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		<title>FULL COLUMN: Secrets are bad for your health</title>
		<link>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2011/04/21/secrets-are-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;From this Saturday&#8217;s 4You section in The Tampa Tribune. I come from a large family where most relatives make it their business to know exactly what’s going on with everyone else. They pry because they care. Some cousins excel at this particular game. Endless fountains of information, they’re the ones I gravitate toward during gatherings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The lemonade stand that never was, and other disappointments</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My kids were bummed the Red Sox didn’t advance to the playoffs, but thrilled the Rays made it. As everything was unfolding earlier in the week, they got an idea. “How about Youngest and I earn money to buy playoff tickets?” Oldest asked. “We want to host a lemonade stand.” Unlike the Bucs, Rays’ tickets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nightmare at the Inn</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made hotel reservations at the last minute in order to attend a family reunion in Scranton. You might be wondering – Why would someone so competent, who’s usually on top of things, wait until the last minute to make hotel reservations when she knew about the reunion for months ahead of time? I’ll tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Model the behavior you seek in others – or just give up and laugh</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t have something nice to say about someone, come sit by me. People tend to get worked up, or concerned, about behavior they themselves exhibit. How many times have you heard a friend yell at her son for interrupting and fought the urge to say, “Bitch, do you hear yourself during our conversations? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things I’ve learned from my Irish Catholic relatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 19:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, I recognize the redundancy of the title. One of the first things I learned was that if you&#8217;re Irish, you&#8217;re Catholic. Protestants are of British descent. And you&#8217;re supposed to say that with a very sad look, as if you pity the poor limey bastard. What about Irish Jews and Buddhists and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How you can tell the summer trip is over before it starts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing frightens parents more than summer vacation. Kids look forward to a few months of fun and frolic. Moms and dads wonder how they can fill ten hours a day with activities when there’s nothing good on television. One way to fill the time is to take a summer trip. This is what my family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When family rides out a storm together, that’s when the wind really starts to blow.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This winter, including these last few days, many families are finding themselves snowed in. Mother Nature doesn’t really care if you’ve got a house full of complaining children who can’t find anything good on television. I’m hearing from plenty of women who want to know how to entertain kids during the 29th snow day this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you rather sit through a root canal or family portrait?</title>
		<link>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2010/01/28/would-you-rather-sit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Siblings and I were recently in the same five-mile radius for more than ten minutes. Sister thought it might be fun to commemorate the event with family portraits. At first, I kept thinking, “It’s hard enough to get us all together, you want us to invade each other’s personal space, look in the same direction [...]]]></description>
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