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		<title>Why I Hate Nostalgia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<style>.newl {display:none}</style><div class=newl></div>For the second time this week, I got an email that had the text here reprinted in the following blog (or perhaps this person wrote it?):
http://www.805moms.com/?page=blogs/view&#038;BLID=7574
I just have to get out the following: 

Our mothers smoked and drank when they were pregnant which shortened their lives, robbed them of a quality of life, and took [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://againsttheglass.com/againsttheglass/2010/02/21/why-i-hate-nostalgia/</link>
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		<title>Thankful for Being a Misfit Toy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time since I spent a Thanksgiving alone. There was my first sober Thanksgiving in 1993. I went to a vegan restaurant in the village with an old guy from my 7:30 am meeting. He had license plates that read &#8220;IOU-BILW&#8221;. I had seaitan turkey, and it was really tasty, if a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://againsttheglass.com/againsttheglass/2009/11/25/thankful/</link>
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		<title>Pathetically White Like Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an iconic video that Eddie Murphy did while still on SNL called &#8220;White Like Me.&#8221; Through the most banal of daily encounters, a newsstand, a bus ride, a trip to the bank, we are treated to an outrageously funny look at what it means to be white and glide through life unencumbered by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://againsttheglass.com/againsttheglass/2009/05/11/pathetically-white-like-me/</link>
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		<title>Trying On Another Hat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m big on window shopping. Mostly, I like to go out and shop, see all the things I want, not be able to settle on anything, and then buy some things for the kids. It&#8217;s easier somehow. I know what would make them smile. Knowing what would make me smile is a much harder nut [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://againsttheglass.com/againsttheglass/2009/04/30/trying-on-another-hat/</link>
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		<title>Blake Learns to Read</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When my son Blake first began speaking, my wonder was accompanied by a pang of sadness. I was going to miss the seemingly endless, undefinable ways that non-verbal language connects two human brains. We would begin to be bound by the limits of words and syntax. As much as I love writing, I am keenly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://againsttheglass.com/againsttheglass/2009/02/25/blake-learns-to-read/</link>
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		<title>Not In the Stars, But In Ourselves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have a new direction to run to with our torches and pitchforks. An unwed mother of six, living with her parents and collecting disability, has IVF and gives birth to 8 more. Who do we get most outraged at (because we LOVE that stuff!)? The mother? The doctor? Misguided folks who consider mental difficulties [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://againsttheglass.com/againsttheglass/2009/02/11/in-ourselves/</link>
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		<title>Gratitude List (Again)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a technique for not getting too bogged down in the &#8220;poor-me&#8217;s&#8221;. Making a gratitude list, when I&#8217;m not irritated about it, is a way to skew my thinking about my life so that the narrative of &#8220;what if&#8221; doesn&#8217;t bog me down. My drug of choice, after all, remains self-pity.
So, here it is, once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://againsttheglass.com/againsttheglass/2009/02/10/gratitude-list-again/</link>
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		<title>Fighting the Previous War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mihiret had her first ballet class today. There&#8217;s a lot of history in my sending her for ballet, and none of it hers. As with all things in life, we plan one war with the goals and tactics of the previous one. But, this time, darn it, this time&#8230;we&#8217;re gonna win!
Mihiret is a girlie-girl who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://againsttheglass.com/againsttheglass/2009/01/26/fighting-the-previous-war/</link>
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		<title>Fall Back Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know the saying: &#8220;Get something to fall back on, and you will fall back.&#8221; In my case, it all goes back to my unwillingness to rebel against my parents&#8217; discouragement of a career as musician and performer. I needed a realistic career to fall back on, and I indeed have always fallen back.
The problem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://againsttheglass.com/againsttheglass/2009/01/24/fall-back-life/</link>
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		<title>My Generation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OBAMA!!
I just had to get that out.
I&#8217;ve written in this space about belonging to the generation sandwiched between the Boomers and Gen X. Our generation is now labeled in Wikipedia (the online version of an all-knowing god) as &#8220;Generation Jones.&#8221; (This is really, really dumb, and is thus consistent with the clothes from our generation). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://againsttheglass.com/againsttheglass/2009/01/21/my-generation/</link>
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