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		<title>smashing deal!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 07:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For part of my workshop on e-publishing yesterday, I thought I&#8217;d better experience what it&#8217;s like to work with smashwords.com.  At 11:30 p.m. last Thursday night I pulled together my haiku collection, figured that the poems theme either around the seasons or love, put them all other, made a book cover, and published them at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shawnbird.com&#038;blog=13467258&#038;post=6146&#038;subd=shawnbird&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Year in Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 04:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Bird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have published an e-book of 22 haiku poems.  It is entitled A Year In Love.  You can purchase it here.  It&#8217;s 99c, but if you use coupon code QK59P, you can have it free, my gift to you.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shawnbird.com&#038;blog=13467258&#038;post=6169&#038;subd=shawnbird&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6 reasons to attend a writing conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 00:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Bird</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shawnbird.com/?p=6144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just home from the Word on the Lake Festival for Readers and Writers, I am feeling exhausted and exhilarated.   Here&#8217;s why! 1. There is joy in the camaraderie of like-minded souls. 2. It&#8217;s fun meeting new authors with fascinating books and interesting journeys. 3. It&#8217;s rewarding to interact with readers who love your work, and to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shawnbird.com&#038;blog=13467258&#038;post=6144&#038;subd=shawnbird&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>love is letting go</title>
		<link>http://shawnbird.com/2012/05/26/love-is-letting-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 04:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Bird</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diana Wynne Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fire and Hemlock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[release]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surrender]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Diana Wynne Jones writes, in Fire and Hemlock, To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much. That&#8217;s profound. Sad, too. But on second thought- what does &#8216;let them go forever&#8217; mean, really?  Release them to the universe?  Trust them?  Say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shawnbird.com&#038;blog=13467258&#038;post=5925&#038;subd=shawnbird&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>25c for noise isolating earbuds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 07:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Bird</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shawnbird.com/?p=6033</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I made these, following these instructions.  They were fantastic on the planes and noisy museums in Europe.  So easy!  So cheap! http://lifehacker.com/5347245/make-comfortable-noise+isolating-earbuds-for-less-than-a-dollar<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shawnbird.com&#038;blog=13467258&#038;post=6033&#038;subd=shawnbird&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>around the world</title>
		<link>http://shawnbird.com/2012/05/24/around-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 07:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Bird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the interesting features of  Wordpress is a list of countries from whence one&#8217;s blog visitors log in.  I find it quite fascinating that in the last 30 days, visitors have dropped by from 51 countries! So if you have come from Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, France, Finland, Greece, Norway, Brazil, Mexico, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shawnbird.com&#038;blog=13467258&#038;post=6089&#038;subd=shawnbird&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writers Wanted!</title>
		<link>http://shawnbird.com/2012/05/23/writers-wanted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 07:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Bird</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[One the Shores of Shuswap Lake]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rotary Club of Salmon Arm (Shuswap)  a.k.a. Shuswap Rotary Club has an awesome fund raiser that we&#8217;d love you to be part of! We are searching for writers of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction (plus photographers) to submit their work for an opportunity to be published in an anthology called On the Shores of Shuswap [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shawnbird.com&#038;blog=13467258&#038;post=6075&#038;subd=shawnbird&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Graces for charity</title>
		<link>http://shawnbird.com/2012/05/22/graces-for-charity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 07:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Bird</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grace Awakening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grace Awakening Myth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mythology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bracelet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carole Kent-Kirckof]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jewellery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jewelry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minnesota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[necklace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pendant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rochester]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[silver]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Women's Shelter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a wonderful opportunity for you.  Support Rochester Minnesota Women&#8217;s Shelter by purchasing beautiful jewellery themed on the Three Graces designed by Carole Kent-Kirckof.  I just bought a bracelet.  Lovely stuff.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shawnbird.com&#038;blog=13467258&#038;post=6066&#038;subd=shawnbird&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>she says, he says</title>
		<link>http://shawnbird.com/2012/05/21/she-says-he-says/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 21:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Bird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sad, she says, her head resting upon his shoulder. Words greeted by silence that hovers like a malevolent precipice. Why, he says, are you choosing to make yourself sad? I did not choose to be sad, she says. So then, why did you say, This is sad? he says. What? she says. You said, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shawnbird.com&#038;blog=13467258&#038;post=6048&#038;subd=shawnbird&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>more on the editing stuff</title>
		<link>http://shawnbird.com/2012/05/20/more-on-the-editing-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 03:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Bird</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gail Anderson-Dargatz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vincent Lam]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shawnbird.com/?p=6039</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gail Anderson-Dargatz is a formerly local writer.  She graduated from the high school where I teach, and until last summer, she lived over the hill and wrote about our region.  At the moment she&#8217;s living all the way across the country on an island in Lake Huron.  Gail also teaches at UBC in the Creative [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shawnbird.com&#038;blog=13467258&#038;post=6039&#038;subd=shawnbird&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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