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		<title>Grandma&#8217;s House</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janine Kovac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never really had grandparents. My mother’s mother and my father’s father died when my parents were still children. I only met my paternal grandmother once and my maternal grandfather passed when I was toddler. Luckily, my children have a different life. They have three sets of grandparents: Nonna and Grandpa Elroy; Grammie and Grampie; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Babe&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Hennessy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I awoke with a snort, squinting into the early morning sunshine. It was already hot as hell. My mouth tasted like the bottom of last night&#8217;s ashtray. I tasted hard, gritty sand against my teeth. My tongue moved around, looking for moisture. I lay there, too weary and apathetic to move. I closed my eyes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nature Restores, Yet the Heart Remains Heavy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marilee Stark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece has also appeared on KQED&#8217;s Perspectives and the Berkeley Times. &#8220;Nothing&#8217;s left,&#8221; my dad reported to my mom. He&#8217;d gone by himself to find their house, because he didn&#8217;t want my 74-year-old mom to see the devastation of what came to be called the Oakland-Berkeley Firestorm. Later, my mom asked me to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diamonds in the Rough</title>
		<link>http://www.writingmamas.com/2011/10/diamonds-in-the-rough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marianne Lonsdale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One night, after our toddler was asleep, I poured wine for my husband, Michael, and me. I told him that I needed more help with Nicholas. I took his hand and explained that I didn’t want to make it sound like he wasn’t doing his part. I knew I dominated taking care of Nicholas, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Litquake! Make My Knees Shake!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janine Kovac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival, kicks off tonight &#8212; nine days, 850 authors, 150 Bay Area locations. There are readings in bars, bookstores, boats, and one barbershop! Writing Mamas member Janine Kovac gives us the behind-the-scenes peek at the excitement and amazing amount of planning that goes into this &#8220;Woodstock&#8221; of the writing world. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tyranny of an Anniversary</title>
		<link>http://www.writingmamas.com/2011/09/the-tyranny-of-an-anniversary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberley Kwok</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The anniversary ringtone flashed on my screen demanding my attention. “Remember,” it said. “Today.” So damn sure of itself. This isn’t the add-another-notch to the wedding band date, although I’m sure I’ve had a few snarky responses to those as well. This anniversary was a reminder of events that we feel obliged to honor even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monkey See, Monkey Poo</title>
		<link>http://www.writingmamas.com/2011/09/monkey-see-monkey-poo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 03:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teri Stevens</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.writingmamas.com/?p=3739</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a good thing there are three toilets in our home. At any given time there might be three small bums occupying each one. You see we have twin girls who are three-and-a-half and a son who is four. When one has to go, inevitably they all have to go. I realize this is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage is Work</title>
		<link>http://www.writingmamas.com/2011/09/marriage-is-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janine Kovac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine celebrates her first wedding anniversary next week and has noticed that the universe has conspired against her. Total strangers tap her on the shoulder to say, “Remember, marriage is work.” Billboards, bus advertisements, email spam from moveon.org—everyone is telling her how hard marriage is. And that the work gets tripled once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections from Delhi</title>
		<link>http://www.writingmamas.com/2011/09/reflections-from-delhi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marilee Stark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember sitting on a crowded bench in the Delhi train station dripping in 110 degree heat praying for it to cool down. I wondered how it could be so damn hot at 8 p.m. I remember looking at my daughter, Kate, who’d been living in India for two years and noticing how she looked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Blog or Not to Blog?</title>
		<link>http://www.writingmamas.com/2011/09/to-blog-or-not-to-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Hennessy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been meaning to start my own blog for over a year but kept procrastinating. Which blog publishing tool should I use? How do you start one? Should I get someone to design one for me? What should I write and how often? Who’s going to read it? On and on, enough questions that [...]]]></description>
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