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		<title>Freedom of loss</title>
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The Mister and I lived together for 34 years before those four final fun-filled years when he was in the nursing home. 
Sharing the same living space for decade after decade, we developed similar tastes. Everything we had was sleek, modern, no frills. No curleques or floral prints or drapes with billowing valences.
But taking a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromthebacknine.com/blog/2010/03/01/freedom-of-loss/</link>
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		<title>OMG! I&#8217;m a cougar</title>
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Some things ought to be too shameful to blog about. But as I have proven dozens of times, I have no shame so here is the ugly truth of it: 
I have the hots for the boy at the McDonald&#8217;s drive-thru. 
If an age difference of four decades and change isn&#8217;t enough to give me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromthebacknine.com/blog/2010/02/27/omg-im-a-cougar/</link>
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		<title>Oregon coasting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Captains George Vancouver, James Cook, Robert Gray, Bruno Heceta, as well as Lewis and Clark. All among the earliest explorers to experience the weather of the Pacific Northwest. This explains the names they left behind like Cape Foulweather, Dismal Nitch, Cape Disappointment, Deception Pass.
But this weekend when Sis and I took a drive down the Oregon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromthebacknine.com/blog/2010/02/25/oregon-coasting/</link>
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		<title>Storybook endings</title>
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Happy Ending
This is a pix I took last summer of my dear friend and her daughter (I don&#8217;t know the thumb sucker in the center). If you can&#8217;t guess, yes, we were having fun.
Like half of corporate America, the daughter lost her job a while back. She had to make major changes involving selling her home [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromthebacknine.com/blog/2010/02/19/storybook-endings/</link>
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		<title>Good deed, good deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was writing an email to friends about this, then decided you are all friends and among the last people in America who actually READ.
Am I the last person in America to hear about Better World Books?
It&#8217;s fabulous if you buy used books. Here&#8217;s the deal:
&#8220;Better World Books utilizes the value of the book to fund [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromthebacknine.com/blog/2010/02/09/good-deed-good-deal/</link>
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		<title>Chip shot 14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The wolf moon is the first full moon of the year. I know there are better photos than this one, but maybe not scarier. And it was taken not far from Forks. Ooo-oo-ooo.

Here in Dog Patch, we may not have your fancy schmancy wine tastings and canapés. But our upscale establishments put on a spread [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromthebacknine.com/blog/2010/02/07/chip-shot-14/</link>
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		<title>Kinky sex</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I imagine some of you think any sex discussed by a woman my age is kinky. I can hear it from the cheap seats now: No! You’re too fucking old to talk about fucking!
But it is a fact of life. Sex is one of those things that, if you’re going to be a writer, you’re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromthebacknine.com/blog/2010/01/27/kinky-sex/</link>
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		<title>Cheap shots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing much worth posting today. Just some cheap photographic chuckles. It could be worse &#8230; I could threaten to sing all of the ditties from Meet Me in St. Louis:
Spring is soon to arrive here in the Pacific Northwest. This harbinger came knocking on our door earlier this week, demanding a pile of dog shit. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromthebacknine.com/blog/2010/01/21/cheap-shots/</link>
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		<title>My best campfires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When she grew old, my mother used to say, “All my best campfires are behind me.” She was actually quoting some other nature lover. Patrick McManus? Edward Abbey? John Muir? Cousin Sherry? Please, God, not Euell Gibbons.
At the time, I thought she mostly meant how she had changed, her body eroding away as it will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromthebacknine.com/blog/2010/01/16/my-best-campfires/</link>
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		<title>Nanook of the Northwest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Join us in Minneapolis for a meeting on Januay 7,” said the client.
“Absolutely! What a thrill! Glad to do it,” I replied. 
#^)_$%^@$~$!, I thought.
I don’t believe any Fahrenheit temperature should be a single digit. Especially one with a minus sign in front of it. Who the hell has the clothes for that? Minnesotans, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromthebacknine.com/blog/2010/01/08/nanook-of-the-northwest/</link>
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