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		<title>New Words For It</title>
		<link>http://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/new-words-for-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You dear people. Toni Morrison says motherhood frees a person from baggage and vanity. And you? Let me read your words back to you: If anything, it felt like having kids stripped me of everything about myself that I liked. &#8230; <a href="http://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/new-words-for-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallanimals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8149358&amp;post=650&amp;subd=smallanimals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Impercipient</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, via Facebook and a stunning 1981 Lego ad, I had the pleasure of introducing a friend to Blue Milk. The friend, a mom of two young daughters, thanked me for the link, said there are a lot of &#8230; <a href="http://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/impercipient/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallanimals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8149358&amp;post=643&amp;subd=smallanimals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Instead of Heaven</title>
		<link>http://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/instead-of-heaven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://smallanimals.wordpress.com/?p=636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When my girls ask about dying, we come quickly to the topic of compost. They know well that things change once they stop living—even right inside in our kitchen. The bird we found drowned one morning in the backyard wading &#8230; <a href="http://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/instead-of-heaven/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallanimals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8149358&amp;post=636&amp;subd=smallanimals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Even Longer Ago</title>
		<link>http://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/628/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone I once knew and loved well died today—a loss far enough away that I can&#8217;t accept condolences, but close enough that I feel the fracture lines in each of my bones. My mom forwarded me a one-line email with &#8230; <a href="http://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/628/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallanimals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8149358&amp;post=628&amp;subd=smallanimals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ways</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For twenty one years I have run in Sauconys&#8212;thick and cushiony and with hard white orthotics to prevent the overpronation that was diagnosed way back when as the cause of a bad case of shinsplints. The new shoes are the &#8230; <a href="http://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/ways/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallanimals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8149358&amp;post=625&amp;subd=smallanimals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coeur</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And then last night I read Rollo May, in The Courage to Create: The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning &#8220;heart.&#8221; Thus just as one&#8217;s heart, by pumping blood to one&#8217;s arms, legs, &#8230; <a href="http://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/coeur/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallanimals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8149358&amp;post=620&amp;subd=smallanimals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation Before Confronting the Difficult Coworker</title>
		<link>http://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/meditation-before-confronting-the-difficult-coworker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a new box I keep my heart in. It&#8217;s a cube made of pewter, with rounded corners and a lid that fits on with a barely visible seam. It&#8217;s lined with fabrics, a different one on each side: &#8230; <a href="http://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/meditation-before-confronting-the-difficult-coworker/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallanimals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8149358&amp;post=617&amp;subd=smallanimals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m still here.</title>
		<link>http://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/im-still-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallanimals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8149358&amp;post=614&amp;subd=smallanimals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pondering</title>
		<link>http://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/pondering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two days ago, a friend (who is reading a book by Irvin D. Yalom, which I&#8217;ve never read but am now on the list for at the library &#38; am hoping is as intriguing as this tidbit suggests) proposed using &#8230; <a href="http://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/pondering/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallanimals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8149358&amp;post=607&amp;subd=smallanimals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Written Yesterday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m writing this on the last evening of my two-week writing residency. Residency sounds so official; you might also say vision quest, retreat, sabbatical, or, even vacation. Working vacation (sort of). I’ve been staying in a “cabin” (cabin in aesthetic &#8230; <a href="http://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/written-yesterday/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallanimals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8149358&amp;post=603&amp;subd=smallanimals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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