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		<title>Page Fright: Writers do it everywhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Millie.Strom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m left-handed and writing with a pen almost always ends up being a messy affair. In the West, we write left to right, making my left hand drag the ink along and smudge the page. Even with a pencil, my hand tends to cramp as a left-handed person must write inward across the page. I’ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=becauseshewrites.com&amp;blog=3128784&amp;post=229&amp;subd=becauseshewrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tea according to Christopher Hitchens</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Millie.Strom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do I really need Christopher Hitchens to tell me how to make tea? Yes, it turns out I do. After buying some high-end French Theodor tea that I squished into one of those spoon-type loose tea holders, I mused that something was not quite right with my method. The very next day, I hear the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=becauseshewrites.com&amp;blog=3128784&amp;post=432&amp;subd=becauseshewrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women writers who whine too much</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Millie.Strom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Salon.com women writers continue to whine over male writers getting more attention in best lists and awards. Some have been whining about this for years. Here&#8217;s a 1998 article, Are men better writers than women? reviewing the Harper&#8217;s piece, Scent of a woman&#8217;s ink: are women writers really inferior? The editors who write the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=becauseshewrites.com&amp;blog=3128784&amp;post=181&amp;subd=becauseshewrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Murakami’s perfect reader</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Millie.Strom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writers’ body parts don’t usually get media attention. The profile of Haruki Murakami in the Globe &#38; Mail described a man with toned biceps and quadriceps.  What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, a memoir of Murakami’s running and sitting life. Murakami, a former jazz club owner and successful novelist prone to reclusiveness, took [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=becauseshewrites.com&amp;blog=3128784&amp;post=108&amp;subd=becauseshewrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Martin: Man of many hyphens</title>
		<link>http://becauseshewrites.com/2008/06/07/steve-martin-man-of-many-hyphens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Millie.Strom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gee, I thought Steve Martin’s memoir Born Standing Up would be funny. What it lacks in humour, though, it makes up in tenderness. Subtitled, A comic’s life, the book focuses on Martin’s life and career as a television comedy writer and stand-up comedian. As the book jacket says, by 1978 Martin was the biggest concert [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=becauseshewrites.com&amp;blog=3128784&amp;post=76&amp;subd=becauseshewrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Man who loves film too much</title>
		<link>http://becauseshewrites.com/2008/05/23/man-who-loves-film-too-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 20:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Millie.Strom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his role as a television film critic, David Gilmour always struck me as a cranky opinionated guy who thought the world revolved around him. Not surprisingly, I wasn’t drawn to his memoir about a three-year period he hung out with his high-school dropout son watching films that Gilmour chose. One evening, at one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=becauseshewrites.com&amp;blog=3128784&amp;post=60&amp;subd=becauseshewrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A biketopian vision</title>
		<link>http://becauseshewrites.com/2008/05/09/a-biketopian-vision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 20:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Millie.Strom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the June 2008 issue of Walrus, there&#8217;s a great article on cycling titled, Geared Up: On the road to two-wheeled transcendence. Reading the first sentence or two, trying to remember the streets of Toronto that were mentioned, I wondered how the writer got away with such a terrible lead. Another sentence or two and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=becauseshewrites.com&amp;blog=3128784&amp;post=57&amp;subd=becauseshewrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the boy out of George, one lonely note at a time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Millie.Strom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My day begins with the newspaper. Years ago, I would wake to a thudding sound as the newspaper hit my front door. But as crime escalated in the city, my condo will no longer allow the newspaper delivery person to enter the locked building. In the early morning, I slip on a house coat and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=becauseshewrites.com&amp;blog=3128784&amp;post=33&amp;subd=becauseshewrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To nominalize or not to nominalize</title>
		<link>http://becauseshewrites.com/2008/03/21/to-nominalize-or-not-to-nominalize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Millie.Strom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nestled on Lonsdale Avenue near 15th Street in North Vancouver, La Zuppa! hosts a Philosophers Café on the third Wednesday of the month. The moderator Martin Hunt, an artist with an interest in science and philosophy, wondered what sort of confusion arises when we turn verbs into nouns. This action is called nominalizing and funny [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=becauseshewrites.com&amp;blog=3128784&amp;post=32&amp;subd=becauseshewrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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