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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Like Kim Kardashian No More</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Kim, I used to like you.  I don’t no more. I used to think that among the family whose names all cutely start with “K,” you were the one with some fundamental level of decency.  But I was wrong.  I’m sorry to tell you, but you’re just another one of those think-I’m-privileged few who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifepenned.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10765211&amp;post=243&amp;subd=lifepenned&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Jennifer (Lopez)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Dear Jennifer (Lopez): (I put your last name in parenthesis because the regular people won’t know who I’m talking to, since they’re not celebrities like you and me.) I understand that you have just gone through a difficult breakup with that Marv guy.  You must be feeling terribly distraught.  He’s a jerk! Poor thing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifepenned.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10765211&amp;post=223&amp;subd=lifepenned&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New (Unscientific) Study on Cell Phone Habits</title>
		<link>http://lifepenned.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/new-unscientific-study-on-cell-phone-habits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I downloaded a new app the other day.  With this new app, whenever I dial a number the app turns on the microphone on the recipient&#8217;s phone as soon as their phone starts ringing.  That means I can hear everything on the other end BEFORE the other person answers their phone.  I&#8217;ve heard people singing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifepenned.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10765211&amp;post=215&amp;subd=lifepenned&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surviving The Ride Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I had to take my car to the shop.  Joni followed me to the stealership, and after I dropped off my car, she drove us home. Actually, she doesn’t technically drive when she’s behind the wheel of a car; she multitasks.  Driving is a distraction.  As we made our way home, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifepenned.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10765211&amp;post=201&amp;subd=lifepenned&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IFIM1UR12</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was doing some Christmas shopping today and fighting with far more traffic than I expected.  Some woman cut right in front of me in a parking lot and I cussed her out appropriately.  After she got in front of me I noticed her license plate read: IFIM1UR12. The translation: If I&#8217;m One You&#8217;re One [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifepenned.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10765211&amp;post=190&amp;subd=lifepenned&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Trees and Gasoline</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the New Year’s holiday, 1970.  I was ten years old.  Drew, Phillip, and I decided to collect discarded Christmas trees to make a fort.  Drew was eleven and Phillip was about eight and it was a lot of work, but small as we were, we were always a determined group of delinquents. So, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifepenned.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10765211&amp;post=176&amp;subd=lifepenned&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Magnolia Leaf</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My essay, &#8220;The Magnolia Leaf,&#8221; is now published in the 2010 edition of The Chrysalis Reader, titled, Bridges, Paths between Worlds. The Bridges edition examines the things in life, whether they be thoughts, or places, or everyday items, that somehow bridge the gap and take us across those divides we would otherwise never cross.  Culture, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifepenned.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10765211&amp;post=169&amp;subd=lifepenned&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trip to Walmart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, I went to the Walmart with Joni and Luke.  When we got there, of course the first thing we had to do was to get ourselves a shopping cart, so we got in line and waited out turn.  The people in front of us got their cart, and we stepped up for our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifepenned.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10765211&amp;post=164&amp;subd=lifepenned&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Header Picture</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got an email asking about the header picture you see up there at the top of this blog. The silhouette closest to the camera is my good friend, David (see my blog post: You&#8217;re Ordering a Damn Hamburger).  The further silhouette is my brother Tim.  I am the photographer. The picture was taken as we fought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifepenned.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10765211&amp;post=159&amp;subd=lifepenned&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>30 Years and Counting</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, Joni and I celebrated our 26th wedding anniversary.  We dated for four years before we got married.  So, as of Wednesday, we’ve been together for 30 years.  It’s been a wonderful, stupendous, fulfilling marriage.  Joni and I started with nothing, and we’ve built a strong family; we’ve built careers; we’ve battled the challenges [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifepenned.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10765211&amp;post=150&amp;subd=lifepenned&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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