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	<title>What the Hell is This?</title>
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	<description>What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? -- Muriel Rukeyser</description>
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		<title>A Wonderful Plan for My Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I write, it’s the first anniversary of the surreal barbecue featured in “Falling Slowly.” Hard to believe it’s been a whole year since Miranda collapsed and Sam drove Andie and me to the E/R. A whole new life was beginning for me, at the vintage of forty-one, with the help of an unusual and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatthehellisthis.net&amp;blog=3165993&amp;post=402&amp;subd=hellisthis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://whatthehellisthis.net/2010/08/10/a-wonderful-plan-for-my-life/</link>
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		<title>Dirty Mind, Beginner&#8217;s Mind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How much do I love Frank Schaeffer? I picked up Portofino again last week for something entertaining to read in between calls at work. The man makes me want to write my own ex-fundamentalist smartass novel. (And return to Italy.) He expertly and hilariously captures, dead-on, what it’s like to be a child growing up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatthehellisthis.net&amp;blog=3165993&amp;post=389&amp;subd=hellisthis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://whatthehellisthis.net/2010/07/08/dirty-mind-beginners-mind/</link>
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		<title>Standing on the Edge, Clutching the Rope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[June. The month Sam would have come back, if he were coming back. The end of nine months. Recently I deleted him out of my phone, but he’s been entering more frequently into my thoughts and even my dreams. All of my dating thus far has gone nowhere &#8212; unless you count Eli and me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatthehellisthis.net&amp;blog=3165993&amp;post=377&amp;subd=hellisthis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://whatthehellisthis.net/2010/06/14/standing-on-the-edge-clutching-the-rope/</link>
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		<title>Calling in the Close, but No Cigar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hope you haven’t all given me up for dead! Between trying to find another job, forcing myself to go to the one I have, and this whole prickly dating business, I haven’t spent much time writing. At least there’s a lot to tell after a month. I’m starting to get nervous about my finances [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatthehellisthis.net&amp;blog=3165993&amp;post=369&amp;subd=hellisthis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://whatthehellisthis.net/2010/05/19/calling-in-the-close-but-no-cigar/</link>
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		<title>Still Learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve slacked off quite a bit lately on my entries, but I’m working through the book Calling in the One at an accelerated rate, and it involves a lot of journaling. I’ve already made it through Week Five. It amazes me how many of the early chapters mirror some of the themes I’ve recently explored [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatthehellisthis.net&amp;blog=3165993&amp;post=361&amp;subd=hellisthis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://whatthehellisthis.net/2010/04/15/still-learning/</link>
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		<title>The (Not So) Usual Suspects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally recovered from almost three phlegmy weeks of the obligatory annual cold-flu virus&#8230;you’d think I would have been that much more prolific in all the time spent at home, but instead I frittered away untold hours online clicking on links posted by friends and watching videos. Only some of which were even remotely educational. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatthehellisthis.net&amp;blog=3165993&amp;post=353&amp;subd=hellisthis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://whatthehellisthis.net/2010/03/20/the-not-so-usual-suspects/</link>
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		<title>Becoming Visible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been meaning to write for almost two weeks, but I&#8217;ve been stymied by yet more technical difficulties. After a liquid accident, several crucial keys on my laptop stopped working. I had to get the keyboard completely replaced. Fortunately this cost me a lot less than expected&#8230;praise be to resale outlet stores. ** So last [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatthehellisthis.net&amp;blog=3165993&amp;post=338&amp;subd=hellisthis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://whatthehellisthis.net/2010/02/18/becoming-visible/</link>
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		<title>Those Christian Boys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the child was a child, It was the time for these questions: Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there? &#8212; Peter Handke, &#8220;Song of Childhood&#8221; Every disaster, whether natural or man-made, always makes me question: Why you, and not me? Why am I here, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatthehellisthis.net&amp;blog=3165993&amp;post=326&amp;subd=hellisthis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://whatthehellisthis.net/2010/01/24/those-christian-boys/</link>
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		<title>Unpacking from the Christ(mas) Trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“He was such a mess,” my mother sighed, shaking her head, “smoking marijuana, getting thrown in jail. But then, in jail, he became a Christian.” She beamed. “And now he is just the nicest, kindest, most gentle person in the world.” I tried not to visibly wince and smiled wanly, saying nothing. My mother was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatthehellisthis.net&amp;blog=3165993&amp;post=315&amp;subd=hellisthis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://whatthehellisthis.net/2010/01/07/unpacking-from-the-christmas-trip/</link>
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		<title>(Let) the Circle be Unbroken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After Nate’s Fisher’s unexpected demise during the final season of Six Feet Under, Nate’s wife Brenda lashes out at Maggie, Nate’s onetime lover, snarling that Nate never loved her &#8212; he was just good at making women believe that &#8212; and that Nate always went after women who “made him feel like a better man [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatthehellisthis.net&amp;blog=3165993&amp;post=312&amp;subd=hellisthis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://whatthehellisthis.net/2009/12/06/let-the-circle-be-unbroken/</link>
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