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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The form came as an attachment to the expected materials. I barely gazed at it as I went on frantically through my day, my week, and then opened it once more. What&#8217;s this? It was an assessment, for all intents and purposes. A self-assessment, the kind I have seen a thousand times before, the kind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmythe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2613445&amp;post=1152&amp;subd=wordsmythe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not thinking about people who eat at McDonald&#8217;s when I think about consumers. Nonetheless, I have been reading about McDonald&#8217;s updates to its Happy Meal. It seems safe to say that almost anyone who pays attention at all to nutrition when sitting down to a meal receives this news with the skepticism it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmythe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2613445&amp;post=1141&amp;subd=wordsmythe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is summer, glorious now in the brilliant clear days that seem so uncharacteristic of my youthful summers, or even those recent ones, but of the rare days in Vermont sometime after the mud and before the bugs. Surely these are rare days. There could not have been so many days that seem to inhabit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmythe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2613445&amp;post=1133&amp;subd=wordsmythe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month, I subscribed to a challenge. Write, it says. And to aid in this endeavor, I get daily writing prompts from other writers who are inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Over the weekend, the prompts threw me a bit. It started with Friday&#8217;s, which required the writer (me) to ask myself what I want [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmythe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2613445&amp;post=1131&amp;subd=wordsmythe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 02:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I see a lot of bad things happen to people. It always astounds me to see how different individuals react to enormous changes in their lives. Once in a while someone tells me that he thinks he is lucky&#8211;for whatever reason, for whatever new perspective, new discovery, unnoticed detail. In every single instance, I have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmythe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2613445&amp;post=1128&amp;subd=wordsmythe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 01:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sky is a kaleidoscope of emotion, changing ever so much, one moment shedding its tears and sighs, another its fury and passion, here, across the placid moment, reminding me of exactly what it is going to take&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmythe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2613445&amp;post=1124&amp;subd=wordsmythe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>bicycle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Riders who share the road with me down these small downtown streets fall into two categories: those who are riding for recreation, and those who are riding for transportation. Recreational riders wear helmets. Transportational riders do not&#8211;not around here, anyway. Transportational riders also wears jeans, and ride on the sidewalks. If there is no sidewalk, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmythe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2613445&amp;post=1115&amp;subd=wordsmythe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>dehiscence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My daughter&#8217;s incision reopened yesterday. It was not a cheerful discovery, as you might guess, but a reminder of all that has happened. The nurse assures me that it is good: her body is pushing out the bad things that remain. It is not an easy thing, this healing. It is not over. I have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmythe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2613445&amp;post=1108&amp;subd=wordsmythe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Snow. It is enough to make the winter-weary among us a little crazy. April showers? Looking out at the street, the weather does seem to be playing a bad trick. But this time, the snow is already beginning to melt, almost as it falls. The trees drip, drops crystallizing, hanging on just for a little [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmythe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2613445&amp;post=1097&amp;subd=wordsmythe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>communication</title>
		<link>http://wordsmythe.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/communication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I am sitting on the other side of the hospital bed. Not the one where I come in as the professional and talk to the family member who is holding on tight as the whirlwind of white coats whiz by with more and more opinions about the person who is actually in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmythe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2613445&amp;post=1093&amp;subd=wordsmythe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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