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		<title>audi &#8211; relevant advertising</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Canavarro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just discovered another video ad on my recent post called the Auto/Body Connection &#8211; a piece about my old car.  The ad was for a 2012  Audi sports car with very bright LED headlights so powerful that their light pulverized a bunch of teen vampires partying in a dark forest. Now that&#8217;s what I call relevant advertising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cattaleconfessions.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14728221&amp;post=1271&amp;subd=cattaleconfessions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fort Bragg Nightlife</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Canavarro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dressed in big coats with hoods and carrying tiny flashlights, they scurried around in the dark. They tossed items from one spot to another, good items to good piles and the rest, just tossed. When they were all done it looked like a tornado had ripped through the parking lot. The concrete floor littered with junk, clothing, old toys, everything now dirty, wet from rain, broken and unusable. Worthless; profits for the thrift store transformed into scattered bits and pieces.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cattaleconfessions.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14728221&amp;post=1247&amp;subd=cattaleconfessions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Auto/Body Connection</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Canavarro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He said, You’ve got three major problems: a steering fluid leak, a transmission leak, and one or two bad UV joints that need fixing. He looks at me seriously, I frown back at him and sigh with recognition that I’ve lost the battle, and he says, If I were you, I’d just let it die a natural death.

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		<title>Thanks For The Oranges ~ a short story by Alvin W. Need</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He had a feeling that it was the house that was changing around him, growing emptier and being invaded by a dingy solitude that was absorbing all space and all things. The symptoms were no stranger to him and he met them head on. But he met them by telling himself the time-worn things, and just the telling did not effect the growing emptiness around him.

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		<title>Bill ~ a new Fragments story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Canavarro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill, gray-haired and old enough to be my grandfather, was a friend of Mother’s. He came to the same Monterey folk dancing group my sister and I attended. He didn't dance, he just sat smiling and watching the dancers, chatting with Mother as she watched. It felt odd. I didn’t know what their relationship was. I didn’t know why he was there every Friday night, if not to dance.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cattaleconfessions.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14728221&amp;post=1216&amp;subd=cattaleconfessions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catemporary Détente</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 04:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Canavarro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tai is a seal-point doll-face fluffy Himalayan cat with pale blue crossed-eyes. Whenever he is wary of his sibling or an enemy of another kind he skirts around them like a sticky sloth in slow motion. He is so fluffy I can’t tell where the bones and muscles of his body stop to become just a fluff of cat hair dragging on the floor. His fluffy tail is wide and dark like a beaver tail.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cattaleconfessions.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14728221&amp;post=1171&amp;subd=cattaleconfessions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Repository of Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Canavarro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1999, A Repository of Dreams was my “prehistoric cave” painting to ensure a successful hunt for a literary agent and publisher! The vertical red book in the center—Bohemian Poor — is as I wanted it to look back then. 

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		<title>Fragments: &#8230;Green Grapes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Canavarro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realized at that moment how frustrating it was for her to deal with me. I negated all her suggestions with my rationalizations as to why I couldn’t do or eat what she suggested. I resisted the idea of having to change my entire lifestyle just for a disease called diabetes. I had developed my lifestyle and eating habits over 64 years and in the last twenty years beginning with the dissolution of my marriage (or what I thought was a divorce; apparently I didn't lose that completely), I had lost so much that I did not want to change—or lose—one more thing, and changing my diet meant a major loss:  a loss of all the foods I like to eat.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cattaleconfessions.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14728221&amp;post=1151&amp;subd=cattaleconfessions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Clear-Cut Edge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Canavarro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Clear-Cut Edge is a full sheet watercolor representation of a view along HWY 101 north of Gardner, Oregon, located at the top of a long grade looking east through the trees, over the vast areas of clear-cut. I’ve made more trips to Coos Bay than to Eugene for supplies. It’s a shorter drive, for one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cattaleconfessions.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14728221&amp;post=1127&amp;subd=cattaleconfessions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A good read: &#8220;Going on Being&#8221; by Mark Espstein, M. D.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Canavarro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some years ago I read "Going On Being- Buddhism and the Way of Change" (© 2001) by Mark Epstein, M.D<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cattaleconfessions.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14728221&amp;post=1047&amp;subd=cattaleconfessions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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