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		<title>FULL COLUMN: Turning twelve</title>
		<link>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2012/02/01/full-colum-turning-twelve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#8230;from last week&#8217;s Creative Loafing. My children turned twelve in the beginning of January. We celebrated small since big parties stopped when they turned ten. We always thought maybe we’d do something for the “major” years like 13, 16, 18…Jesus, I’m going to need a sedative. Twelve doesn’t seem monumental. Yet it is. The amount [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FULL COLUMN: Signs of older age</title>
		<link>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2011/12/29/full-column-signs-of-older-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;from yesterday&#8217;s Tampa Tribune. As we enter 2012, leaving 2011 behind, I thought it might be fun to chronicle all the ways my body stopped working properly this year. Fun and depressing. Is that not the holidays in one sentence or what? As I get older, this list will only grow. So maybe we can look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FULL COLUMN: *Happy* Holidays</title>
		<link>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2011/11/17/full-column-happy-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;from yesterday&#8217;s Tampa Tribune. My friends are already complaining about the holidays. They loathe the inevitable weight gain, spending sprees, and parties with people who are drunk and hostile. Let’s skip over the diet advice and austerity measures. We don’t need another protest on our hands! Instead, let’s focus on the intolerable people in our lives. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FULL COLUMN: Oh enough already with the complaints</title>
		<link>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2011/10/20/preview-oh-enough-already-with-the-complaints/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;from yesterday&#8217;s Tampa Tribune. “Just because you have a pain, doesn’t mean you should be one.” –Nana and Mom paraphrasing Maya Angelou all my life. I have news for anyone over sixty and dealing with malfunctioning body parts. If you are about to go on a lunch date or vacation or shopping trip, especially with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FULL COLUMN: Misery loves company</title>
		<link>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2011/09/22/preview-misery-loves-company/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Or Not Friends?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#8230;from yesterday&#8217;s Tampa Tribune. We’ve all been warned about fair-weather friends. These are the types of acquaintances who want to enjoy and celebrate during good times, but have a tendency to disappear when times get tough. I’ve noticed the opposite trend as we get older. People flock, hover, and make meatloaf during economic disasters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FULL COLUMN: Tell yer story walking, grumpy old men</title>
		<link>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2011/08/28/sneak-preview-tell-yer-story-walking-grumpy-old-men/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a wife, I’ve had only one deal-breaker all these years: hitting. Abuse is the only non-negotiable issue and, so far, Husband hasn’t laid an unwanted hand on me. I say so far, and really have to chuckle. During our college years, when most girls went out dancing, I went out arguing – all while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FULL COLUMN: This is as good as it gets</title>
		<link>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2011/08/14/this-is-as-good-as-it-gets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I have to remind my girlfriends that this is as good as it gets.  They aren’t always thrilled to hear it. Sometimes they get annoyed and a few have rolled their eyes at me. But no one can argue the point. No matter how bad our feet hurt after working all day, no matter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FULL COLUMN: Sadness is so depressing</title>
		<link>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2011/06/30/sadness-is-so-depressing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laughing is better than the alternative]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;from yesterday&#8217;s Tampa Tribune. I sat in a crowded business meeting discussing profit margins and sales quotas when my boss remarked that I’d been doing a great job, showing promise and generating a lot of “activity.” I reacted like any other professional. I cried. It wasn’t the ugly, blotchy, I just finished watching Sense &#38; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FULL COLUMN: Broken dreams</title>
		<link>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2011/06/17/broken-dreams/</link>
		<comments>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2011/06/17/broken-dreams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From this Saturday&#8217;s 4You section of The Tampa Tribune&#8230; Every once in a while I hear from women who gave up something to have children. They lament about a postponed European trip or maybe a successful career long ago set aside in favor of Sesame Street and covert ways to get kids to drink prune juice. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FULL COLUMN: Wouldn&#8217;t you like to get away?</title>
		<link>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2011/06/02/wouldnt-you-like/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;From this week&#8217;s Tampa Tribune. It ain’t easy being us. Raising children, succeeding at work, and managing hormone-related mood swings is difficult and time-consuming. Not only do women need a break, sometimes our husbands and children need one, too. Thank goodness someone invented girls’ weekend. Twice a year, my oldest friends and I get together [...]]]></description>
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