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		<title>Two Mommies and An Auntie</title>
		<link>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/05/10/two-mommies-and-an-auntie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 02:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Swartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please indulge me as I celebrate some women in my family who are helping to raise the next generation. Our daughters, the three sisters. Two mommies and an auntie. I’m not sure how they learned to act so naturally skilled around babies and small children. Only one was a regular baby sitter. I think it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frontline Report from War on Women</title>
		<link>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/05/03/frontline-report-from-war-on-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 18:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Swartz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[My So-Called Retirement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We picked up protest signs from young women on our way to the Capitol in Sacramento. The signs said Stop the War on Women and were distributed by Rock the Slut Vote. Rock the Slut  supports birth control, reproductive health and according to its website, all women who believe in raising independent daughters. It also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuns, Caterpillars and Sluts</title>
		<link>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/04/25/nuns-caterpillars-and-sluts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Swartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a new bumper sticker &#8211; Our Bodies, Our Votes. And a pink t-shirt that says Women are Watching. I plan on collecting more protest gear on Saturday at the national march against the War on Women. I’ll be at the one in Sacramento. I’m hoping to find a little something that speaks back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Til Grout Does Us Part &#8211; The Cleaning Couple</title>
		<link>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/04/20/til-grout-does-us-part-the-cleaning-couple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Swartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many aging Boomers we have downsized.  It began with the house.  Years ago we sold our rural home and moved into town into a modest abode, so small that my husband likes to stand in the intersection between the living room and kitchen and point out that from there you can see every room [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Are the 51 percenters</title>
		<link>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/04/08/we-are-the-51-percenters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Swartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three of us were sitting in a friend’s kitchen talking about the alarming state of vaginal politics when our friend’s husband walked in and said, “What’s wrong with you women? You are 51 percent of this country. How can you let this happen?” He’s a good guy, a feminist in plumber’s clothes, on our side. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Suffer from Old Hands?</title>
		<link>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/03/28/do-you-suffer-from-old-hands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/03/28/do-you-suffer-from-old-hands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Swartz</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.juicytomatoes.com/?p=1137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago I interviewed a cosmetic surgeon and asked if there was anything left on the face to remodel and he said, maybe foreheads. I flinched. Who worries about their forehead? Didn’t anyone ever hear of bangs? Then along came Botox and now, I read that the newest part that needs upgrading is our [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Roaring Back and the War on Women</title>
		<link>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/03/21/roaring-back-in-the-war-on-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/03/21/roaring-back-in-the-war-on-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Swartz</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.juicytomatoes.com/?p=1107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The continuing war on women makes me think of the relative who comes to dinner and talks stupid.  An Uncle Ralph with his tired sexist jokes. Others roll their eyes but give him a pass because the poor guy never caught up with the times and can’t help himself. He’s just harmless Uncle Ralph trying [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lilly and Sandra Speak Out, Make History</title>
		<link>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/03/08/lilly-and-sandra-speak-out-make-history/</link>
		<comments>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/03/08/lilly-and-sandra-speak-out-make-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Swartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lilly Ledbetter talks about the shame she felt when she realized after 19 years of working at Goodyear Tire and Rubber that all that time she was paid 15 to 40 percent less than her male coworkers doing the same job. She had worked hard, been promoted and received good performance reviews. But until an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Seasoned Voice for the Occupy Movement</title>
		<link>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/03/02/a-seasoned-voice-for-the-occupy-movement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/03/02/a-seasoned-voice-for-the-occupy-movement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Swartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The woman with the white hair in flowered turtleneck and jeans standing on the corner in front of the Occupy Sebastopol tent is quite aware of her relevance. “I think it’s important that I’m here,” says Geneva Folsom who is 89 and knows she adds a respectable senior visual to the movement that some detractors [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Still Mad about the Pill</title>
		<link>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/02/23/still-mad-about-the-pill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Swartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I get it. It’s a 50 year old grudge. They’re still mad about the Pill. The birth control pill turned the power game upside down more than 50 years ago and some people are still honked off about it.  Reliable woman-controlled contraception changed many things.  The Pill became forever linked to the sexual [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Not Another Order of Freedom Fries</title>
		<link>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/02/11/not-another-order-of-freedom-fries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Swartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a themed dinner party we brought dishes based on our individual heritage which is why our gastronomical surprise included Sephardic meatballs, sauerkraut, chopped liver and Rhum Babka.   It’s such an American thing, to dredge up treasures from the Old World. And that is why it’s perplexing when Republican presidential candidates who want to lead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Less Book Store</title>
		<link>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/02/05/one-less-book-store/</link>
		<comments>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/02/05/one-less-book-store/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Swartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The used book store in my town closed last week because the landlord raised the rent. At the last day half-price sale I picked up a Charles Dickens&#8217; which seemed fitting in the soon-to-be orphaned space. Books were off the shelves. Shelves off the walls. Unsold books were piled on makeshift plywood carts, no longer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planned Parenthood Helps Make Babies, Too</title>
		<link>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/01/29/planned-parenthood-helps-make-babies-too/</link>
		<comments>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/01/29/planned-parenthood-helps-make-babies-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Swartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in high school there was a girl in my English class who “got in trouble” and was sent away to visit her aunt in some far off state.  We were scandalized.  Did she have an abortion? Who took the baby? How could she let this happen, we whispered, as if we never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tune Out, Turn Off, Go Find a Whale</title>
		<link>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/01/22/tune-out-turn-off-go-find-a-whale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/01/22/tune-out-turn-off-go-find-a-whale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Swartz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[My So-Called Retirement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This new concern about our electronic addiction and how we should temper the tweets, take a Facebook fast, is an idea that doesn’t take much prompting for me to friend. Of course, my generation doesn’t need as much encouragement to unplug. I wear a watch. I read books on paper. I do love my smart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Women are Watching</title>
		<link>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/01/14/the-women-are-watching/</link>
		<comments>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/01/14/the-women-are-watching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Swartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood has come up with a big pink sign that it plants next to Republican campaign placards. It says, “Women are Watching.” There’s been plenty for women to keep an eye on.  The Republican chant to take this country back apparently includes taking back some basic reproductive rights for women. We’ve heard it before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jilted by the New York Times</title>
		<link>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/01/05/jilted-by-the-new-york-times/</link>
		<comments>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2012/01/05/jilted-by-the-new-york-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Swartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[My So-Called Retirement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Santa_Rosa_Press_Democrat]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.juicytomatoes.com/?p=930</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in a long time the newspaper didn’t arrive that morning. Was not waiting at the foot of the stairs. Never got spread across the kitchen table. So it seemed a cosmic fluke or unhappy coincidence that by noon that day the word was out that our newspaper had been sold. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Warm Gift on a Cold Night</title>
		<link>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2011/12/20/a-warm-gift-on-a-cold-night/</link>
		<comments>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2011/12/20/a-warm-gift-on-a-cold-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Swartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthy Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My So-Called Retirement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sonoma_County]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[teenagers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day’s Ceres menu included sole with spinach, shitakes and goat cheese. And lentil soup with beets and coconut milk. Food designed to lift the spirit as much as provide healthy nutrients to bodies that need some special tending. The meals that went out that night and every week, delivered to homes throughout Sonoma County, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Voiceless in Immigration Debate</title>
		<link>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2011/12/15/the-voiceless-in-immigration-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2011/12/15/the-voiceless-in-immigration-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Swartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books and Movies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the film Illegal Belgian police board a plane handcuffed to an undocumented immigrant they are escorting out of the country. The weeping woman cries out that she is being forced to leave her child and the other passengers immediately side with her. They berate the immigration officers who are ordered off the plane by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Are These Rich Guys?</title>
		<link>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2011/11/28/who-are-these-rich-guys/</link>
		<comments>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2011/11/28/who-are-these-rich-guys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Swartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[99_percent]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.juicytomatoes.com/?p=899</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The rich and powerful don’t want to pay any more taxes. In fact they think they should  pay less. And if it means that the streets fill with even more pain and suffering…and protesters… too bad. They’ll just build a bigger moat. Do you believe that? I don’t. At least I don’t want to. Yet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pass the Heartburn</title>
		<link>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2011/11/20/pass-the-heartburn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2011/11/20/pass-the-heartburn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Swartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think about this every Thanksgiving. Somewhere a woman is crying. Some of you understand her suffering. It is gravy time. The turkey is out of the oven and waiting to be sculpted by some proud swashbuckler. The mashed potatoes are fluffed and sitting patiently. Aunt Stephanie’s creative broccoli and a Cranberry Something are lined [...]]]></description>
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