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	<title>Thought Spirals</title>
	<link>http://www.jcgarren.com</link>
	<description>Writing, society, magic... thought spirals out of control, comes back around, but is never the same</description>
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		<title>Planting Lettuce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is time once again for the annual &#8220;No, really, I can garden&#8221; attempt. This year it&#8217;s lettuce lining the sidewalk leading up to our house and flowers in the main bed in front of the windows. The lettuce that I planted a week and a half ago has started sprouting! Yay! The lettuce I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jcgarren.com/2010/03/planting-lettuce/</link>
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		<title>Feng Shui, Vikings, and Good Ole Christian Housekeeping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying to be a better housekeeper, and so like normal, I&#8217;m turning to a variety of sources to see what works.  So far I have further proof that my husband is particularly attuned to all things Eastern. After learning about how to feng shui the &#8220;traveling&#8221; bagua of my home, I noted how we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jcgarren.com/2010/03/feng-shui-vikings-and-good-ole-christian-housekeeping/</link>
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		<title>This is My New Favorite Commercial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saw it during the Olympics last night, and Scott and I about died laughing.

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		<link>http://www.jcgarren.com/2010/02/this-is-my-new-favorite-commercial/</link>
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		<title>Happy V-Day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d heard that greeting card companies invented Valentine&#8217;s Day as a way to sell cards, and well, I didn&#8217;t believe it. So, as a budding romance novelist, I took it upon myself to look it up on ye olde trusty internet.
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, there were three martyrs named Valentine, two of whom died [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jcgarren.com/2010/02/happy-v-day/</link>
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		<title>Multi-Tasking. Just Say No.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Multitasking can actually lower your performance on IQ tests &#8212; by about 10 points. Smoking a joint only costs you 4 points. So if you have to choose between multitasking and marijuana, the choice should be clear, although your boss and your government probably see things differently. Bosses and governments love multitasking.&#8221;
- from Randy Ingermanson&#8217;s article &#8220;Organizing: Does Multitasking Make You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jcgarren.com/2010/02/multi-tasking-just-say-no/</link>
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		<title>Writing by Fits and Starts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had two days of fabulous writing goodness pouring from brain to page, and today it&#8217;s back again to writing by mental cheese grater. I don&#8217;t know why sometimes it&#8217;s easy and there are words and words and words and sometimes it&#8217;s painful and there are no words to show for it. Or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jcgarren.com/2010/02/writing-by-fits-and-starts/</link>
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		<title>And My Respect for Steve Jobs Just Tanked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a New York Times article from awhile back (like May), Steve Jobs said in regards to the Kindle:
It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jcgarren.com/2010/02/and-my-respect-for-steve-jobs-just-tanked/</link>
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		<title>Soulless &#8211; I am reading a fabulous book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m about half way through, and haven&#8217;t had this much fun reading in&#8230; well, in many many novels. Example line that made me put the book down I was laughing so hard:
&#8220;He tore his eyes away from the tops of those remarkable breasts of hers and tried to think unpleasant thoughts of particularly horrible things, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jcgarren.com/2010/01/soulless-i-am-reading-a-fabulous-book/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Not Low-Carb&#8230; I Just Don&#8217;t Eat Flour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I find myself defending this too often, so I&#8217;m posting online my thoughts on food and eating healthy. I&#8217;ve been thinking and reading and listening a lot about this since I quit my job in an effort to become a more healthy person, and food is an integral part of that. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve learned:
1. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jcgarren.com/2010/01/im-not-low-carb-i-just-dont-eat-flour/</link>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Hmm&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The key to literary success? Be a man &#8212; or write like one. &#8211; By Julianna Baggott
Interesting article on an issue near and dear to my heart: misogyny within the storytelling community. Baggott touches on the side of the issue that I find the most disturbing, that recognized books &#8220;are not only written by men but also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jcgarren.com/2010/01/todays-hmm/</link>
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