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		<title>BARBED WIRE AND ACRES OF HOPE</title>
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	BARBED WIRE AND ACRES OF HOPE is a collection of essays reflecting on the gifts bestowed upon us by our American forebears, and how the Republican Party has been systematically attempting to take those gifts from us and our children. The brief vignettes remind us that we are not only the beneficiaries but also the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH ADORNS OUR TIME</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Do you know what your ceiling looks like on sleepless nights? I’m betting you do. Wide-eyed for hours. Anxious. Numb. Searching. Clawing for resolution to another real-life nightmare. &#160; I’m not talking small stuff here. Not the latest skirmish at work. Not some science project needing attention. But you knew that. You’re already going [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A POCKET FULL OF MIRACLES OR CHAOS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2020 12:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In an age when falsehoods arrive in gleaming packages promising truth, ferreting out actual truth to help us make the most important decisions of our lives can be daunting.  Yet, the consequences of bad decisions are escalating daily.  If only we could know one truth, one big TRUTH, we could shine a light on its [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>GREAT NEWS FOR THIEVES! STEALING IS OK!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The White House defense team and our Republican Lawmakers say so. &#160; I’ve always thought that the main difference between us humans and other animals is not apposable thumbs. Oh no, the difference lies in our ability to come up with lame self-serving rationalizations at the drop of a hat to explain our misdeeds, no [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>THE KIDS&#8217; TABLE &#8211; A FORGOTTEN REPUBLICAN LEGACY</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rich Clikeman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2020 13:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post-WWII rural America. I grew up a city mouse—town mouse really—on the edge of farm country, a mysterious realm spreading northward toward Wisconsin. In no time, I could be pedaling along a road bearing my family’s name, a single thread bordered by barbed wire and acres of hope, crisscrossing other such threads to form the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>NOT THE TIME TO DEBATE GUN CONTROL</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rich Clikeman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2019 11:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is not the time to debate gun control. It’s been just a few days since the last massacre of ______________. (Please insert one of these: high school students; grade schoolers; adults at a gathering; a friend; my relative; your spouse; their child.) We should not debate while family and friends grieve, and their grief [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WHEN A VILLAGE STANDS BEHIND OUR CHILDREN</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rich Clikeman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2019 13:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Parenting. It’s just a word to a young couple thinking about maybe having kids. Then, it happens. The kids, I mean. Everything getting real, fast. The jitters hit us—a ton of bricks in a diaper. Some check out parenting gurus. Some wing it. Some are red. Some are blue. All are green. All soldier on. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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