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		<title>Bittersweet</title>
		<link>http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/2013/05/25/bittersweet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 17:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was good to see the “Merry Christmas” wish doing so well again this year, although “Happy Easter” was almost non-existent most of the places I went. Yesterday, while running a bunch of errands, no fewer than five times, I heard a young person wish someone a “Happy Memorial Day!&#8221; It reminded me of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chutes and Wings</title>
		<link>http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/2013/05/15/chutes-and-wings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 16:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/?p=4087</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Charles Plumb was a U.S. Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface to air missile &#8230; Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6 years in the communist Vietnamese prison but survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ravioli and Rolling Stones</title>
		<link>http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/2013/03/29/ravioli-and-rolling-stones-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/?p=4075</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[God and I have this great relationship. At least I think we do &#8230; it seems to work from my standpoint, I hope it does from His. Organized religion and I never quite hit it off and even during advancing seniorhood I still consider myself &#8216;in recovery&#8217;. Any flirtation with religious formality ended with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things That Go Thump In Your Heart</title>
		<link>http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/2013/01/28/things-that-go-thump-in-your-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/?p=3949</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[She wasn&#8217;t my first love but she was the first female to inflict womanly pain upon my soul. My first love was Lucy Williams in kindergarten. We once shared a mat during rest period and a couple of crayons afterword. Next was Laura Gail Fitzsimmons in the first grade, but she never knew it. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Cup &#8216;O Somethingorother</title>
		<link>http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/2012/12/31/a-cup-o-somethingorother-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/?p=3918</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Santa had come and gone. The children were nestled all snug in their beds but the sugar plums that once danced in their heads had been devoured and, by now, the resulting ‘high’ subsided settling things back to a dull roar. Even the nastiest little crumb cruncher hadn’t received coal in his stocking and all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oy, The Joy of Christmas</title>
		<link>http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/2012/12/25/oy-the-joy-of-christmas-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 19:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/?p=3912</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The high school I occupied during my pre-adult period was nearly ninety percent Jewish. When many of the more important Hebrew holidays were celebrated, like in September and October, they actually consolidated as many as three or four classes for any given subject into a single room. Even with that arrangement, I was one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santa&#8217;s Night Before Christmas</title>
		<link>http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/2012/12/23/santas-night-before-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/?p=3889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As we prepare for Christmas, each in his own way, let us take just a moment to reflect upon all that we have &#8230; and why we get to keep it. This is from a Christmas card, from a friend. by Lance Corporal James M. Schmidt T’was the night before Christmas, he lived all alone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Italian Christmas</title>
		<link>http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/2012/12/10/an-italian-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/?p=3873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A buddy of mine asked his readers for Christmas stories on his blog The Dick Summer Connection &#8230; and among the many responses he received, this one jumped right off the page. Most guys have experienced something similar, although I would hope less extreme. Dick said I could share the story, so from my house [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Letter</title>
		<link>http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/2012/03/31/the-letter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend from Facebook shared this story with me, and passing it on just feels like the right thing to do: This is for anyone who has had a teacher who inspired them to be their best &#8211; John Busswood One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things That Go Vroom and Chocolate Truffles!</title>
		<link>http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/2012/02/11/things-that-go-vroom-and-chocolate-truffles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/?p=3528</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Part of almost every guy&#8217;s wiring leads to the bone in his head that generates perpetual kidhood. A few somehow received only bone fragments and are old men by thirty, but I&#8217;m not interested in exceptions, only the rule. Most women&#8217;s wiring is more complex than ours and frequently shorts out at this level of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Easy Bein&#8217; Green</title>
		<link>http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/2012/02/04/not-easy-bein-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click for the ultimate in &#8216;Green&#8217; Green has always been a pleasant color. Christmas trees are green, the soft grass tickling your toes in the backyard is green, some of the most nourishing veggies are green and my money is green &#8230; at least most of it. They&#8217;ve been mixing in other rainbow-like hues lately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing Purple Monkeys</title>
		<link>http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/2012/01/23/chasing-purple-monkeys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a birthday coming up in a week or so and I&#8217;ve been reflecting upon my life, as we all do from time-to-time. It&#8217;s just that after a certain age those times occur more frequently &#8230; especially as you near the annual celebration of your parents&#8217; fecundity. It occurs to me that I&#8217;ve had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Teething Thing</title>
		<link>http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/2012/01/06/its-a-teething-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you tread the long road between first tooth and last, you stumble into some things that most of us are never really ready to do &#8230; you just do them and work out the consequences along the way. Getting married, having kids or buying a house are a few of the &#8216;just do it&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Times Gone By</title>
		<link>http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/2011/12/31/for-times-gone-by/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About the time I was entering my teens, I remember counting the decades on my fingers to figure out if I&#8217;d be alive in the year 2000 for the arrival of the new millennium. With the typical hubris that heralds the arrival of excess growth hormones and causes a kid to walk ten paces in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oy, The Joy of Christmas!</title>
		<link>http://bananascrackersandnuts.com/bcnuts/2011/12/25/oy-the-joy-of-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The high school I occupied during my pre-adult period was nearly ninety percent Jewish. When many of the more important Hebrew holidays were celebrated, like in September and October, they actually consolidated as many as three or four classes for any given subject into a single room. Even with that arrangement, I was one of [...]]]></description>
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