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		<title>Suddenly I know what my memoir&#8217;s about</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who needs one more boomer reminiscence? It had to have a thesis.

And then I hit on what I really want to do. I want to talk about the basement of our house with the Frank Zappa poster and the van trips and pot smoking and my brother's fight with the FBI and my eccentric parents and the swimming pool with the frogs in it and my brother's van and everything, but until I thought about the Occupy Wall Street movement and our current national nightmare I didn't see how that all fit in.

Now I do. Here is the story I want to tell. I want to talk about what it's like to be a kid growing up in a country that is scary and doesn't make sense, and how you don't have a program or a blueprint but you know you don't want to live like your parents and don't want to accept what the state and the large businesses have planned for you, so you do something. You put your lives on the line. You take huge risks, forgoing the college career route, forgoing stable housing and family life. You meet passionately with others who see the world the way you do and you ask over and over again what can we do, what can we do, what can we do? 
You don't know how to change the world or where it will lead but you have to do something. And so you are misunderstood and you try things. It makes sense to me why thousands of people would go live in tents in an urban park. It makes sense why thousands and millions would invent new music and a new language and inhabit new emotional spaces. I get that. And I know that I don't have the answers and that nobody is looking for the boomer generation to give them answers.

But I do have experience now. I have a tale to tell about what happens when you are young and wild and free and have no concept of what life will be like in five years, and then five years comes, and 10 years comes, and 20 years comes, and 30 years come.]]></description>
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		<title>What would I do if I had enough money?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting on the john reading some story in the New Yorker and fighting off bullshit thoughts of jealousy and rage and and class resentment thinking, how did I end up doing the workshops and getaways and publishing the books in addition to writing the column and thinking, noble intentions aside &#8212; and I&#8217;m as capable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This WordPress Web site was driving us nuts but now I think we&#8217;re getting the hang of it sort of at least maybe a little bit</title>
		<link>http://carytennis.com/2012/03/20/wordpress-web-site-dumb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Me, I always figure, whatever it is, I can figure it out. And that turns out to be just about the dumbest thing a person can think. I guess it's the kind of dumbness that comes from being smart. Like, if you're dumb and you know you're dumb, you're smarter than half the people around you who are smart and know they're smart but don't know just how dumb they really are. Like if you're dumb enough to be smart about how dumb you are, you'll work around your dumbness. But if you're so smart you think you can figure anything out, you're about the dumbest asshat there is.]]></description>
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		<title>Reflecting on the workshops (Dreaming Aloud)</title>
		<link>http://carytennis.com/2012/03/18/reflecting-workshops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 02:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find it hard not to work. It&#8217;s a Sunday afternoon, Norma and I spent a leisurely brunch time at Zuni with our friend Karen Croft, then hung out at Green Arcade books talking with the bookstore worker who was on duty at the time, Dave, enjoying the wonderfully curated poetry selections and the cool [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OK, I kinda still love San Francisco</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get on the bus in the rain and sit up front in the handicapped and old peoples benches and a guy says nice hat. He&#8217;s wearing a white shirt like he&#8217;s going to work and a black jacket like maybe he used to be a punk and is looking at his cup of coffee like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now I have to write about this</title>
		<link>http://carytennis.com/2012/03/11/write/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So grandeur is vital and without it you shrivel up so last night we ate potluck after the concluding workshop and then OK this morning after weird dreams OK I take my walk the fact being that ever since I was a kid if I don&#8217;t leave the house and get outdoors it&#8217;s like life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey, How&#8217;s QuickPress Work?</title>
		<link>http://carytennis.com/2012/03/04/hey-hows-quickpress-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just gonna type something in here and see what happens. If this is really quick, that&#8217;s great. It&#8217;ll be a lot easier to make posts and stuff.]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Romneyed out. I&#8217;m Newted.</title>
		<link>http://carytennis.com/2012/01/26/im-romneyed-out-im-newted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enough already. Anything would be better than this! Anything! Even Jan Brewer!]]></description>
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		<title>First, do not see Hugo in 3D. Second, obey all traffic signs</title>
		<link>http://carytennis.com/2011/12/22/first-do-not-see-hugo-in-3d-second-obey-all-traffic-signs/</link>
		<comments>http://carytennis.com/2011/12/22/first-do-not-see-hugo-in-3d-second-obey-all-traffic-signs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And if you do go see Hugo and then make an illegal U-turn in front of an angry black SUV, be sure to use the proper hand signal. But first, don&#8217;t see Hugo in 3D. I wonder now if making the illegal U-turn was a symbolic attempt to return to the recent past in which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A romantic wedding tale, or, how the Creative Getaway was born</title>
		<link>http://carytennis.com/2011/12/15/getaway-wedding-tale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norma and I got married in September 1993 at the Cliff House in San Francisco, right there at the mouth of San Francisco Bay, looking out over the Pacific. Norma had this idea that since she was only going to be wearing the wedding dress this one day, and what with all the money that [...]]]></description>
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