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		<title>Conversations with My Mother: A Year Later: An Exposition on Grief</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago today my mom died on an unimaginably beautiful autumn day. I started Conversations with my Mother as a way to capture her spirit and life and to share the ways in which she could surprise so many &#8230; <a href="http://condofire.com/2011/10/09/conversations-with-my-mother-a-year-later-an-exposition-on-grief/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=condofire.com&#038;blog=566573&#038;post=3298&#038;subd=condofire&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forced Relaxation: Now that I&#8217;m over the terror I love it!</title>
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		<title>Conversations with my mother: Oh Tessie, isn&#8217;t this great!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For my mom, the little Dutch girl. Often when I was a young girl my mother would look at the incredible dinner we were eating and say, &#8220;Ohhhh Tessie, look at this. This isn&#8217;t so bad at all. If only &#8230; <a href="http://condofire.com/2010/12/23/conversations-with-my-mother-oh-tessie-isnt-this-great/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=condofire.com&#038;blog=566573&#038;post=2457&#038;subd=condofire&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conversations with my mother: How Grief is Like a Super Nova</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is December 1st 2010. Today is also the day that a new person will be moving into Apt.301 371 Lakeshore Road West, my mother&#8217;s apartment. It feels weird to think that 40 years of living have drawn to a &#8230; <a href="http://condofire.com/2010/12/01/conversations-with-my-mother-how-grief-is-like-a-super-nova/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=condofire.com&#038;blog=566573&#038;post=2329&#038;subd=condofire&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conversations with My Mother: Things I&#8217;ve learned from Rosie</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mom died in the amazing Dorothy Ley Hospice on Saturday October 9th in the late afternoon. It was a brilliantly beautiful fall day and she had her family by her side. Dorothy Ley lies somewhere just outside Port Credit &#8230; <a href="http://condofire.com/2010/10/16/conversations-with-my-mother-things-ive-learned-from-rosie/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=condofire.com&#038;blog=566573&#038;post=2137&#038;subd=condofire&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The truth is that dying hurts. It hurts for the person who is dying and it hurts for the people around that person.  I&#8217;ve learned that it&#8217;s hard watching the body of a person with an alert, active mind, slowly &#8230; <a href="http://condofire.com/2010/09/23/dying-isnt-for-the-faint-of-heart/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=condofire.com&#038;blog=566573&#038;post=2087&#038;subd=condofire&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ring ring: Tessa: Hello Rosie: Gaboodle Tessa: Gaboidle Rosie: My mutha Tessa: Is a toitle After my mother and I get our traditional greeting out of the way, I wonder why Rosie is calling me for the third time this &#8230; <a href="http://condofire.com/2007/11/01/conversations-with-my-mother-the-neighbour/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=condofire.com&#038;blog=566573&#038;post=295&#038;subd=condofire&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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