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	<title>A Second Thought</title>
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		<title>Reviving This Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a long dormancy I&#8217;m set to revive this blog.  In the interim I walked across the country along the American Discovery Trail, speaking about the abundance of kindness, virtues of community and issues of humanity.  I also observed and reported on kindness, community and humanity.  I continued to do so on a separate blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for Middle Class Memoir Material</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This site will start building off of the &#8220;Pop&#8217;s Letters&#8221; series to portray other middle class lives in personal accounts and poetry.  Please contact me at kirk(dot)sinclair(at)middleclassforum(dot)com if you would like to share your own middle class experiences or if, like me, you have material from a relative and you want to use this forum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Failed Corporate Capitalism Model</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 11:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent headline in the New York Times, &#8220;Health Insurers Making Record Profits as Many Postpone Care,&#8221; reveals the failings of a corporate capitalist economy.  Let me first add the caveats that what we have in this country would be more accurately dubbed corporate socialism than corporate capitalism, and as with anything &#8220;failing&#8221; depends on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pop&#8217;s Letters &#8211; March 29, 1967</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 11:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pop writes about fishing and watching clouds as a kid growing up in Maine. Mr. Harold Lufkin, V.P. Newton Mfg. Co.                                                                                         March 29, 1967 Newton, Iowa. Dear Mr. Lufkin: Enjoyed your little piece by Jim Murray as do I all the little notes and letters you send my way. There are no Robins in Norfolk! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UConn Women&#8217;s Basketball Philosophy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Belonging]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sure, I&#8217;m a UConn fan because I&#8217;m an alumnus.  Sure, I&#8217;m a fan because they&#8217;ve become a dynasty.  Beyond that, I&#8217;m a fan because of how they&#8217;ve become a dynasty.  I took the following excerpt of a speech given by associate coach Chris Dailey at the 8th Annual Sterling House Celebrity Breakfast, where she was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pop&#8217;s Letters &#8211; Autumn 1966</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first page of this letter was missing but it was probably written in early autumn of 1966.  I got teary-eyed when I first read this.  The awe that mountains inspired in my sea-loving Dad is the same awe they inspire in me.  He&#8217;s also got an amusing take on airlines. We had a very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pop&#8217;s Letters &#8211; August 20, 1966</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 11:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pop writes about his early Maine days again. John McConegy, Newton Mfg. Co.                                        August 20, 1966 Newton, Iowa. Dear John: Thanks for the letter, and the enclosure about Maine. August just isn’t my month anyway I guess, so I am glad to be getting out of here Tuesday headed for Wyoming with the bare possibility [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pop&#8217;s Letters &#8211; May 6, p2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this part Pop reminisces about a Navy buddy. I hope that when we both have had our fill of this (as you say) “old ball of mud” that the Good Lord will find a peaceful corner somewhere in Heaven or wherever it is that He sends us salesmen and that we can reminisce about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pop&#8217;s Letters &#8211; May 6, 1966</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of Pop&#8217;s letters.  I&#8217;ve edited out some of it and am breaking it into two parts once again. &#8230;&#8230;. I am afraid that for all I pretend that I am a Christian, I am not too familiar with the World’s greatest book The Bible. It was interesting indeed to hear that one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pop&#8217;s Letters &#8211; November 15, 1965 p2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second part of Pop&#8217;s &#8220;chatty&#8221; November letter. I am writing you a nice long letter because for two weeks I have got up at 3 and 4 A.M. and I am trying to stay up long enough tonight to make me good and sleepy.  I got off the track as usual.  Started to talk [...]]]></description>
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