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	<title>A Creative Way Out of Work</title>
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	<description>A creative workplace for Valerie Poulin.</description>
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		<title>Lost</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/09/05/lost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chapbook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emerging writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thunder Bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[valerie poulin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eleven years in the making, his mistress
grabs the night. Eyes down, she holds out
a piece of meat cooked; he eats
from her fingers. Ceramic plates, fractured
in the trash bin, breakfast eaten in a hall closet.
She pushes his voice under water, listening
with an unforgiving shrug, blinks her way
through dinner parties. Each night she falls asleep
to the music [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working Backward Moves Writing Forward</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/09/04/working-backward-moves-writing-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Non-fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mississippi crow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[valerie poulin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like many creative writing hobbyists, too often I have to put personal projects on hold in favour of paid work. For me, paid work means professional writing assignments.]]></description>
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		<title>Tanka</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/08/29/tanka/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/08/29/tanka/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brushing back history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chapbook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Something to Hide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[valerie poulin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vlpoulin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tanka #1
 the dark sky dropped
poured itself into footsteps
a rose, quieted
she pinches eggs from next door
and sells them for ice cream
Based on the poem "A Rose Quieted" from the chapbook Brushing Back History.

Tanka #2
metal biting thing
exposes pulp pink flesh
water marries beads
of blood that took seventeen
stitches to thread together

Based on the poem "Seventeen Stitches" from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What results do you deserve?</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/08/28/total-life-chocolate-what-results-do-you-deserve/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/08/28/total-life-chocolate-what-results-do-you-deserve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Excerpts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clairvoyance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirtual]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is said that people get the results they think they deserve. What do you think you deserve?]]></description>
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		<title>Advice, like youth, probably wasted on the young</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/08/22/advice-like-youth-probably-wasted-on-the-young/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/08/22/advice-like-youth-probably-wasted-on-the-young/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Non-fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baz luhrmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chicago tribune]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class of '97]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class of '99]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mary schmich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wear sunscreen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[youth wasted on the young]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.
Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune; June 1, 1997

]]></description>
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		<title>Epoch</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/08/21/epoch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Postcard Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it *was* as accident...]]></description>
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		<title>Law Enforcing</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/08/15/law-enforcing/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/08/15/law-enforcing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[later two uniforms step up mother
shakes me awake her stuttering hands

nervous butterflies my shoulders escorted to parked
cruiser in navy blue silence handcuffs]]></description>
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		<title>Lay Your Worries on the Page</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/08/14/lay-your-worries-on-the-page/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/08/14/lay-your-worries-on-the-page/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Excerpts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morning pages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-developement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-devlelopment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-help]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the artist's way]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://valeriebeanonline.biz/?p=1022</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ It's a daily writing practice presented by Julia Cameron in her bestselling book The Artist's Way. ]]></description>
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		<title>Turbulence</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/08/08/turbulence/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/08/08/turbulence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 12:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After the rain, the wind died in front of him. It
flowed down
the river, upright. The turbulence showed the
grass its seat,
and even the book seemed greener
than the shoes on his feet.
He grabbed the sun on either side,
directed the clouds to turn left,
but the clouds landed, grey and deflated,
in a yellow plastic pail. He clenched
his teeth, looked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adventure</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/08/07/adventure/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/08/07/adventure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Excerpts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accident]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[akashic records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emerging writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intuition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-discovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spiritual]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[valerie poulin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vlpoulin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Canadian Oxford Dictionary next to my desk, the definition of “adventure” is “an unusual and exciting experience.”]]></description>
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		<title>Loose Connections</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/08/01/loose-connections/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/08/01/loose-connections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emerging writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loose connections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[valerie poulin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vlpoulin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The landscape of your sorrow: a house
fallen, in the dark. You follow him]]></description>
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		<title>Follow-through Turns Thoughtful Suggestion to Kind Act</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/07/31/followthrough/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/07/31/followthrough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Excerpts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accident]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comfort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kindness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motor vehicle accident]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MVA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physiotherapist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physiotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[registered massage therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RMT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spritiutality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Solitude and silence are essential healing tools, but when distractions take our attention from healthy, healing thoughts, trying supplementing with healing music.]]></description>
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		<title>Quotations</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/07/25/quotations/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/07/25/quotations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Non-fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Technical writing is like poetry.
Everyone wants to write it. No one wants to read it.
—Valerie (Poulin) Bean
]]></description>
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		<title>Morgue</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/07/24/morgue/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/07/24/morgue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Postcard Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autopsy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emerging writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[valerie poulin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vlpoulin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hands pull the lifeless
organ from my chest
its muscular rhythm still for 17 minutes
without a beat, after he smacked]]></description>
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		<title>Morning</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/07/18/morning/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/07/18/morning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[valerie poulin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vlpoulin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://valeriebeanonline.biz/?p=867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A silver pendant drawn against my neck;
its metal mouth open. Rain pellets tap
the window, like impatient fingertips.]]></description>
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		<title>Standing in the Shadows</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/07/17/standing-in-the-shadows/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/07/17/standing-in-the-shadows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Excerpts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dead trees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[northwestern ontario]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirtual]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suburbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[valerie bean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[valerie poulin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vlpoulin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yoga]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://valeriebeanonline.biz/?p=853</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I stare out the window of my office, as writers are wont to do, the space where the maple leafs used to cross my view, I miss what bit of nature we suburban dwellers have. ]]></description>
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		<title>A Wish List of Sorts</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/07/11/wish-list/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/07/11/wish-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Postcard Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barbara walters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bucket list]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fran lebowitz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gloria steinem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helen mirren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jimmy buffet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leonard cohen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[margaret atwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michael buble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shirley maclaine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[things to do before i die]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uncle kracker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wish list]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[this year, i resolve to...
listen to leonard cohen recite his poem “fingerprints” while we drink red needles in the arizona dusk
chat with margaret atwood over lunch about her creative writing process; i will call her "peggy"]]></description>
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		<title>Life&#8217;s Curriculum Vitae</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/07/10/lifes-curriculum-vitae/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/07/10/lifes-curriculum-vitae/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Excerpts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[curriculum vitae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life chocolate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituallity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[valerie poulin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like many emerging writers, I have learned to celebrate my failures. As artists we have to. Failure becomes a form of motivation to a seasoned artist, where it might crush a young artist. ]]></description>
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		<title>Justena, Justina</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/07/04/justena-justina/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/07/04/justena-justina/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She drops to her knees, carrots and beets pulled from the garden moments earlier spill from her arms, cheek against soil, next to the memory of home.]]></description>
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		<title>Salt Fish</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother, bless her wooden heart loves my daughter Allie. I write those words the straight, blue lines of my notebook. At times like this I need to see words on paper so that I  feel their effects. Mother is coming for a visit today.]]></description>
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