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		<title>Devouring God&#8217;s Word</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers, Some of you may be familiar with my adopted rescue greyhound, Drifter, but you may not be familiar with his chewing habit. To my human eyes, his myriad chew toys strewn across the carpet are easily distinguishable from my belongings. I wouldn&#8217;t, for example, accidentally eat my dog&#8217;s squeaky monkey toy, mistaking it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crabby for Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an actual photograph of Shelldon So my phone rings the other day and when I answer it my friend Hana’s on the line, sounding panicked. “Are you sitting down?” she asks me. Of course I’m not sitting down. I never sit down. I’m too ADD to sit down. “Yes,” I lie, crouching just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out of the Darkness Walk heads back In To the Darkness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the 2009 walk which was an amazing experience As a supporter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and its annual Out of the Darkness suicide prevention walks, I&#8217;m disappointed to write this post. I&#8217;d like instead to have seen something better today; something better for the walkers who&#8217;ve lost somebody to suicide, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fix the Flix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t get it. I observe that we&#8217;ve all been frustrated at Netflix lately, and I know why: It&#8217;s that tricky packaging in which they enclose their DVDs. Surely you&#8217;ve likewise experienced the dilemma of receiving your Netflix movie in the mail, only to be stumped by the precise points at which you tear, fold, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Scrabble, Old Spellers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers, I&#8217;ve always had a scrabble problem. Or rather, a spelling problem. That is, a problem spelling too well, and compulsively correcting the spelling of those around me who might otherwise be my friends. My love of correctly-spelled words is the likely force behind my love of scrabble. It used to be a board [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Your Kindle Hold a Candle to My Book?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers, I recently wrapped my latest experiment: kindling. Not the dry sticks of wood easily ignited for the purposes of making s’mores, but rather the experience of reading on a kindle*. When my friend first offered to let me borrow his kindle, I wrinkled my nose in distaste, ready to denounce the latest in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luke&#8217;s Local Artists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[*Disclaimer for regular readers: This blog post departs from its usual farcical tone and is somewhat serious. Readers suffering from serious-induced shock are asked to immediately link to other posts for comic relief. Dear Readers, Yesterday, I got an awesome t-shirt. It says, &#8220;Luke&#8217;s Local Artist.&#8221; I felt like a fraud putting it on, because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Speech Therapy is in the Palm Pilot of your Hand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Using apps in treatment is a win-win. The client engages with an exciting device, and the clinician is able to model and elicit the targeted skills more easily.&#8221; -Sean Sweeney, SLP Apps: (plural noun) /ae ps&#8217;/ : software applications that have brainwashed society into believing in their necessity for human survival, without which mankind will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trekkychick.com/the-future-of-speech-therapy-is-in-the-palm-pilot-of-your-hand/</link>
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		<title>Troi and the Case of the Missing Blogger, also known as Troi and the Case of Herself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an actual photograph of the tree that fell on Troi Dear Loyal Readers, I am writing now to quiet fears of my disappearance. There have been whispers of my bloglessness around these parts, causing a generalized unrest amongst Portlanders. Nobody seems to know what&#8217;s going on in this city, because I haven&#8217;t blogged [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trekkychick.com/troi-and-the-case-of-the-missing-blogger-also-known-as-troi-and-the-case-of-herself/</link>
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		<title>Laziness Gets a New Name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[3/01/11 Assotroiated Press Have you recently found yourself sitting instead of standing? Walking instead of running? Yawning instead of brawning? If so, you may be suffering from a recently identified ailment known as &#8220;gym block,&#8221; which is characterized by a total inability to get one&#8217;s butt to the gym. According to a recent report by [...]]]></description>
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