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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; Family</title>
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		<title>ADMIN: Weekend Peregrinations</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/11/admin-weekend-peregrinations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[happy 80th birthday Mom!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vacations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to be away from the computer on any reliable basis for a few days &#8212; probably for the last time in what feels in retrospect like a very scrambled 2011. You know how careless my attendance (let alone participation) has been for the last few months at your blog, whoever you are? Yeah. More [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catless</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[I don't know anything sadder than certain autumn evenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah. That, alas &#8212; for the first time in twenty years. We&#8217;d known the day was coming, known it for months now. A sad realization, to be sure. But not the same sort of sadness as to find it suddenly so&#8230; Katie lived longer than the other two indoor cats we had &#8212; somewhere around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Warren Zevon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a music-rich culture, how do you decide what (and whom) to listen to in the first place? And what keeps you listening to it, over time? My kid brother and I have had this pervasive and often subconscious back-and-forth influence on each other ever since he arrived on the scene. (Well, that first year [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: The Fleetwoods</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Midweek Music Break]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Missus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Fleetwoods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Roches]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Fleetwoods were one of those groups more successful than one-hit wonders &#8212; they had several hits &#8212; but they never quite broke through into super-stardom, either. They seemed to be here, and then not-here.* The group seems to have formed almost by accident: In one version, high-school students Gretchen Christopher and her friend Barbara [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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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>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/10/perfect-moments-two-beautiful-women-a-certain-amount-of-booze-and-maybe-ive-got-a-story/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/10/perfect-moments-two-beautiful-women-a-certain-amount-of-booze-and-maybe-ive-got-a-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seems to Fit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Style and Craft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Missus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to keep going]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[why write]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writer's workshop]]></category>

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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Looking Backward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature & Pets]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[raccoons]]></category>
		<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>Midweek Music Break: Haunting Songs</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/midweek-music-break-haunting-songs/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/midweek-music-break-haunting-songs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Midweek Music Break]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chuck Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haunting songs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I don't understand half the phrases I use every day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janis Ian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johnny Rivers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I noticed a few months back that The Missus and I have a favorite way to describe certain music. Haunting, one of us will say, and the other will nod. A very haunting sound. Haunting lyrics, aren&#8217;t they? And so on. The ingredients which go into making a song haunting, vs. all the other ways it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>Real-Life Dialogue: Wardrobe Culling Edition</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/real-life-dialogue-wardrobe-culling-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/real-life-dialogue-wardrobe-culling-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Looking Backward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real-Life Dialogue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Missus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cleanliness/godliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domesticity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[The scene: a suburban home in North Florida, USA. He has stayed home from work on this day to prepare a guest bedroom for painting. In this guest bedroom is a closet, and in the closet are His clothes. All of them. Woven shirts, knit shirts, jeans, suits, ties, socks, underwear, shoes... It's not a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>On the &#8220;A&#8221; Word</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/on-the-a-word/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/on-the-a-word/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seems to Fit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Style and Craft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Missus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Online World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hard questions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whaddayamean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what's your book about]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writers and non-writers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: "Left-Hand Rule." For an explanation about something other than the subject of this post, see this page at the University of Maryland's Department of Physics site.] &#8230;or: what It&#8217;s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World has to do with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. (Well, no, not really. The post started out to connect [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Victims of Fashion (Men&#8217;s Department)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/victims-of-fashion-mens-department/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/victims-of-fashion-mens-department/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Missus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer humiliations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[underwear]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Someone, no doubt, has taken a census of active bloggers and other social-media types, focusing on gender. I don&#8217;t know what the breakdown might be; maybe I&#8217;m stereotyping at least one sex, if not both, but I would not be surprised to learn that more women than men contribute to the ebb and flow of [...]]]></description>
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