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	<description>There are a bunch of cats out there missing a life because of you.  --my sister, to me</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>No belly-search by TSA!</title>
		<link>http://www.toostupidtodie.net/2008/10/22/bulletin-no-belly-search-by-tsa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazing but true, folks: I&#8217;m taking a quick pre-surgery trip to San Diego and I&#8217;m happy to report  I – and my ever-expanding belly bubble – made it through airport security without being &#8220;examined!&#8221; And a big hooray for that!
OK, I took precautions: a baggy t-shirt covered by a ratty jacket, strict Victorian-standard corseting, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confidence</title>
		<link>http://www.toostupidtodie.net/2008/10/11/confidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EJB</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Funny thing about confidence: you don&#8217;t really know you&#8217;ve lost it until you start getting it back. Without an inner voice constantly whispering a &#8220;you can do it&#8221; nag, a hypercautious agony aunt takes over and plunges you into a fog of jitters. Auntie has excuses for everything. &#8220;No, no, no!&#8221; she hisses. &#8220;Be careful!&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Off topic: A letter to God</title>
		<link>http://www.toostupidtodie.net/2008/10/07/off-topic-a-letter-to-god/</link>
		<comments>http://www.toostupidtodie.net/2008/10/07/off-topic-a-letter-to-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EJB</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, I know&#8230; Post anything about religion or politics and I&#8217;m likely to lose half of my 50 or so readers. Oh, well. Life&#8217;s tough, it&#8217;s getting tougher for everybody, and I&#8217;m heading into surgery again (more tomorrow), so what the hell? I need a diversion. Read or not, your choice. There&#8217;ll likely be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Off topic: Descent, a poem</title>
		<link>http://www.toostupidtodie.net/2008/09/30/off-topic-descent-a-poem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.toostupidtodie.net/2008/09/30/off-topic-descent-a-poem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EJB</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Rod Serling]]></category>

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If you are, have been, or may become a Rod Serling fan, you’ll understand how I came to write this poem a few years ago while staring out the window on a long flight.

Descent
by Ed Brownson
Through acrylic
I expect to see Rod Serling sitting on wing
Legs crossed, flashing that famous half smile
A tray table in front [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Every time I start a post&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.toostupidtodie.net/2008/09/13/every-time-i-start-a-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EJB</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[…Bang! I slam into another concrete wall pretending to be a speed bump.

In January after surgery took me down, I was miserable enough to ask myself – for the first time ever – the big question: Should I stay or should I go? Just hang it up and dance down the tunnel of light? And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Off topic: Cycling Back, a poem</title>
		<link>http://www.toostupidtodie.net/2008/08/30/off-topic-a-poem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.toostupidtodie.net/2008/08/30/off-topic-a-poem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EJB</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.toostupidtodie.net/?p=70</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Though it is not my intention when I started writing poems, a number of my attempts have wound up with medical themes (go figure). This is one of my earlier poems, written a few months after I experienced a near-life-ending bout of pneumonia. Each time I survive some new calamity and return to my bike I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dog is my caregiver</title>
		<link>http://www.toostupidtodie.net/2008/05/18/dog-is-my-caregiver/</link>
		<comments>http://www.toostupidtodie.net/2008/05/18/dog-is-my-caregiver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 23:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EJB</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[Apologies to BARk Magazine for riffing on their slogan.]
I&#8217;m not one to play the disability card. To the scoldings of many, I&#8217;ve refused for years to get a &#8220;handicapped&#8221; placard for my car though I&#8217;m eligible. My attitude towards those things is: if I can&#8217;t walk, I can&#8217;t drive. (Yes, yes, I know: one size [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bolting from the ER</title>
		<link>http://www.toostupidtodie.net/2008/05/05/bolting-from-the-er/</link>
		<comments>http://www.toostupidtodie.net/2008/05/05/bolting-from-the-er/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 05:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EJB</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not proud of this.
Friday morning I awoke with my right eye desert-dry, red, lumpy and painful. It hurt a lot, every blink an agony. What moisture it managed to produce was pink in color, tears mixed with blood. I could hardly see and it was impossible to read. Sentencing me to a life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ed wanders the desert seeking denial</title>
		<link>http://www.toostupidtodie.net/2008/02/29/ed-wanders-the-desert-seeking-denial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.toostupidtodie.net/2008/02/29/ed-wanders-the-desert-seeking-denial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EJB</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m in the desert east of San Diego stalking wildflowers and staring down bighorn sheep and wondering, to slightly misquote one of our more interesting pop bards, &#8220;My God! How did I get here?&#8221; Which leads of course to a tale.
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 A doctor recently pointed out my sense of denial is missing. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please pull the shirt down, sir! (My belly does airport security)</title>
		<link>http://www.toostupidtodie.net/2008/02/22/please-pull-the-shirt-down-sir-my-belly-does-airport-security/</link>
		<comments>http://www.toostupidtodie.net/2008/02/22/please-pull-the-shirt-down-sir-my-belly-does-airport-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EJB</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My first trip post transplant scar repair surgery and its unintended consequences – namely a bulge on my belly the size of two tangerines I call &#8220;the bubble&#8221; – coincided this morning with my first trip in years out of SFO (San Francisco International Airport). Normally I fly from Oakland – cheaper fares and a [...]]]></description>
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