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		<title>Lost Words, Lost Beauty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most English words we take for granted. Never think about them. They mean what they mean and ably serve their function. Then there are the smattering of words we love not because of their meaning but their sound. Actually more than sound: the pleasurable feel of speaking them. Mine include serendipity, euphoria, and melancholy. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revolt Against Bogus Writing Rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[active verbs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hear the applause? It&#8217;s me praising this articulate defense of writing with passive verbs when they&#8217;re the most effective way to communicate something. Avoiding the passive in favor of the active, like many &#8220;rules&#8221; of writing, is a well-intentioned but misguided proscription that I followed for years. Teachers preached it in high school. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words and Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Memories]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[All Summer Glory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Casey Neill and the Norway Rats]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagery that sticks with me often involves water. It&#8217;s also spare, several words that echo back in pictures of resounding clarity. For many months two images have replayed randomly, one from a song lyric, the other from a conversation. The Portland-based band Casey Neill and the Norway Rats sings: 2 a.m., swimming in the quarry, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Praise of Praise</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pendleton Round-Up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fame for a day, judging from this review of the book I co-authored. Observing reaction to Pendleton Round-Up at 100: Oregon&#8217;s Legendary Rodeo has been gratifying. Readers and reviewers like it so far, including those on Amazon, where I&#8217;ve cajoled no one to plant praise. Granted the book&#8217;s approach doesn&#8217;t invite criticism. While not rah-rah, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meaning of Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I hope Roger Cohen of the New York Times wins a Pulitzer Prize for his remarkable commentary from the streets of Tehran. (He discusses the coverage here.) But world-stage politics aren&#8217;t his only topic. Yesterday&#8217;s gem, &#8220;The Meaning of Life,&#8221; uses a study of monkeys&#8217; caloric intake to explore universal themes. And his image of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cancer With Wry Smile</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 00:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Simmermon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[testicular cancer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a big fan of a guy&#8217;s blog. He&#8217;s a storyteller, and a damn good one. Even if he wasn&#8217;t, he&#8217;d win my award for best blog name: And I Am Not Lying. Jeff Simmermon hasn&#8217;t posted much lately, and I just found out why: he apparently has testicular cancer. His account of learning about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding the past</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 01:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cowboys]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the context of these quotes from the epigraph page of a book I bought today? Not the unfolding torture scandal, though it could be. Instead they set the tone for Savages &#38; Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America&#8217;s Road to Empire Through Indian Territory by Paul VanDevelder. His repeated use of &#8220;savages&#8221; isn&#8217;t a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Story Quest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 03:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Grann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lost City of Z]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Percy Fawcett]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m lost in the Lost City of Z. When I open the book in bed at night, my world disappears. Reality becomes author David Grann&#8216;s riveting account of the obsessive hunt for a place that may have never existed. Grann had phenomenal material without visiting what may be the remotest place on Earth. His adventure, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purple prose in aisle 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romance novels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safeway]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I can find just about anything at my neighborhood Safeway grocery. That was my reaction while perusing its modest books section for the first time. Romance novels pack the shelves, though some titles hawk a niche form of lust. Romance novels apparently have sub-genres, including what I cynically classify as the rich-dominating-studs-knock-me-up category. Take these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vicarious Escapes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Simmermon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every so often I stumble upon a story and see myself as the central character: It sounded like a bunch of centaurs were following an exercise video upstairs, right above my bed this morning. Interesting visual, but at 7 AM there ainâ€™t a damn thing more fascinating and beautiful than the backs of my eyelids [...]]]></description>
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