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		<title>Postapocalyptic knitting and Robert Downey Jr.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wut? 2012? What the heck have I been doing since I was here last? Um, knitting a very Matrix-y sweater (okay, a few of them)&#8211;you know, the kind in this picture (sans rips). I&#8217;m even using a pattern and yarn from the company that did the originals, called Skif. It&#8217;s probably no coincidence that I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ciarcullen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5385340&amp;post=1847&amp;subd=ciarcullen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Midnight Clear</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted this story two years in a row, but it&#8217;s the only holiday story I&#8217;ve ever written, so it&#8217;s now my signature Christmas card. I&#8217;ve made a few new friends in the last year, so perhaps this will be new to you. That odd looking building in the watercolor is the Phoenix Shot Tower in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ciarcullen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5385340&amp;post=1841&amp;subd=ciarcullen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flex your point-of-view muscles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I understand that this is a modest offering of help to new writers, that they have a bazillion workshops and primers and mentors from which to choose. I&#8217;ve been there, done this&#8211;this awful, frustrating, want to poke your eyes out thing called &#8220;telling.&#8221; And it&#8217;s not unrelated to the ever-mysterious to new writers nemesis&#8211;point of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ciarcullen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5385340&amp;post=1835&amp;subd=ciarcullen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is my favorite so far&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I&#8217;d like to believe it&#8217;s one of these guys who calls me &#8220;dear&#8221; and is so concerned for my financial well-being. Sigh&#8211;probably not.  Welcome to Western Union Send Money Worldwide EcobankWestern Union Department. Location Address; NEGOCE AFRIQUE SEGBEY, Contact Person: Mr. John Omeh Phone Number:+229-9930-8457 Western Union  office Website: www.westernunion.comHello dear I have been calling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ciarcullen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5385340&amp;post=1826&amp;subd=ciarcullen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Victorians to Vipers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was my childhood park. I&#8217;ve been away a long time, but nostalgia kept pulling me to find photos of the places I remember. Perhaps they&#8217;d end up in a story. I love writing about Baltimore. But I have to stop with the Baltimore of my ancestors. Because of what drugs, mostly, and the people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ciarcullen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5385340&amp;post=1821&amp;subd=ciarcullen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Rebecca Royce and The Outsiders! Win a $50 Amazon GC!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Rebecca Royce&#8217;s writing, having become a fan while editing her amazing YA series at Decadent Publishing&#8211;Initiation, Driven, and *taps foot impatiently*&#8230;the next in the series. Lo and behold, an adult romance hit my inbox shortly thereafter, and I really wondered if there was anything she can&#8217;t do! Great imagination, great voice, stupendous characterization! So [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ciarcullen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5385340&amp;post=1812&amp;subd=ciarcullen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Help Save History By Reading Cool Stuff.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know times are so difficult, but I stumbled upon this really righteous endeavor that struck such a chord for me. I&#8217;m from Baltimore, and I have visited the Edgar Allen Poe House. He wasn&#8217;t born there, and the museum is in a crummy part of town, but it&#8217;s a wonderful town that has barely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ciarcullen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5385340&amp;post=1803&amp;subd=ciarcullen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writerly Types and Bullies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d have to be a hermit not to know what a hot topic bullying is these days. I&#8217;ve thought back to my school days often, and realized that being a rather nondescript, heterosexual female growing up in the sixties, I maybe lucked out. I don&#8217;t remember even knowing a bully. That changed a bit when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ciarcullen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5385340&amp;post=1797&amp;subd=ciarcullen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Allstate is zombiefying me</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the conversation today went something like this: Me: This is the third time I&#8217;ve called. Her: I can help you with that. What is your claim? Me: My car got flooded in Irene. Her: Where was it, blah, blah, blah&#8230; Me: It&#8217;s driveable. It just won&#8217;t dry out because the padding under the carpet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ciarcullen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5385340&amp;post=1792&amp;subd=ciarcullen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Bought Your Book: Ready! (King of the Marshmallows I) by Lydia Ondrusek</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 01:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is quite a departure from my previous review, but I adored Ready! as much as anything I’ve read recently. I suppose I need a disclaimer: I do not have children, I don’t know much about Asperger’s. That aside, I think this is a book I’d give to my child with or without Asperger’s if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ciarcullen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5385340&amp;post=1781&amp;subd=ciarcullen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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