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		<title>Christmas Eve</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They were not the Christmas Eve services Currier and Ives would have featured. The pianist got ahead of herself and skipped past the advent carol. Behind us, a baby in a too-prickly Christmas dress screamed like a Banshee. The overhead screens with the lyrics to &#8220;We Three Kings&#8221; got stuck on the first verse, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notgoingpostal.com&amp;blog=6105427&amp;post=1360&amp;subd=notgoingpostal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Holiday Gift-Giver</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you so much for your thoughtful purchase of a sand art kit for the childrens&#8217; gift exchange. Kudos to you for thinking outside the box, and purchasing a gift that fosters artistic expression and creativity. It provided hours minutes a couple of seconds of quality time for our child, who enjoyed making sand art creations for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notgoingpostal.com&amp;blog=6105427&amp;post=1356&amp;subd=notgoingpostal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Child on The Bank</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have not been blogging because I started teaching. And I have so many stories to tell. But they are not my stories alone, so they are not mine to share. But this, I will say. Every day, there is a child, sometimes children, that are out of my reach. And it is like watching [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notgoingpostal.com&amp;blog=6105427&amp;post=1344&amp;subd=notgoingpostal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rainbow Bright</title>
		<link>http://notgoingpostal.com/2011/09/09/rainbow-bright/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 04:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My lovely girl turns 14 this weekend. Sunday. September 11. She turned 4 the day terrorists attacked our country, and every year since her celebrations have been under the cloud of the horrible events of that day. When she started school, the morning routine was for every birthday child to be called to the principal&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notgoingpostal.com&amp;blog=6105427&amp;post=1345&amp;subd=notgoingpostal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Pines</title>
		<link>http://notgoingpostal.com/2011/09/07/lost-pines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We spent a drizzly afternoon in Bastrop State Park a couple of years ago, hiking the trail, collecting pine cones, watching for deer and lizards and mushrooms peeking through the pine needle carpet. But mostly, I looked up, at the towering Loblolly Pines. They aren&#8217;t really supposed to be there. The closest stand of pines [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notgoingpostal.com&amp;blog=6105427&amp;post=1340&amp;subd=notgoingpostal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tragic (and Tasty) Tale of Butternut Squash</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 02:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For days, the butternut squash had watched warily from the kitchen counter as one by one, the other vegetables met tragic ends. The stress finally felled one of them, but the other three held out hope. Perhaps they were just seasonal decor, the oldest whispered. This family, after all, had frozen pizza and chicken nuggets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notgoingpostal.com&amp;blog=6105427&amp;post=1328&amp;subd=notgoingpostal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ode to a Shallot</title>
		<link>http://notgoingpostal.com/2011/08/26/ode-to-a-shallot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lettergirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shallot I compare thee to an onion today? Thou are smaller, and more garlicky. Tough skins may your preparation time delay, and fruit inside be all too short for me. But shallot, I don&#8217;t begrudge you those skins, really I don&#8217;t. As another poet likes to say, allium God&#8217;s children need traveling shoes as they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notgoingpostal.com&amp;blog=6105427&amp;post=1321&amp;subd=notgoingpostal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going Greenling</title>
		<link>http://notgoingpostal.com/2011/08/25/going-greenling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We started an experiment at our house this week, and ordered a local produce box from a company called Greenling. Here&#8217;s how that works. Every week, they drop off a box of in-season, local produce that is either organic or sustainably grown. I know in my heart that all those things are important, but you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notgoingpostal.com&amp;blog=6105427&amp;post=1313&amp;subd=notgoingpostal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Fur Inquisition</title>
		<link>http://notgoingpostal.com/2011/08/25/the-fur-inquisition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lettergirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear dogs: There seems to be an alarming collection of fur on the floor. Despite regular sweeping and vacuuming, floor fur levels seem to perpetually be at a Defcon-5 alert level. Do something about it. Love, The One With The Food Responses: Dog #1: I don&#8217;t know what you are talking about. Also? This Inquisition [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notgoingpostal.com&amp;blog=6105427&amp;post=1308&amp;subd=notgoingpostal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not Adding Up</title>
		<link>http://notgoingpostal.com/2011/08/22/not-adding-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lettergirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Math teacher, My child started your class today. Although really, I could have written this last year. Because the first-day speech seems to be standard issue. &#8220;This class is hard. You might not be ready to be in here. You should drop it now if you have any doubts, and get back into regular [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notgoingpostal.com&amp;blog=6105427&amp;post=1303&amp;subd=notgoingpostal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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