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		<title>Top Ten Reasons Charlotte is My Favorite Airport</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[10. Giant aircraft mobile. 9. Sushi. 8. Hardly anybody working there speaks English. 7. A man playing a grand piano. 6. Trees inside the airport. 5. Natural light through huge south-facing windows. 4. Electrical outlets for charging my laptop. 3. Unlimited free internet. 2. Very clean restrooms with complimentary mouthwash and breath mints. 1. Always [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimpfitzer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3793129&amp;post=212&amp;subd=jimpfitzer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kings, Queens, Popes, and Jesters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have all heard that George Washington was offered the position of king, and turned it down. Of course historians debunk this notion as flatly as the idea that the young George “could not tell a lie,” and confessed to chopping down a cherry tree. And who doesn’t remember Camelot? I wasn’t born until 1967, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimpfitzer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3793129&amp;post=205&amp;subd=jimpfitzer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crossing the Road&#8211;A Chicken&#8217;s Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;m posting old articles, I thought y&#8217;all might enjoy looking back at this one&#8211;also from the Pulse. &#160; “The ground was frozen solid so I couldn’t bury her,” she began slowly. “It was during that week of sub-freezing weather…” Her voice trailed as she thought back to the trying morning in question. “It took [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimpfitzer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3793129&amp;post=202&amp;subd=jimpfitzer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Locavore Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year about this time, I was asked by the Chattanooga Pulse to write a cover story for their Thanksgiving issue. I thought it might be nice to re-post that article here. I hope you find inspiration for a great local Thanksgiving dinner of your own. A Locavore Thanksgiving In 2007 Ben Zimmer, editor of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimpfitzer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3793129&amp;post=197&amp;subd=jimpfitzer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soup, Scotch, Whiskey, and Beer! (Oh My!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received a text from my host in Minneapolis yesterday afternoon informing that she would be later than planned by an hour or so. “Shall I make supper?” “Sure!” My offer came without much (any) thought. Tracy had been out of town for a week prior to my arrival, so I was pretty certain there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimpfitzer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3793129&amp;post=181&amp;subd=jimpfitzer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here Comes the Goony Bird, and I say&#8230; It&#8217;s Alright!</title>
		<link>http://jimpfitzer.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/pondering-the-goony-bird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The boat mustn’t have been more than sixteen feet long but from my perch in the bow, my father who sat on the rear bench, his right hand on the steering arm of the fat green Johnson Outboard with the Cadillac-like wings, could not have been farther away. The drone of the motor made conversation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimpfitzer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3793129&amp;post=173&amp;subd=jimpfitzer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>eddying out</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t see these friends often. Most of them I only visit with for about twenty-four hours each fall when we gather for an overnight paddle on the Wisconsin River between Baraboo and Madison, WI. All men, all paddling solo canoes, the 12-15 of us make quite a caravan on the river. We begin around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimpfitzer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3793129&amp;post=168&amp;subd=jimpfitzer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eating on the Road</title>
		<link>http://jimpfitzer.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/eating-on-the-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sun is setting as I leave my hotel room for a bite to eat. After ten hours in the car today I was determined not to drive any more. I will walk to supper. It is pleasantly chilly—a perfect evening for hoofing it in Peoria, IL, but I’m hungry and tired. I don’t want [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimpfitzer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3793129&amp;post=162&amp;subd=jimpfitzer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Dilemma</title>
		<link>http://jimpfitzer.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/morning-dilemma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 7:00 in the morning, with whippoorwills calling, dew on the grass, hot coffee on my desk and ideas in my head, whether to go for a walk or to continue writing is no easy decision to make. I weigh my options. Two days ago, about this same time of morning, a light rain falling, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimpfitzer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3793129&amp;post=158&amp;subd=jimpfitzer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>September Thanks</title>
		<link>http://jimpfitzer.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/september-thanks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is September in Tennessee and, unlike in so many of our northern states where the sumacs have been bright red for a couple weeks already, we are still in the dog days of summer. Temperatures are still routinely in the nineties and summer crops, after months of oppression, have mostly given in. If we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimpfitzer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3793129&amp;post=153&amp;subd=jimpfitzer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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