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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
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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: Empathy, sympathy, or none of the above</title>
		<link>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2012/01/27/full-column-empathy-sympathy-or-none-of-the-above/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;from yesterday&#8217;s Tampa Tribune. Sympathy: I am so sorry you’re going through this. Empathy: I understand and share your pain. You know those people who have to experience something in order to understand it? Don’t they suck? Husband and I were young newlyweds when we moved to Boston in search of careers, excitement, and liberal neighbors. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FULL COLUMN: Edline is a lot like crack</title>
		<link>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2012/01/13/preview-edline-is-a-lot-like-crack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joys of Parenting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;from yesterday&#8217;s Tampa Tribune. If you are a parent and want to enjoy good mental health, for as long as possible, stay away from online gradebooks. It starts out innocently enough – mom or dad wants to see Junior’s homework assignments and participation credits. Daughter’s first few As of the year are intoxicating; who cares if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FULL COLUMN: Keep your hands to yourselves – at any age</title>
		<link>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2012/01/04/full-column-keep-your-hands-to-yourselves-at-any-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting Trends]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;from last week&#8217;s Creative Loafing. When kids graduate from diapers and breast milk, it starts. They form opinions and think for themselves, which occasionally leads to piss-poor decision making. My kids were no different. Discipline is necessary if you want to keep kids away from drugs and parole officers. Husband and I had to figure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FULL COLUMN: Top 10 things to remember next December</title>
		<link>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2012/01/03/full-column-top-10-things-to-remember-next-december/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Nonsense]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[.&#8230;from last week&#8217;s Creative Loafing. Human beings don’t have the best collective memory – we tend to look back on our history and remember only the good times. We are not inclined to dwell on or think about the cruelty and shortsightedness in our past actions, regrettable music interests and fashion faux pas. We sometimes conveniently [...]]]></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>2011: The Year in Pee-Yoo</title>
		<link>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2011/12/23/2011-the-year-in-pee-yoo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holiday Cards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of families feel the need to send out holiday newsletters that sum up all the good their family accomplishes, while ignoring embarrassing stuff, like trips to the gynecologist where thumbs wind up in weird places. Not the Robinsons, folks. We sum up the entire year, humiliations included, and present to you an honest review, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Hitchens 1949-2011</title>
		<link>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2011/12/18/christopher-hitchens-1949-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite writers &#8211; charming, brilliant, and funny. Rest in peace&#8230; &#8220;Religion now comes to us in this smiley-faced, ingratiating way because it&#8217;s had to give so much ground, and because we know so much more. But you&#8217;ve no right to forget the way it behaved when it was strong and when it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FULL COLUMN: A toast to responsible drinking</title>
		<link>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2011/12/16/full-colum-a-toast-to-responsible-drinking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2011/12/16/full-colum-a-toast-to-responsible-drinking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.outinleftfield.com/?p=5048</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;from this Saturday&#8217;s Tampa Tribune. Hi, my name is Catherine, and I’m the child of an alcoholic. Want a buzzkill before heading out tonight? December is National Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month. If you’ve been wondering, “What the heck did Reagan ever do?” this is it. Beginning in 1982, this program reminds us that designating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FULL COLUMN: Shop with meaning</title>
		<link>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2011/12/15/full-column-shop-with-meaning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.outinleftfield.com/2011/12/15/full-column-shop-with-meaning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holidays]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.outinleftfield.com/?p=5044</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;from last week&#8217;s Creative Loafing. I’ve never been a big holiday shopper, but with Occupy Movements and income inequality still making headlines, I’m even less reluctant to spend money on goods made overseas or from large, multi-national corporations. Some employ good, hard-working Americans, but there’s a huge disconnect between executive pay, company policies, labor practices, [...]]]></description>
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