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	<title>Food for the Spirit and the Soul &#187; Opinion</title>
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	<description>Because the diverse parts of human nature need to be nourished in different ways.</description>
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		<title>Border Ballads:  Have You Herd?  Border Collies Don&#8217;t Track</title>
		<link>http://www.robertneralich.com/2009/08/06/border-ballads-have-you-herd-border-collies-dont-track/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all like to think ourselves safe from the depredations of common criminals, particularly if we reside in suburban America, but a few days ago, I had an experience that shattered my faith in both the pastoral character of my neighborhood and the general usefulness of my dog.
Sometime just after noon, I was walking home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Call of Cthulhu</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Dougal Tukten Neralich
&#8220;Ph-nglui mglw&#8217;nafh Cthulhu R&#8217;lyeh wgah&#8217;nagl fhtagn.&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;In his house at R&#8217;lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.&#8221;
Almost everyone has had the experience of unexpectedly discovering a book that changed his or her life, even if the character and degree of that change was, at the time, largely imperceptible.  In this posting I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border Ballads:  To Be, Or Knot To Be:  Bathing The Border Collie</title>
		<link>http://www.robertneralich.com/2009/08/02/border-ballads-to-be-or-knot-to-be-bathing-the-border-collie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For three years, I have had the pleasure and privilege of living with Jack, my wonderful Border Collie, and because he is such an extraordinary companion, I have decided to publish a record of our adventures together &#8211; under the heading &#8220;Border Ballads.&#8221;  Most people are aware that Border Collies are intelligent, but fewer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Training Journal:  Entry I:  The Cart Before the Horse</title>
		<link>http://www.robertneralich.com/2009/05/05/training-journal-entry-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 20:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Jon Tenzing Neralich, Exercise Guru Extraordinaire
Like many time-mellowed males, I have undertaken an exercise program that includes doing roadwork four mornings a week.  Please note that I did not use the term &#8220;run,&#8221; because that would misrepresent the truth, nor did I employ &#8220;jog,&#8221; since I associate this prissy word with self-indulgent yuppies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Cause For Worry</title>
		<link>http://www.robertneralich.com/2009/04/01/no-cause-for-worry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Corrigan Neralich
I know that my family, friends, and former students have been concerned about my recent decision to enter government service.  For those who have not yet heard the news, the Obama administration has asked me to be our country&#8217;s unofficial representative to Freedonia, with the hope that I can help to bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something Handy</title>
		<link>http://www.robertneralich.com/2009/02/25/something-handy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students often help their teachers discover interesting things, and thanks to my pupils, a few years ago I learned a great deal about an area of  American culture that has been largely neglected by scholars.  I noticed that many of my students used hand lotion almost constantly, and when I teased them about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Comments on Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://www.robertneralich.com/2009/02/14/some-comments-on-valentines-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valentine&#8217;s Day is upon us, and I am quite naturally awash in sentiment, which is equal parts smarm and charm. While it is as easy to puncture the syrupy pretensions of this day with satirical barbs as it is for Cupid to ravish human hearts with his honey-tipped arrows, I have decided to bring a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Superhero?</title>
		<link>http://www.robertneralich.com/2009/02/14/a-new-superhero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recall my sorrow many years ago when I learned that Superman, at least in one updated and &#8220;improved&#8221; version, would no longer fly or even wear a cape.  I was dismayed not only by the fact that an American cultural icon had been toppled in the name of progress, but also because it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Year of the Ox</title>
		<link>http://www.robertneralich.com/2009/02/12/the-year-of-the-ox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Year of the Ox arrived on 26 January 2009, and as I used to enjoy doing when I wrote editorials and wine reviews for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , I am going to offer my predictions for the coming lunar year for people born under the twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac.  Readers can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hippie Puritanism</title>
		<link>http://www.robertneralich.com/2009/02/07/hippie-puritanism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know that the expression &#8220;Hippie Puritanism&#8221; will stirke many readers as peculiar, but I employ it in a light-hearted way to introduce a potentially serious subject, namely, the manner in which many Americans simultaneously maintain an allegiance to two quite distinct and even adversarial value systems.  By &#8220;Hippie,&#8221; I mean that part of [...]]]></description>
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