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		<title>stone soup, homemade bread, and apple cider</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/10/15/stone-soup-homemade-bread-and-apple-cider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We spent yesterday afternoon sitting around a backyard campfire with a group of friends from Aidan&#8217;s Junior Great Books club. They had been reading folktales and recently read the classic folktale &#8220;Stone Soup.&#8221; You know the one&#8211;about the pilgrim who comes to town and tells the hungry town folk that he can make soup-enough-for-all from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>colorfully creating</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, this fall has been a busy one so far with many activities and running around. One of the activities that Aidan has been participating in is a drop-in art class. Last week seemed an especially busy one and the thought of leaving the house by 9am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>consumption, the void, and palahniuk&#8217;s choke</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/07/29/consumption-the-void-and-palahniuks-choke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 04:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Victor is a sex addict. He attends 12-step meetings, not in the hope of recovery but to hook-up with other addicts on the bathroom floor of the community center while the meeting is going on in the room next door. Victor scrapes together a modest income by working at a colonial theme park with his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>on reading how we are hungry by dave eggers</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/03/05/on-reading-how-we-are-hungry-by-dave-eggers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading Dave Eggers&#8217; collection of short fiction entitled How We Are Hungry and found myself underlining passages throughout. They seem important, as if I will return to them again at some point. So, I thought I would jot them here, using this post as a kind of commonplace book. So much of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>on reading deschooling society by ivan illich</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/12/28/on-reading-deschooling-society-by-ivan-illich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ivan Illich offers both a bleak view of contemporary institutionalized society and an inspiring vision of what could be in his 1970 treatise Deschooling Society. &#8220;Good radical stuff,&#8221; notes the Observer in its cover accolade. Indeed it is radical in the best and truest sense of the word as defined below: Radical. adj. Arising from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>reading ken robinson&#8217;s out of our minds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 06:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past summer I read Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative by Ken Robinson. The cover of the book has been sitting in the &#8220;Good Reads&#8221; (formerly &#8220;Now Reading&#8221;) area of this blog for nearly a year, so I figured I should drop a few thoughts on the book and rotate the cover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>books, books, and more books</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/08/04/books-books-and-more-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aidan loves books; simply loves books. So we read all the time. While he does like doing his own reading he&#8217;s still learning so reading to himself goes slow, often slower &#160;Aidan with mom outside the librarythan he wants. But fortunately he still enjoys me reading to him! This is a time that I really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>two good reads</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/04/04/two-good-reads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We love books in our house and we tend to read a lot. That&#8217;s why I decided to share a bit about some of the books we&#8217;ve been reading. While I always seem to be in the middle of some book, my focus today is more on some of the great kids&#8217; books that Aidan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>reading elizabeth strout&#8217;s olive kitteridge</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/03/22/reading-elizabeth-strouts-olive-kitteridge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For my fiction writing class this semester, I selected the 2009 Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel in stories Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I hadn&#8217;t read it prior to the class (as I sometimes like to read a book for the first time along with my students), but I quickly found myself immersed in the lives of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>making changes with the money we spend</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/01/07/making-changes-with-the-money-we-spend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike gave me a cool little book for Christmas&#8211;The Better World Shopping Guide. It&#8217;s a user-friendly guide that ranks products and companies from A to F. The ranking is based on 20 years of research and looks at several issues, such as human rights, animal protection, environment, social justice, and community involvement. It&#8217;s an interesting [...]]]></description>
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