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	<title>A Creative Way Out of Work&#187; Creative Non-fiction</title>
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		<title>Assignment: Corporate Muse</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not sure when it happened, when I became a corporate muse to my boss, a Mother Hen to my peers, and the type of employee who is resigned to wasting time by covertly taking notes about ]]></description>
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		<title>Crabapples and a Rainy Saturday Afternoon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a kid, I was overly fascinated with keys—not the jangly kinds that unlock doors and secret diaries and stash boxes—the kind you find on antique cash registers, typewriters, and adding machines. For whatever tactile pleasure these mechanical devices provided I may never ]]></description>
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		<title>Hazard brings technical writer to tears</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to you, dude, I said to the cubicle wall. Now, here's a guy, who spends his day unplugging toilets and changing light bulbs, and he cares enough about the Canadian English language to have a Canadian Oxford Dictionary on his desk.]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you, Ms. Vanderbilt</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 20:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Ms. Vanderbilt,
When an interview request via Lewis Frumkes was unsuccessful in April 2008, I was disappointed at the missed opportunity—not just for the members of a local writers&#8217; newsletter who anticipated reading the published interview, but also (more selfishly) for the chance to pass along the enclosed poem.
At the time of the interview request, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Actor Has First Right of Refusal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working for a talent agency can be a strange and wonderful thing. Actors are funny, goofy, entertaining, and at times insecure, neurotic and almost always, warm human beings. Agents are not.]]></description>
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		<title>Writer writes kiss-off letter to dream job</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A love letter of sorts to a dream job turned down.]]></description>
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		<title>A Temp Misfiled My Akashic Record</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without email or Internet access, I had some time to kill. I leaned back in my chair, stared at my office wall, and began to speculate about the consequential effects Mercury Retrograde was having on the Akashic Records.]]></description>
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