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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: Creatures in my Backyard</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Writing Publicly</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my goals/determinations for 2012 is to write and publish meaningful, well-received pieces. My first one (yay!) is linked below. I had the pleasure of working with a brilliant editor, Kelly Virella, and I&#8217;m deeply appreciative of her guidance and wisdom. I hope to write many more personal essays, advocacy pieces, and other works throughout [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ndcollier.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16031638&amp;post=491&amp;subd=ndcollier&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writer, Professional, Good</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Whatever: Here are three questions I was recently asked about writing. I&#8217;m going to condense the questions, because when they were asked, they meandered across several paragraphs; they boil down to three sentences, which are: When may you call yourself a writer? When may you call yourself a professional writer? When may you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ndcollier.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16031638&amp;post=490&amp;subd=ndcollier&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: Crimson Dawn</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ladybuddha</dc:creator>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t have to like it to love it.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've finally discovered that my day goes and feels differently depending on the inclusion or exclusion of exercise. Even if it's a short walk to run an errand, or dancing around the house, I just feel better when I make a concerted effort to move.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ndcollier.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16031638&amp;post=470&amp;subd=ndcollier&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Living, or Dying, with Anger</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ladybuddha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is dangerous to hold fast to anger toward another. Perhaps even poisonous. One may look around one day, only to find herself rotting, dying a slow death from the inside. And yet, aware as I am of this simple point, I catch myself, arms wrapped ‘round my body, one crossed over another, refusing to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ndcollier.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16031638&amp;post=467&amp;subd=ndcollier&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Praise of the Pomodoro Technique</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ladybuddha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might&#8217;ve seen one before &#8211; a little red timer disguised as a tomato. Well a tomato is a pomodoro, and the tomato timer is the inspiration behind the Pomodoro Technique. Created in the 1980s by Francesco Cirillo, the technique is designed to make time our ally as we manage it better and become more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ndcollier.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16031638&amp;post=456&amp;subd=ndcollier&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liebster Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ladybuddha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 20011 I am fearless. That has been my motto since New Year&#8217;s eve when I declared it to the world (or at least to those who care to read my tweets now and again). At the root of this declaration was my determination to write more often and to do so more publicly. I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ndcollier.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16031638&amp;post=448&amp;subd=ndcollier&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Step in Autoethnography</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography by Carolyn Ellis My rating: 3 of 5 stars I appreciate the author&#8217;s effort to make research methods and ethics more accessible to novice scholars. Unfortunately, the attempt fell flat. There seemed too much attention to making this a &#8220;novel,&#8221; when the text was not about characters. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ndcollier.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16031638&amp;post=437&amp;subd=ndcollier&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adult Literacy Tutor</title>
		<link>http://ndcollier.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/adult-literacy-tutor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official. After a Saturday workshop with the Hillsborough Literacy Council in partnership with ProLiteracy, I am now an adult literacy tutor. 8 is Not Enough Eight of us attended the training. Paltry numbers given the frequency of the workshops (this is the last one for the year) and the need. According to the Adult Literacy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ndcollier.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16031638&amp;post=417&amp;subd=ndcollier&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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