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	<description>capturing a story&#039;s glimmer</description>
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		<title>Linda Clare&#8217;s writing recipe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a treat. Actually it&#8217;s a two-fer. I asked a friend whose first novel was published last year if she would guest blog for me (this really helps, while I learn a new job and don&#8217;t have as much blog time available). I mentioned that included in my &#8220;huge&#8221; audience are young moms with interest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deannahershiser.com/2010/03/10/linda-clares-writing-recipe/</link>
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		<title>sounds good, don&#8217;t it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The style of the essayist is that of an extremely intelligent, highly commonsensical person talking, without stammer and with impressive coherence, to him- or herself, and to anyone else who cares to eavesdrop.
~Joseph Epstein~
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		<link>http://deannahershiser.com/2010/03/08/sounds-good-dont-it/</link>
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		<title>lent for lent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christian traditions of various types have been placed around me all my life. Even more these days, when I tread paths of some ancient beliefs. At least, I imagine what it&#8217;s like to be a pilgrim on those sorts of journeys.
I&#8217;m struck by the beauty in Orthodox rituals &#8211; from decorous clothing to music to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deannahershiser.com/2010/03/03/lent-for-lent/</link>
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		<title>wall-gazing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things come.
Not as expected, or even as the shadow of expectation sometimes, but they arrive. Sailing in: the phrase I thought couldn&#8217;t be grasped, the way to shape a structure, the whereabouts of that envelope surely lost.
They show up when it&#8217;s important.
If not, well, they still might.
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		<link>http://deannahershiser.com/2010/03/01/wall-gazing/</link>
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		<title>the games begin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life is funny. The quest for certain goals can make me think I'm going after gold. But really I'm learning to persevere, whatever the outcome.]]></description>
		<link>http://deannahershiser.com/2010/02/26/the-games-begin/</link>
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		<title>object smatter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m starting over.
I was into a wonderful, rambling post about further musings on belief, and. Well. Maybe it wouldn&#8217;t have been wonderful to try plowing through on your way to a zillion other blogs, distractions, and weekend activities.
So I shall attempt to concise things up a bit for next week. Anyway, one of those cool [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deannahershiser.com/2010/02/19/object-smatter/</link>
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		<title>how it is</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week: my second job interview in three months.
The second job I didn&#8217;t get. The second time someone said they would have loved to work with me, but another candidate was just that much more qualified.
A tragedy it&#8217;s not. I did my best. Times are challenging for everyone.
The saddest moments, also the ones where I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deannahershiser.com/2010/02/18/how-it-is/</link>
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		<title>wednesday&#8217;s commercial word</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t plan to get one. Honest. But now I&#8217;m glad I stole it that night.
We were enjoying KLSR-TV&#8217;s annual Christmas dinner, and the traditional gift steal game began. The first opened gift, promptly snatched by newslady Natasha Chughtai, was a leopard-patterned snuggie.
Those blankets with arms looked kind of nifty on the infomercials. I whispered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deannahershiser.com/2010/02/17/wednesdays-commercial-word/</link>
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		<title>the object matters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This culture is hung up on the way the word &#8220;belief&#8221; gets understood. I&#8217;m stymied by it as often as anybody.
It rankles to hear someone say there is a right way to believe. My term in an old journal was &#8220;right-angled faith.&#8221; I wanted to write a book about how this is wrong. A right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deannahershiser.com/2010/02/16/the-object-matters/</link>
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		<title>random notes on creative nonfiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to uncover from real to real,
though I can barely get beyond imagined.
The role my supposings play, though, makes it fun:
a biography of air, of ants, or aunts,
a piece of driftwood once a tree. 
A foundation crumbles,
a cemetery stone speaks.
My face in the mirror
draws down. 
I wander long hours, imagining
why this was, or what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deannahershiser.com/2010/02/12/random-notes-on-creative-nonfiction/</link>
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