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		<title>&#8220;Everything You&#8217;ve Heard About Uncle Remus Is Wrong&#8221;</title>
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		<title>A Few Words About Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, everybody. Put away your phones and tiny keyboards for a few minutes. We are going to enjoy a refresher course in writing, mixed with some simple reminders about style. Stop your whining. And no, you can&#8217;t go to the bathroom. You are looking at Ted Sorensen&#8217;s copy of Strunk and White&#8217;s The Elements of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amycates.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10566368&amp;post=901&amp;subd=amycates&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>About That Five-Month Hiatus&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://amycates.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/about-that-five-month-hiatus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 17 seems like just yesterday . . . if you live in a time warp. Who am I kidding. I don&#8217;t really know how time warps are supposed to work. And apparently,  I seem to have forgotten how blogs are supposed to work. Something to do with writing regularly. My last post was dated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amycates.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10566368&amp;post=880&amp;subd=amycates&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letters to the Editor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within three days, I received the following two e-mails&#8230;. January 17, 2011 Dear Ms. Cates: Do you write any more? I cannot find a blog entry that has been posted within the past year. (Editor&#8217;s Note: Stop exaggerating. The last post was dated September something.) I certainly expected some in-depth writing this month on just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amycates.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10566368&amp;post=868&amp;subd=amycates&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Billy Takes a Spill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late Tuesday night, I walked past the play kitchen, which is piled high with fake food, plastic dishes, an assortment of papers&#8230;and Billy. Billy the Gnome was perched high atop a pyramid of Stuff Nobody Cares About. As I brushed against the range, Billy&#8217;s plastic body bounced along the hardwood and eventually halted against the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amycates.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10566368&amp;post=855&amp;subd=amycates&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hoof and Mouth Disease</title>
		<link>http://amycates.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/hoof-and-mouth-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking into our pediatrician&#8217;s office last week, I passed a woman carrying an infant carrier, a diaper bag and a sizable box of free samples of something. Walking alongside her was her 2-year-old daughter. Clearly, the mom had run out of hands. So I did what people occasionally did for me when I was walking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amycates.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10566368&amp;post=844&amp;subd=amycates&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing &#8220;MAT: The Stuff That Real People Know&#8221; Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When your career path is taking a detour and suddenly 1993 wasn&#8217;t &#8220;just like yesterday&#8221; like you thought it was and your GRE score is so old that it could be compared to a bed sheet that had suffered dry rot and eventually fell into a dusty heap on the floor, then this is your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amycates.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10566368&amp;post=829&amp;subd=amycates&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fast Forward&#8230;Like, REALLY Fast</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>If You Can&#8217;t Stand the Heat, Don&#8217;t Cook</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For too long &#8212; weeks, even &#8212; the stove went untouched. Entire meals were created out of cereal and fruit. It was too darn hot to consider anything else. Except for the day that my husband decided to introduce the entire family to the local tienda, where we managed to insult an entire culture by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amycates.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10566368&amp;post=804&amp;subd=amycates&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Counseling Session: The Summer Break Edition</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a lot of estrogen flowing through this house. And a lot of garbage, too. My almost-12-year-old marched into my bedroom Tuesday morning to announce that so-and-so and so-and-so and possibly a third so-and-so think they&#8217;re all that because they did all this, and can you believe how awful they are? So I put [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amycates.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10566368&amp;post=789&amp;subd=amycates&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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