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	<title>PB Rippey: blogma</title>
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	<description>RAVings of a slEEpless new mother...</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Blog Break #17,000,000.04: Editing</title>
		<link>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/921</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cue elevator music. Cue photo of cute little boy ruling the roost. Shhh&#8230;The mama is working (cue sound of fingers tapping computer keyboard at breakneck speed&#8230;). La dee da dee da&#8230;

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		<title>Blog Break #17,000,002: Catalina</title>
		<link>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/912</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB Rippey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s not to like?

Much stimulating fun for the toddler&#8212; 

and his parents.

Ocean breezes.

Fascinating California history, such as Zane Grey&#8217;s Pueblo Hotel (haunted by the author, I was informed&#8212;I can see why he wants to stay&#8212;he never missed a dawn if he could help it, watched the sea come alive).

Views everywhere.

Clear water.

Put the toddler to bed? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baking&#8212;With A Rolling Pin!&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/904</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB Rippey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been utilizing the Weelicious recipe site of late. I&#8217;ve tried the Breakfast Bread Pudding, which my finnicky toddler actually enjoyed and asked for seconds (which he got once mama recovered from her heart attack and picked herself up off the floor). I made the Baked Zucchini Coins, which were delicious, although (grrrrr!) the toddler [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bird Bliss&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/902</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB Rippey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The baby birds have hatched. We ooh and ahhh over the tiny heads and uhinged beaks of 3 (possibly 4, hard to tell) house finches making their presence known with tortured-mice screams the toddler is not sure he enjoys. Fascinating, though, is watching both mama and papa bird sit on the nest at the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poem Break&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/901</link>
		<comments>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/901#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB Rippey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[

The Sixth Appointment

On the sixth appointment (your third) I rat-
tled off the plot of Washington Square,
gleaned from all five of seven cd’s decked
in our car in the grim subterranean lot
down there, your hand on my knee (your
reach strained—I don’t know why
we didn’t simply scoot you close), down-
town sun lightening lab-yellow blinds
and when I couldn’t look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, PB&#8212;You&#8217;re So Transparent&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/895</link>
		<comments>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/895#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB Rippey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Why does having a new cell phone make me feel so content? It&#8217;s not an iphone. It&#8217;s not even smart, just&#8212;the sort of super-basic model that no one would ever want to steal. But there&#8217;s no static when I make or receive calls, the kind of ear-wrenching, in-your-canal static that makes people scream and swear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Break: Dana Point Baby Beach</title>
		<link>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/889</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB Rippey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hope you had a wonderful 4th of July! I made a berry cobbler that actually wasn&#8217;t burned on the bottom. A first! If you run your mouse over the picture, you&#8217;ll get the story, in his words. A beautiful day at Baby Beach and good for the Gdad to be out in the sunshine and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret Lives Of Parents&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/877</link>
		<comments>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/877#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB Rippey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So he enters the bedroom and you both wake up the second his little feet cross the threshold because your toddler-radars are, for once, in total synch and you both start with the utterings: What is it, baby, come here, baby, get in bed with us, baby. And you fit him between you where he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Toddler Plants A Cypress&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/868</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB Rippey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[He insisted on wearing his red boots in summer. Of course he did! He&#8217;s a toddler.
Right off the bat he let us know he was in charge of every aspect of the planting of the Father&#8217;s Day cypress tree.





He did pause to fiddle with his navel and contemplate Dadda&#8217;s work&#8212;but just for a moment.

This had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Really? Zzz&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/864</link>
		<comments>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/864#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB Rippey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Two and a half years later:
T sleeps until 7:00a.m. (vs. 4:30/5:00a.m. Maybe even a 3:40a.m. something or other frisky number that goes like this: MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA!!!&#8212;followed by a tip-toe-tap-dance only toddlers can execute that early&#8212;or ever)&#8230;
Then, for several consecutive days, our son sleeps until 6:20 a.m. S and I are agape, totally disoriented, muttering bits like: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eternal Snapshots Of The Mental Kind&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/857</link>
		<comments>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/857#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB Rippey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My tooth falling out of my mouth our 3rd hour in kauai, as we strolled down our hotel&#8217;s coconut-husk-colored hallway, bemused in paradise, dressed for dinner, relishing the balmy air and tiki torches flaring not menacingly outside the windows. We held hands. I opened my mouth to comment on tropical delights and an upper rear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank-Q&#8217;s&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/839</link>
		<comments>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/839#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 05:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB Rippey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a grateful, thank-you type, especially since S and T came into my life. Huge, massive gratefulness there, never enough thank-you&#8217;s for these 2 miracles.

Then there are the things I don&#8217;t notice much&#8212;vital little things popping out at me as I&#8217;m rushing by with a wet, muddy boy in my arms, reminding me: oh, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valley Delusions&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/828</link>
		<comments>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/828#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 13:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB Rippey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Recently, during those torrential, late-winter rainstorms, the police visited our mini-Ponderosa. 
To clarify: we moved from busy NoHo to the wilds of uber-quiet suburbia. We were used to sirens and overhead helicopter traffic and muffler-less motorcycles speeding down our street at 3:00a.m. We were used to a lack of parking and doors-banging neighbors who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Break&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/824</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 01:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB Rippey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Where my mind is.
WWW.PBRIPPEY.COM
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		<title>On Non-Reacting&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/814</link>
		<comments>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/814#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 04:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB Rippey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Rudeness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, as I made a deposit at the BofA drivethru ATM, a car pulled in behind me and the driver said, immediately, loudly, COME ON.
Hm, I thought, depositing my checks. How rude!

The man continued to express himself.
OH MY GOD. YOU&#8217;RE TOO SLOW.
Oh. Hell.

This is the thing about me&#8212;I too often see red when provoked by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mama&#8217;s Day, 2010</title>
		<link>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/808</link>
		<comments>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/808#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 15:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB Rippey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
This year, Mother&#8217;s Day started the friday before, around 6:30p.m. From my post at the kitchen sink, scrubbing dried ketchup from T&#8217;s food tray, I watched my dearly beloved pull up and extract a huge white cage from the passenger side of the car. I slid back the kitchen window so hard it banged. WHAT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Break&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/811</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 05:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
www.pbrippey.com
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		<title>Tylenol Recall&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/807</link>
		<comments>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/807#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 02:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB Rippey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As you probably know by now. Nevertheless, here is the link:
TYLENOL RECALL 2010
Since we gave our son doses of one of the recalled Children&#8217;s Tylenol last week, I had a mommy freak-out today when reading about the recall, especially the bit about possible &#8220;particles&#8221; in the liquid. Let&#8217;s interview me for a second:
PB&#8211;how do you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Break #17,000,000&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/805</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB Rippey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As I experience the flu AND caring for an absolutely non-sick toddler bored with Blues Clues, Thomas, Cars, Little Einsteins and basically any dvd in his collection, bored with puzzles and bubbles indoors and sticking playdough to the walls, I offer this blog break w/picture, taken from my sick chaise-longue in the backyard, where I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LodylodylodyROCKINTHEWATER&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pbrippeyblogma.com/archives/800</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I sat deep in a canyon next to a rushing creek. I was amazed by the emotion this busy bit of nature created in me. All was concurrently canyon-serene and utterly riotous. The creek was thunder and Zen, a zealot&#8217;s feverish telling and a whisper softer than bee-speak. Mind-tweaking. Very.

I sat on the [...]]]></description>
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