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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When writing about one’s life, the urge is to move chronologically, plodding from one place to the next, adding layers of experience and wisdom: and then, and then, and then, conveyed by the hope that somehow, if I put it<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegirlinthehat.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16863797&#038;post=4116&#038;subd=thegirlinthehat&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>troy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 17:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m lurking in the shadow on the north side of the Mill Valley Middle School, as far away as possible from the playing field and paved quad where most kids hang out. I’m sitting on a weedy planter made of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegirlinthehat.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16863797&#038;post=4104&#038;subd=thegirlinthehat&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>freeway</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 06:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I’m driving my car on the freeway and it hits me: one spacy moment, a hiccup, a tic, and I’m a goner. The freeway lane is what&#8211;maybe twelve feet wide? Twelve feet of cement for me and my car,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegirlinthehat.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16863797&#038;post=4091&#038;subd=thegirlinthehat&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>father figure</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 02:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[father figure (you can’t forget what you never knew) * When my oldest daughter turned 12, my father took her out to dinner for her birthday. He had never done that before (they’d never been anywhere without me before) and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegirlinthehat.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16863797&#038;post=4070&#038;subd=thegirlinthehat&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>paper planes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was about 10 years old, I discovered a new state of mind. Or at least it was new to me. My mom, her boyfriend Tim, my brother Johnny and I were on a road trip in the Chevy<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegirlinthehat.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16863797&#038;post=4046&#038;subd=thegirlinthehat&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>please say it for me please</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I Go Back to May 1937 BY SHARON OLDS I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges, I see my father strolling out under the ochre sandstone arch, the red tiles glinting like bent plates of blood<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegirlinthehat.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16863797&#038;post=4037&#038;subd=thegirlinthehat&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>pinky finger</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good news: I’m getting the hang of this work thing. Since I started my full-time job, my kids don’t seem to miss me as much as I imagined they would. (!!!) Of course my man is still home to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegirlinthehat.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16863797&#038;post=4020&#038;subd=thegirlinthehat&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>my mother/myself</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conversation after my mother read my first novel: Me: So, what did you think? Mom: I don’t like the mother. She made me feel bad. Me: Not all mothers are you, mom. Mom: I hope not. The mothers in your<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegirlinthehat.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16863797&#038;post=4006&#038;subd=thegirlinthehat&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>bird watching</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[bird watching by Anna Fonté The word observation can mean both attention and devotion, as if watching is both a scientific and a spiritual practice, as if there were a fascial connection between eye, heart, and beyond. I see some<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegirlinthehat.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16863797&#038;post=3995&#038;subd=thegirlinthehat&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>beautiful things</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(body talk #12) In this life, if we’re lucky, we get to know some bodies, by which I mean get close enough so that they leave a lasting imprint. I’m not talking about sex, although that may certainly be one<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegirlinthehat.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16863797&#038;post=3969&#038;subd=thegirlinthehat&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the art of trust</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 14:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I start to worry about how I&#8217;ll survive or how I&#8217;ll be able to keep writing or what kind of world we live in, along comes Amanda Palmer to twist it all on its ear.  Amanda says it&#8217;s okay<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegirlinthehat.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16863797&#038;post=3959&#038;subd=thegirlinthehat&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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