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		<title>Texas &#8211; A Great Place to Leave Your Crazy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all get a little crazy sometimes. Living in Northern Alberta, the crazy usually starts in mid-November and can stretch through April. That&#8217;s a lot of crazy. Then there are circumstances that can make the crazy, well crazier. And that my friends, is where I found myself a few short weeks ago. With winter yet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martanettelfield.wordpress.com&amp;blog=624659&amp;post=745&amp;subd=martanettelfield&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012 &#8211; My Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago I started the tradition of writing a year end post. It recently occurred to me, that I hadn&#8217;t done it for the past two years. 2009 and 2010 were difficult years on the home front and I suppose I just wanted to let them slide into their place in history with no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martanettelfield.wordpress.com&amp;blog=624659&amp;post=736&amp;subd=martanettelfield&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was looking on YouTube for the Shirley Bassey recording of &#8220;To All The Men I&#8217;ve Loved Before&#8221;. This song was the inspiration for this blog and I haven&#8217;t even featured it. One day I&#8217;ll get back to posting about the men I&#8217;ve loved before. While doing my YouTube search I came across, &#8220;To All [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martanettelfield.wordpress.com&amp;blog=624659&amp;post=726&amp;subd=martanettelfield&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Beautiful Mess</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 05:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep. That pretty much sums up how I feel these days. For a change, I&#8217;m okay with that. Actually, I&#8217;m embracing the beautiful mess that is me. I&#8217;m currently going through something that has caused me to want to slip back into old, well established patterns. I found myself spiraling down that slippery slope of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martanettelfield.wordpress.com&amp;blog=624659&amp;post=689&amp;subd=martanettelfield&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lost and Found – A Reprise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lost &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.Found Lost &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.Found Just when you get to the stage of letting go, fate steps up and says, “not yet”. Your immediate response to fate is a hearty, “fuck you”, been there, done that &#8211; not going to revisit it. But I believe much of our journey in this life is pre-determined. We can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martanettelfield.wordpress.com&amp;blog=624659&amp;post=653&amp;subd=martanettelfield&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts (and frustrations) on Animal Welfare</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I meander through this journey called life, I find myself more and more puzzled and disenchanted with societal attitudes about animal welfare. A conversation I had the other day with a couple of people has stuck in my head and prompted me to come out of my writing hibernation. Let&#8217;s begin with my attitude [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martanettelfield.wordpress.com&amp;blog=624659&amp;post=607&amp;subd=martanettelfield&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Well Hello There&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://martanettelfield.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/well-hello-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder when the urge to write will take hold again. It&#8217;s been awhile.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martanettelfield.wordpress.com&amp;blog=624659&amp;post=597&amp;subd=martanettelfield&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hmmmm&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://martanettelfield.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/hmmmm-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://martanettelfield.wordpress.com/?p=594</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been over three months since my last post. I should write something. Does this count?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martanettelfield.wordpress.com&amp;blog=624659&amp;post=594&amp;subd=martanettelfield&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spring 2009 Road Trip – Day Eight, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 05:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday evening was a meetup with an old friend from my banking days. We hadn&#8217;t seen each other in probably 14 years. Our friendship was mainly that of co-workers, though we did socialize outside working hours, occasionally indulging in some scandalous behavior such as dancing on the tables (and he did mention a couple other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martanettelfield.wordpress.com&amp;blog=624659&amp;post=591&amp;subd=martanettelfield&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spring 2009 Road Trip – Day Eight, Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 05:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday morning was a repeat of Thursday, except we didn&#8217;t get to the beach until 7:00am. It was still wonderful, but 6:00am was definitely better. Lobo and I once again headed into Stanley Park, this time with camera in hand. I took a lot of pictures, most of them turned out well. The Chrysler dealership [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martanettelfield.wordpress.com&amp;blog=624659&amp;post=588&amp;subd=martanettelfield&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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