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		<title>2012: A Sink Odyssey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen L Hogan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have come to see that the Kingdom of the Father is spread upon the earth while others do not, the End of the World has come for you. For the world as it was for you has indeed ended.&#8221; From Thou Art That by Joseph Campbell We had a sink problem recently. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingshed.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7684321&amp;post=963&amp;subd=writingshed&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beans and Meatballs and the Pink Stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen L Hogan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother was not known for her cooking. She wasn’t a bad cook, she just approached it as she did her housekeeping—a duty for which she had no calling. One of her signature dishes was beans and meatballs. My mother’s recipe for Beans and Meatballs Soak a package of dried pinto beans for however long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingshed.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7684321&amp;post=956&amp;subd=writingshed&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unconventional Wisdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen L Hogan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[On Being Authentic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The trees are bare outside my Writing Shed. Four small birds share a thin branch. Persimmons hang like ornaments from another tree. It is my California home’s version of winter. Winter is actually the beginning of things – the time when light returns. I heard once that as the sun goes into Capricorn, the moon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingshed.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7684321&amp;post=949&amp;subd=writingshed&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No One Puts Baby in the Corner</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen L Hogan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s true. In loss there is gain. Closing down 4th Street Studio freed up a bookcase for my writing shed, where the floor had started to serve double duty as a place to stack books. I put the bookcase in the southeast corner of the shed, and then pondered which books would find a home [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingshed.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7684321&amp;post=929&amp;subd=writingshed&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Train Passing Through</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen L Hogan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it is in the film Black Stallion that a character in a voiceover says that Picasso didn’t paint the horse — he painted the memory of the horse. He says that as the underwater camera captures the image of the black stallion being lifted out of the water — the image of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingshed.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7684321&amp;post=916&amp;subd=writingshed&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Throwing My Heart Over the Fence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen L Hogan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Horseback riders who jump the Grand Prix fences of terrifying heights talk of ‘throwing their heart’ over the fence so their horse jumps after it. We must do the same.” Julia Cameron in Walking in This World I made a very conscious choice to remain silent during the month of May. That is I decided [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingshed.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7684321&amp;post=910&amp;subd=writingshed&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tame the Savageness of Man and Make Gentle the Life of This World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen L Hogan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The frogs were in full symphonic mode as I walked through the arroyo on Thursday evening. It was the first warm day this year — warm enough that we could have the windows open in the evening. A soft breeze drifted down on me as I lay in bed, descending on me like a fine mist. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingshed.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7684321&amp;post=902&amp;subd=writingshed&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Angry. I&#8217;m Damned Angry</title>
		<link>http://writingshed.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/im-angry-im-damned-angry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen L Hogan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am watching waves crash against the rocks as they reach the western edge of the continental United States. The northern California coast is magnificent. Yesterday, the wind turned the ocean sea green, the white-tipped edges visible to the horizon, and pierced you with its ferocious chill. The wind is not so powerful this morning. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingshed.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7684321&amp;post=898&amp;subd=writingshed&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After the Mayhem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen L Hogan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve started blogs the past two weeks, but stopped short. First, I had a back problem that made it difficult to sit at the computer long enough. Then, mayhem happened. The blog I started before the mayhem was about the Kennedy Center Awards. Caroline Kenney introduced the evening with the words of her father. Who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingshed.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7684321&amp;post=891&amp;subd=writingshed&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Minute Away from Snowing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen L Hogan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a benevolent force that wanted me to know that there was no reason to be afraid – ever. Ricky in &#8220;American Beauty&#8221; The Bay Area has seasons, but they aren’t as dramatic as other places. It basically moves between winter’s wet and summer’s dry, with a burst of pale pastel blossoms in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingshed.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7684321&amp;post=887&amp;subd=writingshed&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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