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	<title>Cracked Window &#187; Lake Sybelia</title>
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		<title>No One Chooses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly a decade ago, a sudden medical problem made me afraid I was going to die on the spot. What had I done to deserve the infamy of croaking in Costco? ]]></description>
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		<title>Snow Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one is happier about Portland&#8217;s record December snowfall finally melting than our Irvington neighborhood Gnome. There was more than enough white stuff to fill his tree-trunk abode, so I&#8217;m assuming people kept his doorway sufficiently cleared so he could maintain his perpetual southeasterly gaze from our block. At least the Gnome didn&#8217;t have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time capsule of what?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve made it halfway through a movie that uses my childhood home on a Central Florida lake as a main setting. One of my brother&#8217;s bought the DVD after I learned of the film and wrote about it. So far it&#8217;s like glancing around a museum I visited a long time ago, a familiar building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decades later, an answer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took more than a half-century, but I finally learned why we ended up living on a lake in Central Florida during my childhood. Not one house but three as we moved clockwise around Lake Sybelia in Maitland from the late 1950s to 1970. At his eightieth birthday party a week ago, my father recounted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dogs back in the picture</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two dogs and water. Enough to bring to mind my dogs, not in a Portland fountain but following me forever ago as I race off a boathouse roof. A kid leaping toward a Florida lake below, the dogs airborne too. Sadie and Rogue followed my two brothers and me everywhere, including Lake Sybelia in Maitland. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fish feast of memory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The media feeding frenzy over tiny carp performing pedicures strikes me as gluttonous as the fish themselves. Then again the story&#8217;s a talker, an offbeat news morsel. (How many bad food puns can I stuff in these sentences?) At the gym today, I couldn&#8217;t escape the story. It beamed from two TV screens. But I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirate of memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m stealing a memory. It belongs to my youngest brother. The memory is about Gertrude, a row boat that Bill found submerged in our lake in Florida when we were kids. He and a friend somehow hauled her to shore, patched a hole in the bottom, and retrofitted her into a floating fort. When they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shimmering portal to distant past</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer stars greet the sun today &#8212; freshly opened blossoms in my Portland teardrop pond. I&#8217;ll wade in and reward my babies with fertilizer pellets. But I&#8217;ll be tempted to disappear beneath the lily pads into my past. As a kid living next to Lake Sybelia in Maitland, Florida, my two brothers and I endlessly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 16:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How strange to stumble upon photos of my childhood house of the 1960s on a movie web site. I was searching Google images for a picture of Lake Sybelia in Maitland, Florida. Once a quaint hamlet of citrus trees and lakes, Maitland was long ago consumed by the tourist monster that ate Orlando. During my [...]]]></description>
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