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		<title>A Boy and His Transmogrifier</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Christmas, Santa brought our six-year-old boy the classic tales of another six-year-old boy (plus a tiger): &#8220;Calvin and Hobbes.&#8221; And oddly, he was not enchanted, like, immediately.
Calvin and his tiger Hobbes moved around the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes a Thing is Just a Thing, and Sometimes It&#8217;s Some Other Thing Altogether</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a happy little nuclear family, all things being equal. My husband and I had our son when we were past our rather exciting young adulthoods, and were married seven years before we heeded ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hazard Insurance for Social Calamity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The obligatory social functions one is committed to once you have a child are difficult for shut-in&#8217;s like myself. If I was childless, younger and spoke completely off the cuff, no problem: my outbursts might ...]]></description>
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		<title>Idle Hands Do the Devil&#8217;s Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ominous Rabbit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The whole house is laid out this week. My nagging virus has turned into a she-beast of laryngitis; my husband keeps getting more and more work as the rest of the house falls apart around ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Sign</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ominous Rabbit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our son was an early reader. This skill has raised some interesting issues as we were not given the luxury of either faking him out (he could read the newsletters the preschool sent home, where ...]]></description>
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		<title>Delirium Academus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ominous Rabbit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a post in the NY Times (Good Night and Tough Luck) the other day which just about summed up the household. Lars sent it to me because it seemed that the author/artist had ...]]></description>
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		<title>An Inauspicious Beginning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ominous Rabbit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a certain level of injustice in everyday life. Not to complain or anything&#8211;we&#8217;ve got it pretty good&#8211;but the sheer unpredictability of life makes it more like a game of craps in Vegas.
For example: ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Literalist and the Absurdist Use Legos</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how to build a Toyota Tundra. Can you help me?&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ll help you when I&#8217;m done building my silly car,&#8221; I said. I had cannibalized a bunch of odds-and-sods from our son&#8217;s Legos ...]]></description>
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		<title>Apocalypse Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ominous Rabbit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I want to watch this,&#8221; said our five-year-old. I had turned on the television to find some sort of ridiculous afternoon movie, some pablum from the Eighties finding an audience only in re-run ignominy. What ...]]></description>
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		<title>Scenes with McMonkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ominous Rabbit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Joe has to be fixed,&#8221; my son said about his friend.
I thought, &#8220;Already? He&#8217;s only five&#8211;shouldn&#8217;t that wait until he&#8217;s a teenager?&#8221;
And then I realized that he was saying Joe was broken, not ready to ...]]></description>
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