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		<title>See, I don’t fit in</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a faithful watcher of Rankin/Bass’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. In 45 years of annual viewing (more than annual, since it airs multiple times and I also occasionally stick in a videotape), my love of its kindly wisdom grows ever stronger. I especially like “We’re a Couple of Misfits,” when Hermey and Rudolph decide [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=boakley59.wordpress.com&blog=2499285&post=126&subd=boakley59&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An age of wonder</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like to say that I know the exact day I became old, because I remember the awards dinner Suzy and I attended in Dallas 11 years and two days ago. I remember the first sniffles and sneezes of an infection that weekend that marked the beginning of my life with Crohn’s, putting me in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=boakley59.wordpress.com&blog=2499285&post=123&subd=boakley59&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking about us</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oct. 14, 2009: I’ve been a bit caught up in my own little worries these days, and in thinking about how the way we live is Simply not good enough. It’s a little uncomfortable to constantly find myself to be the easiest example to cite for the kind of inadequacies I wish we all would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=boakley59.wordpress.com&blog=2499285&post=120&subd=boakley59&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Simply not good enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Half a lifetime ago, I wrote about the day I lied (twice) to a panhandler about being able to give him the money he was begging for. That day, I had just come out of the local pool hall where I had been spending money to drink and play games.

This scruffy, mostly toothless, old fellow, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=boakley59.wordpress.com&blog=2499285&post=117&subd=boakley59&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Looking on the bright side</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is &#8220;Be Glad to Be Alive Day.&#8221; Yesterday&#8217;s post, and my mood of late, have been too gloomy, a little too resigned for my taste. I don&#8217;t like surrender or the feeling of weakness. It is a measure of my illness that it saps my get-up-and-keep-going.

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		<title>How are ya, 5-0?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been on this rock in the void for 50 years now, and it&#8217;s feeling especially cold this turn around.

The view from here today is perhaps a bit falsely dark, as we recently have had car trouble and a particularly bad weekend for various sports favorites of mine, all coming off a rather pleasant and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=boakley59.wordpress.com&blog=2499285&post=109&subd=boakley59&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Needs Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What passes for health care discussion these days is enough to make you sick.
The prevalent sound bites in fact have almost nothing to do with health care and are instead a guide to greed and selfishness in an ever-escalating battle of &#8220;my ox will be gored more than yours.&#8221;
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		<title>Mixed signals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, for the days of energy and discipline, when I could sit down and pop off an essay, a tall tale or just a journal entry in a few short minutes. Not only could I do it, but I insisted on doing it, because words are my favorite toys and thoughts are my favorite games. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=boakley59.wordpress.com&blog=2499285&post=105&subd=boakley59&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Better together</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 21:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sixty years ago today, on May 28, 1949, William Herbert Oakley married Edna Marie Dudding. He was a handsome, jovial fellow, one of the lucky ones to come back unscarred from World War II, now in the early days of his career at The Buffalo News. She was a determined country girl, following her oldest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=boakley59.wordpress.com&blog=2499285&post=103&subd=boakley59&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And now the news</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 21:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say to be careful what you wish for, because you might get it. In “A study in contradictions,” I wrote that I thought newspapers were dying of blandness, parroting falsehoods from spin machines and no longer doing the hard digging and taking a strong stand for truth. A couple of comments on the piece [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=boakley59.wordpress.com&blog=2499285&post=100&subd=boakley59&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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