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		<title>10 Things I&#039;ve Done That You (Probably) Haven&#039;t</title>
		<link>http://www.jrrl.com/2010/12/31/10-things-ive-done-that-you-probably-havent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 01:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, this is the meme du jour, which wouldn&#039;t normally be much of a draw, but it fits with my new year state of mind, so why not?

Co-founded a company that went public and was at one time worth over a billion dollars.
Gave a three hour lecture via a translator.
Made a self-lighting jack-o-lantern, by turning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Year Later</title>
		<link>http://www.jrrl.com/2009/08/18/one-year-later/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime in the next half hour, my mother will be gone one year.
I hope she is still out there somewhere and that she is happy.
I miss you, Mom.
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		<title>A Bad Week for the Family</title>
		<link>http://www.jrrl.com/2009/07/24/a-bad-week-for-the-family/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My previous post detailed how I and my family received the news of my Uncle Bruce&#039;s death last week.  There had been some confusion due to miscommunication combined with the foreknowledge that my father&#039;s cousin, John Dupree, was dying.  It was sorted out and my father spent two days out in Santa Rosa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bearing of Bad News: A Chronology</title>
		<link>http://www.jrrl.com/2009/07/10/the-bearing-of-bad-news-a-chronology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Uncle Bruce and my father in 2004.

A Few Weeks Ago
My father was going to Cincinnati to visit John Dupree.  John is my father&#039;s cousin and they grew up pretty much like brothers.  John has been fighting colon cancer for a couple of years now, but my father didn&#039;t get a chance to visit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birthday</title>
		<link>http://www.jrrl.com/2009/01/20/birthday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 19th is probably the most important date in my life.  It is not my birthday, nor my wedding date, nor when my children were born.  Rather it is the birth date, 34 years apart, of the two women who have most affected by life: my mother and my wife.
I have written about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Something in the Wall</title>
		<link>http://www.jrrl.com/2009/01/04/the-something-in-the-wall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On New Years Eve, I was out with the boys, foraging for food at the Giant Eagle and running errands when I got a call from my wife.  &#034;There is something in the house!&#034; she told me.  Now, usually if anything dared enter our house uninvited, she would quickly kick its crawly little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uncle Bob&#039;s Christmas Miracle</title>
		<link>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/12/23/uncle-bobs-christmas-miracle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never knew my great uncle, Robert Keith Leavitt.  He was my paternal grandfather&#039;s only full sibling, but he died the same year as I was born.  Before his death, Uncle Bob has been a writer, although not someone you would have heard of, and that&#039;s fine.  He wrote corporate histories with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Yuletide Blaze</title>
		<link>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/12/08/yuletide-blaze/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We stopped by my sister-in-law&#039;s house today to pick up my elder son.  As we climbed out of the car, we noticed a fire truck on the cross street a couple of houses down.  Nothing seemed amiss, but we craned our necks for any sign of trouble.  It wasn&#039;t until I happened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Promise Kept</title>
		<link>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/11/04/a-promise-kept/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother and I always talked politics. Even when we were supposed to be discussing something else, our discussions inevitably wandered back to whatever was going on in the world. It was our most comfortable topic and we were both passionate about it.
Not every one in my family was of the same mind.  My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eulogy</title>
		<link>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/08/25/eulogy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tried writing this eulogy several times without much luck.  I had wanted to write something worthy of such a remarkable woman. Something that would reflect her world travels, her great generosity, her sense of civic duty, and he often mischievous delightful curiosity about our world.  I wanted to write a eulogy that [...]]]></description>
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