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		<title>2011, We Hardly Knew Ye&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda M Au</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I blink one more time, 2011 will be over. Seems I only blinked a few other times this year and it just whisked right by at lightning speed. It&#8217;s been a year of ups and downs, highs and lows—you know, the usual stuff of life that happens to everyone. Our year was fraught with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lindamau.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24745324&amp;post=173&amp;subd=lindamau&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caught up &#8230; for now!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda M Au</dc:creator>
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		<title>Lagging behind&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda M Au</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we go! Way behind already. Should be hitting 10,000 words today.  Yeah, that&#8217;ll happen. &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lindamau.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24745324&amp;post=162&amp;subd=lindamau&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NaNoWriMo is calling my name &#8230; again</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda M Au</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In about thirteen hours, I&#8217;ll be officially going insane. Again. I know, I know. If you already know me, you&#8217;re thinking, &#8220;Wait, didn&#8217;t that happen sometime around 1981?&#8221; Sure, the first time. But I&#8217;m talking about that temporary insanity, that yearly foray into crazyhood known as National Novel Writing Month (known to the rest of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lindamau.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24745324&amp;post=152&amp;subd=lindamau&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No sense of humor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda M Au</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, we&#8217;re apparently house-hunting now. Wayne and I are so different in so many ways (he&#8217;s an electrical engineer and I&#8217;m a writer—&#8217;nuf said) that I figure I should ask him what kinds of things he&#8217;ll be looking for in a new house. &#8220;Well, I like a two-story house.&#8221; Meanwhile, I was thinking a ranch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lindamau.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24745324&amp;post=128&amp;subd=lindamau&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New and improved! Now with more Vitamin B!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda M Au</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello again, from cyberspace. I&#8217;m pulling myself away from the lure that is the Wii in order to keep writing essays for Fork in the Road. The artwork is done and the book designer now has it. I&#8217;ll be writing the back cover blurb today and settling on a subtitle. Once I can get my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lindamau.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24745324&amp;post=120&amp;subd=lindamau&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re getting sleeeeeepy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lindamau.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/youre-gettingsleeeeeepy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda M Au</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I freelance completely and don&#8217;t have to commute to a daily job (thanks to my hard-working, nuclear-power-plant-employed engineer-husband), I find that I&#8217;ve turned into a sort of sleep-chameleon, adapting to his ever-changing schedule. He does what&#8217;s called &#8220;shift work,&#8221; meaning that he&#8217;ll work a semi-normal day shift for a few weeks and then [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lindamau.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24745324&amp;post=107&amp;subd=lindamau&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>O, the Shame!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda M Au</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m sitting in a class on blogging at my favorite writers’ conference here in Grove City, Pennsylvania. And I’m feeling horribly guilty for not having kept this place tidy and neat and updated. So, Susan’s class has inspired me to get back here to be good blogger. The second book is well underway and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lindamau.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24745324&amp;post=1&amp;subd=lindamau&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Multi-Author Book Signing, Dec. 11!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 03:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda M Au</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, gang!  Long time, no type! I&#8217;ll catch up on stuff later, but for now I wanted to announce this upcoming event (info lifted from the group&#8217;s Web site without a bit of guilt on my part): LOCAL BOOK SIGNING! The Beaver County Wordsmiths are holding their annual Christmas Book Sale on SAT., DECEMBER 11, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lindamau.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24745324&amp;post=22&amp;subd=lindamau&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Head in the Sand—NOW ON SALE!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda M Au</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The powers that be at Amazon.com have put Head in the Sand on sale temporarily … and of course, like any author, I’m totally out of the loop on how long the sale will last. I just noticed it myself purely by accident. (The author is always the last to know….) Right now, the book’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lindamau.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24745324&amp;post=73&amp;subd=lindamau&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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