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			<title>Human Sex Pheromone and Relationships</title>
			<link>http://open2it.com/community-blog/Human-Sex-Pheromone-and-Relationships.html</link>
			<description>&lt;p mce_serialized=&quot;29&quot;&gt;So last night I was having a mixed debate over different subjects and spoke a little about the many products out there that guarantee the sexual success of a male gaining successful sexual advances in women.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p mce_serialized=&quot;29&quot;&gt;AXE men's body spray seems to be one that probably came to mind but if you Google the topic many other products swear by the same testamonials that this is achievable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p mce_serialized=&quot;29&quot;&gt; First of all if this is a true form of &quot;sex&quot; phe [...]</description>
			<author>j.daniel83@yahoo.com</author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Happy Mother's Day</title>
			<link>http://open2it.com/community-blog/Happy-Mothers-Day.html</link>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;If only the boys and I weren't sick, Mother's Day would be sweet.  I am all set to start up Quicken and make some progress in the piled up papers cluttering my life.  I did some serious cleaning these last couple of weeks, and I feel the chi flowing through the house.  I'm looking forward to visitors, to a lovers' trip to a hot springs resort with my girlfriend.  My 8-year-old son made me an origami flower garden today. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/_x6_2HMz8d2Q/Sga8lcr7u [...]</description>
			<author>littlefaith@comcast.net</author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<category>poetry</category>
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			<title>Surprise Audio Tape</title>
			<link>http://open2it.com/community-blog/Surprise-Audio-Tape.html</link>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;I found an audio tape from a friend, a letter by recorded voice.  It was really interesting to hear his voice, only 13-years-old, talking to me through time and space.  But what a shock, he suggests on the tape that we should use up this 90-minute tape by recording back-to-back to each other and then we could send it back and forth until the time is used up.  I thought to myself, ah, surely that didn't happen, because here I have the tape.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Surprise!  At the end of his talking, suddenly  [...]</description>
			<author>littlefaith@comcast.net</author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<category>transition</category>
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			<title>Gaza Hospital Fundraiser</title>
			<link>http://open2it.com/community-blog/Gaza-Hospital-Fund-Raiser.html</link>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;A friend of mine is attending a fundraiser for a Gaza hospital tonight.  She invited me, but I will not be attending.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I happened to mention this to an Israeli friend of mine, and he went off on the subject.  I know any time I bring up a topic concerning Arab or Muslim, it will usually get a rise out of him, but I'm bad, I can't help myself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;What do those people know about Israel and Gaza anyway?&quot; he demands.  &quot;Do you think those hospitals would treat a wounded Israeli Jew? but in [...]</description>
			<author>littlefaith@comcast.net</author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<category>politics</category>
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			<title>3 AM</title>
			<link>http://open2it.com/community-blog/3-AM.html</link>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;&quot;It's 3 am, I must be lonely&quot; -- Matchbox 20, &lt;i&gt;3 AM&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can a life be judged by what can not be blogged?  I think in a good life, as in a life in which a person is good, everything about her life would be fit for public consumption.  But I feel furtive and evasive.  I am embarrassed and mortified at my own behavior, my thoughts.  I pick and choose carefully what can be set down here. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My whole life I have been loved by everyone I know.  The only important person I remember rej [...]</description>
			<author>littlefaith@comcast.net</author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<category>writing</category>
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			<title>A Clarification About Sexual Exclusivity</title>
			<link>http://open2it.com/community-blog/A-.html</link>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;I recently commented on Kelly's blog and it occurs to me that my comments might not fully embody my views on the subject.  The topic involved covert infidelity and it is this subject that I want to address here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; I should begin by acknowledging that infidelity is built into our species (see this video and this one). Everything about the dimorphic human form indicates that &lt;i&gt;Homo sapiens&lt;/i&gt; evolved in the context of polygamous or promiscuous reproductive strategies, and if one is not c [...]</description>
			<author>rreiserer@gmail.com</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<category>society</category>
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			<title>Someone PLEASE explain it to me!</title>
			<link>http://open2it.com/community-blog/Someone-PLEASE-explain-it-to-me-.html</link>
			<description>&lt;p mce_serialized=&quot;2&quot;&gt;I need some help.  Something happened today that I need someone to explain to me.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p mce_serialized=&quot;2&quot;&gt;I Have written blog here before about what I've been going through.  Here's an overview.  My divorce will be final on January 13th.  My husband and I have been apart for 6 months.  The reason for the divorce is that my husband could not remain faithful.  I found out that it has been unfaithful 8 times in the 10 years we were married.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p mce_serialized=&quot;2&quot;&gt;You kn [...]</description>
			<author>frady.kelly@yahoo.com</author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<category>personal</category>
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			<title>Inexplicable Passions</title>
			<link>http://open2it.com/community-blog/Inexplicable-Passions.html</link>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://open2it.com/images/stories/Flame-bar.jpg&quot; mce_src=&quot;http://open2it.com/images/stories/Flame-bar.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Panther Chameleon banner&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;50&quot;/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;On more occasions than I can enumerate, I have been asked the question: Why do you like those darn reptiles? Not wanting to appear irresolute, for many years I tried to answer the question in a way that presented an air of purpose. I might reply that their behavior is complex and fascinating, or that I wondered what i [...]</description>
			<author>rreiserer@gmail.com</author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<category>psychology</category>
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			<title>Generally Speaking ..... 1/5/09</title>
			<link>http://open2it.com/community-blog/Generally-Speaking-.....-1-5-09.html</link>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;It was  a long day - first day back to school for the girls and my high school biology teaching husband.  We were up at 5:30, well,  some of us were.... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I've been nervous about this day for 2 weeks.  The first 2 weeks in months that I've felt good and life has had purpose.   Before then I was drifting from one depressed day to another.   I've been scared that I'd go back to drifting as soon as I got the girls dropped off.  I'd sit on the couch waiting until they got home for dinner  -  [...]</description>
			<author>soapydishwater@yahoo.com</author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<category>relationship</category>
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			<title>A Dinosaur in a Modern World</title>
			<link>http://open2it.com/community-blog/A-Dinosaur-in-a-Modern-World.html</link>
			<description>&lt;p mce_serialized=&quot;5492&quot;&gt;Having been brought into this ever developing world well before the Second Great Gobal Conflict, I, unfortunately, don't have an intuitive knowledge of things with micropocessors and digital interfaces, much less any understanding of how to make them operate.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p mce_serialized=&quot;5492&quot;&gt;As a case in point, after my lovely wife suggested that she would like to visually record various things,  I gave her a pocket sized Compact Digital Camcorder for Christmas. She is simi [...]</description>
			<author>gwb@coremap.com</author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Baby</title>
			<link>http://open2it.com/community-blog/Baby.html</link>
			<description>My friend entrusted me with a beautiful baby&lt;br/&gt;She was a gorgeous child, and quiet, too&lt;br/&gt;I brought her gurgling into a bedroom&lt;br/&gt;I laid her to sleep in a wooden crib&lt;br/&gt;Then I left her for the other room where a party was going on&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;In a daze I spent two days in the party&lt;br/&gt;I didn't think I didn't notice I didn't feel&lt;br/&gt;Time pass&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Then I remembered&lt;br/&gt;The child&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I ran to the bedroom&lt;br/&gt;I saw her lying in the crib&lt;br/&gt;She lay in putrefying liquids from her own [...]</description>
			<author>littlefaith@comcast.net</author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<category>poetry</category>
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			<title>Response to Reiserer's Faded Memories of Knowing Everything</title>
			<link>http://open2it.com/community-blog/Response-to-Reiserers-Faded-Memories-of-Knowing-Everything.html</link>
			<description>&lt;p&gt; My response ties back to Montessori training and a deep belief in what she called &quot;The Universal Child&quot;.   -Soapy&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;In case you missed his excellent essay on the human learner the first time around....  &lt;/i&gt;Reiserer's Faded Memories of Knowing Everything&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt; ___________________________________ &lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Once upon a time I watched my very ADHD 7 year old build a chain of Tinker Toys.  &lt;img src=&quot;http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb88/soapydishwater/plants/zimmat [...]</description>
			<author>soapydishwater@yahoo.com</author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<category>psychology</category>
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			<title>Cross Generation Relationships Expand Childhood</title>
			<link>http://open2it.com/community-blog/Expanding-Childhood-Experiences-.html</link>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;Original Comment Thread for HumanValue of Wild Spaces&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Reiserer: I find that writing about special experiences provides a foundation for remembering them in more detail. When you have kids that grow into a new stage of life almost monthly, writing short chronicles about activities and feelings sets benchmarks for later exploration of important memories.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;____________________________________________________ &lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hmmm....I don't know about &quot;benchmarks&quot; but I can t [...]</description>
			<author>soapydishwater@yahoo.com</author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<category>relationship</category>
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			<title>Ideas and Data: A Case for Duality</title>
			<link>http://open2it.com/community-blog/Ideas-and-Data-A-Case-for-Duality.html</link>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;Those familiar with Open2it from its early days will readily discern that this blog represents a small change of format. After considering my place in this community, I decided to move my blog into the threaded community blog. I really like the intermingling of blog posts by all Open2it members and, frankly, I felt a bit left out in having a separate blog. From now on, my shorter contributions will appear among those of other members, while my longer notes will be assigned as either Articles  [...]</description>
			<author>rreiserer@gmail.com</author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<category>society</category>
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			<title>Generally Speaking....  12/26/08</title>
			<link>http://open2it.com/community-blog/Generally-Speaking-12-26-08.html</link>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;Ok. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So we're 6 days into this 15 day holiday and I'm absolutely positive the house is shrinking!   Multiple ADHD times 4 and then put us in a confined space....       &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are half started projects from one end of our ranch-style to the other - puzzles, blanket forts, snow clothes, stuffed animals, dolls, videos.    There's sound warfare - TV versus electric guitar versus Miley Cyrus versus pet chicken and dog.  Every now and then I throw a fit and demand my share of the soundw [...]</description>
			<author>soapydishwater@yahoo.com</author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Meat Marketers Monkey with Monogamy</title>
			<link>http://open2it.com/community-blog/Meat-Marketers-Monkey-with-Monogamy.html</link>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;American dietitians, sex therapists, animal rights advocates, and social anthropologists gave a collective horrified gasp last week when Burger King announced their new body spray for men - &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Flame&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.  Described as &quot;the scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat&quot;, the Burger King welcomes us to his castle sporting all the furry creepiness of Ron Jeremy, tenderly draped in dead animals, loin enhanced by a strategically placed and potentially phallic fire. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;img src=&quot; [...]</description>
			<author>soapydishwater@yahoo.com</author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<category>society</category>
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			<title>Generally speaking....  12/20/08</title>
			<link>http://open2it.com/community-blog/Generally-speaking....-12-20-08.html</link>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;It's 5 PM on a Saturday in December and  I'm sitting by a roaring woodstove.  In another room I can hear my husband lighting the fireplace - our girls crumpling newspaper for kindling.    They're excited.  We haven't had the fireplace lit since last February. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Outside the thin milky sky has pale pink evening streaks;  blue-gray clouds are slowly moving east.   It's cold.  White snow drifts in and around the prairie's pale yellows, russet oranges, and dark browns. It's quiet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My 12 [...]</description>
			<author>soapydishwater@yahoo.com</author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment on rsr's &quot;The Human Value of Wild Places&quot;</title>
			<link>http://open2it.com/community-blog/Comment-on-rsrs-The-Human-Value-of-Wild-Spaces-.html</link>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;This is an absolutely delicious &quot;sense of place&quot; piece!  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reiserer's Original Article &quot;The Human Value of Wild Places&quot; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I'm tickled that kids got so into the moment.  I might even have to do some winter seining just to keep up....  :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Think of the potential joy we steal from kids when we don't give them opportunities to get dirty on their own volition. This MudMomma is smilin'....&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;We should find a way to connect with Richard Louv's Last Child in the Woods. [...]</description>
			<author>soapydishwater@yahoo.com</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<category>society</category>
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			<title>This is me.</title>
			<link>http://open2it.com/community-blog/This-is-me..html</link>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v347/28/102/1431281970/n1431281970_30082045_1043.jpg&quot; mce_src=&quot;http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v347/28/102/1431281970/n1431281970_30082045_1043.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Wetland Learners Fall 2008&quot; title=&quot;Water Cycle&quot; vspace=&quot;10&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; hspace=&quot;10&quot;/&gt; This is me - I'm the one with the net, pointing skyward, watching tomorrow unfold.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm standing in a restored wetland roughly 20 feet from where 4-lane highw [...]</description>
			<author>soapydishwater@yahoo.com</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Breastfeeding, a Bit of Data</title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;I just read Randall's blog and watched the video on breastfeeding.  And then I went to justmommies.com to read the debate, and HOLY S***, what a cat fight is raging over there!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I didn't feel comfortable joining that forum, being a dude and all, so I thought I'd weigh in over here at open2it. Thing is, I have a bit of data for those who think that breastfeeding can't be taken too far.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite my brother's complaints, my sister-in-law breast-fed their son, Jeremy,  until he was 6 an [...]</description>
			<author>reiserer@hawaii.edu</author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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