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		<title>My Father&#8217;s Mixtape</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dad often asked, &#8220;Who&#8217;s singing this?&#8221; I could picture him on the other end of the line holding his phone out toward whatever speaker emitted the unidentified sounds, whether he was at home, in his car, or standing in the middle of a store with his arm jutting toward the ceiling. He did this even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=j3quota.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4164078&amp;post=1169&amp;subd=j3quota&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s when you&#8217;re getting ready for work that you realize a golden age has passed.You&#8217;re scraping lather and whiskers off your face when suddenly you feel his absence, your new normal, but unlike every other moment of the past three months you understand how much time you&#8217;ve wasted in your whole fleeting life hoping for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=j3quota.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4164078&amp;post=1142&amp;subd=j3quota&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Light in Darkness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, all of you hyper-logical types, we get it: New Year&#8217;s Day is an arbitrarily chosen re-starting point. I have attempted to kill this buzz myself, but I&#8217;ve come to realize it&#8217;s not necessary. New Year&#8217;s is plenty dull on its own. As with my birthday, I&#8217;m left feeling a day older and, having bought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=j3quota.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4164078&amp;post=1137&amp;subd=j3quota&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MyNaPoWriMo Is Over</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As other writers spent November 30 fulfilling their NaNoWriMo obligations of 50,000 words, I have just fulfilled my promise to write a poem a day in November, a.k.a. MyNaPoWriMo. For those keeping score, my friend Devi (whose idea this was in the first place) successfully completed her 30 poems, too. You can read them at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=j3quota.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4164078&amp;post=1130&amp;subd=j3quota&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sophie, My Protector</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sophie was my protector. Not so much physically. At 25 pounds she couldn&#8217;t have fended off a mugger or a monster, but she saved me from loneliness, which is one of my greatest fears. I was lonely for the first year after we moved to Pennsylvania. I couldn&#8217;t find a job in the area, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=j3quota.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4164078&amp;post=1121&amp;subd=j3quota&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MyNaPoWriMo Day 11: Dignity Is Not the Thing with Feathers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had a Dickinson poem in mind yesterday so I wrote a parody for MyNaPoWriMo. _________________________________ Dignity Is Not the Thing with Feathers Dignity is the thing wearing boots That falls into a well And sings for help without being heard But doesn&#8217;t die from the fall And maybe from darkest shock revives; And deep must [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=j3quota.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4164078&amp;post=1120&amp;subd=j3quota&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MyNaPoWriMo Day 4: Wedge Issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>j3black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the smart-ass, quasi-environmentalist debate poem I wrote for day 4 of MyNaPoWriMo. Devi&#8217;s poem was inspired by a Gun N&#8217; Roses song. More MyNaPoWriMo samples as I feel like posting them. Read all the poems on Book Writing World. ___________________________ Wedge Issue Incandescent is old tech. CFL is the future. CFL out-lumens incandescent&#8217;s watts. Incandescent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=j3quota.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4164078&amp;post=1113&amp;subd=j3quota&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MyNaPoWriMo Day 2: Adam and Steve in the Bower</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Devi Laskar has committed to writing a poem a day in November. She&#8217;s calling the effort MyNaPoWriMo, riffing on NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). I love the idea and have joined her. I&#8217;ve done NaNoWriMo before and love the sense of community, but I need to focus on revising my novel manuscript, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=j3quota.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4164078&amp;post=1104&amp;subd=j3quota&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Wedding Vows</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I married my partner of almost 17 years, Doug Powers, in a brief, wonderful ceremony at the Hillcrest Manor in Corning, New York. I have plenty to say about the experience, of course, but for now, I just want to share the vows I made to Doug with all of our friends and family [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=j3quota.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4164078&amp;post=1096&amp;subd=j3quota&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Enchant This Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>j3black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, I was a mouse. More specifically, I was in sixth grade performing a role in a play. My partner, a close friend, and I recently watched my performance on the surprisingly-not-so-grainy VHS tape my mother has saved since 1981. I, as mouse, discovered some of the world&#8217;s wonders as I ventured [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=j3quota.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4164078&amp;post=1088&amp;subd=j3quota&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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