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		<title>She who&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thenightwriterblog.com/2010/03/31/she-who/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by the Night Writer I saw the following poem on The Writer&#8217;s Almanac the other day and thought it was pretty good. Naming My Daughter (In the Uruba tribe of Africa, children are named not only at birth but throughout their lives by their characteristics and the events that befall them.) The one who took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Alien?</title>
		<link>http://thenightwriterblog.com/2010/02/22/the-alien/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by the Night Writer Hah. I noticed that the following poem was featured in the Writer&#8217;s Almanac on Saturday &#8212; the day after the Mall Diva&#8217;s ultrasound. The author is no W.B. Picklesworth, but he does have a knack for the subject. The Alien by Greg Delanty I&#8217;m back again scrutinizing the Milky Way of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold enough for ya?</title>
		<link>http://thenightwriterblog.com/2010/01/02/2691/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Night Writer It went from &#8220;cold&#8221; to &#8220;damn cold&#8221; overnight and when I got up this morning it was -12F here in South St. Paul. The &#8220;high&#8221; today is supposed to brush 0, which reminded me of this poem by George Bilgere: Zero First it was five above, then two, then one morning just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas present from the past</title>
		<link>http://thenightwriterblog.com/2009/12/24/a-christmas-present-from-the-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Night Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas 1963 Because we wanted much that year and had little. Because the winter phone for days stayed silent that would call our father back to work, and he kept silent too with our mother, fearfully proud before us. Because I was young that morning in gray light untouched on the rug and our gifts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Poem for &#8220;Choice&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thenightwriterblog.com/2009/01/22/a-poem-for-choice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this poem in time for &#8220;Blogs for Choice Day&#8221; today: Middle-Age by Pat Schneider The child you think you don&#8217;t want is the one who will make you laugh. She will break your heart when she loses the sight in one eye and tells the doctor she wants to be an apple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reasons for blogging</title>
		<link>http://thenightwriterblog.com/2009/01/07/reasons-for-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Night Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think the poem below pretty well sums up why I write &#8212; blogging or otherwise. From The Writer&#8217;s Alamanc today: VII I would not have been a poet except that I have been in love alive in this mortal world, or an essayist except that I have been bewildered and afraid, or a storyteller [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More 17th century blogging</title>
		<link>http://thenightwriterblog.com/2008/10/15/more-17th-century-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Night Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was flipping through my copy of The Art of Worldly Wisdom the other day. It&#8217;s a collection of the aphorisms of Baltasar Gracian, who I have quoted here before. I rather liked this one: &#8230;For virtue is the bond of all the perfections, and the heart of all life&#8217;s satisfactions. It makes a man [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, to be able to put it Blount-ly</title>
		<link>http://thenightwriterblog.com/2008/10/05/oh-to-be-able-to-put-it-blount-ly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What kind of writer do I want to be? My interests are so varied that I&#8217;d hate to limit myself to one niche, and in that Roy Blount, Jr. is another writing idol of mine. In a piece on Saturday noting Blount&#8217;s birthday, The Writer&#8217;s Almanac included this description: Roy Blount has been a freelance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God save the Yankees</title>
		<link>http://thenightwriterblog.com/2008/09/30/god-save-the-yankees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Night Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned earlier, I&#8217;m re-reading Mark Helprin&#8217;s most recent collection of short stories, The Pacific. One of the stories is especially apt right now as baseball&#8217;s regular season and the history of Yankee Stadium &#8212; the House That Ruth Built &#8212; come to a close. Entitled &#8220;Perfection&#8221;, the story is set in 1956 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shifting the son</title>
		<link>http://thenightwriterblog.com/2007/10/30/shifting-the-son/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Night Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shifting the Sun When your father dies, say the Irish, you lose your umbrella against bad weather. May his sun be your light, say the Armenians. When your father dies, say the Welsh, you sink a foot deeper into the earth. May you inherit his light, say the Armenians. When your father dies, say the [...]]]></description>
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