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		<title>When Good Girls Go Mad</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/11/when-good-girls-go-mad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve written.  (Blame the novel.  Or don&#8217;t blame the novel, just read it when it&#8217;s finished.)  A lot has happened.  Lily is speaking in three-word sentences &#8212; &#8220;Jake eat pasta&#8221; is a common one; &#8220;Man is gone?&#8221; a particularly clever way of saying she can&#8217;t find the man in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Wonder Woman and I Have in Common: It&#8217;s Not What You Think</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/07/what-wonder-woman-and-i-have-in-common-its-not-what-you-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who somehow missed the news, last week Wonder Woman unveiled her new look.
When I saw her picture, two thoughts flashed across my mind in quick succession:  First, she dresses a whole lot like me.  Second &#8212; and this is the one that stuck, overcoming any embarrassment the first ought to impart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does That Macaque Have Frequent Flyer Miles?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/06/does-that-macaque-have-frequent-flyer-miles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breathing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I read an article in the New York Times about a new study of male Barbary macaques. Seems these guys love to care for babies &#8212; grab &#8216;em from their mothers and haul them around to male pow wows.  Doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s their own baby; any infant will do.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Say Never, and Never Say, &#8220;What Is That?&#8221; if You Plan on Picking It Up</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/05/never-say-never-and-never-say-what-is-that-if-you-plan-on-picking-it-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 17:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bath time]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are times, I&#8217;ve found, when, no matter how certain I was of my choice, the Universe was right there daring me to stick to it.  Telling me, in no uncertain terms, that I would be foolish to be that stubborn.
Take, for instance, bath time Thursday night.
It was then, in one, parenthood-requires-a-good-sense-of-humor flash that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full Circle</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/04/full-circle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[discomfort verus pain]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[feeding my child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[following your heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infertility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inner beauty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[karma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[motion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[opening your heart]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been writing YogaMamaMe since Jake was younger than Lily is now.
This makes me think a lot of things:  How quickly time passes when you have kids.  How scary it is to watch time pass so quickly, especially when you have kids.  And how I seem to be repeating myself.
Take last night, for instance.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Patience an Achievable Parent Virtue?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/is-patience-an-achievable-parent-virtue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/is-patience-an-achievable-parent-virtue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=194</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was in seventh grade my health teacher, Mr. Phillips, told me I would make a good teacher because I was so patient.
I immediately declared that I would never be a teacher in the kind of bratty voice that comes with being nearly thirteen years old and not particularly fond of Mr. Phillips.
This brattyness, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When a Fresh Perspective Requires a Fresh Perspective (Don&#8217;t Look at Your Butt Redux)</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/when-a-fresh-perspective-requires-a-fresh-perspective-dont-look-at-your-butt-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/when-a-fresh-perspective-requires-a-fresh-perspective-dont-look-at-your-butt-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[chattering mind]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dressing room mirrors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d think I&#8217;d have learned my lesson when I looked at my butt in a mirror at my sister-in-law&#8217;s house while four months pregnant.
You would, in fact, not be expecting too much to think after that shock I would be smart enough not to look at my butt in a changing room mirror at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retreat of the December Mom</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/12/retreat-of-the-december-mom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/12/retreat-of-the-december-mom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still ashamed, even though I now recognize it was a December Mom thing.
There&#8217;s simply no excuse for being &#8212; I can still recall the out-of-body experience of watching myself do this &#8212; the mom screaming across a crowded coffee shop at her child.  &#8220;Jake!  Jake!  JAKE!  DO YOU WANT A BAGEL?&#8221;  As if no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>H1N1 Pays a Visit</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/11/h1n1-pays-a-visit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Actually, I don&#8217;t really know that it&#8217;s H1N1 with whom we&#8217;ve tangoed over the past week.  But I&#8217;ve been told that right now anything that looks like flu must be of the swine variety.
Like most of the H1N1 lore I&#8217;ve been hearing, there&#8217;s no telling how accurate this information I&#8217;m spreading around is.  But no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labor Day Indeed</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/09/labor-day-indeed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/09/labor-day-indeed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may or may not know, Labor Day is a celebration of workers &#8212; a &#8220;yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country,&#8221; according to the Department of Labor.
What I want to know is who figured giving people a day off from work was [...]]]></description>
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