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		<title>The Best and the Worst</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 18:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t scare very easily. I have walked the streets of many a city alone, feeling perfectly comfortable just about anywhere. I’m cautious, always aware of everyone around me, as anyone who has spent a lot of time in urban environments learns to do, but it’s been a long time since I felt a true [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craftlass.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10132133&#038;post=374&#038;subd=craftlass&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It covers most of our planet. It exists on the moon. It has definitely existed on Mars and might still. We can&#8217;t survive without it. It makes up most of our own bodies. Our relationship with water is so strong and important that most of civilization is near a large body of it. Most of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craftlass.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10132133&#038;post=366&#038;subd=craftlass&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Weeks (An Overview)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has it really been two weeks? Time has lost all meaning. Two weeks ago I watched the waters rise up my street, for some time peacefully lapping at the pavement in front of our building. We stood there, gaping out the window, dazed by how a river usually a mile away could have created this [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craftlass.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10132133&#038;post=345&#038;subd=craftlass&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The Morning After</media:title>
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		<title>An Atheist Hears the Angels Sing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas begins very early for me. See, I love Christmas music, from traditional sacred carols to &#8220;A Very Special Christmas&#8221; (with a few exceptions, of course, like that stupid Paul McCartney song that we are bombarded with every year). A wise man I knew in the music industry summed up great songwriting by using Christmas [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craftlass.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10132133&#038;post=337&#038;subd=craftlass&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fun With Unwanted Fertility</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t start this blog to rant about children or my lack of desire for them but it seems I do come back to this topic a lot these days. When the headlines are filled with the War on Women and a Presidential candidate talks about how women who dare to work need flex time [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craftlass.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10132133&#038;post=331&#038;subd=craftlass&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Live Again</title>
		<link>http://craftlass.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/live-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For just over a week I&#8217;ve been in Saratoga Springs. I&#8217;ve always loved this town but this is my first visit as an adult, not counting a single concert that I barely remember because we just went to the venue and left. I have a house to myself and a car at my disposal, which [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craftlass.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10132133&#038;post=323&#038;subd=craftlass&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Go Ahead, Kill Me Now</title>
		<link>http://craftlass.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/go-ahead-kill-me-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 11:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent the past 3 nights at the hugely successful (in every sense) reunion concerts of God Street Wine, primarily because my partner, John &#8220;Woody&#8221; Wood, who is one of the most talented percussionists I&#8217;ve ever heard (I have spent a lot of my life listening to great percussionists of all kinds yet he was [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craftlass.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10132133&#038;post=309&#038;subd=craftlass&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Singing in the Wind</title>
		<link>http://craftlass.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/singing-in-the-wind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I decided to apply for, and then got, a grant to go to The Amaz!ng Meeting (TAM) courtesy of Surly Amy and those who supported her grant campaign I was expecting a weekend of hearing smart talks that would make me a better thinker and meeting people who lived up to the &#8220;amazing&#8221; part [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craftlass.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10132133&#038;post=305&#038;subd=craftlass&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We CAN All Just Get Along, We Just Have to Try</title>
		<link>http://craftlass.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/we-can-all-just-get-along-we-just-have-to-try/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being who I am, if I restricted myself to socializing with people who agree with me on most things, I wouldn&#8217;t have a social life. Even worse, I would be stuck, like so many people are, in a bubble. Still worse, I would spend my life being so much angrier than I am. Oh, I&#8217;m [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craftlass.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10132133&#038;post=302&#038;subd=craftlass&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guilt and Language</title>
		<link>http://craftlass.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/guilt-and-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a feminist and atheist. These days, those words are treated more like curse words than any term for genitalia. It&#8217;s a clever way to try to take the power out of them, it makes a lot of people apologize for being either or both. Language is a living thing, as any writer or [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craftlass.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10132133&#038;post=298&#038;subd=craftlass&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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