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		<title>Saying Kaddish For My Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve always been pretty organized. I’m just one of those, “A place for everything and everything in its place,” people. I like clear plastic storage containers and laminating label makers. I like hanging folders, color-coded files, and multi-sheet shredders. I like alphabetical bookshelves, DVD racks, and CD stacks. I like drawer organizers, shoe racks, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inappropriateoutburst.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5794325&amp;post=273&amp;subd=inappropriateoutburst&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Black Hole</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, one of my favorite bloggers, Jenny Lawson (aka: The Bloggess) came out publicly about her struggles with crippling depression and self-harm issues. Her naked honesty and raw expression of pain was intimate, arresting, and bravely self-aware. Thousands of people were moved by her words, writing, via site comments, direct messages, and emails, to this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inappropriateoutburst.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5794325&amp;post=264&amp;subd=inappropriateoutburst&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Takes A Village</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, I began guest blogging about life as a special-needs parent for Momnificent!, an outstanding site and business run by Family Success Specialist and Life Coach, Lori Radun. Here&#8217;s an excerpt of this week&#8217;s post. Follow the link at the end to read the rest at Momnificent.com! It Takes A Village People say it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inappropriateoutburst.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5794325&amp;post=258&amp;subd=inappropriateoutburst&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I May Have Gotten Donald Duck Fired, But It Totally Wasn’t My Fault</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, this summer, Marty and I got brave. Or stupid. Or maybe a little of both. Anyway, we decided to take the kids to Disney World, which is, after all, only two hours away in Orlando. Now, I grew up in southern California in what used to be a little town but is now a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inappropriateoutburst.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5794325&amp;post=235&amp;subd=inappropriateoutburst&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And Then This Lady Sang The SpongeBob Song,  And I Almost Ran Out The Door Screaming</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My recent post about lying via omission to maintain the social contract and my sanity has me thinking about all the ways I have to be less honest than I’d like, specifically when it’s for the benefit of my children, who, ironically, I do want to raise to be honest people. This week, it took [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inappropriateoutburst.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5794325&amp;post=211&amp;subd=inappropriateoutburst&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Kind of Hate You. Also, I’m A Total Liar.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first time I intentionally told a complete and total lie, I was four. My sister and I were playing in our brown-shag-carpeted family room in upstate New York, and we decided it would be a really, really good idea to play with the broom, which probably wasn’t the worst idea except that we were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inappropriateoutburst.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5794325&amp;post=205&amp;subd=inappropriateoutburst&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And Then I Sent My Girlfriend A Custom-Embroidered Chicken Towel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, I was rather appalled to learn that my girlfriend, Nicole, hated to read. Granted, she’s a civil engineer by trade. A linear thinker. A planner. A fact-loving, solution-needing, draw-a-rectangle-around-the-answer, math-excelling kind of woman. She’s the girl who hated me in high school for interrupting Advanced Algebra class to ask, “When will we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inappropriateoutburst.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5794325&amp;post=192&amp;subd=inappropriateoutburst&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I am Alice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, I began guest blogging for Momnificent!, an outstanding site and business run by Family Success Specialist and Life Coach, Lori Radun. I&#8217;ll be posting about life as a special-needs parent on Lori&#8217;s blog once a month for now, and I&#8217;ll share links here. Here&#8217;s an excerpt of this week&#8217;s post. Follow the link [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inappropriateoutburst.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5794325&amp;post=186&amp;subd=inappropriateoutburst&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RIP Barbie</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first time I ever spent my very own hard-earned money for something special, I was eight. Having pretty much never paid for anything in my life, I’d saved up quite a few dimes from my weekly 20-cent allowance (earned through such thoroughly backbreaking activities as feeding the dog and setting the dinner table). I spent an evening counting the disgorged contents of my yellow ceramic ducky bank, stacking until I had 17 neat little towers of ten dimes apiece. I was feeling fairly full of myself for having saved such a fortune, quite adult and responsible, and then I begged, badgered, and bugged my mom until she agreed to take me to Toys ‘R Us.

When we finally arrived at that Nirvana of Plastic Kids’ Stuff, I rushed to the Barbie section where I found her: a “Loving You” Barbie Doll. She was the most magnificent Barbie I’d ever seen. Lavishly shod in the equivalent of 6-inch white Stripper Heels, Barbie wore a puff-sleeved, heart-dotted, ankle-length white chiffon gown with a breath-defyingly tight red velvet bodice. She was bedecked in gigantic fake ruby earrings and a matching ring that was, in reality, a plastic red dot on a stick that went through a hole in her hand and got lost in my brown shag carpet within the week. She was a living Valentine with Barbie’s trademark blonde hair in an I-Dream-of-Jeannie ponytail. She was gorgeous and perfect and completely inappropriate for playtime. I absolutely had to have that doll.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inappropriateoutburst.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5794325&amp;post=170&amp;subd=inappropriateoutburst&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Screw Holland</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 22:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long after my son Will was diagnosed with autism just shy of his second birthday, someone sent me this little bit of prose called “Welcome to Holland.” It basically equates having a special-needs child to having your travel plans messed up. Go ahead and read it. I’ll wait.

(Insert favorite muzak here.)

Done? Ok. So, when I first read “Welcome to Holland,” our whole household was in crisis. About to have Baby #2 (aka: Julia), we were grasping at straws, looking for any kind of comfort or hope or promise that there was some light at the end of this tunnel. No, not even that. I was just looking for someone to tell me we were truly in a tunnel and not, as I feared, in an inescapable abyss. In that desperate state, “Welcome to Holland” seemed like a really nice little anecdote. I thought it had been written by a parent of a child with autism (I was wrong), and I took her words to mean that things do get better with time and acceptance (I was right).

So, time passed, and my feelings on this changed. And by “time,” I mean about three weeks. And by “changed,” I mean that when I reread the Holland story, I thought something along the lines of, “Screw Holland. This story is a complete load of minimalizing crap.” From then on, whenever anybody started recommending I read this very lovely bit of Pollyanna-style, all-things-happen-for-a-reason, the-world-is-made-of-marshmallows, illogical bullshit, I simply declined. Pressed for my opinion on the essay, I said it reminded me of a religious answer to a scientific question: it sounds really nice and makes sense…if you don’t really think about it too hard.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inappropriateoutburst.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5794325&amp;post=160&amp;subd=inappropriateoutburst&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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