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		<title>Better Kid than I Was</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our oldest son turns 13 this week.
When I turned 13, I had already partaken of cigarettes (although I didn&#8217;t keep smoking them because they made me barf). Before 13, regardless whether I lived with my dad or  my mom, my friends and I were sneaking out at 1:00 AM and walking to the high school to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexawrites.wordpress.com&blog=1504217&post=2022&subd=alexawrites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Laugh at (with) Oneself</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I don&#8217;t know what I would do without a sense of humor about  myself.
Oh, wait. Yes I do. I would do things like&#8230;well, like take everything personally.
I would probably also second guess everyone else&#8217;s motives for laughing around me. I would assume that people are laughing at me. I would believe that everyone thinks I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexawrites.wordpress.com&blog=1504217&post=2014&subd=alexawrites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Does One Get There?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tell me, please, how one gets to the place where crying an ocean of tears is just one blink away &#8212; without any obvious cause?
How is it that meditating on all things good, and seeing the positive side of whatever, can be a trail that leads to a desolate clearing that seems laden with sorrow?
It is so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexawrites.wordpress.com&blog=1504217&post=2000&subd=alexawrites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;ve Got Questions&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking for myself, I don&#8217;t mind being asked about my tattoos.
I don&#8217;t even mind when people draw conclusions about me when they see my tattoos because I was once that person&#8230;
&#8230;yes, that person who secretly assumed the worst about anyone who would &#8220;defile&#8221; their skin with such permanence. That was me.
Being &#8220;inked&#8221; has opened doors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexawrites.wordpress.com&blog=1504217&post=1921&subd=alexawrites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the Middle, Not on the Fence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been spending more time thinking and less time talking. More time listening to my heart communicate with my mind.
I have been a sojourner throughout my Christian life &#8212; the last 20 years &#8212; living the way others have told me was appropriate for a Christian.
Following others&#8217; narrow paths.
Traveling roads that were not meant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexawrites.wordpress.com&blog=1504217&post=1967&subd=alexawrites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A *Blah* Place</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t seem to shake the feeling of *blah* lately.
I can&#8217;t seem to identify its origin.
It&#8217;s just there, and it magnifies every little thing that bothers me into a fully-enveloping, suffocating blob&#8230;If amplifies all the disappointments and self-talk of my failings into roars that allow no opportunity for a moment&#8217;s peace.
This is the reality of my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexawrites.wordpress.com&blog=1504217&post=1957&subd=alexawrites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Underestimated</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever viewed a person &#8212; either someone you know personally or just a person you&#8217;ve seen around &#8212; in such a way that you&#8217;ve unwittingly concluded that you&#8217;ve seen all the potential there is to see of this individual, and that the potential you see is all the potential the individual has?
No? Hmmm&#8230;I&#8217;ll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexawrites.wordpress.com&blog=1504217&post=1940&subd=alexawrites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Order of the Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It happened on a day recently when I couldn&#8217;t have felt less capable of being a voice of encouragement.
A friend here in town, and hours later, a friend two states away, told me, word for word, &#8220;I just have no peace right now.&#8221;
Both times, my heart broke for them&#8230;and selfishly, for myself. I had been bearing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexawrites.wordpress.com&blog=1504217&post=1924&subd=alexawrites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faux Peace by Floodlight</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This notion about eradicating war sounds like Utopian thinking.
Of course it would be ideal to have peace and not war. Of course all the people of the earth &#8212; indeed, all the people of any microcosm &#8212; should be able to coexist in peace.
I suspect that any person who doesn&#8217;t go around looking for a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexawrites.wordpress.com&blog=1504217&post=1900&subd=alexawrites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happier Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It must have been a peculiar sight to the checker who remarked, &#8220;Wow, that&#8217;s a lot of sprinkles on that doughnut.&#8221; I wasn&#8217;t buying a dozen doughnuts for the family; I was buying a single, &#8220;real&#8221; doughnut for myself.
What came out of my mouth was, &#8220;It brings out the kid in me.&#8221;
The intersection down the street [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexawrites.wordpress.com&blog=1504217&post=1863&subd=alexawrites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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