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		<title><![CDATA[Lori Borgman: The perils of looking cool]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Five police cars with flashing lights blocked the southern portion of
a major intersection. Broken glass, debris and twisted metal spread as
far as the eye could see. Partial remains of a horribly disfigured SUV
sat on a flat bed. A mangled sedan ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/momsadvice/s-4283324</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/25/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In praise of the nosy neighbor: Why every mystery needs one]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all read a mystery featuring the dreaded curtain-twitcher, a
beady eye sweeping the street, the busybody, the local gossip, the old
lady asking too many pertinent questions for comfort. The nosy neighbor
is instantly recognizable and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/momsadvice/s-4282696</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/24/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['The Scoop' is a sharp, addictive satire of the media machine]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Author Erin Van Der Meer gained insider perspective and in-depth
experience as a journalist, which served her well in writing the
bitingly satirical debut novel, "The Scoop." 

It’s an irresistible, stay-up-late, guilty reading pleasure about
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/momsadvice/s-4282695</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/24/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lori Borgman: Now paging George Washington]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[George Washington is literally in the “pages of history.” A book
on the coffee table has money hanging out of it — not play money, real
money, as in a $1 bill.

I know in an instant the book belongs to a 12-year-old
granddaughter.

The girl ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/momsadvice/s-4278025</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/18/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Frozen fear meets ancient intelligence in 'Icefall']]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a moment early in "Icefall" where an Alaska state
trooper pulls open the door of a stranded Amazon delivery van and finds
the driver catatonic, frozen in place with Sinatra still playing softly
on the radio. It’s a small, eerie image, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/momsadvice/s-4277461</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rachel Lynn Solomon’s 'Extracurricular' delivers smart, swoony romance]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Girl begins to hate job.

Girl quits job.

Girl goes to college for the experience and degree she never had.

Girl matches wits with professor.

Girl and professor… might… like… each other?

Though this is an extremely simplified summary of
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/momsadvice/s-4277460</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lori Borgman: Pocket packers picked a pack of paper napkins]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our nightly dinner routine goes like this: I cook dinner and the
husband sets the table. Last night we had Panera napkins, the night
before we had Subway napkins. We have a drawer full of cloth napkins,
but he prefers to save those until we’ve ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/momsadvice/s-4272959</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Echoes of the 60s: Essential reads from the Vietnam era]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I set out to write "Wayward
Girls," I was pulled into the Vietnam era. My childhood
memories centered around the nightly news with Walter Cronkite. I
wasn’t really focused on the texture of daily life during that seismic
decade: the music, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/momsadvice/s-4272308</link>
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    <pubDate>Aug/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How eating crayons and glue to survive in the desert inspired a novel]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Decades ago, there was a story in Time magazine (Page 98, 1965) about
a family who survived getting lost in the desert by drinking water from
the car radiator and eating crayons. When that issue arrived at our
house, my parents must have talked ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/momsadvice/s-4272307</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Schools keep calling moms, reinforcing old assumptions and roles]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The start of the school year brings a familiar list of
responsibilities for parents: buying school supplies, keeping track of
forms, coordinating transportation and responding to a steady stream of
emails from teachers and administrators.

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/momsadvice/s-4272185</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lori Borgman: Cooking up a way to plan meals]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, when women only a few years older than I am now announced
they quit cooking, I silently judged them. I would think to myself,
“How in the world do you just stop cooking?”

I get it now. They were tired — tired of chicken, tired of...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/momsadvice/s-4267798</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A story of loss and the hard work of carrying love forward]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grief does not always behave like an ending. Sometimes it acts more
like a ride that refuses to stop: the same drops and turns, the same
sickening return to the place where everything irrevocably changed. 

In the latest entry to his “Life and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/momsadvice/s-4267266</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/03/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['Murder at the Hotel Orient' checks readers into a scandalous whodunit]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[If "Murder at the Hotel Orient" were a film, it would be
given an “R” if not an “NC-17” rating, as it is a quite naughty,
although highly entertaining, murder mystery that would be unsuitable
for church or library-based book clubs. The ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/momsadvice/s-4267265</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/03/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lori Borgman: I fought the lawn and the lawn won]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve hit a rough patch over mowing the lawn this summer. The
husband is temporarily sidelined with a knee injury and I cheerfully and
enthusiastically (a slight exaggeration) volunteered to do the
mowing.

We are now engulfed in turf wars. My ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/momsadvice/s-4262732</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/28/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kristin Casey’s fearless memoir of survival and self-worth]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kristin Casey‘s "Casey Dancer" takes on subject matter
most memoirists would soften or sanitize: a return to stripping at 39
after a stalled real estate career, a decade of dating in sobriety and
an eventual pivot into professional companionship...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/momsadvice/s-4262044</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A breakup turns into a nightmare of manipulation and control]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some thrillers begin with a crime scene. "Dawn Before
Darkness" begins with a woman trying to end a relationship without
angering the man on the other end of the phone. That choice — careful,
almost ordinary — tells readers exactly what kind ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/momsadvice/s-4262043</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lori Borgman: When Grandpa toys with parallel parking]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[When my husband was asked if he would help teach twin granddaughters
how to parallel park, he immediately yelled, “Yes!” If there was a
parallel parking competition, my husband could take first place —
unless our son entered the competition,...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/momsadvice/s-4257370</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['Dog Days': Emily LaBarge on trauma writing and trauma reading]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s often assumed that to write a good memoir, a writer must have
something happen to them. Something big, juicy, and traumatic. Something
unbelievable that really happened to you. Emily
LaBarge is here to critique this idea.

In her memoir, "...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/momsadvice/s-4256762</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Regency meets road rage in 'Fast and Fastidious']]></title>
		<description><![CDATA["Fast and Fastidious" is an absolutely smashing and highly
entertaining genre-defying first novel by R.M. Caldwell, a pseudonym for
New Zealand theater director and escape room puzzle designer. 

The author has described it as a “mash-up of '...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/momsadvice/s-4256761</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lori Borgman: This gardener has more seeds than sense]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[My philosophy concerning a garden is the same as my philosophy toward
dessert — there’s always room for a little more.

It didn’t take long this spring before I realized I was sowing too
many seeds in too little space. Then a light bulb ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/momsadvice/s-4252157</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/14/2026</pubDate>
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