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		<title>Doc doesn’t charge extra</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 16:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of us who call this little valley home have a unique blessing in the form of Perry, our dentist. Yes, when we go to get the fangs fixed up at O’Dontall Dental, down in the old brick building near the office of the Valley Weekly Miracle, the grinding and scraping and numbing and lip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emily wants to help Dewey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emily’s dilemma was obvious: how do you sell manure? Since she fell in love with Dewey Decker, she could think of nothing less than spending her life with him and embracing the fertilizer business whole hog, so to speak. Emily Stickles has never done anything halfway. In her job with the county, she has kept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dewey needs to think bigger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I don’t know about all this, Honey,” Dewey said. “It sounds pretty complicated. The way it is now, I go shovel manure into my pickup, drive to someone’s garden, and … safely … use the dump bed of the truck to put it on the ground. I get paid by the feed lot to clean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They all had famous names</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln Bahdziewicz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bahdziewicz clan trooped into the Mule Barn for lunch the other day, happily and noisily as only eight Americans totally in love with spring can do. The patriarch of the clan, Abraham Lincoln Bahdziewicz, led the way to a large round table and seated his wife, Sally, before pointing to which chairs the kids [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emily has some ideas for Dewey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were a bit perplexed … stunned, really … when we poured into the Mule Barn truck stop coffee shop at the crack of dawn and saw our fertilizer mogul, Dewey Decker, in earnest conversation at a booth with his girlfriend, Emily Stickles, and they had papers on the table wedged between the coffee cups [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irma has daylight all figured out</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Irma has it figured out. She’s a bona fide, egg-laying member of the “Production Red” hen sorority and she knows her rights. This is really remarkable when you consider the braincase of your average barnyard chicken is wedged between some feathers and those big expressionless eyes and has about the same capacity for rational thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks Marsh for your service</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We buried Marshall Sprack last Saturday, and we will miss him. Ol’ Marsh was the cheerful old-timer who could be seen each day walking his two tiny dogs around the neighborhood. He always had a smile and wave for everyone. He was a very private guy, however. We all knew him, but didn’t really know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here are your coot lessons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It occurred to me the other day just what a blessing it is to be a grandfather. The children think we’re all powerful, a fount of knowledge and wisdom. Then they turn three … We could all use coot lessons. Yes, the enigmatic old coot in every small town like ours has wisdom corralled, knowledge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you feeling that itch for spring?</title>
		<link>http://www.madison-press.com/2013/03/feeling-itch-spring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you feel that itch coming on? It’s time, you know. See the kids out flying kites? That’s a sign. See little green bladelets in the lawn. That’s a sign, too. It’s almost full spring, and that itch tells us it’s time to do something. This is when we need to forget almost all our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dud wants to write Celtic music</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I believe I’ll write some Celtic music,” said Dud one morning at the world dilemma think tank down at the coffee shop. “I’ve been studying it.” “I didn’t know you were Celtic,” Steve said. “I’m not, but I do get occasional bouts of depression and that qualifies me. I’ve thought about it a lot. Maybe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dud wants to write Celtic music</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I believe I’ll write some Celtic music,” said Dud one morning at the world dilemma think tank down at the coffee shop. “I’ve been studying it.” “I didn’t know you were Celtic,” Steve said. “I’m not, but I do get occasional bouts of depression and that qualifies me. I’ve thought about it a lot. Maybe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dud still trying to figure out his book</title>
		<link>http://www.madison-press.com/2013/02/dud-figure-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weather warmed up the other day. On the weekend, where it would do the most good. And Dud Campbell dressed warmly and went out for a walk. His eyes saw our town, the old, dead, brick drugstore on the corner with the clock that hadn’t worked since the invention of daylight savings time, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windy sure has a way with words</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Windy walked into the Mule Barn during that cold snap last week, we knew he was getting frantic for an audience. He has a hard time getting us to listen to his version of history, his notions of what was going on now, and his prognostications of the future of mankind. But it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let’s go down Geezer Hill</title>
		<link>http://www.madison-press.com/2013/02/let%e2%80%99s-geezer-hill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bona-fide members of the Mule Barn truck stop’s philosophy counter and world dilemma think tank adjourned early Saturday to reconvene at the top of Geezer Hill. That wasn’t its real name, of course. It didn’t have a real name. It wasn’t much of a hill, either. More like a 20 foot elevation. The youngsters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delbert tries to come up with new ideas</title>
		<link>http://www.madison-press.com/2013/01/delbert-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delbert McLain came by to have coffee with us the other day. He’s our chamber of commerce, you know. And he ties fishing flies, but doesn’t fish. Delbert’s mission in life seems to be to promote our little valley into becoming so important and prosperous that we won’t want to live here anymore. But he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We can give each other special little memories</title>
		<link>http://www.madison-press.com/2013/01/give-special-memories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are winter mornings so heartbreakingly special? They’re sure cold, at least around here. And with the snow you’d think they’d be white, too. But they aren’t, are they? In the morning there is a tinge, a golden … no a yellowish cast to the snow, the sky, and the trees. It is more like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billy preferred the company of two cats when it was cold</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem was Billy, you see. Billy’s our town dog, ever since Sally passed away quietly on Doc’s porch, and Billy’s owner, Stewart Simpson, died two weeks later. The people who inherited Stew’s house didn’t particularly enjoy having Billy around, and Billy appeared to feel the same way about them, so he became our dog. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We’ll hope the next year is better</title>
		<link>http://www.madison-press.com/2013/01/we%e2%80%99ll-hope-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it’s cold, build a fire in the fireplace, or the wood-burning heater, or maybe just light a candle and look in the flames, look deep in the flames for the answers. I’ve always believed they are there, and this time of year is a time for questions. It is a time to weigh the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make resolutions you can keep</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Annette George, owner of the Soup ‘R Market, picked up the list of her New Year’s resolutions: 1. Replace cracked glass on the meat cooler. 2. Walk two miles each morning before work. 3. Lose 15 pounds by summer. 4. Take a class in Spanish. She thought about the kind of person she’d be at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why does Dud even bother explaining to Herb</title>
		<link>http://www.madison-press.com/2012/12/dud-bother-explaining-herb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Twas the morning after Christmas, and all through the Mule Barn truck stop’s philosophy counter … “Happy Boxing Day!” said Herb, settling in and flipping his cup to the upright and fillable position. “Boxing Day?” said Steve. “It certainly is,” Herb said. He’s like that … a lot. We looked at each other. Doc put [...]]]></description>
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