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		<title>True Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was born to parents who were known to strike up a conversation with just about anyone.  In my family a typical exchange with the grocery store clerk might have gone something like this: “I haven’t seen you here before.  Are you new to town?” “Yeah, I’m from Helena.” “Oh, you’re from Helena?  Well my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftyminded.com&#038;blog=10810972&#038;post=685&#038;subd=loftyminded&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Snapshot of Sadie</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish I had a picture of Sadie.  But even if I had a photo to go from I don’t think I’d be able to properly describe her.  I remember a weatherworn face and a missing tooth.  I remember her layers of clothes, faded and worn to a color similar to that of her skin.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftyminded.com&#038;blog=10810972&#038;post=668&#038;subd=loftyminded&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life Expectancy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just twenty years before my Grandma Ross was born, the average life expectancy for a woman in the United States was 45 years.  Coming across this bit of trivia this morning—this day of my forty-fifth birthday—makes complaining about getting older seem ridiculous and downright ungrateful. Statistically speaking, there’s a good chance that I’ll have at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftyminded.com&#038;blog=10810972&#038;post=645&#038;subd=loftyminded&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slow Soup</title>
		<link>http://loftyminded.com/2013/02/17/slow-soup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[     What fools call “wasting time” is most often the best investment. &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb      This week I’ll be facilitating my first Creative Writers’ Roundtable discussion at the Kachemak Bay Campus.  The topic for the first of the three-week series will be on developing a writing practice.  It’s a funny subject, developing a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftyminded.com&#038;blog=10810972&#038;post=623&#038;subd=loftyminded&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Confession Time:</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 09:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I mean I truly believe there exists some combination of words—there must exist certain words in a specific order that would explain all of this…”  &#8211; Walter White,  from Breaking Bad Here&#8217;s my confession:  I have an MFA packet due on Tuesday and I’m not even close to having it done.  This packet is to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftyminded.com&#038;blog=10810972&#038;post=613&#038;subd=loftyminded&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Low Pressure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 02:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ceilings have been lowered and the walls are pushing in.   Even if the winds weren’t howling, if sprays of rain weren’t pelting the side of the house, even if I were warm and dry inside a silent house with no access to the weather forecast, I would feel this storm.  It’s all pressure.  It’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftyminded.com&#038;blog=10810972&#038;post=601&#038;subd=loftyminded&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Something to Say</title>
		<link>http://loftyminded.com/2012/10/07/something-to-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 18:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Homer town]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’d rather write about the charming side of your town, and for the most part you do.  But this week your town has shown its not-so-charming side.  Two brothers aged eighteen and twenty were arrested for sexual assault.  A number of other young people are afraid that they might be next because they were at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftyminded.com&#038;blog=10810972&#038;post=596&#038;subd=loftyminded&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Layers Upon Layers of Normal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Floating I would have been comfortable floating somewhere near medium in the realm of muted colors, suburban yards and lite-rock. But with you it’s AC DC, 1975 green shag and weeds so tall it’d take a machete to cut a trail back to normal. * * * It seems appropriate—in a full-circle kind of way—that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftyminded.com&#038;blog=10810972&#038;post=582&#038;subd=loftyminded&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking of Chicken&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://loftyminded.com/2012/08/02/speaking-of-chicken/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that chicken is all over the news this week, and things are no different here at the Sundmark household.  Monday evening when we came home from work we discovered carnage in our yard.  The security of our chicken tractor—the one that got us through last summer with 25 healthy birds—had been breached.  Some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftyminded.com&#038;blog=10810972&#038;post=578&#038;subd=loftyminded&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Gathering of Writers</title>
		<link>http://loftyminded.com/2012/06/14/a-gathering-of-writers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kachemak Bay Writers&#8217; Conference happened this past weekend and I&#8217;m taking the day to recover and reflect.  This year I didn’t just attend the conference; I really did the conference.  I didn’t skip any sessions.  I went to the evening readings.  I even socialized after hours instead of rushing home to the solitude of my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftyminded.com&#038;blog=10810972&#038;post=554&#038;subd=loftyminded&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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