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		<title>Life&#8217;s Instruction Manual</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so life doesn&#8217;t come with an instruction manual.  And the movies and TV shows we&#8217;re raised on are less about real life than they are escapes from it.  What would a movie about real life look like?  It would be awfully slow.
I don&#8217;t know that it&#8217;s real lfe I&#8217;m interested in seeing, so much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lasttimearound.wordpress.com&blog=2287509&post=58&subd=lasttimearound&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lasttimearound.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/lifes-instruction-manual/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Always Good Until It&#8217;s Not</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wonder just how long I&#8217;ll have to live before I can write a memoir about love, and about what makes a relationship work.  Is it the genuine love for and support of one another?  Is it intellectual compatibility and stimulation?  Is it someone who makes you laugh?  Or is it nothing more than our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lasttimearound.wordpress.com&blog=2287509&post=56&subd=lasttimearound&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lasttimearound.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/its-always-good-until-its-not/</link>
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		<title>If I Had No Love to Give, I Wouldn&#8217;t Give it to You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never quite understood what that lyric meant.  Joan Armatrading, assuming you&#8217;re reading this, could you please explain?  And yet, it knocked at my brain to be the title for this post.  This reader-beware post that will likely be more 15 minutes of neurotic panic than anything insight-bearing.
How can love just vanish?  My sponsor reminds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lasttimearound.wordpress.com&blog=2287509&post=53&subd=lasttimearound&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lasttimearound.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/if-i-had-no-love-to-give-i-wouldnt-give-it-to-you/</link>
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		<title>The Ego Giveth, The Ego Taketh Away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being human is just so darn funny sometimes.  I gave C my key, which after 6+ months and having a key under my welcome mat (yes, I am a living cliche) of which she was aware the entire time, I figured no big deal, right? Ha!  Not in my disease-addled brain.  Pretty much from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lasttimearound.wordpress.com&blog=2287509&post=50&subd=lasttimearound&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lasttimearound.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/the-ego-giveth-the-ego-taketh-away/</link>
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		<title>Would You Like Some Tea with those Keys?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I did the thing that makes writers quake in fear and self-loathing: bumped into my little, ridiculously unstable TV dinner tray with my hip, and heard the slosh of my nearly-full tea mug as its contents tipped over this darling, brand-new little netbook.  And yes, the tea contained honey, though thankfully not milk, which I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lasttimearound.wordpress.com&blog=2287509&post=45&subd=lasttimearound&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lasttimearound.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/would-you-like-some-tea-with-those-keys/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Just Do Something, Stand There</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think self-care is a foreign concept to many of us &#8211; certainly its unfamiliarity is pretty much a prequalification for being an Al-Anon member.  Learning how to be still in one&#8217;s own head, learning how to be comfortable in one&#8217;s own skin without constantly looking around for some kind of validation, without a touchstone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lasttimearound.wordpress.com&blog=2287509&post=42&subd=lasttimearound&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lasttimearound.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/dont-just-do-something-stand-there/</link>
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		<title>Piss and Vinegar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m full of both today.  What sucks about wisdom/insight is that, once you have it, you can&#8217;t really ignore it or pretend you don&#8217;t know about it.  Yestarday was a really tough day for me emotionally, which is generally what makes it hard physically if it&#8217;s going to be, and at the end of it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lasttimearound.wordpress.com&blog=2287509&post=40&subd=lasttimearound&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lasttimearound.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/piss-and-vinegar/</link>
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		<title>Next Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Gilbert, Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson, Al-Anon/12-Step tenets, even probably Pema Chodron though I don&#8217;t know her work as well &#8211; they&#8217;re all saying the same thing in different words (and with different publishers): that loving the self and coming from that loving place is the key to everything.  We materialize into our lives whatever [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lasttimearound.wordpress.com&blog=2287509&post=38&subd=lasttimearound&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lasttimearound.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/38/</link>
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		<title>Love Heals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I could convey one message in the span of my life, it would be that.  Love heals.  it is the safety net that catches me when I try something new; it is the launchpad from which I grow and experiment and ultimately, seemingly, take off for heretofore uncharted and unimagined destinations.  It&#8217;s been over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lasttimearound.wordpress.com&blog=2287509&post=36&subd=lasttimearound&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lasttimearound.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/love-heals/</link>
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		<title>Easy Does It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve written here, and I&#8217;ve missed it.  I got scared off (turned off?), I&#8217;m sad to say, by the snarky comments of another writer whom I respect, and the funny thing is, they weren&#8217;t even talking about me.  One of my biggest character defects, I&#8217;m learning, is my outrageously narcissistic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lasttimearound.wordpress.com&blog=2287509&post=35&subd=lasttimearound&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lasttimearound.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/easy-does-it/</link>
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