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		<title>Revising Classics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 admin. Visit the original article at http://johnfoleywrites.com/revising-classics.My son Sean Michael is a fan of Clifford the Big Red Dog. He enjoys both the classic book and the TV show it inspired. I liked the book the first hundred times or so, but now that I have it memorized I tend to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Say It Ain&#8217;t So, Leo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 admin. Visit the original article at http://johnfoleywrites.com/say-it-aint-so-leo.I&#8217;ve read that Leonardo DiCaprio might play Travis McGee in a film of the same title directed by Oliver Stone, based on John D. MacDonald&#8217;s The Deep Blue Goodbye. While Stone is a good choice as director, I can&#8217;t see Leo playing the most iconic character [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Devil in a Diaper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 admin. Visit the original article at http://johnfoleywrites.com/devil-in-a-diaper.My son Sean Michael is a joy &#8212; most of the time. Lately he&#8217;s been giving himself a clap of encouragement each time he tries to hoist himself onto the couch, and another for good measure when he doesn&#8217;t quite make it. He&#8217;s also standing with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sailing in the Sunshine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 admin. Visit the original article at http://johnfoleywrites.com/sailing-in-the-sunshine.This is a blog from my brother, Mike, who is currently sailing the Caribbean.
4/23/10 Depart Bahia Del Sol, El Salvador
5/12/10 Arrive Colon, Panama
Distance: 1020 Miles
Weed Man
My brother John, a published author and English teacher, is my “go-to” guy when I need to buy a new stack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Fan&#8217;s Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 admin. Visit the original article at http://johnfoleywrites.com/a-fans-notes.So I must admit that I did not vote for Barack Obama. I intended to, and my wife and I drove to downtown Vancouver, where we live, but she was over eight months pregnant, was not feeling good, and when we saw the long lines at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nice Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 admin. Visit the original article at http://johnfoleywrites.com/nice-review.I entered one of my unpublished novels in the Amazon.com &#8220;Breakthrough Novel Awards,&#8221; and out of several thousand entries, &#8220;Death In The Wild&#8221; has made the top 50. Very cool, and Publisher&#8217;s Weekly gave me a nice review:
When Baird, the resourceful hero of this solid adventure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deadlines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 admin. Visit the original article at http://johnfoleywrites.com/deadlines.We just met a key deadline in my yearbook class. Failing to meet that deadline would have been a big deal &#8212; graduating seniors would not have received their yearbooks before they walked. I became concerned a couple of weeks ago, when I asked if we&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cruising South</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 admin. Visit the original article at http://johnfoleywrites.com/cruising-south.(Note: My brother Mike has sailed south from San Diego, and plans to head through the Panama canal and across the Gulf of Mexico on legs to come. This is his most recent blog)
Greetings from Bahia Del Sol, El Salvador! After six weeks in the great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wait A Minute</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 admin. Visit the original article at http://johnfoleywrites.com/wait-a-minute.My father was an unhappy man. He died a few years ago, and while he found some peace his last years, he was definitely not happy. He thought he was a failure, felt disappointed by life and was looking forward – far too much, in my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rat Problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 admin. Visit the original article at http://johnfoleywrites.com/rat-problems.I’m not a fan of Pope Benedict. While I disagreed with Pope John-Paul on most issues, and am no longer a Catholic, the man himself seemed warm, kind and big-hearted. I thought it was an especially amazing example when he forgave the man who shot him [...]]]></description>
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