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		<title>Does size matter (in marriage)?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 09:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Smith Molinari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaf through any wedding magazine, and you’ll think you deserve only the best for your big event. It’s a once in a lifetime thing, after all, so you shouldn’t waste this opportunity to treat yourself, right? Sure. A humongous ring, a gazillion roses, pure silk, fine china, cut crystal, surf and turf, spa treatments, and &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themeatandpotatoesoflife.com&#038;blog=10523332&#038;post=2790&#038;subd=middleagemuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Bottom Drawer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 15:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Smith Molinari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ironically, there are benefits to moving so often as a military family. Every few years, we’re forced to go through all the used markers, pillowcases, snow boots, kitchen utensils, Barbies, tae kwan do trophies, tax records, and saucepans, and throw a bunch of stuff out. As a person who attaches sentimental value to everything from &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themeatandpotatoesoflife.com&#038;blog=10523332&#038;post=2756&#038;subd=middleagemuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Battery by blender</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 09:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Smith Molinari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“MOLINARI!” the ER nurse bellowed, jolting us out of our waiting room stupor. Tearing our eyes from hypnotic crime show reruns playing on the wall-mounted television, we scrambled to move our 12-year-old daughter, who’d been placed in a wheelchair to elevate her lacerated foot. “So, what happened?” the nurse asked. “It was the blender,” I &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themeatandpotatoesoflife.com&#038;blog=10523332&#038;post=2717&#038;subd=middleagemuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Culture or Torture? Lessons learned while traveling with kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Smith Molinari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April is the month of Spring Break, and Spring Break is a time for travel! The possibilities are endless: a Caribbean cruise, camping in the mountains, sight-seeing in Rome, hiking the Appalachian Trail, a B&#38;B in the French countryside. Simple, adventurous or extravagant, a change of scenery takes you from the late winter doldrums into &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themeatandpotatoesoflife.com&#038;blog=10523332&#038;post=2711&#038;subd=middleagemuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">My column in the April issue of Military Spouse Magazine!</media:title>
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		<title>Revival of the Fittest: Marriage and the common cold</title>
		<link>http://themeatandpotatoesoflife.com/2013/04/08/revival-of-the-fittest-marriage-and-the-common-cold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Smith Molinari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m about to make a highly inflammatory, clearly sexist, certainly offensive generalization. Readers will undoubtedly gasp at my insensitivity, and offer a myriad of anecdotal evidence to the contrary. But deep down in the recesses of our hearts and minds, in the spaces not corrupted by contrived societal notions of “equality” and “fairness,” we all &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themeatandpotatoesoflife.com&#038;blog=10523332&#038;post=2700&#038;subd=middleagemuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Easter to our deployed soldiers and sailors!</title>
		<link>http://themeatandpotatoesoflife.com/2013/03/30/happy-easter-to-our-deployed-soldiers-and-sailors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 07:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Smith Molinari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Related articles &#8220;For the love of candy&#8221;  (www.themeatandpotatoesoflife.com) Tagged: deployed troops, Happy Easter, military<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themeatandpotatoesoflife.com&#038;blog=10523332&#038;post=2685&#038;subd=middleagemuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To heel or not to heel, that is the sandwich</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Smith Molinari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Welcome to Subway, may I take your order?” “Sure, I’ll take a tuna on wheat, toasted, please.” While the polite but pierced teen prepared my favorite sub, I chatted with my husband, who was next up. “So Hon, did you like that new club deli meat I put in your lunch today?” “That sandwich had &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themeatandpotatoesoflife.com&#038;blog=10523332&#038;post=2670&#038;subd=middleagemuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>She&#8217;ll do it</title>
		<link>http://themeatandpotatoesoflife.com/2013/03/18/shell-do-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Smith Molinari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Husband comes home from work, carrying dirty coffee cup. Entering kitchen, he sees that everything is neat, tidy, and put away. Sink is empty, Counters are wiped. The aroma of dinner emanates from the oven. Standing equidistant to dishwasher and sink, husband thinks, “She’ll do it.” He puts dirty cup in sink and heads for &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themeatandpotatoesoflife.com&#038;blog=10523332&#038;post=2657&#038;subd=middleagemuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">&#34;Who&#039;s gonna ride the roller coaster with me?&#34;Weeeeee!</media:title>
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		<title>I can&#8217;t wait to move!</title>
		<link>http://themeatandpotatoesoflife.com/2013/03/10/i-cant-wait-to-move/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Smith Molinari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, first, there’s the heat. The year-round, thick, hot, humid, gnat-infested, sweat producing, Florida heat. The lousy palm trees certainly don’t do much to shade us from the relentless sun around here – I swear, it shines about 300 days a year! I don’t know how the locals can take it.       And then &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themeatandpotatoesoflife.com&#038;blog=10523332&#038;post=2647&#038;subd=middleagemuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">My column in the March Issue of Military Spouse Magazine!</media:title>
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		<title>When the lights go out at Disney . . .</title>
		<link>http://themeatandpotatoesoflife.com/2013/02/25/when-the-lights-go-out-at-disney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Smith Molinari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a daydream I had while waiting in line for 90 minutes at Space Mountain . . . .  An hour after the last mouse-eared, turkey-leg-filled, balloon-carrying tourist leaves the parking lot, the Magic Kingdom is cloaked in darkness and silence. But at the forested edge of the park, muffled voices gather, a &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themeatandpotatoesoflife.com&#038;blog=10523332&#038;post=2608&#038;subd=middleagemuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I love being ordered around</title>
		<link>http://themeatandpotatoesoflife.com/2013/02/17/why-i-like-being-ordered-around/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Smith Molinari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To everyday civilians, “the pursuit of happiness” typically involves career, home, love, and family. It’s no different for military families, with one important exception: ORDERS. Unlike their civilian counterparts, active duty servicepersons must pursue their happiness within the strict confines of written military orders, which are lengthy documents that appear to be written in alien &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themeatandpotatoesoflife.com&#038;blog=10523332&#038;post=2595&#038;subd=middleagemuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another year of yo yo dieting?</title>
		<link>http://themeatandpotatoesoflife.com/2013/02/11/another-year-of-yo-yo-dieting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Smith Molinari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s the most commonly broken New Year’s resolution? You guessed it – LOSE WEIGHT. You start out with the best intentions, but along the way, something always goes wrong… After emerging, bulging and gassy, from the egg-nog-spiked holiday season, with a veritable cheese ball lodged in your ever-expanding gut, you decide, enough is enough. You &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themeatandpotatoesoflife.com&#038;blog=10523332&#038;post=2578&#038;subd=middleagemuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Moody Foodie</title>
		<link>http://themeatandpotatoesoflife.com/2013/01/28/the-moody-foodie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Smith Molinari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foodies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keeping it real]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local foods]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ll try anything once. Well, maybe not cliff diving, or running with the bulls, or a Mohawk hairdo, or snorting angel dust, or silicone lip injections. But when it comes to food, I’m totally adventurous. When our military family moves to a new place, I’m always excited to try the local cuisine. Sometimes, our experimentation &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themeatandpotatoesoflife.com&#038;blog=10523332&#038;post=2562&#038;subd=middleagemuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m not worthy! Or am I &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://themeatandpotatoesoflife.com/2013/01/24/im-not-worthy-or-am-i/</link>
		<comments>http://themeatandpotatoesoflife.com/2013/01/24/im-not-worthy-or-am-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Smith Molinari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Meat &#38; Potatoes of Life reader, Here&#8217;s the thing: I&#8217;m totally out of my league. Or at least that&#8217;s what goes through my mind when things like this happen to me. Call me whiney, insecure, crazy, certifiable, clinically psychotic with latent violent tendencies, WHATEVER&#8230;. but any time other people say I am &#8220;good&#8221; at &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themeatandpotatoesoflife.com&#038;blog=10523332&#038;post=2554&#038;subd=middleagemuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Wondering</title>
		<link>http://themeatandpotatoesoflife.com/2013/01/20/winter-wondering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Smith Molinari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Snowdays]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love snowy white winters, but ever since the Navy moved us to Florida, the only flakes we see are floating in milk-filled cereal bowls. So, I sit on my sunny screened porch in January, surrounded by green grass, ocean breezes, and palm trees, and I dream of snow. I know, I know, that’s nuts. &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themeatandpotatoesoflife.com&#038;blog=10523332&#038;post=2396&#038;subd=middleagemuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Working out a time to workout</title>
		<link>http://themeatandpotatoesoflife.com/2013/01/13/working-out-a-time-to-workout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Smith Molinari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Did this thing shrink?” I think to myself, while stuffing the relevant bits and pieces into my sports bra. I had resolved to drop a few excess pounds after the holidays, and putting on workout clothes was half the battle. “Now I have to exercise today,” I mumble before trudging to the kitchen for coffee. &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themeatandpotatoesoflife.com&#038;blog=10523332&#038;post=2366&#038;subd=middleagemuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Keys to Happiness in 2013</title>
		<link>http://themeatandpotatoesoflife.com/2013/01/07/the-keys-to-happiness-in-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Smith Molinari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we milspouses board life’s runaway train for another year of twists and turns and ups and downs, we can’t help but wonder, “Will this ride be better than the last?” We make resolutions, set goals, and hope for the best, but so many factors are simply beyond our control. The economy, deployments, orders, our &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themeatandpotatoesoflife.com&#038;blog=10523332&#038;post=2358&#038;subd=middleagemuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Renew Year</title>
		<link>http://themeatandpotatoesoflife.com/2012/12/24/happy-renew-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Smith Molinari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of sounding like an old coot who walked uphill to school both ways, I must confess, I’m tired of new. Sure, modern technology, progressive thinking, and scientific advancements have enabled our society to do more, but what if I just want to do less in 2013? Maybe I’m not smart enough (a &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themeatandpotatoesoflife.com&#038;blog=10523332&#038;post=2336&#038;subd=middleagemuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Holiday Games</title>
		<link>http://themeatandpotatoesoflife.com/2012/12/16/the-holiday-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Smith Molinari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the holidays &#8212; that wonderful time of year, when selfish materialism and greed are banished as we ring in The Season of Giving. Right? . . . Well, not quite. While it’s true that even Scrooge himself can’t resist gift giving during this time of year, there’s a persistent evil lurking at holiday get-togethers &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themeatandpotatoesoflife.com&#038;blog=10523332&#038;post=2326&#038;subd=middleagemuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do you see what I see?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Smith Molinari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the Navy ordered us to live in sunny Florida, I just can’t seem to locate it. I keep waiting for Marley to show up at my bedroom door, but where will I find Christmas Spirit in the meantime? Growing up in idyllic small-town western PA, finding Christmas Spirit was easy. All I needed &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themeatandpotatoesoflife.com&#038;blog=10523332&#038;post=2315&#038;subd=middleagemuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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