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		<title>Doctors with empathy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Six months ago my son&#8217;s father-in-law suffered a massive heart attack requiring emergency intervention and four stents. Feeling short of breath a few weeks ago, he visited his Cardiologist and, within three days, had an urgent quadruple bypass. This man has a zest for life that I have personally never seen in another person. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marshajacobson.com/2011/10/20111018doctors-with-empathy/</link>
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		<title>Choosing Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many eons ago I dragged myself through a master&#8217;s degree in clinical psychology. There were six of us in the program and no one was happy. We were all at various stages of questioning our lives. For some of us it was life in general and it&#8217;s purpose and for others it was the ability [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marshajacobson.com/2011/05/20110509choosing-life/</link>
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		<title>Parenting Trends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Has anyone noticed how parenting ideas swing back and forth over the generations, but when we&#8217;re in it, we somehow fail to recognize this fact? Take independence for example. In my grandparents&#8217; day, children of five were expected to pull their weight with responsibilities that would make us gasp today. The generation after that seemed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marshajacobson.com/2011/02/20110208parenting-trends/</link>
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		<title>A small act of kindness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yikes! Has it been this long since I blogged?! With four children, my husband (sometimes as demanding!), a dog and a guinea pig, I find I am constantly putting off my stuff. I was determined to blog, meditate and work on my book today but once again I had to reorganize my plans to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marshajacobson.com/2011/01/20110113a-small-act-of-kindness/</link>
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		<title>It only takes a second to freak out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the delights of children is that they say it like it is. As an adult, before kids, I thought I had a good handle on my life and a fairly accurate understanding of human functioning. What I had was a story of how I believed things should be. There were right ways to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marshajacobson.com/2010/11/20101108it-only-takes-a-second-to-freak-out/</link>
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		<title>Omg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a long time now I have understood that I am not one whole person but rather a sum of many. I&#8217;ve learned to listen to my inner voices and to recognize who&#8217;s making the most noise. I know how to take my &#8220;prophet of doom,&#8221; or as I fondly call him, my &#8220;grim reaper,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marshajacobson.com/2010/10/20101004omg/</link>
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		<title>What do I do!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forms! I hate them! My husband cannot understand my reticence to fill out forms. I&#8217;ve never really understood it until recently. While I have only called myself a &#8220;writer&#8221; in recent years, I think I have always thought like one. I&#8217;ve never been one to put into written words, thoughtless material. I contemplate and often [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marshajacobson.com/2010/09/20100914what-do-i-do/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m  going batty! Please help!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After 4 days of bat terror, we finally felt safe and convinced that said bat had left the premises. Last night during America&#8217;s got talent, right in the middle of a particularly high rendition of operatic singing, the black terror of the night appeared (from nowhere), sending Russ and I under the covers and Adam [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marshajacobson.com/2010/08/20100812im-going-batty-please-help/</link>
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		<title>More back surgery and contemplations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Usually, when I sit down to write something, I have been inspired to do so. Today, not so. My son is going in tomorrow for a second back surgery. Since the last one some five months ago, he has not been pain free. However, a few weeks ago his bearable pain crossed the line into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marshajacobson.com/2010/08/20100808more-back-surgery-and-contemplations/</link>
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		<title>The demise of medicine in Canada</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With experience, I do not see things more simply but realize that they are more complex than we can grasp. My growth as a human being is often more about understanding what things aren&#8217;t rather than what they are. For example, I choose a more holistic approach towards my body because I realize that no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marshajacobson.com/2010/06/20100628the-demise-of-medicine-in-canada/</link>
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