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		<title>Mothering on the fly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was surprised to learn after the birth of my first child that she hadn’t come with a manual of instruction.  It seemed only fitting that this should have happened—after all, didn’t I get a manual with the new vacuum cleaner we bought…with the refrigerator…even with the Waterpik for God’s sake!  How was it possible [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=confidinginyou.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6547642&amp;post=73&amp;subd=confidinginyou&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Summit&#8211;Lacking discussion of health care outcomes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both Dems and Rebs are actually having a reasonable discussion (so far)  about health care&#8211;about time. There has been spirited disagreement about the Congressional Budget Office&#8217;s letter dated November 30, 2009 to Senator Byah which indicated: Nongroup Policies CBO and JCT estimate that the average premium per person covered (including dependents) for new nongroup policies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=confidinginyou.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6547642&amp;post=156&amp;subd=confidinginyou&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the ship sinking?</title>
		<link>http://confidinginyou.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/is-the-ship-sinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past couple of days, I&#8217;ve read some interesting articles and want to share: Great article on historical/recession events:  http://chronicle.com/article/Mad-Men-in-the-He-Cession/63510/ Professor Stiglitz , author of Freefall: America, Free Markets And The Sinking of The World Economy was interviewed recently by the  Huffington Post and elegantly relates why the U.S. has not seen a real [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=confidinginyou.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6547642&amp;post=147&amp;subd=confidinginyou&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Post Thanksgiving!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; It&#8217;s been a busy time, as usual.   With so much controversy in the world, our country, hell&#8211;even my town, it would seem easy for me to choose a topic on which to write.  Instead, I feel compelled to give thanks, albeit belatedly, to my family and friends. Life is hard enough without having family [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=confidinginyou.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6547642&amp;post=145&amp;subd=confidinginyou&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living with a brain tumor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My aunt has been living with an astrocytoma glioma (brain tumor) for over 10 years now.  Miraculously, it stopped growing at around the time it first made itself known.  Now, however, my aunt has discovered that one of the tumor tentacles has spawned another tumor, a fast-growing tumor it appears.  Docs said, however, that it&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=confidinginyou.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6547642&amp;post=140&amp;subd=confidinginyou&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Michelle says . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michelle thoughtfully replied to Who cares that Chicago didn&#8217;t get the Olympic bid for 2016? : http://confidinginyou.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/who-cares-that…c-bid-for-2016/ There are too many parents that take the role as being friends with their children and fail miserably along the way at rearing them to be strong, successful, good people. As I look around in the community, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=confidinginyou.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6547642&amp;post=133&amp;subd=confidinginyou&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My $600 trip to the eye doctor</title>
		<link>http://confidinginyou.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/my-600-trip-to-the-eye-doctor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Persephone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent over $600 in the blink of any eye&#8211;at my eye doctor&#8217;s office yesterday for new lenses for my glasses, an office visit and new contacts for me. We&#8217;re a family of contact lens-wearers, so annual vision check-ups are a must.  The docs won&#8217;t renew a prescription for lenses unless you come each year.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=confidinginyou.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6547642&amp;post=116&amp;subd=confidinginyou&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Business Lesson for Health Care Reform</title>
		<link>http://confidinginyou.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/a-business-lesson-for-health-care-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I agree&#8211;this proposed bill does not deal with health or care. I was joking the other day that my dog had better health care than most Americans. I wrote about it and posted it on my blog. My pets are covered under a plan through Banfield Animal Hospital. No insurance&#8211;just the clinic administers this plan. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=confidinginyou.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6547642&amp;post=115&amp;subd=confidinginyou&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Dog has Better Health Care than most Americans</title>
		<link>http://confidinginyou.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/my-dog-has-better-health-care-than-most-americans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my way to Banfield Animal Hospital, which operates out of PetSmart, it occurs to me that my dogs and cats have better health care than most Americans&#8211;I don&#8217;t deal with an insurance company either&#8211;I just deal with Banfield from whom I&#8217;ve purchased a health care plan.  I became aware of these affordable options when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=confidinginyou.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6547642&amp;post=103&amp;subd=confidinginyou&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Naomi Klein&#8211;On Obama&#8211;is he snubbing black America?</title>
		<link>http://confidinginyou.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/naomi-klein-on-obama-is-he-snubbing-black-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s big silence: the race question Has the president turned his back on black America? The following is an excerpt: &#8220;Americans began the summer still celebrating the dawn of a &#8220;post-racial&#8221; era. They are ending it under no such illusion. The summer of 2009 was all about race, beginning with Republican claims that Sonia Sotomayor, Barack [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=confidinginyou.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6547642&amp;post=78&amp;subd=confidinginyou&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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