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	<title>now fortified with impotent fury!</title>
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	<description>rantings of a liberal mom in wheat country</description>
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		<title>So how&#8217;s the privilege backpack, wench?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No school is perfect.  This year won&#8217;t be perfect. There will be times we disagree with his teacher, I&#8217;m sure. There will be times that Sean&#8217;s got behavior problems, or won&#8217;t bounce out of bed excited to go to school.  There will be mornings where shit goes sideways.   I will curse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wiremonkeymother.org/?p=767</link>
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		<title>Radio silence explained, or Wench&#8217;s No Longer Invisible Privilege Backpack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;ve been quiet.  Too quiet.  Which is not to say it&#8217;s been a boring summer.  My mom moved down here (and promptly wiped out on our driveway and broke her shoulder.  Fan-fucking-tastic!).  We are currently at the Lad&#8217;s undergrad alma mater, as he&#8217;s been invited back to give a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wiremonkeymother.org/?p=764</link>
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		<title>A victory 13 years in the making</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some 14 years ago, I began the hunt for a wedding dress.  It quickly became clear that the upper high end wedding salons in downtown Chicago were not my speed, and after many fits and starts and unpleasant experiences, my mother made a quiet plea.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s just try Gigi&#8217;s Closette.&#8221;
Gigi&#8217;s had the advantage of being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wiremonkeymother.org/?p=762</link>
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		<title>Vignettes from Shortyville</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the car
&#8220;Mom?  Do people still get put to death for adultery? Wait, are people still put to death at all?  Why?  And why are Africa, Europe, and Asia so close together as continents that doesn&#8217;t seem fair that North America and South America are so far away?  And how long [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wiremonkeymother.org/?p=757</link>
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		<title>Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The house has taken on its summer odor of Sticky.  Of berries and peaches, of bug spray and sunscreen, of swimming stuff drying.  Sean has maniacally mastered the Bakugan for the Wii game and will casually attempt to challenge his father to a match, much like his father manically mastered games while his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wiremonkeymother.org/?p=754</link>
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		<title>7-up/Today would be different without you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I woke up to breakfast in bed, and a perfectly colored in turkey-slash-crow-slash-what-the-hell-is-that-thing-let&#8217;s-not-dwell (with an uncolored golf bag on the back, which you informed me I could use for &#8216;free drawing&#8217;), and cards you made in school under the watchful, rigid eye of your teacher.  The composition of the card itself was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wiremonkeymother.org/?p=752</link>
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		<title>Ode to a Steel Safety Cage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[6 weeks after my dad died, Consumer Reports issued a dire warning for my car.  It went along the lines of &#8216;this sole model year has the automated shoulder harness seated at precisely the wrong angle; in a front side or rear impact collision at sufficient speed, beheading is likely&#8217;.
My mother, 6 weeks widowed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wiremonkeymother.org/?p=750</link>
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		<title>Rapacious appetites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(reminder!  Sean&#8217;s birthday is Tuesday, and he has asked for donations to Save the Rhino and The World Wildlife Federation.  See this entry for more info and to leave a comment)
So Sean has a hunger which cannot be slaked.  It is unending.  Just when I think he&#8217;s had enough, he asks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wiremonkeymother.org/?p=745</link>
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		<title>Rhino rhino rhino RHINO!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mom we need to get a map of the zoo.
Why?
So we don&#8217;t forget how to get to the rhino at my party.
Um honey, there are signs,  and maps there.
But you say planning ahead can help make things easier.  Let&#8217;s plan ahead by getting a map.
Dude, are you going to walk around clutching a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wiremonkeymother.org/?p=741</link>
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		<title>Hazards of geek parenting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Farmers market time is upon us again, and to get to the all organic market over across state line road, we drive through some neighborhoods way the hell more diverse than our hometown.  Which means we drive past some awesome billboards.
&#8220;Mom, I want to go to a new church!&#8221; Sean declared as we sat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wiremonkeymother.org/?p=740</link>
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