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		<title>Flash Fiction Friday &#8211; A Kiss</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s time for your flash fiction Friday prompt today is all about lips. Well really it’s all about kisses. I can be a romantic at times. Okay okay the prompt: “A Kiss to Remember.” Was it your first kiss, waking up to your dog kissing you, the goodbye kiss, or the first time you kissed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecoveredwagon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10767696&amp;post=439&amp;subd=thecoveredwagon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Police Were At The Door: Flash Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 14:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flash Fiction Friday is something that my writing group has gotten into. This week&#8217;s FFF is up on Jason Deeds&#8217; blog. Here is my variation on &#8220;The Police were at the door,&#8221; specially themed for Friday the 13th. The police were at the door. I shot away from the body, looked at him and muttered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecoveredwagon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10767696&amp;post=434&amp;subd=thecoveredwagon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Place</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come join me for my Jewish perspective on midwifery over at &#8220;The Mamela Midwife.&#8221; (http://themamelamidwife.wordpress.com) From here on out, &#8220;The Covered Wagon&#8221; will be just personal stuff.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecoveredwagon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10767696&amp;post=425&amp;subd=thecoveredwagon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living a Life in One Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday was one of those days that happens once in a lifetime. It was a day of joys and sorrows, of support and overwhelming love. At 3:40pm, I left the house, left the kids with Keith, and went to a friend&#8217;s house for the bris milah of her son. As the only other Jewish mama [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecoveredwagon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10767696&amp;post=426&amp;subd=thecoveredwagon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Ancestors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 01:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;L&#8217;dor vador,&#8221; from generation to generation&#8230; three times a day we say those words, followed by praises of G-d and His greatness. There is a strong feeling in Judaism that G-d has pervaded the lives of our people, from the Garden of Eden and the Exodus through the Holocaust, the formation of Israel, and beyond. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecoveredwagon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10767696&amp;post=421&amp;subd=thecoveredwagon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday</title>
		<link>http://thecoveredwagon.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/wordless-wednesday-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Finding Balance</title>
		<link>http://thecoveredwagon.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/finding-balance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been out of balance recently. Many of my relationships, my work life, my eating habits, even my relationship with my dog&#8230; the only thing I seem to have balance in has been my relationship with my children (for which I&#8217;m very grateful). I am learning that balance is about prioritizing and then defending [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecoveredwagon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10767696&amp;post=415&amp;subd=thecoveredwagon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Midwifery Journey</title>
		<link>http://thecoveredwagon.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/my-midwifery-journey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following post is excerpted from an essay I wrote for one of the modules in my midwifery program. I began class two weeks ago, and have been struggling with what to write about midwifery school. I&#8217;m still conflicted as to why I feel called to do this, especially at this time in my life, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecoveredwagon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10767696&amp;post=412&amp;subd=thecoveredwagon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Oh Grow Up, Already!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thecoveredwagon.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/oh-grow-up-already/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Oh grow up, already!&#8221; My good friend Jeff gave a moving sermon on this topic at his church last Sunday. He spoke of the difficulty of being decisive, of choosing a path, of not knowing when you choose that path who will be hurt by it or if you&#8217;ll even get anything good out of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecoveredwagon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10767696&amp;post=400&amp;subd=thecoveredwagon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ghosts of Christmases Past</title>
		<link>http://thecoveredwagon.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/ghosts-of-christmases-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 03:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have recently been on vacation in Florida, taking advantage of the holidays and easy work breaks to go visit my grandparents and show off their second great-grandchild, my Naomi. We visited my mother&#8217;s parents and ate good food, had stimulating conversation, heard fantastically embarrassing stories, and had way too much expensive booze. It was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecoveredwagon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10767696&amp;post=372&amp;subd=thecoveredwagon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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