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		<title>The Complexities of Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I’m well overdue for a blog post, and perhaps an update considering it’s been about three months since my last post.  The house has been on the market for about three months (obviously I’m still here).  There have been a few visits but no viable offers.  Given all the buyers’ feedback, it seems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ettemeyer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12802848&amp;post=835&amp;subd=ettemeyer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Twilight Star Gazing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s twilight, but night still has a tight hold of the sky.  Outside my window I can see a constellation of stars arch above the dark treetops, a faint grey light outlines their silhouette.  Dawn’s not far behind. I don’t know why I’m up so early: side effects from allergy medicine; stress of selling a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ettemeyer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12802848&amp;post=829&amp;subd=ettemeyer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is a Weed</title>
		<link>http://ettemeyer.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/what-is-a-weed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A weed is basically an unwanted plant that’s growing and competing with desired plants.  So, in essence, a rose can be a weed as much as dandelions (though some people eat dandelion leaves in their salads – much too bitter for me). Given the state of my front garden, any of the existing plants can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ettemeyer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12802848&amp;post=819&amp;subd=ettemeyer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where All Roads Lead</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a post to quell a reader’s compliant about this blog not being updated as much.  So bear with me as I attempt not to meander and rant. Not much has changed since my last post – there’s still house work to be done and more surprises keep springing up (exactly how “up to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ettemeyer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12802848&amp;post=809&amp;subd=ettemeyer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Value of Free</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tap, tap, tap, tippity, tippity, tap, tap, tap…tap…tap. And such is the sound of the keyboard hitting hard against the writer’s block that won’t budge.  The major house updates are finished, but now there’s the multitude of little things that I’ve avoided for years.  Yes, really, I’ve avoided them for years.  “If no one else [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ettemeyer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12802848&amp;post=798&amp;subd=ettemeyer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lone Cicada Song</title>
		<link>http://ettemeyer.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/the-lone-cicada-song/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mother Nature’s been relentless this season.  The spring swept in a record breaking tornado season, May was plagued with the Great Southern Brood (Brood XIX) cicada cycle, and now we’re swimming in a humid heat wave.  In between house updates and the heat, I’ve insulated myself indoors the past couple of months – figuratively and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ettemeyer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12802848&amp;post=787&amp;subd=ettemeyer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What We Carry and Leave Behind</title>
		<link>http://ettemeyer.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/what-we-carry-and-leave-behind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 05:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realize that it’s been over a month (okay, two) since my last post – and if I’m correct, I’m also out of cultural “New Year” opportunities to keep my blogging resolution.  Actually, I’m fine with that because I am a person who values consistency.  And since I’ve failed at keeping all the other resolutions, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ettemeyer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12802848&amp;post=773&amp;subd=ettemeyer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sleep to Live</title>
		<link>http://ettemeyer.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/sleep-to-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sleep is elusive.  I’ve been up working on a few illustrations to pass the time, but apparently the creative muse and insomnia don’t seem to work well with one another this morning. I’ve probably written about this before, but I loathe these bouts of insomnia.  Sleeping is the one activity I excel at in life, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ettemeyer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12802848&amp;post=757&amp;subd=ettemeyer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Character Sources</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got news last week that one of my high school teachers had passed away.  I’d like to say that I’ve successfully repressed memories of my high school experience.  However, like everything in life, there are people and things that will resurface. Though, I’m not sure how I could have forgotten this old bird because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ettemeyer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12802848&amp;post=749&amp;subd=ettemeyer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exit Strategies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” ~ Henry David Thoreau I&#8217;ve been meaning to post this for some time now, but life seems to always get the better of my good intentions. Last semester, a friend withdrew from the MA program.  She’d been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ettemeyer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12802848&amp;post=738&amp;subd=ettemeyer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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