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		<title>Interview with Memoirist Barbara McNally on The Writing of Unbridled: A Memoir</title>
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		<dc:creator>Barbara McNally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When otherwise good girl Barbara McNally is caught having an affair (for the second time), her marriage ends within weeks and with it, so does the image she created for her two teenaged girls and the man she married right out of college. In her book Unbridled: A Memoir, Barbara (whose website is here) begins with details of...]]></description>
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		<title>Visual Art Helps Us Write Grief&#8217;s Wisdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Bender</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am pleased to post an excerpt from my new book, Sorrow&#8217;s Words: Writing Exercises to Heal Grief, now available on iTunes and Kindle. A year ago, when Beth Bacon of Zoyo Branding, asked if she could publish a digital book for me, I knew immediately I wanted to create a book from teaching material I developed for those...]]></description>
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		<title>In May I Rush to Use Sensory Details</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 04:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Bender</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As adults, we are so used to summarizing and editorializing. We have learned that abstractions are considered &#8220;smart&#8221; in writing and having opinions makes us sound even smarter. That&#8217;s what our teachers wanted from us on papers and on essay tests. But creative writing, whether that is in poetry, fiction, personal essay or in longer...]]></description>
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		<title>TIL &#8211; A Strategy for Travel Writing</title>
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		<dc:creator>Emily M. Bender</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My daughter Emily took a trip with her husband, children, and parents-in-law to India, where her husband has many relatives. During the three-week trip, I was very happy to be able to follow her travels through photos and writing she shared on Facebook. Her Facebook posts took a form that made me think of William...]]></description>
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		<title>What I Learned When My Husband Died</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nina Abnee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One way to help oneself heal from grief is to offer others honest lessons from experience. In this essay, included in the anthology On Our Own: Widowhood for Smarties, Nina Abnee has done so with generosity. &#8220;What I Learned When My Husband Died&#8221; is about Nina&#8217;s life and marriage, the end of her  husband&#8217;s life and how during those...]]></description>
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