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		<title>Moving &#8212; Moved</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Do-over</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of tomorrow, I get my do-over. Officially. My name change do-over. The name I have always wanted but persuaded myself not to take two years ago when I changed it. I have blogged previously about my new name, and how changing my name from the one given to me at birth was my taking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexawrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1504217&amp;post=2168&amp;subd=alexawrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grace for 6 Billion Problems</title>
		<link>http://alexawrites.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/grace-for-6-billion-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s nothing I can do that could make God love me less. Nothing. And there&#8217;s nothing I can do that could make God love me more. Nothing. But there&#8217;s plenty we do in this human race that causes others to love us less. Or more. Or both. Plenty of what I do makes others love [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexawrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1504217&amp;post=2143&amp;subd=alexawrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not Suffering (Somebody Slap Me&#8230;Please!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of thousands of Haitians are without power. And food. And clean water to drink. And medical care&#8230; &#8230;and parents. And children. And loved ones. And today, I am ashamed to say that I complained about being without electricity. For a whole 12 hours. Thanks to a storm that rolled through last night and knocked out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexawrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1504217&amp;post=2137&amp;subd=alexawrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Business is Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend just found out that today is her last day at work. She has been laid off. Again. Working in the mortgage industry these days is a shaky prospect, to be sure. In the last two years, she has been a top performer and reliable loan processor at two mortgage companies, only to become a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexawrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1504217&amp;post=2121&amp;subd=alexawrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Desperate Measures</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My fingertips are more prone than the average person&#8217;s to crack open and bleed during wintertime or any other time of year. I have yet to find the magical topical solution for this. Even as a child, the soles of my feet cracked open and bled, which brought about a semi-regular nightly ritual my mom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexawrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1504217&amp;post=2110&amp;subd=alexawrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marshmallow Santas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the few things I really anticipate around Christmas time, Fred Meyer got me all excited when I saw my favorite self-indulgent holiday &#8220;grab-n-go&#8221; treat: Russell Stover marshmallow filled, chocolate covered Santas. Not the knock-off Hershey&#8217;s marshmallow Santas, and not the unpalatable Palmer brand marshmallow Santas. The ones that only Russell Stover does right&#8230;with creamy marshmallow filling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexawrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1504217&amp;post=2088&amp;subd=alexawrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As Opposite as it Gets</title>
		<link>http://alexawrites.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/as-opposite-as-it-gets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[God help us. Those I stand shoulder to shoulder with on Sunday mornings, those who worship elsewhere, any of us who declare ourselves followers of Jesus &#8212; Lord, help us. May I never look down my nose at my brothers and sisters in Christ in one moment and testify of the goodness of the Lord [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexawrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1504217&amp;post=2050&amp;subd=alexawrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reset</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time for a reset. My  attention is so divided lately that I&#8217;m forgetting one important thing: I matter. If only within the four walls of my home, I matter. And my family gets me. And that&#8217;s good enough&#8230;or it should be. However it is that I can forget that sometimes, I don&#8217;t know. So I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexawrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1504217&amp;post=2040&amp;subd=alexawrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexawrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1504217&amp;post=2022&amp;subd=alexawrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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