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		<title>August 7, 2011 – EYE OF THE TIGER!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 02:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was my 1st triathlon and a VERY BIG day for me!  Caregiver survives, Triathlete emerges…  [WATCH VIDEO]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=franklyspeakingalz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9281957&amp;post=1093&amp;subd=franklyspeakingalz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>July 4, 2011 – To Those Who Have Served</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(FRANK H. FIREK, AIRMAN 1st CLASS, U.S. AIR FORCE) Independence Day brings reflection and pride.  I think of my dad who proudly served his county (Airman 1st Class, The U.S. Air Force) and believed that it was simply part of his duty to preserve this privilege and comfort called the USA to which so many of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=franklyspeakingalz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9281957&amp;post=1059&amp;subd=franklyspeakingalz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>June 22, 2011 – AMAZING THINGS ARE HAPPENING</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will be forever grateful to Karen Drew, Reporter, with the local Detroit NBC affiliate, WDIV-Channel 4.  She aired an AMAZING story tonight about my personal journey with Alzheimer’s and how I’m turning it into a movie bound for submission into Sundance Film Festival! It’s incredible for me to see this vision that was born [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=franklyspeakingalz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9281957&amp;post=892&amp;subd=franklyspeakingalz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6/18/11 &#8211; Who&#8217;s Story Is This?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started blogging years ago, I wasn’t sure where my story was heading.  I was clear, though, that it was a story about my dad living with Alzheimer’s.  I gave some backstory and then used the blog to report on my dad’s health status.  It was only over time that I truly realized what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=franklyspeakingalz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9281957&amp;post=801&amp;subd=franklyspeakingalz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>June 3, 2011 &#8211; Dr. Jack Kevorkian dies peacefully listening to Bach</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 18:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find Dr. Kevorkian’s life interesting and the specific ending to his life compelling.  Intriguing.  Mysterious. I mean, after his staunch support of assisted suicide over the years, I half expected him to go out with a bang – a final thumbing of the nose to the government system he found so overbearing or a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=franklyspeakingalz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9281957&amp;post=772&amp;subd=franklyspeakingalz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>May 15, 2011 – Pull yourself together and DO SOMETHING!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 03:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The famous words of my best friend, Jacquelyn Pierce, 4 long years ago.  Sobbing on her couch, reeling from my dad’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, overly consumed by the disease destroying our family, she literally SCREAMED me into action! It took a few days, but once her words sank in, I started rolling a (borrowed) camera.  I had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=franklyspeakingalz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9281957&amp;post=763&amp;subd=franklyspeakingalz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>March 19, 2011 – FULL MOON RISING</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 02:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it’s the small things that become a BIG deal.  Like the MINI-TRIATHLON I’m training for!  (You ask, Have you ever done anything even remotely like this before in your LIFE??  Heck, no!) My goal the past year has been BALANCE.  Achieving it and keeping it.  After my long few years of soul-searching, I now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=franklyspeakingalz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9281957&amp;post=739&amp;subd=franklyspeakingalz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>October 31, 2010 &#8211; America, Land That I Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cowboys have a classic stereotype of being tough, but I&#8217;m here to tell you that they&#8217;re really softies inside!  I think Dad knew the truth &#8211; he always wanted to grow up to be a cowboy.  Which makes this tale even better! [CLICK THUMBNAIL BELOW TO WATCH VIDEO]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=franklyspeakingalz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9281957&amp;post=728&amp;subd=franklyspeakingalz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>October 27, 2010 – CLEAN SLATE OF THE MOON</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>franklyspeakingalz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think this is the first month-anniversary of Dad passing during which I haven’t cried.  And considering it’s 11:36pm, I think odds are good I’ll make it through the whole day with dry eyes!  ;) Two months ago, I think I would’ve felt guilty about that.  But I don’t feel guilty.  Nor do I feel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=franklyspeakingalz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9281957&amp;post=720&amp;subd=franklyspeakingalz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>August 27, 2010 – MY AXIS IS STEADYING</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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