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		<title>The handyman can</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mind you, never once did it dawn on me that by turning the air conditioner on and making the house hotter, I should perhaps walk outside to see if the air conditioner is ... oh, I don’t know ... on?]]></description>
		
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		<title>Reeling in the years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was the story that took 13 years to write.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Father knows best</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 11:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve been thinking about all the things fathers are supposed to teach their sons before they head off to Marriageville, and how many of these things we have yet to talk about.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Land of Nod</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 13:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I had always thought — or hoped, actually — that nodding off at random junctures would be something done only by fathers and old people and not something that I would eventually contract.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rules of the road</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I often wish I had one of those fake red flashing lights so I could turn it on, slam it onto the roof of my car — kinda like they used to do on those ’70s undercover cop/detective TV shows — then drive like 90 while impersonating a police officer, just to chase down these law-breakers and scare them into hanging up their telephones.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Window on the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The promise of a new growing season reawakens the parts of us that can’t wait to start hibernating at the end of one year and can’t wait to thaw out and return to life at the beginning of the next.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wishful thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There was a time in our society when all we wanted to do was buy the world a Coke and keep it company. How good that soda would taste today. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Gimme Three Sets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A return to the healthy yet boring, worthwhile yet sad, necessary yet sober, mandatory yet malnourished, doctor-recommended middle-aged life of a gym rat affords one plenty of time, while watching the calories and the seconds tick away on the treadmill, the food channel on the overhead TVs, and the Spandex perform downright amazing feats of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Love handles all</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nothing says “I love you” more than new and creative ways to take the easy way out. Topped by an over-saturation of fat and calories meant to keep the “love” in the “love handles.”]]></description>
		
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		<title>Opposites are tracked</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A major sporting event this weekend that happens to involve our two favorite teams has had me thinking of just how many opposites the two of us have brought into this relationship from the two separate lives we once lived. I have been thinking of these things in the off chance the relationship doesn’t survive the football game.]]></description>
		
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