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		<title>Is it still your birthday when you&#8217;re gone?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 13th would have marked my mother&#8217;s 73rd birthday, if she&#8217;d been alive to celebrate it. I suppose it will always, technically, be the day of her birth, even as every subsequent year passes and the distance between the present &#8230; <a href="http://plettahar.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/is-it-still-a-birthday-when-youre-gone/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plettahar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6750480&amp;post=2055&amp;subd=plettahar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Black Thursday</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technically, Black Friday starts tomorrow. In reality, it started at about 6 pm today, Thanksgiving, which is about as perverted a thing as stocking store shelves with Christmas stuff in October. Perverted or not, my husband and I hit the &#8230; <a href="http://plettahar.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/black-thursday/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plettahar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6750480&amp;post=2038&amp;subd=plettahar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How not to wow at a university soiree</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Forget about the event until three hours before it starts, so that you&#8217;re horribly underdressed:  no makeup, no earrings and no perfume. Oh, and no Ph.D. Only people with Ph.D.s are allowed to show up to these things in &#8230; <a href="http://plettahar.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/how-not-to-wow-at-a-university-soiree/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plettahar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6750480&amp;post=2024&amp;subd=plettahar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disassembly required</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother gave up her fight for life on Oct. 22, 2011, after a long and grueling and somewhat baffling journey that left us all a bit off balance. Family members descended and a lovely funeral was held to honor &#8230; <a href="http://plettahar.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/disassembly-required/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plettahar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6750480&amp;post=2014&amp;subd=plettahar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This sacred ground is awful muddy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of the hospice workers we&#8217;ve talked to refer to this place as &#8220;sacred ground.&#8221; Not so much the physical reality of the St Thomas hospice ward, but the space in between the living and the dead, or the soon-to-be &#8230; <a href="http://plettahar.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/this-sacred-ground-is-awful-muddy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plettahar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6750480&amp;post=2003&amp;subd=plettahar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HPS (Hospital Positioning System)</title>
		<link>http://plettahar.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/hps-hospital-positioning-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows me even a little bit knows that my sense of direction is worse than horrendous. I have joked for years that I&#8217;m a homing pigeon for the wrong direction, that I get lost in my own backyard, &#8230; <a href="http://plettahar.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/hps-hospital-positioning-system/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plettahar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6750480&amp;post=1998&amp;subd=plettahar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conflict of interest</title>
		<link>http://plettahar.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/conflict-of-interest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Waiting for someone to die &#8212; especially someone you love more than almost any other person on this earth &#8212; is a terrible, excruciating way to spend time. Watching her face slowly change as the hours drag by, listening to &#8230; <a href="http://plettahar.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/conflict-of-interest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plettahar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6750480&amp;post=1987&amp;subd=plettahar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A tale of two nurses</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.  (And even though I was an English major in college, that&#8217;s as much of the Dickens book &#8220;A Tale of Two Cities&#8221; as I can safely quote here.) &#8230; <a href="http://plettahar.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/a-tale-of-two-nurses/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plettahar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6750480&amp;post=1980&amp;subd=plettahar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 04:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hospice ward here at St Thomas Hospital in Nashville is a strange and other-worldly place. Peaceful, soothing, quiet &#8212; yet full of pain and suffering, private and public. People roam the lone hallway in varying postures of grief and &#8230; <a href="http://plettahar.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/waiting/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plettahar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6750480&amp;post=1971&amp;subd=plettahar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Final chapters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing I notice when I see her is how pretty her eyelids are, still lightly done up with her trademark green eyeshadow and mascara. They are closed smooth over her eyes, no creases, no tightness or tension. She &#8230; <a href="http://plettahar.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/final-chapters/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plettahar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6750480&amp;post=1962&amp;subd=plettahar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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