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		<title>Discovering My Mother&#8217;s Heart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday morning, 13 March 2010, my Mother had a massive heart attack. Eleven days later I am drunk on the back porch with the Dearborn showing all the colors of her propane glory. Remy is standing guard, ready to go to bed, and I am trying to ignore her. I am drunk tonight because instead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mentors . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received an email from Holly Hoffman, WorkLoveLife, requesting a call for posts on Mentors. The deadline is today. I’m suffering from a sad heart today and not motivated to do much of anything except the necessities . . . pee, make coffee, walk Remy, feed us both. For a while this morning I wasted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ripe Death&#8230;One Dog&#8217;s Ecstasy is an Owner&#8217;s Nightmare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday night ~ Jilly calls me Sunday evening and invites me to dinner Monday night, and if the weather holds, we will run the dawgs. We head to Oso Bay around 6:30 p.m.&#160; with wine, cell phones, a flash light and a 4 wheel drive Dodge Ram pickup truck with a Hemi. The City of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On-line Dating: Delights, Dangers, and Dirty Pirate Speak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never thought you would find me signing up for an on-line dating service. I am not the type, and besides, the Craig’s List killer is all too fresh in my mind. It is a dangerous world, but one night two and a half weeks ago, I drank too much wine and got on-line. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Boy Named Brian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have friends who own a beach house in Port Aransas and it stays booked from Spring Break through Labor Day Weekend. Occasionally there will be an opening and we try to take advantage of this time, which happened this past week. I threw together mine and Remy’s beach bags and we headed to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tattoo Stupid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never intended to get a tattoo. The idea of having something permanently inked on my body just did not fit my personality. Over the years there were discussions of “what if . . . . ?”, but I never seriously considered myself a candidate. For my forty-first birthday I did, with a push from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On My Own</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a moment of fear late yesterday afternoon when I began having a throbbing pain around my right ear. As the pain grew my thoughts turned to the worst case scenario &#8212; I may have a brain tumor, possible aneurism or something of the sort. I do not have a tendency towards hypochondria, either. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walking The Dawg Daughter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Technorati Tags: Corpus Christi,Cole Park,Ribs,Chicken Bones,Remy DuBois,Dog Walks,Father&#8217;s Day In defense of my Dawg Daughter, Remy DuBois, she had a tragic beginning. Having made this statement, I am going to reveal one of her disgusting habits. Drum roll, please . . . . . . . . she will eat (almost) anything. She will NOT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unemployed in Corpus Christi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is near noon on Tuesday and I have been searching all morning long for positions suited to my skills. With each passing week, the situation is looking bleak. I am, above all things, an optimist, but my optimism is beginning to waver. This morning when I checked to see if my Request for Payment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diary of a Divorcee Part III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is Saturday evening, the sun is going down on what was a very hot, breezy day on the Third Coast, and I &#8211; Ta Da &#8211; processed all four Memory boxes. Whittled four to one and recycled two boxes. The small rectangular box replaced the old bible box that held my teenage and early [...]]]></description>
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