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		<title>a long way ago</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been almost six months since I&#8217;ve written here- adequate time to lose just about anyone who was formerly following my journal. There was a time when I watched to see how many people read along, and I found inappropriate self value in the numbers rising. But for now &#8211;I suppose for a time now&#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=366&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the Summertime</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Southern Indiana has the sort of summer that leaves you fuzzy headed and listless in the heat of day, and angsty through the evenings, which calm only enough for the mosquitoes to come out. We accomplish any outdoor things we are going to get done before 10 am and spend the rest of the day, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=362&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Images of the storm</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/images-of-the-storm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 13:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few houses on my street and the neighborhood park. Click on photos to see full size image-wordpress crops the pictures in the post.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=344&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>May Storms</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/may-storms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 12:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have grown used to May rain and to thunder, but these storms are not the ones we have known before. After the first night of straight line winds we are without power for three days. The electricity comes back on the night of the second storm, and we wait for the flicker, for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=339&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>twenty eight</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/twenty-eight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 01:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is my birthday. I&#8217;m grumbly and want to tell you this: 1)My neck is in a brace because I tore through a muscle. Andjoli only wants to be held- she senses my discomfort and reads it as rejection. 2)the turkey did not defrost in time. and I couldn&#8217;t lift it anyway. the muscles in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=334&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>tiny little things</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/tiny-little-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 23:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/?p=335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a long time since I&#8217;ve written anything.  Our life is fast and cyclical and I either don&#8217;t have the time or I imagine my reports would be too boring to send out to the wide world. the semester is over, and I&#8217;m cleaning up, closing up shop for a few weeks. I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=335&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spring in our noses.</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/spring-in-our-noses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is March, and the weather thinks us a fool, flaunting 60 and 70 degree days, luring us out to put our seeds in early. and I&#8217;m biting- putting in,  the Asian greens and Brassicas and carrots that can handle the snap frost that is sure to come still. I&#8217;m keeping the majority of my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=330&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nights Grow Shorter</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/nights-grow-shorter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We rose in the darkness, to greet the new sun. but it did not rise. Still we waited, for it is the tradition, after the longest night of the year, to celebrate the turning of solstice. Our days grow longer now, our nights shorter. The sky turned slowly grey, and I insisted we wait on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=322&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death and the Table.</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/death-and-the-table/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; It is winter now, a brown season in Indiana, and a particularly daunting one for families who eat from their own backyard. My husband, with careful foresight, mulches the vegetable beds and prunes the fruit trees and bushes, which are dormant in this cold season. On days when a bit of warm sun penetrates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=316&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Sunday.</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/reflections-on-sunday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my early adolescence, when I was busy trying to separate my meaning from my mother&#8217;s I found a church-going family who helped me in this task. They -like I- were quick to point out her sacrilege: her poverty, her politics, her single parenting (they did not know, like I did, what the alternative would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=311&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the Unpublishable.</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2010/11/13/the-unpublishable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite my lack of time this month, the press to start writing and processing some of the harder parts of my life has been keeping me up into the night, after B and Andy have bedded down. Writing for me has always been, before other things, a tool for processing my world. Some of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=305&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Housekeeping.</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/housekeeping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/?p=301</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started a second journal that will focus more on food and health. You can see it here. &#160; If you follow this journal from the facebook link, my journal will no longer auto-update there.   I&#8217;ve made B change my facebook password and hide it from me so that I can&#8217;t get into my account.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=301&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>October review.</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/october-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are a few days into November &#8212; a month that has bled in from the one before it, in a few red leaves and a lot of brown ones. My dear family, ever optimistic,  continues to bundle up and take color walks. I stay in, also bundled, and work on papers while they are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=295&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On language.</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/on-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andjoli has begun to murmur in some softer, looser register than that found in ours- up from the deep and all of a sudden, there is a distorted echo in our midst. She is far, still, from what we expect in the Germanic and Romance languages we encourage her to.  She lacks the precision of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=288&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In anticipation of frost</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/in-anticipation-of-frost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is growing cold, and so we are picking the tomatoes&#8211;some only slightly turned from green. First frosts bring a pithy taste to the summer fruit, so we cheat the season a bit by letting them ripen on our warm counters. Andjoli, who has found tomatoes to be her favorite garden food, is quite happy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=281&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>September review</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/september-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[here we are again: a month has been wrestled from us, and has gone where they all go, in dishes, and dust, a good lot of work, and a bit of shut-eye. It is fall, finally, in our cold noses. we have been waiting for this. I cup a mason jar of hot tea in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=276&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>August review</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/august-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/?p=273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1. we are not the preschool family type. we gave it a go, and are all happily nested at home again. 2. I&#8217;ve started back at school- this should be the last semester of coursework, and I have three readings courses, which figures out to reading one long book a day. I don&#8217;t have time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=273&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the self portraiture project, continued.</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/the-self-portraiture-project-continued/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[trees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Julianna somehow talked me in to this self portraiture project. I find it a little embarrassing, but think it&#8217;s good to have friends who talk you into your own discomfort. Here it is again: I was out on a collection walk early this morning. It seemed like a necessary beginning to the day, after another [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=254&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A few nods to the month of july (in lieu of a review).</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/a-few-nods-to-the-month-of-july-in-lieu-of-a-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andy is leaving my lap more often, and venturing out to play even when we are in public spaces. I have been promised, since the beginning, that allowing her to detach herself when ready will provide for a more self confident child, but I was beginning to worry that I may just be supporting her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=237&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The pending conversion of the junk food vegetarian.</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/a-visit-from-the-junk-food-vegetarian-in-which-she-learns-to-cook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My little sister is in that blissful and stunning month of self revision that proceeds a freshman year at college. I have taken up the task of outfitting her kitchen. She is coming down for a week in August to learn to prepare food, and I have promised to send her home with a list [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=231&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A mask: the self-portraiture project</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/a-mask-the-self-portraiture-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first lesson in ritual masking was taught by my godmother. For the application of a base layer, she would close the door to the bedroom, and I would wait on the other side of it.   When finished,  I would hear her voice rise, “Luthe”, “”Lu-thee,” shrill, because she expected me to be downstairs. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=213&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A miscarriage.</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/a-miscarriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/?p=209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a strange feeling to learn about life through its passing. Twice since we have been married  the idea of children has glimmered in briefly and then out&#8211;more swiftly&#8211; in blood clots. Andjoli sits in between these losses, and her life makes the possibility of another one a little more real this time around. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=209&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blurred in the background.</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/blurred-in-the-background/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Juliana and I swelled up, last year, in time. Our daughters were born the same month. We shared a midwife, and I was secretly apprehensive that we would go into labor on the same day, and the midwife would miss my birth. We&#8217;ve shared a few play dates and dinners since our daughters were born. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=205&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The missing month of June.</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/the-missing-month-of-june/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am looking under rugs, through bills, and books read, trying to deduce where the month might have gone. I have nothing to report. It seems to have vanished. I am taking notes already for the newest month, to ensure that it does not also, go missing.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=166&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>May Review</title>
		<link>http://lastmaple.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/may-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 18:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[here it is, again: a monthly review for family and friends who decide to follow this blog and are interested in the actual goings-on in our life, rather than my less practical musings.  I have divided our month into categories, and provided the highlights. life with a little one (abridged, and in pictures): Andi is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lastmaple.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12286436&amp;post=168&amp;subd=lastmaple&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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