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		<title>Sideswiped by Music at 70mph</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend introduced me to the band Mumford &#038; Sons earlier this week. Last night I downloaded the album knowing that I&#8217;d be out and about in the Mustang with the windows rolled down as I ran errands today. I burned the CD as I got ready this morning and then set about my errand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Than Meets the Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was accused of letting adoption rule my life here on this blog. Someone else sent a nasty message on the family blog about how I hide behind my children. Apparently you can&#8217;t please everyone by what you choose to share&#8230; and what you choose to withhold&#8230; on your blog(s).
Adoption has shaped a large [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2010/03/09/more-than-meets-the-blog/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Made Me Anxious</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I logged into Facebook, read a few posts in my Live Feed and read the following status update from no less than three people:
This week is First Child appreciation Week: Post a photo of your oldest child as your profile picture. Let&#8217;s show how much we appreciate the first born kids in our families for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2010/03/04/facebook-made-me-anxious/</link>
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		<title>I Got Googled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently someone from my pre-Munchkin past popped into my Internet life for all of twenty-four hours. Well, no. He skimmed the blogs for two days before contacting me. Our contact lasted less than twenty-four hours. I assume he is done. I know that I&#8217;m done. 
All the same, I know that he knows about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2010/03/01/i-got-googled/</link>
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		<title>A Word on Grief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had forgotten how deeply grief cuts. I had forgotten how one compounds another. I had forgotten how grief sometimes feels immobilizing and then, in the same breath, makes you want to take on the world, change how things work or how things are perceived.
It&#8217;s been one month since Grandpa died. Today I&#8217;m calling the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2010/02/17/a-word-on-grief/</link>
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		<title>Telling, Briefly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I continue to branch out and do new things, I continue to meet new people. As I continue to do more things, my schedule gets kind of hectic. As my schedule gets more hectic, I care less about who knows what and how I&#8217;m supposed to be ashamed, according to society, about the existence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2010/02/10/telling-briefly/</link>
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		<title>Some Thoughts on Sharing, Over-Sharing and The Like</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I make my way back into the groove of blogging and working after the loss of my grandfather, I&#8217;m thinking a lot about a question I asked over on BlogHer just yesterday. Basically, the question was:
How much do you share regarding your adoption story? How much is too much?
After I asked that, D let [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2010/02/02/some-thoughts-on-sharing-over-sharing-and-the-like/</link>
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		<title>Knowing the Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m missing Grandpa. 
As with any death, the week spent at home was mostly spent talking about and remembering the man that was my grandfather, my Papau. All kinds of stories were told. Lots of laughter was had as he was a man that was always smiling. In the midst of these stories, I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2010/01/23/knowing-the-love/</link>
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		<title>Why It&#8217;s Not a Memoir</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the new contract(s) listing both me and Dawn as co-authors are being sent out by our agent (!), the book is in the front of my thought process. I think of it when showering and when I&#8217;m driving. It&#8217;s just there, making itself known. We&#8217;re starting to work on some things individually and attempting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2010/01/15/why-its-not-a-memoir/</link>
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		<title>Green</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across an interesting quote. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s 100% true but I think it has basis in truth.
Jealousy is nothing more than fear of abandonment.
-Unknown
Wow.
I wonder if, perhaps, that&#8217;s why we see so much jealousy, back and forth, between adoptive and birth parents. I know I&#8217;ve felt a twinge here and there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2010/01/13/green-2/</link>
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