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	<title>Musician&#039;s Widow &#187; random musings</title>
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		<title>Summer&#8217;s magic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a kid, summer meant school was out, and thus it was always my favorite season back then. Today, though, I appreciate it for vastly different reasons.
First off, summer is a blessing and a curse being married to a musician. It&#8217;s a time when my husband is gone the most on the road, as summer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At least I have a lawn to mow</title>
		<link>http://www.musicianswidow.com/blog/2010/07/01/at-least-i-have-a-lawn-to-mow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, our house was on an acre and a half of land. Dad would, of course, have to mow the lawn with a riding lawn mower.
I still remember one of the first times I got to mow the lawn. Yes, I said &#8220;got to&#8221; as opposed to &#8220;had to&#8221; because it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desktop revelations</title>
		<link>http://www.musicianswidow.com/blog/2010/06/26/desktop-revelations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon, I sat in a chair across my office from my desk, and I caught myself staring at all the random items on my desk. I was immediately struck by how much my desk screamed about me. (And similarly, in hindsight, what my husband&#8217;s desk says about him. But that&#8217;s neither here nor there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interests: Music&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.musicianswidow.com/blog/2010/05/12/interests-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 09:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[nashville-flood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I look around sites like Facebook or MySpace, I am often struck by the irony that a vast majority of the time, the very first item listed under interests is &#8220;Music.&#8221; These aren&#8217;t just musicians that write this. Its seen just as prevalent on the profiles of music fans. Fans of all types of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love is more than a four letter word</title>
		<link>http://www.musicianswidow.com/blog/2010/02/26/love-is-more-than-a-four-letter-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder sometimes if the word &#8220;Love&#8221; is used too much. I wonder sometimes if I could be accused of doing that myself. Then again, is it possible its not used enough?
I remember before my husband and I used the word &#8220;love&#8221; towards one another, I wasn&#8217;t as free with the word. It&#8217;s not that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This snowy winter continues</title>
		<link>http://www.musicianswidow.com/blog/2010/02/23/this-snowy-winter-continues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musicianswidow.com/blog/2010/02/23/this-snowy-winter-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up, I can&#8217;t count how many times I truly saw snow. Because the number of times is so small.
No, in Texas, we would get ice. For maybe two days. Then its over. But as for snow? Its just so RARE. We would get excited to make a 9 inch tall snow man if we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax season widower</title>
		<link>http://www.musicianswidow.com/blog/2010/01/26/tax-season-widower/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still remember my dad doing tax returns out of our living room when I was a kid. He had a full-time job during the day, but would do returns in the evenings between January and April 15th.
As the years passed, the living room office turned into a separate building, and the full-time job for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday doldrums?</title>
		<link>http://www.musicianswidow.com/blog/2009/12/16/holiday-doldrums/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying really, really, really hard to be in the Christmas spirit this year. And as I look around me, I see that to be true for so many people this year.
I got laid off last Thursday. Two weeks before Christmas. TWO WEEKS! Now how do you tell a 7-year-old Santa lost his job before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pushing personal boundaries</title>
		<link>http://www.musicianswidow.com/blog/2009/09/30/pushing-personal-boundaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.&#8221;
— T.S. Eliot
I&#8217;ve decided to participate in NaNoWriMo this year. I signed up for it last year, but never even attempted to do it. This year, I&#8217;m going to do it.
In November, I am going to attempt to write a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My &#8220;Hollywood&#8221; experiences</title>
		<link>http://www.musicianswidow.com/blog/2009/08/25/my-hollywood-experiences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musicianswidow.com/blog/2009/08/25/my-hollywood-experiences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I joked tonight that I’ve lived in Nashville too long when a movie being filmed outside my place of work annoyed me instead of leaving me excited. I say that about running into singers, actors, etc. as well because on a whole I really have just come to take it in stride. (Though I have [...]]]></description>
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