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	<title>Connecting My Dots. . . . . . .</title>
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	<description>The truth and fiction of a lifetime and beyond</description>
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		<title>Dream Housekeeper (The Land of Dreams)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fast asleep, I hear the rhythmic thud-whisk-thud-whisk of a straw broom sweeping nearby. I shift position and slide into, rather than out of slumber, happy to let someone else clean for a change.
My eyes shut, body blissfully relaxed, I recognize the sound of cabinet doors gently opening and clicking shut and tip-toing footsteps that seem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mnemosyne&#8217;s Stream</title>
		<link>http://porchsitter.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/mnemosynes-stream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Words]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Alluvial Mine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gold]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[                                    Silver and White
The entrance to the Alluvial Mine is smaller than I expected; heavy timbers brace the earthen walls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Following the Piper&#8217;s Call</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Soul Food Cafe]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[meditation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[roses]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[                             Within the Heart of the Rose 
In a small cell inside the Abbey walls, meditating deep within the heart of the rose, I hear the piper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oxana</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oxana slithers quickly out of the thousand dollar beaded dress and spiked heels she is wearing, plops the Cartier necklace and matching earrings into the jeweler’s outstretched hand, and switches into jeans, sneakers, and a child&#8217;s tee shirt.  Before she zips, she pinches the flesh of her midriff and utters a groan of intense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Word Lover</title>
		<link>http://porchsitter.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/word-lover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m a word lover–a reader, writer, talker. I love words in any form: fiction, essay, poetry, conversation, anecdote, lyric. Foreign words like pamplemousse, (grapefruit in French)and miercoles (Wednesday in Spanish) delight my mouth and my ear. Surnames challenge me to discover their meanings: Guttschmidt, (German for good smith)Kaminski, (Polish for Stone.)
The only word I truly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry and I Enter the Mouseion</title>
		<link>http://porchsitter.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/henry-and-i-enter-the-mouseion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>porchsitter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We sh-sh-should&#8217;a brought a l-ladder!&#8221;  Henry murmured.
&#8220;Wow.&#8221;  This was awe, pure and simple.  
Henry and I had decided to spend a day touring the famous center of learning in the City of Ladies, but we had not been prepared for the reality that stood before us. Our first glimpse as we&#8217;d turned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Papa&#8217;s Mushrooms</title>
		<link>http://porchsitter.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/sophias-mushrooms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[mushrooms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt from a manuscript titled the Christmas Eve Shop. The character of Sophia is named after my grandmother and it is her story of the mushrooms that my mother told often over the years. I thought perhaps the baskets of mushrooms would fit the cultural theme of this prompt and decided to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smuggling the Muse</title>
		<link>http://porchsitter.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/smuggling-the-muse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>porchsitter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[“Why can’t I stay in the theater, or at the Abbey.  The Abbey’s nice; it’s quiet.”
“Sorry, Henry, but you’re my muse and we have work to do in the City of Lady’s. This is where I need you.”
“I hate the dress!”
“Yeah, well, I’m not that comfortable either, but it’s the whole Christine Pizan thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Book I Couldn&#8217;t Read</title>
		<link>http://porchsitter.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/the-book-i-couldnt-read/</link>
		<comments>http://porchsitter.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/the-book-i-couldnt-read/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>porchsitter</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA["Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" "Annie Dillard"]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1998 I picked up a second hand copy of a book that had already been around for ages.  It had won a Pulitzer and received great recognition from the general public. I assumed, being a nature lover, that its naturalist theme would make it one of my favorites but, after the first two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today I Needed Roses</title>
		<link>http://porchsitter.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/i-need/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 19:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
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Today I need roses.  There are none blooming on the apartment grounds, or on the street I wheel down each day just to hear the chatter of sparrows and to see what&#8217;s blooming in the two front yards I pass.  I don&#8217;t go any further than this, too many strange angles for the [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">From my friend Ali\&#39;s garden</media:title>
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