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		<title>A truly terrible cold</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Find a way</title>
		<link>http://fso2.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/find-a-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[a dream. ~~ ~~ This way: a maze more than a labyrinth. Heading up would be good, in the air, where wind drafts play. Or up higher, where the North Star and Little Dipper and Orion and Pegasus live. It&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://fso2.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/find-a-way/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fso2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9393860&amp;post=4860&amp;subd=fso2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Those Abandoned Places</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[this was a dream ~~ Cities, mines, tracks, amusement parks, buildings, rooms, trains and planes and ships and cars and tires, cell phones, computers, wires and plastic. The detritus we make left in place as they fell, as they landed, &#8230; <a href="http://fso2.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/those-abandoned-places/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fso2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9393860&amp;post=4866&amp;subd=fso2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wishful thinking</title>
		<link>http://fso2.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/wishful-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[~~ He comes walking along the path, licking his lips and I look at him as he looks at me and as he catches my eye he gives me that quizzical look. Wishful thinking. So I ask him, pointedly: &#8220;What &#8230; <a href="http://fso2.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/wishful-thinking/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fso2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9393860&amp;post=5163&amp;subd=fso2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>A day in the life of a writer</title>
		<link>http://fso2.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-writer/</link>
		<comments>http://fso2.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-writer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[~~~ There it is, in my inbox: a note from the magazine editor. First the good news: the magazine continues to do exceptionally well and is climbing the international magazine charts. This success is creating more demand and this greater &#8230; <a href="http://fso2.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-writer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fso2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9393860&amp;post=1034&amp;subd=fso2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Way too early for Christmas</title>
		<link>http://fso2.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/way-too-early-for-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toronto]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[~~ Shopping. On a Saturday. On Dundas Street West, edging through Chinatown to get to TenRen&#8217;s Tea shop to see if it carried a special tea thingy: a tall double-walled glass tumbler with a self-contained tea strainer to hold loose &#8230; <a href="http://fso2.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/way-too-early-for-christmas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fso2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9393860&amp;post=5408&amp;subd=fso2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you love a writer</title>
		<link>http://fso2.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/if-you-love-a-writer/</link>
		<comments>http://fso2.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/if-you-love-a-writer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FS</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Writer]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conqueringthealphabet.wordpress.com/?p=890</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[~~ If you are about to step onto that mysterious ship of relationships, the one code-named HMSS Love A Writer, and it has not yet been brought to your attention that a writer is a creature as different from the average &#8230; <a href="http://fso2.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/if-you-love-a-writer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fso2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9393860&amp;post=5468&amp;subd=fso2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What to write about</title>
		<link>http://fso2.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/what-to-write-about/</link>
		<comments>http://fso2.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/what-to-write-about/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[~~ According to those in the know, there are only so many stories in the world. Apparently, if you distill the stories of the Bible, of Shakespeare, and of the world&#8217;s indigenous people to each story&#8217;s key message, you&#8217;ll discover &#8230; <a href="http://fso2.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/what-to-write-about/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fso2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9393860&amp;post=5471&amp;subd=fso2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Write by Numbers</title>
		<link>http://fso2.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/write-by-numbers/</link>
		<comments>http://fso2.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/write-by-numbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FS</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://conqueringthealphabet.wordpress.com/?p=941</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You might recall Painting by Numbers. For those of you blissfully unaware of what it&#8217;s all about, or were protected from such culturally insane artefacts by caring and loving parents, Painting by Numbers is as explained by Wikipedia, it&#8217;s a &#8230; <a href="http://fso2.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/write-by-numbers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fso2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9393860&amp;post=941&amp;subd=fso2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The story so far, or, why do I blog?</title>
		<link>http://fso2.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/the-story-so-far-or-why-do-i-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
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