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		<title>A departure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 14:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Crawford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The offerings have been pretty sparse from these parts over the past week or so, and there’s a reason for that. Last Sunday night, Delbert Crawford, my grandfather, died at a little after 11 o’clock, at 102 years of age. My earliest memories of him are of his hands. Holding some toy or other we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericgcrawford.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6064382&amp;post=670&amp;subd=ericgcrawford&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>While the poet slept . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Crawford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another brief retreat from the world of sport. Last year I spoke to a college writing class and, perhaps unsuccessfully, tried to relate to its students the relevance of poetry in their lives. It can be present, I told them, in the lyrics from their iPods or the taps of their Twitter posts. I told [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericgcrawford.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6064382&amp;post=490&amp;subd=ericgcrawford&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Planes, trains (of thought) and automobiles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Crawford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I missed my grandfather&#8217;s 102nd birthday celebration on Sunday because of mechanical problems on an airplane in Providence, R.I. There was, in that, a fleeting shadow of the transcendental. When my grandfather was born, there was no such thing as a commercial airplane flight. The Wright Brothers, in fact, were not only alive and kicking, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericgcrawford.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6064382&amp;post=470&amp;subd=ericgcrawford&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Footprints of a wandering mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Crawford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not big on New Year&#8217;s resolutions. In fact, I don&#8217;t make them. I intended to make an exception this year when a local magazine asked me to submit a few, and I did take a thoughtful stab at it, but to no good purpose. I am, it seems, resolute, in my anti-resolution stance. My [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericgcrawford.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6064382&amp;post=463&amp;subd=ericgcrawford&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas recollection: Santa Scores</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 02:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Crawford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I usually try to post a little extra on here at Christmastime, but haven&#8217;t gotten around to it this year. So to kick things off, this column I wrote in the Christmas Eve, 2007, edition of The Courier-Journal _________________ By ERIC CRAWFORD Dec. 24, 2007 Dear Santa, I&#8217;ve not written you for a long while, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericgcrawford.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6064382&amp;post=437&amp;subd=ericgcrawford&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Byron Crawford&#039;s &quot;Kentucky Footnotes&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Crawford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The book, as they say, has dropped. Well, at least it has dropped into the lap of its author, and soon will be available to the public, including folks who attend the Kentucky Book Fair on Saturday, Nov. 13, at the Frankfort Convention Center. (The fair runs from 9 to 4:30, admission is free.) Byron [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericgcrawford.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6064382&amp;post=429&amp;subd=ericgcrawford&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A brief political interlude</title>
		<link>http://ericgcrawford.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/a-brief-political-interlude/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Crawford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Off the field again, in another rare non-sports, non-newspaper foray into the real world. Sometimes when you&#8217;re a sportswriter, you watch what&#8217;s going on around you in &#8220;real&#8221; life and realize that the biggest games are nowhere near a playing field. The NFL, for instance, is all up in arms over the subject of head [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericgcrawford.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6064382&amp;post=418&amp;subd=ericgcrawford&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Report: What I&#039;m reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 06:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Crawford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I walk into bookstores and know that I should welcome the &#8220;Nook&#8221; and other e-reading devices that stop you just a few feet inside the door; and I definitely know the newspaper industry should be embracing that technology, wherein consumers are already used to paying for content. But I can&#8217;t see myself ever using one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericgcrawford.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6064382&amp;post=406&amp;subd=ericgcrawford&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lanyard ho! Buses taking education for a ride</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Crawford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another of my rare, non-scheduled and non-newspaper forays into the land of local news: It was the first day of public school here in Possibility City, and the kiddos learned a new vocabulary word: Lanyard: noun, a cord passed around the neck, shoulder or wrist for holding a knife, whistle, or similar object. Origin: From [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericgcrawford.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6064382&amp;post=351&amp;subd=ericgcrawford&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After the flood</title>
		<link>http://ericgcrawford.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/after-the-flood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Crawford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Floods come in different depths and types. This one came from the water heater. The water rose maybe an inch, then receded into the carpet. My office was the least-damaged of the basement rooms. Still, today my job on the first day of vacation was to empty it, which meant the evacuation of hundreds of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericgcrawford.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6064382&amp;post=334&amp;subd=ericgcrawford&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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