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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: Halloween</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Blaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeing double? Yes. This is a repost after my broken link today. But also double, because these are similar pictures of my current knitting project that has taught me two valuable lessons. Although the pictures look the same, they are the front and back of the double knit scarf I am making. Double knit means that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=micheleblaker.com&#038;blog=21449532&#038;post=220&#038;subd=micheleblaker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Blaker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cheerleaders]]></category>
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		<link>http://micheleblaker.com/2011/10/17/stalking-lion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Blaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Apple announced months ago that a new desktop operating system (Lion) was coming out and that it would work well with the IOS5 iPhone system AND play well with Apple&#8217;s new iCloud all for the low, low price of $29.99 for ALL of my computers, I knew I would get it. However, from past [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=micheleblaker.com&#038;blog=21449532&#038;post=183&#038;subd=micheleblaker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless  Wednesday: Changes in White Balance</title>
		<link>http://micheleblaker.com/2011/10/12/wordless-wednesday-changes-in-white-balance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Blaker</dc:creator>
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		<title>Now Read This: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter</title>
		<link>http://micheleblaker.com/2011/10/07/now-read-this-crooked-letter-crooked-letter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Blaker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harper Lee]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love a story that draws me in and won&#8217;t let me go until I have turned the last page. Tom Franklin&#8217;s Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is such a novel. It is a story about two men who were failed boyhood friends due to race, prejudice, and lies. Twenty-plus years ago, Larry and Silas were young [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=micheleblaker.com&#038;blog=21449532&#038;post=166&#038;subd=micheleblaker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Socks and scarf</title>
		<link>http://micheleblaker.com/2011/10/07/socks-and-scarf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Blaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished my socks Monday (three days earlier than anticipated) and began knitting on my orange and black poncho. Although I had carefully marked on the pattern where I had left off (five years ago), I read the pattern wrong and knit for about 15 rounds before I figured out my error. Deciding that it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=micheleblaker.com&#038;blog=21449532&#038;post=174&#038;subd=micheleblaker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions of a Quitter Starter</title>
		<link>http://micheleblaker.com/2011/09/30/confessions-of-a-quitter-starter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Blaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession. I am really good at starting things. Really good. Strategy and planning and getting the ball rolling are my strengths. Finishing? Not so much. Just look at my knitting projects. I have one and a half socks, two partial sweaters, one partial poncho, two barely begun scarves, and a baby blanket [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=micheleblaker.com&#038;blog=21449532&#038;post=151&#038;subd=micheleblaker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Pleasures</title>
		<link>http://micheleblaker.com/2011/09/28/simple-pleasures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Blaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Melody died a couple of weeks ago from cancer. On what became her last night with us, her husband Raylan opened their house for friends to come visit with her. We talked to her and knew that even though she couldn&#8217;t respond, she heard us and appreciated that we were there. We shared [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=micheleblaker.com&#038;blog=21449532&#038;post=142&#038;subd=micheleblaker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Years Ago Today&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://micheleblaker.com/2011/09/11/ten-years-ago-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Blaker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Remembering 9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rice University]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many of you, 10 years ago today I was dumbfounded as I watched the live news coverage of a plane that crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Moments later we were further stunned as we watched live coverage as the second plane crashed into the  South Tower. Although I wanted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=micheleblaker.com&#038;blog=21449532&#038;post=138&#038;subd=micheleblaker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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