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		<title>Idea for kids&#8217; curtains</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crafts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I was just sitting here with Sesame Street on in the background while my daughter naps, and I got an idea from the cartoon for some really cool curtains. I&#8217;m just going to jot the idea down here, and then when we have a place, I&#8217;m definitely doing this in her room. Start with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Jane Goodall Speaks At ASW</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 10:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, Dr. Jane Goodall visited The American School of Warsaw (ASW) where my wife works to speak to the students, and hear what they had to say.&#160; It was an incredible opportunity, and I didn&#8217;t want to miss it. At first, I wasn&#8217;t sure I would make there.&#160; There are a lot of things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polish Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was mixing up some cottage cheese and blueberries, and had some verses in Polish pop into my head, so I wanted to record them here for posterity.&#160; And it&#8217;s my first poem in Polish! Jagody, jagody, w moim ogrody. Tak gruby, tak mokry, niestety mrozony.]]></description>
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		<title>Highway 51</title>
		<link>http://blog.rykus.com/2010/07/31/highway-51?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=highway-51</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dreams]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Had another vivid dream fragment this morning.&#160; Very detailed and not connected to anything that I can remember.&#160; I&#8217;m going to do my best to reconstruct it here in story form.&#160; Only some of the details have been added or expanded upon.&#160; But all of the characters, major actions, and objects are all straight from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Exercise #2</title>
		<link>http://blog.rykus.com/2010/07/29/writing-exercise-2?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=writing-exercise-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, this time I&#8217;m giving myself a similar assignment, except this time I&#8217;m writing what happens next, with little to no reference as to what has already happened.&#160; We&#8217;re just getting plunked into the middle of the story. And for some extra flavor, I&#8217;m going to try it in 1st person, too&#8230;&#160; I&#8217;m also going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Exercise #1</title>
		<link>http://blog.rykus.com/2010/07/27/writing-exercise-1?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=writing-exercise-1</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;In order to work on my writing, I&#8217;m going to start doing some exercises and trying to write often &#8211; even if what I write sucks (which I&#8217;m sure it will more often than not &#8211; especially late nights like tonight). Tonight&#8217;s exercise: Go to www.flickr.com/photos/, find the first photo of a person, and write [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Conservation (and other related) Practices</title>
		<link>http://blog.rykus.com/2010/07/25/my-conservation-and-other-related-practices?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=my-conservation-and-other-related-practices</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite being unbearably shy, I&#8217;ve always been able to do the things that I felt were right, regardless of outside pressures to the contrary.&#160; I&#8217;ve also always taken any advice to heart, and payed attention to what people older and more experienced than me have said.&#160; One somewhat obvious way this has manifested itself in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apache Wedding Prayer</title>
		<link>http://blog.rykus.com/2010/07/15/apache-wedding-prayer?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=apache-wedding-prayer</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apache]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blessing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ceremony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[native american]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wedding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not only have I not written in a while (no surprise there), but with all the impending weddings I looked back on my own and realized that I never shared the Apache wedding prayer that got left out of our ceremony.&#160; So here it is! Now you will feel no rain, For each of you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Karate Kid (2010) &#8211; Review</title>
		<link>http://blog.rykus.com/2010/06/21/the-karate-kid-2010-review?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-karate-kid-2010-review</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jackie Chan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karate Kid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I first saw the trailer for this movie my heart sank.&#160; Despite really liking Jackie Chan, I was almost a little mad that he was involved in what seemed more of a spoof than a remake of the old classic. But I really like Jackie Chan, and the movie looked good in the trailers.&#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berries</title>
		<link>http://blog.rykus.com/2010/06/09/berries?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=berries</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I like to make up little rhymes or songs throughout the course of the day.&#160; Mostly stuff for kids.&#160; Today while I was washing up a bowl of blueberries, with some Celtic music in the background, this little critter popped out of my head: I&#8217;m gonna eat the berries; gonna put them in my belly. [...]]]></description>
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