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	<title>Daddy Scratches &#187; Family</title>
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	<description>Watch as 40-year-old suburban husband, father and writer with delusions of grandeur has a meltdown before your very eyes.</description>
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		<title>At last, the big birthday post &#8230; except, not really</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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And now, finally, a birthday tale.
Except, not the big 40th-birthday-gala tale I keep promising and then never deliver. No, that again has been pushed back.
Seriously, though: I wasn&#8217;t just fucking with you when I said I planned to finally write and post that 40th-birthday-gala tale this past Saturday (although it did make for a mildly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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As promised, here&#8217;s the annual Scratches Family Christmas Photo with Santa.
What&#8217;s most impressive about this year&#8217;s photo is the fact that, unlike last year&#8217;s, I didn&#8217;t have to airbrush anyone&#8217;s face &#8230; my own included &#8230; which is nice, because, with my 40th birthday right around the corner, a second-consecutive year of needing to Photoshop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Ho Ho Ho-down, and some Yo Yo Yo for good measure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, a final two-fer and then I&#8217;m done with this tomfoolery.
Did I mention that, much like Marie Osmond, I&#8217;m a little bit country? No? Well, with good reason &#8230; because I can&#8217;t stand country music (unless it&#8217;s Willie Nelson, but that&#8217;s only because he&#8217;s my imaginary surrogate grandfather, which is a story for another time) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Wish You a Scratchy Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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Can we carry a tune, or what?
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		<title>Saturday Night Christmas Eve Fever</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;d stay and type something to go along with this, but I have to go change my pants &#8230; because I just pissed myself from laughing so hard.
PS: You can make one of your own here. So totally worth the effort. (And special thanks to The Bloggess for bringing this to my attention. You rock, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comin&#8217; down the mountain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After inadvertently helping my kids to determine that nature sucks, I, in the hopes of not ending our mini-vacation on a sour note, pointed the car north, and, a short while later, arrived at Attitash ski resort &#8212; which, during the off-season, it turns out, is converted into a summer playground.
The main attraction? An alpine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look at all the gorgeous wonders of nature, kids! Kids? Hello?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Travel tip for all you parents out there: If you&#8217;d like to take your kids on a nature hike to see a spectacular waterfall in the mountains, don&#8217;t do it less than 24 hours after taking them to an enormous amusement park, because if you do, your kids will tell nature to go suck it.
Yes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Summer Vacation, Part III</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With two previous Bethany Beach vacations under our collective belt, we had it down to a science this year.
Firstly, that whole &#8220;driving from Boston to Delaware in one fell swoop&#8221; thing? Yeah, F that. 
My in-laws live in the Philly area, so we drive there and back several times per year. The kids have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Summer Vacation, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
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By the time our frantic quest to keep Zan&#8217;s bladder from exploding led us to a horse ranch in the Bronx (I swear to god), we were about seven hours into our 2007 journey home from Delaware &#8212; and I had decreed that I would never again consent to a family roadtrip longer than that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Summer Vacation, Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty-eight weeks and five days; that&#8217;s how long it&#8217;ll be before The Scratches Family heads back to the beach house for our annual vacation. You know, not that I&#8217;m looking forward to it or anything.
But instead of looking ahead to next year, let us back up a bit, for I am sure you all want [...]]]></description>
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