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		<title>Nanowrimo Coincides with Semi-Annual ER Visit!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It has begun! This year, I waited to see what writing needed to come out &#8211; fiction or memoir. And once again it is (drumroll please) creative non-fiction. I have some fiction in here somewhere, but memoir is in the way. So many stories, so few written down&#8230;. from this year and last anyway. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forcesofnature.wordpress.com&blog=697111&post=200&subd=forcesofnature&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Fall Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blustery, windy, now rainy. But earlier, it was perfect!
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		<title>Keep Me in Your Heart</title>
		<link>http://forcesofnature.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/keep-me-in-your-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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With thanks to my friend Mark.
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		<title>Friend Speaks My Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I may be a Unitarian Universalist Buddhist mystic whose current spiritual home is a Lutheran church, but this Friend definitely speaks my mind. So much fun!

Thank you, Aimée, for sharing this with me.
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		<title>August Blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been waiting for things to take a wonderful turn for the better so I can report something lovely. Hasn&#8217;t happened, so here&#8217;s the boring, difficult truth.
The June uterectomy/ooferectomy surgery was a success (seems I had debilitating endometriosis), and I still have one healthy ovary intact. Also survived a July, fully of birthdays and anniversaries [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forcesofnature.wordpress.com&blog=697111&post=173&subd=forcesofnature&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surgery #3 Next Tuesday</title>
		<link>http://forcesofnature.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/surgery-3-next-tuesday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The belly pain and nausea are not going away. Pelvic ultrasound (what a euphamism!) shows I have a cluster of cysts on my right ovary that do not look normal, and a 5-7 cm uterine fibroid off to one side. Nothing to panic over, according to all the docs I&#8217;ve been dealing with during the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forcesofnature.wordpress.com&blog=697111&post=166&subd=forcesofnature&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends</title>
		<link>http://forcesofnature.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/once-more-unto-the-breach-dear-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I&#8217;m not King Henry and I&#8217;m not battling the French, I am in need of a speech of valor.
I landed in the ER this past Saturday, and was kept overnight until I could prove I could keep down semi-solid food. Ready for this? It was exactly a year — to the day — since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forcesofnature.wordpress.com&blog=697111&post=163&subd=forcesofnature&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Am I Better?</title>
		<link>http://forcesofnature.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/am-i-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 15:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I sleep tons, and I mean 10-12 hours or more, I feel okay. As long as I do nothing. I can do some things, like walk a little, do my physical therapy (very mild) exercises, continue to unpack boxes, go shopping, cook, pay bills, write in my journal, or even work on a small [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forcesofnature.wordpress.com&blog=697111&post=160&subd=forcesofnature&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Missing Mom</title>
		<link>http://forcesofnature.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/missing-mom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 00:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forcesofnature.wordpress.com/?p=158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Man, how many times per year can they make an official day for me to miss my mother? She died of lung cancer in 2001, but it seems like just yesterday. As it turns out, I miss her every day. But holidays are especially difficult, particularly Mother&#8217;s Day. I feel robbed.
Wherever you are, Mom, thanks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forcesofnature.wordpress.com&blog=697111&post=158&subd=forcesofnature&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mazal Tov!</title>
		<link>http://forcesofnature.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/mazal-tov/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In all the darkness of our lives, a light: New nephew Michael born to my brother and sister-in-law, much wanted and loved. Welcome, beautiful boy! Photos to come, I&#8217;m sure!
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