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		<title>This bears repeating</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For once Once in your life Won&#8217;t you do what feels right Instead of waiting for the next big compromise?!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amywroteit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2442112&amp;post=2788&amp;subd=amywroteit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Ganesha, How do you like your marshmallows? Barely brown or totally burned?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started (and deleted) this post numerous times tonight. The story I want to tell won&#8217;t come out. I tried several different beginnings. Changed words around. Nothing worked. I&#8217;m like a mom trying to get her toddler to sit still. (That may be more real life than metaphor. I have trouble spotting the difference anymore. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amywroteit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2442112&amp;post=2778&amp;subd=amywroteit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What we write about when we write about family</title>
		<link>http://amywroteit.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/what-we-write-about-when-we-write-about-family/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A post I wrote last year caused someone I love deeply much heartache. Enough heartache that the person talked to another family member who talked to me. They wanted the post taken down. I was being &#8220;selfish and insensitive.&#8221; I took the post down. And now, even writing this feels as if I&#8217;m crossing their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amywroteit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2442112&amp;post=2770&amp;subd=amywroteit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Excuse me, but do you have God&#8217;s number?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that&#8230; four years ago, I started this little bitty blog. and, eight years ago, I gave birth to my very first. (Speaking of my very first, she got some ink in my column this week.) it&#8217;s a good date, number-wise, for me. January 15. 1+1+5 = 7 &#8220;Seven is God&#8217;s number.&#8221; This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amywroteit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2442112&amp;post=2765&amp;subd=amywroteit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you read one book this week, read THE JOURNAL KEEPER</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know when you hear something and you think, &#8220;I should follow that thought.&#8221; That is where this book started for me. In a thought stuck in one tiny moment riding along in my car. My daughter and I were on our way to all the errands you run between 3:00 and 6:00 p.m. Even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amywroteit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2442112&amp;post=2750&amp;subd=amywroteit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s on your nightstand?</title>
		<link>http://amywroteit.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/whats-on-your-nightstand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new theory is that you can tell a person&#8217;s state of mind by the genre of reading material they keep nearest their pillow. Right now, my nightstand looks like I&#8217;m cramming for some kind of New Age SAT. From the bottom up, my stack includes: the most recent issue of Whole Living Magazine Changing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amywroteit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2442112&amp;post=2744&amp;subd=amywroteit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear 2012, You can&#8217;t imagine how happy I am you are here. Even if you are the end of the world, I welcome your clean slate. Your new, fresh attitude. Your lack of anxiety and grief and sadness. Most of all, I appreciate your zero tolerance policy for any more of my self-pity-bullshit. Your new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amywroteit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2442112&amp;post=2737&amp;subd=amywroteit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Universe is listening&#8230;as are your fellow kindergarten classmates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s column was about me trying my best not to obsess over that one elusive gift for Christmas: The Pig that Popped My Christmas It&#8217;s a Pop the Pig game that my three-year old son has been asking for no less than fifty times a day since he found out that Christmas comes with gifts. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amywroteit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2442112&amp;post=2727&amp;subd=amywroteit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I want something shiny and new</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amyg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[i want something new i want it to be true and honest and worth it i want it to be everything i need, right when i need it i want it to be as wide as the ocean and as deep as nietzsche i want it to sing like a bird and fly like a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amywroteit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2442112&amp;post=2680&amp;subd=amywroteit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t know what I want. I know what I don&#8217;t want. I don&#8217;t want what I know.</title>
		<link>http://amywroteit.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/i-dont-know-what-i-want-i-know-what-i-dont-want-i-dont-want-what-i-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amyg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight my younger brother texted me, &#8220;What do you want for Christmas?&#8221; I considered being funny. And then I tried to come up with something realistic. And then I realized, I don&#8217;t know what I want. I don&#8217;t know what I want. How did I get this old and not know what I want? Sometimes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amywroteit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2442112&amp;post=2663&amp;subd=amywroteit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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