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		<title>Riding the KingCoaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a big, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, boneless chicken. (I blame my cousin for making me watch black-and-white horror movies when I was little, while the adults visited and he had to keep me from getting bored. For the record: I was never bored. Ever.) So this is a big deal: Tonight, for the first time ever, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=claudiaosmond.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13083812&#038;post=1150&#038;subd=claudiaosmond&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Imagine my surprise &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; when I was about to walk out the front door on February 18, 2013 and the mailman was just leaving the front step. February 18 was Family Day, a long weekend holiday. I wasn&#8217;t expecting mail. Imagine my surprise &#8230; &#8230; when I spotted and then plucked an envelope, addressed to me from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=claudiaosmond.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13083812&#038;post=1139&#038;subd=claudiaosmond&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It. Is. Aliiiiiiiive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[launch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Okay. It&#8217;s not alive. But it is live. That&#8217;s right! My all-new, fully renovated, totally rad website! And to help celebrate its auspicious launch, I&#8217;m going to hold an interview. With me. Now, I know it&#8217;s not a usual thing to do, having an interview with yourself, but so what? Live while you&#8217;re young. Below [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=claudiaosmond.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13083812&#038;post=1134&#038;subd=claudiaosmond&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not a Long Story Made Short: The Story Behind the Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[ruminating]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of the upcoming launch of my new website, I&#8217;d like to share my &#8220;Story Behind the Story&#8221; web segment with you. It&#8217;s my publication story &#8230; and beyond. THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY Just so you know, this is not a long story made short. It’s a long story that still has no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=claudiaosmond.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13083812&#038;post=1124&#038;subd=claudiaosmond&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canknots</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 03:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been thinking about this John Wooden quote a lot lately: “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” Cannot do. Those are strong, possibly devastating words. Words I’ve said to myself. Far too often. How many times do I quit before I even start because I think I cannot do? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=claudiaosmond.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13083812&#038;post=1109&#038;subd=claudiaosmond&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beginner&#8217;s Guide to Faithism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are the main societal isms: Racism. Sexism. Heterosexism. Ageism. It is not cool to be an ist. Ever. Yet; it is quite suitable to disregard above when faithism comes to the table. Current trends suggest it has become tres en vogue to be this particular brand of ist. Whenever. Wherever. With whomever. See below. When [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=claudiaosmond.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13083812&#038;post=1105&#038;subd=claudiaosmond&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen King and the Swirling Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know how sometimes you feel something swirling just below the surface, and that something isn’t able to form itself into a real, perceptible thought until someone asks you just the right question? That happened to me the other night. Via a facebook conversation. N.B. I don’t care what anyone says about facebook. I’ve had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=claudiaosmond.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13083812&#038;post=1102&#038;subd=claudiaosmond&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Motivation and The Grey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched The Grey last night. Holy. Wow. I couldn’t bring myself to take the garbage out to the garage after that for fear of the glowing eyes. Or worse, for fear of being pounced on and torn to shreds from behind. True, the worst that could happen to me in my backyard in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=claudiaosmond.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13083812&#038;post=1087&#038;subd=claudiaosmond&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your 30 Minutes on the Wire</title>
		<link>http://claudiaosmond.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/your-30-minutes-on-the-wire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I couldn’t watch Nik Wallenda’s Walk last night until I knew he’d made it safely across. I’ve always harbored a secret terror of the falls – ever since I was a kid I’ve imagined myself being magnetically pulled into the powerful flow of water at the top of the falls, if I got too close. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=claudiaosmond.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13083812&#038;post=1081&#038;subd=claudiaosmond&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best Creative Self</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A nice little lunch conversation the other day led me to an epic self-discovery moment. One that wasn’t so epically awesome. All you need to know about the conversation that led to the instant when time stopped to open its jaws and suck me into a gravityless atmosphere of a WTF void is this line, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=claudiaosmond.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13083812&#038;post=1077&#038;subd=claudiaosmond&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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