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        <title>TV Replay featuring Ghost Hunting Moms</title>
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        <published>2013-05-22T10:31:11-05:00</published>
        <updated>2013-05-22T10:37:23-05:00</updated>
        <summary>"Anderson thought that was particularly funny." Oh dear. I so wish you could have seen the full segment as we shot it, as we had Anderson Cooper head-down on the table laughing. At us? With us! The "Ghost Hunting Moms" segment of Anderson Live finally aired this week, months after...</summary>
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            <name>Megan {Velveteen Mind}</name>
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<content type="xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://www.velveteenmind.com/rummage/"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>"Anderson thought that was particularly funny." Oh dear. I so wish you could have seen the full segment as we shot it, as we had Anderson Cooper head-down on the table laughing. At us? With us!</p>
<p>The "Ghost Hunting Moms" segment of <a href="http://andersoncooper.com" target="_blank">Anderson Live</a> finally aired this week, months after my Halloween trip with <a href="http://wellreadwife.com" target="_blank">Mandy Boles</a> to New York imploded insided Hurricane Sandy. </p>
<p>I'll have the full as-aired segment to share with you soon, along with some behind-the-scenes details, but in the meantime here's a clip from TV Replay that played on AOL and <a href="http://videos.huffingtonpost.com/entertainment/ghost-hunting-moms-are-admitted-scaredy-cats-517786423" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a> yesterday highlighting our attempts to make Anderson Cooper fall out of his chair:</p>
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<p>Follow the occasional <a href="http://www.babble.com/babble-voices/megan-jordan-threadbare-theory/tag/ghost-hunting-moms/" target="_blank">Ghost Hunting Moms series on Babble</a>.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Rummage Blog is the quick-and-dirty version of Megan Jordan's full-length personal blog, <a href="http://velveteenmind.com" target="_self">Velveteen Mind</a>.</em></span> </p>
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        <title>Birds and Elephants</title>
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        <published>2013-04-17T09:44:10-05:00</published>
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        <summary>And then I decided to give myself a break. To stop trying to eat the elephant whole. Have you read this? I'm about to open it for the first time. From what you writer friends have pleaded, this felt like a moment worth marking in time. A moment I'll note...</summary>
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            <name>Megan {Velveteen Mind}</name>
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<content type="xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://www.velveteenmind.com/rummage/"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>And then I decided to give myself a break. To stop trying to eat the elephant whole.</p>

<p>Have you read this? I'm about to open it for the first time. From what you writer friends have pleaded, this felt like a moment worth marking in time. A moment I'll note as a turning point.</p>

<p>No pressure.</p>

<p>I so very much want to eat the elephant in one bite.</p>


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        <title>While Mom Works</title>
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        <published>2013-02-28T11:59:29-06:00</published>
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        <summary>Japanese stop motion, Nekot cookies, strawberries.</summary>
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        <title>Fever Hair</title>
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        <summary>Sick day, post-nap, rare view of the other side of the pickup line.</summary>
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            <name>Megan {Velveteen Mind}</name>
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<content type="xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://www.velveteenmind.com/rummage/"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Sick day, post-nap, rare view of the other side of the pickup line.</p>
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        <title>Space-Time Continuum Dishes</title>
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        <summary>Iris, "Can I have a pretzel, please? Here's my plate from next week." Me, "You mean from yesterday?" The plate from next week is probably cleaner.</summary>
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<content type="xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://www.velveteenmind.com/rummage/"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Iris, "Can I have a pretzel, please? Here's my plate from next week."</p>

<p>Me, "You mean from yesterday?"</p>

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