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	<description>thoughts on abilities, love, and other details of life on earth</description>
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		<title>independent</title>
		<link>http://wordsmythe.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/independent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago, I would have written a very different post on this day. The symbolic gesture could not have been coincidental: why else would he have chosen that day to move out?
Independence had a somewhat different meaning for me then. Before then, I had felt free, only realized I was not when I started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>hnt: pig</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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Pig is ready with the enchiladas.

Enchiladas are served.
And now, the hnt part: 

Enchiladas are gone.
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		<title>enchilada</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[enchilar &#8220;1. to season with chiles; 2. (Mexico) to annoy; 3. to sting, burn.
A simple meal in the final execution, the preparation of enchiladas in my house was a labor of love. On a busy evening, it could be quick: a jar of sauce, pre-grated cheese, onion, whatever else was left to throw in, roll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>dependent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[dependence]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When M. failed to answer the door, her daughter did not find anything strange. It was often that the old woman was napping, or upstairs and not quick to descend. A key turned the door, and all in the house was quiet. Did M. have an appointment she forgot to mention? Had a neighbor called? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>hnt: realizations</title>
		<link>http://wordsmythe.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/hnt-realizations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thanksgiving 2006, it poured rain. By two weeks before the holiday, I had no friends able to take me in or to come to my house for a nice dinner, and my kids were gone that year. Family was too far away, too expensive. I tried to volunteer to serve dinners, but I found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the family-friendly workplace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[inclusion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, walking at night in flip flops, I realized that the breeze felt … not harsh. Delicious. Summer really is here. 
I love summer, but for the shuffle. It would be a wonderful season, were it not for the stress of what to do with children who are no longer occupied throughout the school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>hnt: ceremony</title>
		<link>http://wordsmythe.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/hnt-ceremony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
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It was a day for pearls, the end of the school year.
Now it is time to change, time to dress for new beginnings.
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		<title>the end&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was Bloomsday. I remember my first attempt at reading Ulysses, carrying the book like a schoolgirl, close, and trying to hold onto the wildly accumulating words long enough for my brain to grasp some meaning in them. It was a long process for me, one that took place over years, not months. So, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>hnt, the floral edition</title>
		<link>http://wordsmythe.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/hnt-the-floral-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[peonies]]></category>

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The peonies (the self-bought version, alas) were full, round buds when I went to bed last night. They smelled good, but you never know how supermarket flowers are going to fare. The birthday bunch was none too satisfying, but I am never one to give up hope too easily. I stuck the buds in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>rally round</title>
		<link>http://wordsmythe.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/rally-round/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[policy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Senate Bill 65]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now is the time for all good men (and women) to come to the aid of …. one another.
I can type pretty fast, but I never really stopped back in high school typing class to think of what some words really mean, much though they may have been tapped into my brain. Back in those [...]]]></description>
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