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	<title>Noël Lynne Figart</title>
	<link>http://noelfigart.com/blog</link>
	<description>Oh, gosh.  I&#039;m not aspiring anymore. I&#039;m a Real Writer!</description>
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		<title>The Big, Dumb Beast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came pretty close to blowing off my lifting this morning.  Rather, I started telling myself that I would justs go home and lift with dumbbells &#8220;later&#8221;.  I had opened the gym, was feeling sick of being there, but I had my workout clothes with me.
Now, in Noël&#8217;s World, &#8220;later&#8221; generally doesn&#8217;t happen.  When I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://noelfigart.com/blog/2010/03/16/the-big-dumb-beast/</link>
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		<title>Steroids, Swimming and Solar Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have felt just chilled to the bone lately.  No, it’s not especially cold outside.  In fact, it’s a balmy 40F outside right now.  It’s the damp, and I know it.
Damp, raw chill is probably my least favorite weather.  Even the swimming pool felt really cold to me before I began my laps today, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://noelfigart.com/blog/2010/03/15/steroids-swimming-and-solar-power/</link>
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		<title>What Do You Like?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I actually used the weight room rather than do body weight stuff today.
For all that I’m in favor of body weight exercises and really think that there are dozens of paths to fitness, I gotta say I like freeweights better.   Oh yes, body weight exercises travel well, what with only needing about six feet of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://noelfigart.com/blog/2010/03/09/what-do-you-like/</link>
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		<title>How to Sell More Flour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My son came home from school with four pounds of flour, a bowl scraper and a package of yeast.  Apparently King Arthur Flour has this Life Skills Bread Baking program.
So there was this assembly where the kids learned the process of baking bread.  Then they were given the flour and some yeast so that they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://noelfigart.com/blog/2010/03/05/how-to-sell-more-flour/</link>
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		<title>Whose Job is the Housework?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“The guys just don&#8217;t feel the same way we do about the house. They don&#8217;t have the guilt that eats away at them.” Flylady in an answer to a letter about the Husband’s clutter.
Oh boy…
Here’s the problem.  Do you know why men don’t feel guilty if the house looks like shit?  It’s because quite often [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://noelfigart.com/blog/2010/03/02/whose-job-is-the-housework/</link>
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		<title>The Internet is Socially Isolating?  NAH!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the popular things that writers discuss when they decide to Decry The Modern World is how the Internet has made us more isolated and how we don’t have Real Friends.
Really?
How many of you reading this have made a friend on the internet, then travelled more than 500 miles to visit that person?  That’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://noelfigart.com/blog/2010/03/01/the-internet-is-socially-isolating-nah/</link>
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		<title>Disposable?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a big fan of disposable stuff in general. No, it&#8217;s not some tree-hugger thing, though I&#8217;m totally fine with things I do being less wasteful or polluting.
It&#8217;s a money-saver.  I don&#8217;t use paper towels.  I have cleaning cloths made of old towels.  They&#8217;re not just cut up old towels, though.   You take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://noelfigart.com/blog/2010/02/24/disposable/</link>
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		<title>Drinking the FlyLady Kool-Aid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;m developing a bit of a split personality about having drunk the Flylady Kool-aid.
On the one hand, I really do like the system quite a bit.   Between the routines, the decluttering and the missions I get in the email, the house looks nice and runs smoothly.  Anyone could walk in right at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://noelfigart.com/blog/2010/02/22/drinking-the-flylady-kool-aid/</link>
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		<title>Y&#8217;all is Plural</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a Facebook group about the appropriate way to spell the contraction of &#8220;you all&#8221; so prevalent in the South.
The expression is y&#8217;all.  Not ya&#8217;ll.
But there&#8217;s more to it than that.  It&#8217;s also plural.
Yes, yes, I bet some of you Yankees have seen a Southerner appear to address a single person with the expression &#8220;y&#8217;all&#8221;.  But, you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://noelfigart.com/blog/2010/02/17/yall-is-plural/</link>
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		<title>Raising Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I  don’t like the expressions “raising children” or even “rearing children”.  It implies the end product is children.
If you’re a parent, you’re not aiming for an end product of childhood, but an end product of adulthood.  You’re not raising kids, you’re raising grownups!
I’m not trying to imply that children shouldn’t have a childhood, play, be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://noelfigart.com/blog/2010/02/17/raising-children/</link>
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