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		<title>Females vs. Franzen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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Before the book even hit the stores, women authors cried foul when Jonathan Franzen got good reviews.    We’re talking major authors here.  Best seller Jodi Picoult, the renowned Jane Smiley, and first-Oprah-book-author-ever Jacqueline Mitchard to name a few.
 I’m no friend of Jonathan Franzen.  Once he treated Oprah and her book club with contempt those years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ten Most Common Writing Mistakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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1.  An Essay Isn’t a Story
I’m often asked, “Can the villain be an idea?”  Nice question often asked by intellectuals and the answer is no.  The point of writing a story is to create characters who represent ideas and to have those characters act out the ideas for which they stand.  In a story, stuff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knitting and Writing and Tennis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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Happy to announce I finished knitting a blanket today for my new baby niece Abigail.  Some people read to relax at the end of a long hard day, but because my day job involves a fair amount (!) of reading and writing, it&#8217;s usually not relaxing.  When I read, my engine gets going and that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gunfire on My Street!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok so it&#8217;s about 10:30PM.  Husband&#8217;s away taking care of his father in the nursing home.  I finish the chapter of Lee Child&#8217;s &#8220;61 Hours&#8221; (a nice read for this hot summer in Georgia, especially since it&#8217;s set in a snowstorm of South Dakota), turn off the light and do my deep-breathing-instead-of-Ambien routine (works well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Meal I Ever Had</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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As I work on a Lesson Plan for Third Graders, &#8220;The Best Meal I Ever Had,&#8221; thoughts run through my head.  What was my favorite meal?   The foie gras at the Hotel Crillon our first night in Paris?  My birthday lunch with Bette Midler?  Or was it one of those Sunday feasts from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even in Black and White</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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When Frank and I worked with the adjudicated teenagers at Palama Settlement, we included movies in our curriculum.  &#8220;Little Miss Sunshine&#8221; was cool (although the kids thought Grandpa was the main character because he of course was their favorite, which can be attributed to his substance abuse issues and foul language) and although I frowned upon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women Do Great Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 05:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just came from the Hawaii Women’s Fund Tea and Champagne Event because they gave Learning for a Lifetime a grant for Girls Day at Palama Settlement.   Board members Barbara Kozlovich, Donna Ambrose, Kristin Jackson and I drank champagne in the daytime!   
 It was so great to see these amazing women, all devoted to making the world a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why NCLB Failed:  A Report from the Trenches</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 05:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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A few years ago, after a long career helping professional writers tell their stories, I decided to teach children the classic art of storytelling.   I taught middle school kids and adjudicated youth and little kids too.   I wrote the curriculum based on my belief that &#8220;If you can write your own life story, you can write your own happy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Only Get One Coincidence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 22:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In life, every action causes a reaction.  That reaction will then cause another reaction.  And so on and so forth.  So it is with story.
One event (known as the &#8220;Inciting Incident&#8221; causes the next event, and that event causes the rest of the chain reaction.  For example, in The Wizard of Oz,  the Tornado (inciting incident) [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 03:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank and I recently finished watching the “John Adams” miniseries.  Many of you know how I felt about the book (fabulous!) and the miniseries was compelling as well.  The bonus features on the Netflix DVD were the best ever.   Author David McCullough talks about the challenge of writing “history” which he clarifies:  he’s really writing [...]]]></description>
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