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		<title>The Last Flowers of Spring</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Spring! No, It&#8217;s Summer It could be said, and probably is by people who move from the east coast to the west, that California does not have four identifiable seasons.  My brain is still in Spring, and in fact the calendar tells me that summer doesn&#8217;t start for another week, but we&#8217;ve had so [&#8230;]
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		<title>Exploring a Supermarket with a Four-Year-Old</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlene Bumgarner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 04:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Covid Baby Walks into a Supermarket. . . My youngest grandchild is a Covid baby. That&#8217;s what one of the parents sitting near me during a recent musical performance called her son.  Singing and clapping a la Kodàli, the children standing on risers in front of us were all born during the period we [&#8230;]
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		<title>In Like a Lion and Out Like a Lamb</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlene Bumgarner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lions and Lambs As a former Kindergarten teacher I&#8217;m familiar with many rhymes and aphorisms about the weather. March this year did not follow the ancient verse that the month would come in like a lion and go out like a lamb. In fact it came in like a lamb and went out like a [&#8230;]
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		<title>Life Gave Me Lemons</title>
		<link>https://www.marlenebumgarner.com/2026/02/life-gave-me-lemons/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlene Bumgarner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Life Gave Me Lemons Once upon a time a friend convinced me to plant a Meyer Lemon bush  in my garden. I was more of a mind to fill my indoor space with houseplants, but she was insistent: “Think permanent,” she urged. Think “feed your family.” Think “independence!&#8221; When I moved to Santa Cruz 15 [&#8230;]
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		<title>Opening the First Page of a New Year of Stories</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlene Bumgarner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A New Year of Stories I suspect that, like me, you&#8217;ve been bombarded with entreaties to start the new year with new habits, new goals, perhaps even a new wardrobe. It can be overwhelming. I keep a pile of books beside my bed. They are books that I want to read, or that I have [&#8230;]
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		<title>5 Reasons to Send Christmas Cards</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlene Bumgarner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Christmas Cards &#8211; A Dying Tradition? &#160; This month I&#8217;m reprising an essay I posted in 2019.  I&#8217;m writing my Christmas cards this week, and this essay tells you why. &#160; The Greeting Cards Cometh As I sit in my cozy chair and open my mail this morning I am grateful to those of my [&#8230;]
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		<title>Writing on the Queen Mary: A Much Needed Vacation, Part 2</title>
		<link>https://www.marlenebumgarner.com/2025/10/queen-mary-a-much-needed-vacation-part-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlene Bumgarner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Welcome Aboard the QM2! The Queen Mary 2 doesn&#8217;t like to be called a cruise ship. Rather, she is an ocean liner,  the world&#8217;s only such vessel offering transatlantic crossings. She is known for her high-quality materials, using 40% more steel than a standard cruise ship. Four stabilizing fins can reduce roll by 90%. She [&#8230;]
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		<title>A Much Needed Vacation</title>
		<link>https://www.marlenebumgarner.com/2025/09/a-much-needed-vacation/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlene Bumgarner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 22:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On The Road Again To my family, it must seem that I am on vacation all the time. Since I retired, and especially since I moved to southern California, I have made many road trips and enjoyed a couple of spectacular cruises. Of course my flight north during the LA fires to a series of [&#8230;]
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		<title>Digging Out of the Slough of Despond</title>
		<link>https://www.marlenebumgarner.com/2025/08/digging-out-of-the-slough-of-despond/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlene Bumgarner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Slough of Despond Following certain actions of the U.S. government around the beginning of July that I will not detail here, having a policy of no politics in my newsletter, I found myself wallowing in negative thoughts and being unable, or unwilling, to &#8220;snap out of it&#8221; as I usually do. I didn&#8217;t feel [&#8230;]
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		<title>Grandma Camp 2025</title>
		<link>https://www.marlenebumgarner.com/2025/07/grandma-camp-2025/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlene Bumgarner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How Time Flies It seems only yesterday I was on Amtrak riding home from Santa Fe, New Mexico, but suddenly it was Memorial Day, and then June. For their anniversary this year, my son and his wife wanted to spend some grownup time together in Ojai, so their 8 year old daughter moved in with [&#8230;]
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		<title>Spring Break in New Mexico</title>
		<link>https://www.marlenebumgarner.com/2025/04/__trashed/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlene Bumgarner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 17:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Spring Break in New Mexico Some time during the winter I confided to my youngest daughter, who lives in Virginia, that I would like to see New Mexico again in the springtime.  In the 70s, the husband of my youth and I had traveled to Las Cruces, in southern New Mexico, for graduate school. and [&#8230;]
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		<title>It&#8217;s The Last Day of Winter!  Hurrah!</title>
		<link>https://www.marlenebumgarner.com/2025/03/its-the-last-day-of-winter-hurrah/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlene Bumgarner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Celebrate The Last Day of Winter This has been my least favorite winter of all time.  I&#8217;ve struggled with inconsistent weather, persistent and long power cuts, evacuating to escape the southern California fires, repeated admonitions by public figures that our democracy is in jeopardy, and the death of Kismet, my 15-year companion Border Collie. In [&#8230;]
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		<title>Good News &#8212; and a Great Loss</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlene Bumgarner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Good News I received some amazing news last week. After a year of targeted treatment for melanoma, my PET scan came back with the report “No Evidence of Disease.” When I told my friends and family, they wanted to know “What does that mean?” “Are you cancer-free now?” So, just in case you ask, here’s [&#8230;]
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		<title>A New Year &#8211; Traditions and Hopes for the Future</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlene Bumgarner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A New Year &#8211; Traditions The idea of celebrating the beginning of a new year is ancient and transcends culture and geography. And the traditions followed during those First Day celebrations vary widely. I like the Scottish tradition of cleaning the house from top to bottom on New Year&#8217;s Eve. The expression &#8220;clean sweep&#8221; could [&#8230;]
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		<title>StoryWorth as Memoir</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlene Bumgarner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[StoryWorth Week by Week A year ago, my four adult children gifted me a subscription to StoryWorth, &#8220;a service that helps you create a personalized keepsake book with your loved ones&#8217; stories.&#8221; Each week for a year I received a prompt in my email feed and wrote a response during the following week. StoryWorth provided [&#8230;]
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		<title>Saving the Planet &#8211; Re-engaging with grassroots energy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlene Bumgarner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2024 03:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Saving the Planet One Step at a time For those of us who have been active in grassroots election-related activities for many months, this last week has felt empty, perhaps even pointless.  No matter whether your candidate won or lost, the high level of intensity has suddenly stopped, and you may feel rudderless, flailing around [&#8230;]
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		<title>What a Difference a Stand Mixer Makes &#8212; Buttermilk Biscuits</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Solving the LEGO® Problem</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlene Bumgarner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 02:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The LEGO Problem If you have children between 5 and 15 in your life, it&#8217;s very likely that somewhere in a cupboard or on a shelf there is something that looks like this: My seven-year-old granddaughter, who loves playing with LEGO blocks, recently requested a new LEGO set because &#8220;there&#8217;s nothing to play with at [&#8230;]
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		<title>Sunday Breakfast and the Importance of Ritual</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlene Bumgarner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2024 19:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sunday Breakfast It is Sunday morning, and I&#8217;m just finishing my version of a Full English Breakfast, which today consists of boiled then sauteed shitake mushrooms, sliced tomato, sliced new potatoes, chopped bok choi, a fried fresh egg, and two slices of gluten-free toast. The anglophiles (and authentic English, Canadian, and Australians) among my readers [&#8230;]
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		<title>Unexpected News and Points of Light</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlene Bumgarner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Unexpected News In late February, while visiting friends and family in Santa Cruz, I received a phone call from my dermatologist. Before I drove north, he had removed a mole from my breast and sent the tissue for testing. The diagnosis, he now informed me, was malignant melanoma. Cancer. It took a few days to [&#8230;]
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