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		<link>http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/09/1980/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Strasser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; I’m standing on the set of a television show, crammed into a burnt orange maternity dress and exposing my cankles in a pair Fit-Flops — the only shoes that still fit — feeling sweat drip down my spine while experiencing a mild contraction. It’s the final rehearsal before the launch of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Past That Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 18:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Strasser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is some unwritten statute of limitations on how long one can whine about a crappy childhood, a negligent parent, a few too many chicken pot pies, summers with the grandparents, days spent on Greyhound Busses and with dubious caregivers and creepy neighbors. There is just a moment in an adult’s life when the complaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pregnant Again: It&#8217;s A Do Over</title>
		<link>http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/04/pregnant-again-its-a-do-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Strasser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’d like to go to my senior prom again, but not be blackout drunk with a 26 year-old date. For a brief period during which I hosted a basic cable decorating show, I was kind of famous. I wish I could be famous again, without having to emotionally implode from the cognitive dissonance of thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insert Freakishly Small Hand Gesture Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Strasser</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bully]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[self-doubt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It had never come to my attention before a certain freckle-faced, scrawny, corduroy-pants-wearing bully named Robin brought it to my attention: I have freakishly small hands. I have hands like a carnie. I blame the bullies I knew before Robin for being off their game and letting the small hands slide. A bully’s whole raison [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Can’t Be the Badly Dressed Mom at Pick-Up Time</title>
		<link>http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/04/i-cant-be-the-badly-dressed-mom-at-pick-up-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Strasser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raising toddlers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shame]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I stopped home to change my outfit before picking up my kid from daycare. What, because you never know who might snap a photo as I lure my child into his car seat with the whispered promise of a Grover juice box? No one cares. Except now that I’m a parent, I care deeply [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>When an Audition Makes you Feel Like Coco From &#8220;Fame&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/03/when-an-audition-makes-you-feel-like-coco-from-fame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Strasser</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raising toddlers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-doubt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[show business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toddlers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[working moms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Coco is approached in a diner by a filmmaker who tells her he is casting a film he plans to shoot in the south of France. She goes to his apartment for a screen test, but there is no crew. And if you saw the movie “Fame,” this scene is as seared in your [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Some Half-Baked Class I Took With My Kid</title>
		<link>http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/03/some-half-baked-class-i-took-with-my-kid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Strasser</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-doubt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toddler]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a mom looking for shit to do with a toddler, I’ve kissed some frogs, and not just the kind at the zoo’s house of amphibians. I try stuff. You never know what your kid might go for. And that’s how I came to visit the private home of a woman offering a bread baking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mental Illness Happy Hour</title>
		<link>http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2012/03/the-mental-illness-happy-hour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Strasser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental illness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[podcast]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I recorded an episode of &#8220;The Mental Illness Happy Hour&#8221; with host Paul Gilmartin. I&#8217;ve gotten so much lovely feedback from those who have heard it, I thought I would post a link here. Also, I understand from social media experts it&#8217;s good to update one&#8217;s blog quarterly. I must admit, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Does a Perfect Childhood Make You Soft?</title>
		<link>http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2011/11/does-a-perfect-childhood-make-you-soft/</link>
		<comments>http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2011/11/does-a-perfect-childhood-make-you-soft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Strasser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ask this question during my fourth go-round with the song, “Ghostbusters.” It’s playing in the industrial parking lot of a quaint Pennsylvania suburb where a group of elementary school children are having a Halloween parade. An amplifier is perched on a chair, an orange extension cord leading to a cute schoolhouse, complete with glimmering [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kid Pro Quo &#8211; You Throw a Party, I Better Throw One, Too</title>
		<link>http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2011/08/kid-pro-quo-you-throw-a-party-i-better-throw-one-too/</link>
		<comments>http://teresastrasser.com/blog/2011/08/kid-pro-quo-you-throw-a-party-i-better-throw-one-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Strasser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bad Moms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birthday parties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Craziness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motherhood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a social contract when it comes to birthday parties for kids. You can&#8217;t just be a recurring guest, enjoying the bouncy houses, gift bags and balloon animals arranged and paid for by other parents. No, you have to reciprocate. Like it or not, there&#8217;s a kid pro quo. Other parents helped you kill a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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