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	<description>Austin, Texas novelist Ruth Pennebaker, who&#039;s old enough to call herself &#34;fabulous,&#34; writes about family, politics, marriage, friendship, feminism, aging and whatever else occurs to her.  Her upcoming novel, What Did I Do to Deserve This?, will be published by Berkley in early 2011.</description>
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		<title>By: R. Ian Boren</title>
		<link>http://www.geezersisters.com/about-2/comment-page-1#comment-4833</link>
		<dc:creator>R. Ian Boren</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello, again, Ruth.
Subsequent to my recent post (minutes ag0) I did read some of your blog and have a query regarding your &quot;silent sister&#039;s&quot; occupation in Poland.

Perhaps, a ponderous thing to submit, but I am only enquiring about referential data.

Loathing what I do as I do (previous comment) I am wont to emigrate. Because each of my ancestors of one generation ago were from Poland did that note on your site captivate my attention. Although I have begun investigations related to said ancestry, the possibility to teach English in Poland (converse to the less appealing versions in Japan/China/elsewhere) appeared as a surprisingly option.

Therefore, the enquiry—providing you are comfortable, and willing to reply with such information—is whether there is an agency to which your sister subscribed and, thus, was hired to teach there.

To wit: A facility to capitalize upon , perhaps, so to migrate. Providing what qualifications I possess would render that feasible.
If the request is not excessive, please respond.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello, again, Ruth.<br />
Subsequent to my recent post (minutes ag0) I did read some of your blog and have a query regarding your &#8220;silent sister&#8217;s&#8221; occupation in Poland.</p>
<p>Perhaps, a ponderous thing to submit, but I am only enquiring about referential data.</p>
<p>Loathing what I do as I do (previous comment) I am wont to emigrate. Because each of my ancestors of one generation ago were from Poland did that note on your site captivate my attention. Although I have begun investigations related to said ancestry, the possibility to teach English in Poland (converse to the less appealing versions in Japan/China/elsewhere) appeared as a surprisingly option.</p>
<p>Therefore, the enquiry—providing you are comfortable, and willing to reply with such information—is whether there is an agency to which your sister subscribed and, thus, was hired to teach there.</p>
<p>To wit: A facility to capitalize upon , perhaps, so to migrate. Providing what qualifications I possess would render that feasible.<br />
If the request is not excessive, please respond.</p>
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		<title>By: R. Ian Boren</title>
		<link>http://www.geezersisters.com/about-2/comment-page-1#comment-4832</link>
		<dc:creator>R. Ian Boren</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello, Ruth.

Did I not just relish your article, &#039;The Mediocre Multitasker&#039; in the New York Times; the language and the meaning. I am an amateur writer, which may be evident, who loathes—no, detests!—corporate, American, oligarchy. I am not intending, however, to write about that. Well, not much.

What I, too, found refreshing was the denunciation of their queer institution. Of many, a singular bane, peculiar to modernism, but—as I believe—peculiarly generated by corporations to extract more from humans than is humanely considerable, in smaller and smaller time frames, and, subsequent to their most recent contraction of the workforce, from fewer and fewer individuals. I think that generalises my meaning enough.

Otherwise—which is the motive for my response—I loved you writing style. I have not read more of it online (I am not much a fan of reading anything online, although I do love to write.). Notwithstanding, I thought your writing was elegant, fittingly—if at all, insufficiently—sardonic, and ideally intelligent.

If my email is not, also, hidden from your view you are invited to respond.
 
 
 
 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello, Ruth.</p>
<p>Did I not just relish your article, &#8216;The Mediocre Multitasker&#8217; in the New York Times; the language and the meaning. I am an amateur writer, which may be evident, who loathes—no, detests!—corporate, American, oligarchy. I am not intending, however, to write about that. Well, not much.</p>
<p>What I, too, found refreshing was the denunciation of their queer institution. Of many, a singular bane, peculiar to modernism, but—as I believe—peculiarly generated by corporations to extract more from humans than is humanely considerable, in smaller and smaller time frames, and, subsequent to their most recent contraction of the workforce, from fewer and fewer individuals. I think that generalises my meaning enough.</p>
<p>Otherwise—which is the motive for my response—I loved you writing style. I have not read more of it online (I am not much a fan of reading anything online, although I do love to write.). Notwithstanding, I thought your writing was elegant, fittingly—if at all, insufficiently—sardonic, and ideally intelligent.</p>
<p>If my email is not, also, hidden from your view you are invited to respond.<br />
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		<title>By: Carin Rubenstein</title>
		<link>http://www.geezersisters.com/about-2/comment-page-1#comment-4783</link>
		<dc:creator>Carin Rubenstein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ruth:
Just saw your piece in the NYTimes and wanted to say &#039;hi&#039;!  We met years and years and years (and years) ago, at a beach (maybe) meeting of social psychologists.  I was a very young student, there with my future husband, Dave, and I met Jamie and you. (I think?)
Anyway, tell him I say &quot;hi,&quot; plus, I have a new book coming out next week, called &quot;The Superior Wife Syndrome.&quot;  If you&#039;d like to get a (free) review copy, let me know and I&#039;ll see if I can get my publisher to spring for one!
By the way, your story about multitasking was funny and great!
Carin Rubenstein</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ruth:<br />
Just saw your piece in the NYTimes and wanted to say &#8216;hi&#8217;!  We met years and years and years (and years) ago, at a beach (maybe) meeting of social psychologists.  I was a very young student, there with my future husband, Dave, and I met Jamie and you. (I think?)<br />
Anyway, tell him I say &#8220;hi,&#8221; plus, I have a new book coming out next week, called &#8220;The Superior Wife Syndrome.&#8221;  If you&#8217;d like to get a (free) review copy, let me know and I&#8217;ll see if I can get my publisher to spring for one!<br />
By the way, your story about multitasking was funny and great!<br />
Carin Rubenstein</p>
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		<title>By: Wendy White Polk</title>
		<link>http://www.geezersisters.com/about-2/comment-page-1#comment-4371</link>
		<dc:creator>Wendy White Polk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ruth, 
Nice to see you also survived being in the employ of a certain university system. Any plans to come out to the real West Texas? I&#039;m the editor of El Paso Inc. now and enjoy reading Texas Observer, and now your blog!
Wendy 




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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ruth, <br />
Nice to see you also survived being in the employ of a certain university system. Any plans to come out to the real West Texas? I&#8217;m the editor of El Paso Inc. now and enjoy reading Texas Observer, and now your blog!<br />
Wendy </p>
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		<title>By: Charlene Volpert</title>
		<link>http://www.geezersisters.com/about-2/comment-page-1#comment-4070</link>
		<dc:creator>Charlene Volpert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 02:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi,
I&#039;ve missed reading you since you left the Dallas area although I&#039;d get a wiff of you different places. Great to find your blog!

Charlene</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi,<br />
I&#8217;ve missed reading you since you left the Dallas area although I&#8217;d get a wiff of you different places. Great to find your blog!</p>
<p>Charlene</p>
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		<title>By: Duchess</title>
		<link>http://www.geezersisters.com/about-2/comment-page-1#comment-2292</link>
		<dc:creator>Duchess</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Msg from a friend who reads my blog but emails rather than comments: 
Who&#039;s Ruth Pennebaker who quotes E. A. Robinson entire?  Sounds like my kind of woman.

I did tell him he ought to write that in the comment box.  Meanwhile I have passed on your blog url.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Msg from a friend who reads my blog but emails rather than comments: <br />
Who&#8217;s Ruth Pennebaker who quotes E. A. Robinson entire?  Sounds like my kind of woman.</p>
<p>I did tell him he ought to write that in the comment box.  Meanwhile I have passed on your blog url.</p>
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		<title>By: ruthpennebaker</title>
		<link>http://www.geezersisters.com/about-2/comment-page-1#comment-2208</link>
		<dc:creator>ruthpennebaker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mei -- That&#039;s great to hear.  Thank you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mei &#8212; That&#8217;s great to hear.  Thank you.</p>
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		<title>By: Mei</title>
		<link>http://www.geezersisters.com/about-2/comment-page-1#comment-2207</link>
		<dc:creator>Mei</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I recently came across your blog from another blogger. Can&#039;t remember who. I found your title interesting and had a fun time reading your blogs when I clicked thru it. I&#039;m now a follower and have subscribed to your RSS.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently came across your blog from another blogger. Can&#8217;t remember who. I found your title interesting and had a fun time reading your blogs when I clicked thru it. I&#8217;m now a follower and have subscribed to your RSS.</p>
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		<title>By: Winston</title>
		<link>http://www.geezersisters.com/about-2/comment-page-1#comment-1852</link>
		<dc:creator>Winston</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just discovered your blog via a Boomer blog.
Not since the venerable Jean Kerr have I enjoyed the female observation of life so delightfully written!
The RSS feed is a must for me!

Thank you!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just discovered your blog via a Boomer blog.<br />
Not since the venerable Jean Kerr have I enjoyed the female observation of life so delightfully written!<br />
The RSS feed is a must for me!</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Pickel</title>
		<link>http://www.geezersisters.com/about-2/comment-page-1#comment-1490</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael Pickel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Ruth, Just a &quot;shout out&quot; to let you know how much I enjoyed reading your item, &quot;They&#039;re Just Not That Into Us Anymore&quot; in the recent &quot;Texas Observer.&quot;  As a native Texan, living away, I share your thoughts.  What a breath of fresh air.  

Thank goodness for people like you and The T.O. to keep &quot;expat&quot; Texan like myself reminded that our home state hasn&#039;t gone totally &quot;red&quot; and crazy (we&#039;ll it&#039;s always been a little crazy, all that heat, I guess)  and that there is still a bit of that refreshing &quot;blue&quot; to be found.

Anyway, thanks and keep up the good work!

Michael in Falmouth, Maine</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Ruth, Just a &#8220;shout out&#8221; to let you know how much I enjoyed reading your item, &#8220;They&#8217;re Just Not That Into Us Anymore&#8221; in the recent &#8220;Texas Observer.&#8221;  As a native Texan, living away, I share your thoughts.  What a breath of fresh air.  </p>
<p>Thank goodness for people like you and The T.O. to keep &#8220;expat&#8221; Texan like myself reminded that our home state hasn&#8217;t gone totally &#8220;red&#8221; and crazy (we&#8217;ll it&#8217;s always been a little crazy, all that heat, I guess)  and that there is still a bit of that refreshing &#8220;blue&#8221; to be found.</p>
<p>Anyway, thanks and keep up the good work!</p>
<p>Michael in Falmouth, Maine</p>
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