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		<title>A Mother&#8217;s Day Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 13:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not everyone is blessed with an awesome mom, or a living one, and with you I grieve, but my mom kicks awesome to the curb and does a little dance around it, and I wanted to take a moment to &#8230; <a href="http://fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/a-mothers-day-post/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22433046&#038;post=1096&#038;subd=fairybearconfessions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Loneliness, Facebook, and Other First World Problems</title>
		<link>http://fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/loneliness-facebook-and-other-first-world-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 05:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fairybearconfessions</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled on this article yesterday that discussed women in Afghanistan who are literally risking their lives to write poetry. It&#8217;s a really incredible movement &#8211; poetry as political rebellion. (If you click through to the original New York Times &#8230; <a href="http://fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/loneliness-facebook-and-other-first-world-problems/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22433046&#038;post=1086&#038;subd=fairybearconfessions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wishes</title>
		<link>http://fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/wishes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fairybearconfessions</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am fortunate to have a majority of level-headed, reasonable friends. I saw nothing but sadness, sympathy and encouragement for the victims of the Boston marathon bombing on my facebook feed. Many of my friends, including B, were not so &#8230; <a href="http://fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/wishes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22433046&#038;post=1072&#038;subd=fairybearconfessions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sabbatical Update</title>
		<link>http://fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/sabbatical-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com/?p=1068</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ahh, my poor neglected blog, I miss you sometimes. I miss wrestling my thoughts into words and responding to comments and feeling like I have a place to dump all my miscellaneous musings. I HAVE been wrestling thoughts into words, &#8230; <a href="http://fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/sabbatical-update/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22433046&#038;post=1068&#038;subd=fairybearconfessions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review &#8211; The Enoch Factor</title>
		<link>http://fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/review-the-enoch-factor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 04:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fairybearconfessions</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the great pleasure of reading Steve McSwain&#8217;s new book The Enoch Factor over the past month. It took me the entire month to read it because it is the kind of book I like to digest slowly. In &#8230; <a href="http://fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/review-the-enoch-factor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22433046&#038;post=1049&#038;subd=fairybearconfessions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to Encounter Art</title>
		<link>http://fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/learning-to-encounter-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took an impromptu trip to the New Museum for Contemporary Art this evening because I was looking for something free to do on a Thursday night. My first venture into this futuristic building on Bowery was in 2007. I &#8230; <a href="http://fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/learning-to-encounter-art/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22433046&#038;post=1028&#038;subd=fairybearconfessions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">This might qualify as &#34;real art,&#34; although it&#039;s highly suspect that she&#039;s blue.</media:title>
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		<title>A New Year Indeed</title>
		<link>http://fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/a-new-year-indeed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I haven&#8217;t widely advertised this (well, until now), but I&#8217;m &#8220;on sabbatical&#8221; this year. I&#8217;ve been wanting one since around the first day I started teaching ten years ago, and after watching me go completely bonkers over wedding planning, &#8230; <a href="http://fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/a-new-year-indeed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22433046&#038;post=1004&#038;subd=fairybearconfessions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Lovely Blog Part 2</title>
		<link>http://fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/one-lovely-blog-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 03:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fairybearconfessions</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, it never hurts to read the directions. It turns out I was supposed to share seven things about myself. Here goes: 1. I&#8217;m on my third religion, and I&#8221;ve finally found the One. True. Religion. Just kidding. Not &#8230; <a href="http://fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/one-lovely-blog-part-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22433046&#038;post=998&#038;subd=fairybearconfessions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Lovely Blog!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this is what I was going to post last week, when I posted Christmas Lament instead. I am not over and past the Newtown tragedy, but I find that I said everything I wanted to say about it in &#8230; <a href="http://fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/one-lovely-blog/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22433046&#038;post=954&#038;subd=fairybearconfessions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Lament</title>
		<link>http://fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/christmas-lament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have another post that I was going to publish this week, but Friday's massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school kind of shattered me, and I couldn't in good conscience move forward on the blog without offering some kind of &#8230; <a href="http://fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/christmas-lament/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairybearconfessions.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22433046&#038;post=970&#038;subd=fairybearconfessions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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