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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; Perfect Moments</title>
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		<title>Perfect Moments: The Author&#8217;s Book, to Its Author</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Backward]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Ed. Note: minor identifying details of this recently discovered letter have been obscured, to preserve the anonymity of the parties involved.] Dear J_____, So, you have finally finished me. I suppose I should offer not only thanks but congratulations to you &#8212; if so, then, sure: Congratulations! But I also can&#8217;t help thinking that maybe we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Moments: Two Beautiful Women, a Certain Amount of Booze, and Maybe I&#8217;ve Got a Story&#8230;!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the mid-1990s, boy, was I ever confused, perplexed, and probably (by many measures) in need of adjustment. Especially about my writing. Here&#8217;s what my quote-unquote oeuvre consisted of then: A non-fiction Op Ed memoir(ish) piece in a regional edition of the New York Times. A published mystery. (Depending on who I was talking to at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Moments: &#8220;I Shot &#8216;im, Paw.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/perfect-moments-i-shot-im-paw/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/perfect-moments-i-shot-im-paw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hearing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[when humans and animals collide]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The house in which The Missus and I live now is over twenty years old, as is our immediate neighborhood. But the area in general has only recently started to get built up. Real honest-to-gods wildlife, not yet squeezed out by housing and new roads, can still be spotted here and there &#8212; foxes, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not &#8220;The End,&#8221; But Maybe The End</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/07/not-the-end-but-maybe-the-end/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/07/not-the-end-but-maybe-the-end/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 13:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing definite yet, of course. (It won&#8217;t be definite until I wash my hands of the last galley edit, ha.) But I think Seems to Fit ends as follows: Woot.]]></description>
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		<title>What Takes You Back?</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/what-takes-you-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Granta magazine kicked off a new collective-memory project called &#8220;Nostos Algos.&#8221; From a publicity release which just made its way to my Inbox: The word &#8216;nostalgia&#8217; comes from the Greek words nostos (&#8216;a homecoming&#8217;) and algos (&#8216;pain, grief, distress&#8217;). We have all known the desire to return to another place or time, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Perfect Moments: The Boy, the Wintry Day, the Film, the Flash of Panic</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/01/perfect-moments-the-boy-the-wintry-day-the-film-the-flash-of-panic/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/01/perfect-moments-the-boy-the-wintry-day-the-film-the-flash-of-panic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a recent wintry day, The Boy (Who Was No Longer a Boy) and The Missus decided to go to a movie. Now, because the day was in fact wintry, and because &#8220;wintry&#8221; seldom applied to weather conditions where The Boy and The Missus lived, they needed to undertake certain careful preparations in advance. Warm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Moments: Birds of an Earnest Young Feather</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/10/perfect-moments-birds-of-an-earnest-young-feather/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/10/perfect-moments-birds-of-an-earnest-young-feather/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ron Brooks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How do people form their first enduring friendships, anyway &#8212; I mean, their very first friendships (like at age 5 or 6), and very enduring (like spanning decades)? Maybe it&#8217;s different now, what with parents arranging &#8220;play dates&#8221; and similar activities. But when I was a kid, these things (looking back on them now) seemed [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Of Time, Things Small, and Things Green</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/02/of-time-things-small-and-things-green/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/02/of-time-things-small-and-things-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From whiskey river: The Moment Walking the three tiers in first light, out here so my two-year-old son won&#8217;t wake the house, I watch him pull and strip ragweed, chicory, yarrow, so many other weeds and wildflowers I don&#8217;t know the names for, him saying Big, and Mine, and Joshua &#8212; words, words, words. Then [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Perfect Moments: The Boy, The Boy&#8217;s Father, The Sandwich</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/11/perfect-moments-the-boy-the-boys-father-the-sandwich/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/11/perfect-moments-the-boy-the-boys-father-the-sandwich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When The Boy grew up, he would tell people &#8212; with slight hesitation, thinking first of pizza &#8212; that his favorite food of all was sandwiches. But there was a time when this was not true. There was a time when all that The Boy knew of sandwiches was what his mother made for him, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Moments: Stone Harbor; Late &#8217;70s; Night</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/11/perfect-moments-stone-harbor-late-70s-night/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/11/perfect-moments-stone-harbor-late-70s-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A series of professional and personal disappointments. A young man on the brink of his 30s. No idea where his life is bound &#8212; forward, over the precipice? or backward, over that one? &#8212; or what he&#8217;ll find once he gets there. A motorcycle. The details of the disappointments aren&#8217;t important. (Once you reach a [...]]]></description>
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