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		<title>One Saturday Morning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mav</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every Saturday morning I take an urban hike around my neighborhood winding through side streets, past parks&#8211;still quiet and sleepy, around corners, over uneven sidewalks, through sprinklers casting rainbows on concrete, and up and over this giant hill. Ugh, that hill. It is my nemesis. Looming. Leering at me with it’s steepness. Challenging me to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep your fork, there&#8217;s pie!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mav</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culinary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[carrot cake]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[key lime pie]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[not chocolate but still awesome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[See?  I told you! Key Lime Pie. Just saying the words makes my mouth water for that cold, creamy, citrus, cloud-like deliciousness resting on a perfect graham crust.  *lost in dreamy euphoria, wipes drool off chin and looks around self-consciously&#8230; Oh, hello, yes I&#8217;m here.  I was just&#8211;never mind.  So the pie. I got this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever you do for the least of these&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mav</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hummingbirds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rescue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[something beautiful]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While I was driving home from work, I noticed something quite feathery on my windshield; I thought maybe a butterfly had gotten stuck on my wipers.  When I got home, I found this little bebe quivering all in a fright: Seriously, I got all teary.  I mean nasty bugs on the windshield is one thing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Words of Womyn</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mav</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[new blog!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[womyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I cannot quite convey how *thrilled* I am to announce the birth of a new blog: In the Words of Womyn.  You can read all about the vision of this new blog and what inspired me to start it here.  This blog serves as a kind of virtual open mic for womyn to give sound [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Concepts for 2010: Text Pals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mav</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[relishing the random]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you ever have a penpal?  I remember having several at various points throughout my elementary school career.  We were paired up with kids from around the world and we exchanged letters. Boy was it exciting to get those tell-tale red and blue boardered international mail envelopes with such exotic stamps.  There was such thrill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Well Here We All Are&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mav</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[resolutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theme of the year]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;in 2010. 2010 always seems like one of those fake movie years, like some random future date at which we will never arrive.  Welp, here we are. I could go on with some story about why I abandoned my dear Front Porch visitors, but I&#8217;ll save you the tales and I&#8217;ll hope that you forgive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Relishing the Relevant in the Random</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mav</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writings]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[serendipity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I came up with this title earlier today and the alliteration was just so delicious I had to figure out a post to go with it! I was thinking today about how some of the absolute most wonderful things and people in my life have come out of entirely random situations.  Very often at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demystifying Therapy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mav</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dating & Relationships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I have embarked on and continued along this journey of becoming a mental health professional, I have heard such varying misconceptions of what I and my colleagues do. Many people wonder how&#8211;being &#8220;so young and single&#8221;&#8211;I could possibly help older adults, couples, parents, etc with their problems.  I think it is interesting that most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With an Attitude of Gratitude</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mav</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking with a friend recently and when asked, &#8220;How are you?&#8221; I proceeded to gush about my recent woes&#8211;about all the stress I&#8217;ve been undergoing at work, how exhausted I am, how my back pain has flared up, how I have been on this dry spell from writing, whah whah whah whah (you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strong Women: A Guide for Men</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mav</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dating & Relationships]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[how to love well]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a strong woman.  I can carry, push, haul and schlep stuff with the best of &#8216;em;  I can support myself financially;  I have a sense of who I am, where I came from, what I like,  where I hope to go; and I can hoist myself up by my bootstraps when the going gets [...]]]></description>
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