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		<title>The demons and gremlins of writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Irrespective of what she reads, though, when she goes back to sit before the computer, there is the same stubborn emptiness, the same locked door.&#8221; &#8212; Elizabeth Berg, Home Safe As soon as I hit the &#8220;Publish&#8221; tab, I started worrying about last week&#8217;s blog post. Not that I regretted exposing my family&#8217;s elder-care crises. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If I could do it over&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 13:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.&#8221; &#8212; Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions If you could go back and relive your early years of motherhood, what would you do differently? Do you wish you&#8217;d used cloth diapers instead of disposables? Made your own baby food? Or stayed home from work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;R&#8221; word</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I take rejection as someone blowing in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.&#8221; &#8212; Sylvester Stallone This week I&#8217;m filling out entry forms and taking photos of my work for an art competition. I&#8217;m new at submitting my artwork to gallery competitions &#8212; and nervous about subjecting myself to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sam Lamott</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been thinking about Sam Lamott, son of best-selling author Anne Lamott. I don&#8217;t know of many women who haven&#8217;t read Anne&#8217;s Traveling Mercies, her collection of candid essays on her long road to sobriety and conversion to Christianity.Â  For many moms in my age group, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son&#8217;s First [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative name calling</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shopping at my local craft store, I was paying for an armload of supplies when a chatty customer behind me asked what I was planning to make. âYou must be an artist,â she said, after I briefly explained that I was getting started on a new collage. Me, an artist?Â  I&#8217;d been fooling around with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sixty candles</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always on the lookout for books on the craft of writing to recommend to new writers in my workshops. My shelves are crammed with old favorites like Anne Lamott&#8217;s Bird by Bird and Brenda Ueland&#8217;s If You Want to Write.Â  But it&#8217;s not easy to find helpful books for those who want to learn [...]]]></description>
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