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		<title>Vacation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh yeah, I have a blog!
Beloved and I took the girls on vacation this past week, which was school vacation week here in New England.
Originally, we were going to go to Spain &#8211; primarily Barcelona &#8211; but then the Economic Downturn hit the law firms, and our previously-thought-to-be-predictable bonuses were scaled back.  Fortunately, mine was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zuska.wordpress.com&blog=120796&post=496&subd=zuska&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wow.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Work has slowed down in the past few weeks, as a discovery deadline has passed, and major motions have been filed.  I knew the slow down was coming, and quite frankly, I have been very grateful.
Beloved and I plan to go to New York City over the long weekend, and I&#8217;m taking Tuesday off as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zuska.wordpress.com&blog=120796&post=494&subd=zuska&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I Love Best (and in which I say &#8220;love&#8221; a lot &#8230; and a lot and a lot.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is that our public leader is now a man so capable of love.  He is not afraid of showing his love &#8230;  and I think his capacity for love infects us all.  With hope, and happiness, and joy.




I love that they love each other.  I love them for loving each other.  I love knowing that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zuska.wordpress.com&blog=120796&post=486&subd=zuska&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hey &#8211; this isn&#8217;t so bad!</title>
		<link>http://zuska.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/hey-this-isnt-so-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[E was a grouch tonight.  She didn&#8217;t really start off that way, but come dinner time, she was snapping at her sister and was the proud owner of a rather unattractive sneer.
after about the 15th eye roll, i asked her, &#8220;What is bothering you right now?&#8221;
Her response?
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know! [sorta snarky]  Nothing&#8217;s really wrong, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zuska.wordpress.com&blog=120796&post=484&subd=zuska&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Texts with a 12 Year Old</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Scene:  Harried working mom on her way home after a 12+ hour day, about an hour longer than she planned with.  The mom is wrought with guilt, feeling the pressure of months of a heavy work load.  She is concerned that her family is starting to get sick of it.  At the same time, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zuska.wordpress.com&blog=120796&post=482&subd=zuska&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Monkey Wrench</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beloved is in graduate school.  He attends a pretty cool low-residency program in Vermont specializing in children&#8217;s literature.  He&#8217;s doing really well, and is accomplishing VERY long-standing goals.  However, we (you may have noticed) do not live in Vermont.
Because it is low-residency, he only has to attend school twice a year, for 10 days.  January [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zuska.wordpress.com&blog=120796&post=480&subd=zuska&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The precarious balance &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This post has been sitting in draft-form since mid-December ... largely because of the things explained here - I was too busy to finish it.  I find myself coming back to continue the theme, but realized I hadn't followed through on starting the theme.]
I&#8217;ve read on several blogs that us lawyer moms are too close-to-the-chest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zuska.wordpress.com&blog=120796&post=477&subd=zuska&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>3 dozen</title>
		<link>http://zuska.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/3-dozen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years old!
Today was my birthday.
Through fantastic home cooked meals, disproportionate investments by offspring, phone calls from loved ones, and yes, Facebook Wall posts, I felt as loved and celebrated as I wanted to.
And through 10s of thousands of documents that HAD to be reviewed today, and the ever-growing to-do list at work and at home [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zuska.wordpress.com&blog=120796&post=475&subd=zuska&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KC-101, sort of &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a pre-teen and young teen, growing up in the Wilds of Connecticut, I had a favorite radio station.  KC101. It was the one that played Tiffany, and Debbie Gibson, and David Lee Roth&#8217;s goofy Van Halen, and the goofier post-Van Halen David Lee Roth.  They played the Top 40 Countdown with Rick [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zuska.wordpress.com&blog=120796&post=473&subd=zuska&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not a fan of messy green beans &#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[not for the feint of heart]
Last night, E and I were sitting on the couch in our living room.  We had gone out to see Twilight with friends, then to Starbucks for a post-movie warm drink (so why the kids ended up with frappucinos is beyond me &#8230;)  We got home after 10.  I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zuska.wordpress.com&blog=120796&post=471&subd=zuska&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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