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		<title>Freedom From Face(book)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the ennui I&#8217;d been feeling, the cabin fever (I mean a week in the cabin, great,  but that 9th or 10th day starts hurting&#8230;.), I could see it starting.  I was on a superslick luge track to gold medal snarkery. Sure, I was proud. I mean this is what I trained for, right? My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m jealous of YOU</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;Jealousy Isn&#8217;t Always An Ugly Emotion &#124; BlogHer&#8221; BlogHer contributing editor Rita Arens writes about some of the jealousy she sees cropping up in the blogosphere, in particular among her fellow &#8220;mommy bloggers&#8221; or at least female bloggers. In particular, I was struck by people&#8217;s jealousy of &#8220;famous bloggers.&#8221; Arens describes (incredibly well and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fat girls and skinny bitches</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t we all just get along? After spending the morning on blogher, reading about the NYT relegation of the blogher confererence to the style section and whether &#8220;mommy-blogging&#8221; is a term of empowerment or a mechanism for belittling, I came to Joy Nash&#8217;s &#8220;A Fat Rant&#8221; on Gena&#8217;s On the Stoop (and from there to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clear (Walking meditation)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tried meditation. A bunch of times.  It helped, if for nothing else that for sitting sans computer in the quiet and kindness. But I couldn&#8217;t relax, couldn&#8217;t focus on meditating, focused on the noise I was making, the meditation I wasn&#8217;t doing, racing, racing thoughts. I went for a one-on-one with the leader of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Independence is the easy part</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In college, contemplating and confronting so many things at one &#8211; love, feminism, liberty, life &#8212; I began my wonderings about independence. I wrote poetry in bluegreen notebooks: &#8220; Dependent, from Latin, meaning: to hang from So tonight I am wondering: Do I hang from you? &#8220; Hanging from was not a good thing, I [...]]]></description>
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