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	<title>Betty Duffy</title>
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		<title>What You May Have Missed</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Duffy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2016 14:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[    Good Letters: Learning Detachment in the Attic Good Letters: A Post About God and sex Good Letters: On leaving one’s thirst unquenched Aleteia: The Mercy of letting one’s yes mean yes, and no mean no Good Letters: What happened to Fun? Image: Jack Baumgartner and the School of the Transfer of Energy]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Less is More, and More and More of My Writing Around the Web</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Duffy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Christmas Tree is sagging a bit. I know we’re supposed to leave them up until the Epiphany, but “supposed to” is not a mandate. The joy of the season is no longer expressed by the decor in my living room. Now…after the explosion of paper and small pieces and battery packs, and stepped on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>80&#8217;s Free Range Childhood Was Not the Same as 50&#8217;s Childhood</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Duffy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2015 01:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve had a recurring thought lately, that I should be a school bus driver, because every day, I follow the school bus all around town, doing exactly what it does at the exact same time. School bus drivers I’ve known have all been good people, even “Bert” the grouchy bus driver of my youth with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Miracles Don&#8217;t Happen If You Never Ask For Them</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Duffy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2015 17:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[54 Day Rosary Novena]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Oh my Venus. The stars were bright last night. And I pushed myself beyond previously held convictions about how I’m capable of exerting myself, because the weather was very fine. We took a gluttonous number of free trees from the annual Community-Beautification-something-or-other event. Whatever it is, you bring the city your pollutants and they give [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Forcing the Changes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Duffy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 20:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Around my living room, one child is sitting very smugly sucking on a candy cane and reading 39 Clues, because he called his new friend this afternoon, “Just to talk” and ended up with an invitation to go play. He’s happy. I’m happy for him, even though I wasn’t excited about making any plans yet. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Mom Who Cares</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Duffy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The whole family’s in the car trying to head home from my parents’ after three days of parties. It is late, and we are tired. One child does not like where he’s sitting in the car. He creates obstacles to our leaving, like he thinks he dropped his airsoft gun in the driveway. He wants [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pope Makes Time for Autism, Can We?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Duffy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When one of our children was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum disorder shortly after kindergarten at our Parochial School, we were told, “Of course your child is welcome to continue schooling here, but in the interest of full disclosure, he will have better access to services in the public system.” Representatives from the public school system [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Somebody&#8217;s Got To Do It</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Duffy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OK kids, time to clean the kitchen. You have ten minutes to wipe down the counters, load the dishes and sweep the floor, and then you can watch Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.   Oldest: I’ll put away condiments. Girl: I’ll wipe the table. Fourth child: My job is sweeping. Second child: My job is staring [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Recommendation: &#8220;The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Duffy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2014 15:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wow. Good book to read if you’re looking for one: “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” by Anne Fadiman. A child from the Hmong immigrant community in Merced, California presents at the County Hospital with a severe form of epilepsy. Due to cultural differences, failures in translation between the medical community and the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Idiot Experience of Righteous Anger</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Duffy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jesus and moneychangers]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last night, I came home from the store after dark to find that someone had left the garage door hanging open again. This is a raw topic for me, because the garage door is left hanging open with uncanny frequency, no matter that I’ve reasonably requested closing the door many times after the children have [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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