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		<title>Reentry in to the Writing World</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, after my life having exploded yet again, I&#39;ve had to make a few changes to my priorities. &#160; First priority after family (of course) is writing and creative outlets. This is something I have let slide during the current craziness that is my life. I&#39;ve realized that writing is how I make sense of]]></description>
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		<title>Catching up&#8230; Or &#8220;Yes, I&#8217;m still alive and kicking.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone! I&#8217;d like to apologize for the long hiatus. Many things have been going on in my personal life. I won&#8217;t go in to too much detail, but I&#8217;ve had a lot of health issues and a couple of surgeries in the interim time. I&#8217;ve also lost three close family members in the space]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday Toot &#8211; A little late</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, better late than never, and it&#8217;s only a day, right? What is my Tuesday Toot? That we finally got my grandparent&#8217;s house cleaned out yesterday. (Which is actually why this post is a day late.) We got the complete house cleaned out and emptied, including getting my aunt packed and moved (though she hadn&#8217;t]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday 9 &#8211; Father&#8217;s Day Eve</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just found a new blog meme thanks to a new Plurk friend. It&#8217;s called Saturday 9. Feel free to click the link to see what the current Saturday 9 are, if I haven&#8217;t already blogged about them.  In celebration of Father&#8217;s Day, this one is devoted to the4 topic of fathers. 1. How]]></description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;ve learned since becoming a Mom</title>
		<link>http://weblog.heatherquarnstrom.com/2008/05/12/learned-mom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 17:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the top ten that I have found most attitude altering (in no particular order): 1. No matter the love you have felt before, your love for your child will eclipse it. 2. If you&#8217;ve just put on clean clothes something will make it necessary to change. (Baby spit up, food, mud, some unnamed]]></description>
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		<title>My kiddo</title>
		<link>http://weblog.heatherquarnstrom.com/2008/04/01/my-kiddo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just wanted to make a quick post to show a picture of my kiddo that I played around with. This pic was taken in February 2008. When Tiggers Attack by =unycorne on deviantART More&#160;&#187;Posts Related to My kiddo Still plodding along&#8230;Well, it seems that my lofty ideas for my budding writing career have been put]]></description>
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		<title>Another day, another blog.</title>
		<link>http://weblog.heatherquarnstrom.com/2008/02/14/another-day-another-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, after finding yet another place to blog, I have created a new one. Let&#8217;s see, this puts me up to&#8230;.. I don&#8217;t even know. I have to sit down and ferret out all my links one day. For a start, here is a little about me. I am a work at home mom of]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Progress Update</title>
		<link>http://weblog.heatherquarnstrom.com/2006/06/13/writing-progress-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it seems that for every step forward I have to take two big leaps back. I ahve been trying to write my first spec fiction novel and have hit a wall. I have the world, the story line, the main character, the plot, and only two pages. I&#8217;m not sure if I have just]]></description>
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