAtional BLog POsting MOnth right from the start. I didn&#8217;t write yesterday. I won&#8217;t write tomorrow. But today. Some pictures from Texas:]]></description>
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		<title>car wash blues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rob has been singing a lot of Jim Croce to the children. In turn, they have been singing, mangling and mumbling a lot of Jim Croce. The trick, they tell me, is to not breathe. All in one breath &#8211; suddenly depressing, low-down mind messing working at the car wash blues. It really doesn&#8217;t matter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ratatat.com/2010/10/car-wash-blues/</link>
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		<title>love letter to Monica Ferris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was sad to read the last/latest Betsy Devonshire needlecraft mystery book by Monica Ferris. I found a slew of them at the Saukville Library and checked out the first 5 books for our Door County vacation. And I loved them. they were well-written, well-plotted, well-paced, nicely developed characters. As believable as any other cozy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ratatat.com/2010/09/love-letter-to-monica-ferris/</link>
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		<title>just a thought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we lived in Chicago, I was always impressed by the efficiency of Mr. Daley (and the stories of his father) as mayor of Chicago. I am not necessarily convinced those efficiencies were fair or kind or best. But things got done. I used to joke after we moved back to Milwaukee that we needed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ratatat.com/2010/09/just-a-thought/</link>
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		<title>Lake Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was the first day of shool. There were high anxieties but few tears. This is a good thing. And the 40 minutes we waited for the bus to bring them home made last week, with the lazy days on the shores of Lake Michigan, seem even farther away than they did yesterday.  We had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>when Cameron was in Egypt&#8217;s land</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer is ending! Or so the Facebook reports of school beginning lead me to believe summer is over. The hot heavy humid weather finally broke. The weather is now cool and dry, crisp, like you can smell the pumpkins and apples ripening in the fields. Did I say pumpkins? Our fabulous pumpkins have grown and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ratatat.com/2010/08/when-cameron-was-in-egypts-land/</link>
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