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		<title>Christmas Eve mystery? I should think not</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 01:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Pinneo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Precisely three minutes and 12 seconds after finally tucking the over-tired boys into bed, Philo got up and innocently announced from the top of the stairs, &#8220;Mommy, my loose tooth fell out!&#8221; And yet this, I suspect, was his diabolical plan all along: to wait until Christmas Eve, and there in the stillness of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lukeonfatherhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6971875&amp;post=1574&amp;subd=lukeonfatherhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Tips for Buying a Child&#8217;s Guitar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Pinneo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine recently posted to Facebook, saying he was looking to buy his 8-year-old daughter a new guitar for Christmas, and wondering if anyone had suggestions. Having been asked this question many times, I thought I would share a bit of what I&#8217;ve learned over the years. I&#8217;ve played for more 20 years, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lukeonfatherhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6971875&amp;post=1563&amp;subd=lukeonfatherhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Americans are hungry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Pinneo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans are hungry. Worse than war, wherein countrymen bind together against a common enemy, hunger pits brother against brother, mother against child. It erodes neighborhoods and rips at the fabric of society in destructive ways that war cannot. Americans are hungry. Not for food (some are) but for things. We hunger for this, and we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lukeonfatherhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6971875&amp;post=1557&amp;subd=lukeonfatherhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parties Agree to Unconditional Peace Treaty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Pinneo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PINNEO HOME, Va. (Nov. 13, 2011) &#8211; After months of amassing a razor-sharp army and a crushing armada, and in spite of recent weeks of boiling tensions between the Bounty Hunter/White Knight Coalition and the Maniacal Horde Forces of Terror, we are pleased to announce that tonight after dinner, diplomacy ruled the day upstairs in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lukeonfatherhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6971875&amp;post=1578&amp;subd=lukeonfatherhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When words end</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Pinneo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Father/Son moment of insight tonight: There comes a time in every deep discussion between a father and son (read: heated argument) when words should simply cease, resolution notwithstanding &#8211; not because we give up on resolution, but because there comes a time when words should give way to silent reflection on what the other has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lukeonfatherhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6971875&amp;post=1549&amp;subd=lukeonfatherhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Relationships (all of them)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Pinneo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the time my oldest son could understand, I began to teach him that all living things on Earth exist within three primary forms of symbiotic relationships. I explained the &#8216;mutualistic,&#8217; in which both organisms benefit from each each other. I explained &#8216;commensalism,&#8217; where one benefits while the other does not but is not harmed. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lukeonfatherhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6971875&amp;post=1533&amp;subd=lukeonfatherhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Save tomorrow, today.</title>
		<link>http://lukeonfatherhood.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/save-tomorrow-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Pinneo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember some years ago, I was working a PR campaign for the U.S. Coast Guard. Because of some unimaginably high adult drowning statistic, we were tasked with trying to come up ways to get more people to wear life jackets. At some point, during these meetings, we concluded that we would just give up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lukeonfatherhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6971875&amp;post=1527&amp;subd=lukeonfatherhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching my kids to speak the truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Pinneo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: So when he came home, I told him I shared our story with some of my online parent friends. He was not really happy about that at all. &#8220;What?!&#8221; he said. &#8220;I thought you said you weren&#8217;t going to tell anyone?! I thought that was just between us &#8230; you lied!&#8221; Ouch. He went [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lukeonfatherhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6971875&amp;post=1518&amp;subd=lukeonfatherhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Child Development and Epigenetic Theory</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Pinneo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Luke Pinneo (Academic summary, written June 27, 2008) Few ideas have adversely distorted western society so much as Sigmund Freud’s audacious claims. This assignment, I am aware, is not the place to elaborate this point, but it’s important for me to illustrate my distain for Freud in order to fully convey my appreciation of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lukeonfatherhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6971875&amp;post=1512&amp;subd=lukeonfatherhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to earthquake proof your furniture</title>
		<link>http://lukeonfatherhood.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/how-to-earthquake-proof-your-bookshelves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Pinneo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever we stare a natural phenomenon in the face, like say, a 5.8 magnitude earthquake, we often wonder, &#8220;how can I keep my family safe?&#8221; As I type this, I would estimate that there are no less than a quarter of a million articles hitting the web right now about being prepared for earthquakes. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lukeonfatherhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6971875&amp;post=1500&amp;subd=lukeonfatherhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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