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		<title>Writing for Free: Like it or Not, the Information Revolution is Making us Generous</title>
		<link>http://tesscallahan.com/2011/05/07/writing-for-free-like-it-or-not-the-information-revolution-is-making-us-generous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 22:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Word of Osama bin Laden’s death fired through social media networks before being reported by official news agencies, who rightly awaited the formal announcement. We used to get news from newspapers, poems from literary journals, and novels from bookstores. Now, all can be accessed with a flip of our laptops or phones, much of it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mod Podge Interview</title>
		<link>http://tesscallahan.com/2011/04/21/mod-podge-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, as part of Hearts, Flowers, Romance, Tess Callahan is here to share her most romantic memory- one that will have you all swooning and itching to pick up her debut, April and Oliver. Click here to read the interview.]]></description>
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		<title>A Friendship that Keeps Distilling Thirty Years Later</title>
		<link>http://tesscallahan.com/2010/06/17/a-friendship-that-keeps-distilling-thirty-years-later/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tess</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tesscallahan.com/?p=385</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tess Callahan discusses how an unlikely friendship can change your life. (Originally published by Waterstone&#8217;s Book Quarterly). My novel, April &#38; Oliver, germinated in part from my own experience. The book explores a tumultuous relationship between former childhood friends who alter the course of each other’s lives. Nowadays, we tend to pooh-pooh the idea that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beauty and Danger</title>
		<link>http://tesscallahan.com/2010/06/14/beauty-and-danger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tesscallahan.com/?p=378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our 21 year old cockatiel sent alarm shrieks through the house at 6AM. I flew out of bed and downstairs to find a Great Blue Heron beside the pond, gazing in in at the trusting fish schooling in its reflection. Such beauty and magnificence. It took flight, but how long before it decides to risk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Human Beings Maturing?</title>
		<link>http://tesscallahan.com/2010/06/02/are-human-beings-maturing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oil Spill, the Dalai Lama, and Reason for Hope One of our most exhilarating moments during a whale watching trip off Cape Cod was when a northern gannet skimmed the sea just beyond the bow. My children and I hung over the rail, taken by the bird&#8217;s power and agility. Its distinctive plumage and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enemies Can be Good for a Child’s Development</title>
		<link>http://tesscallahan.com/2010/05/25/enemies-can-be-good-for-a-childs-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 17:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parents, take heart. Your child&#8217;s enemy at school may be contributing to his/her social maturity in the long run. Check out this excellent article from the New York Times science section.]]></description>
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		<title>The Creative Process: Painting, Writing, and the Case for Ruthlessness</title>
		<link>http://tesscallahan.com/2009/07/18/the-creative-process-painting-writing-and-the-case-for-ruthlessness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even before I began writing, I loved to draw and paint. Although it came easily to me, I never considered it as a profession. Maybe I was afraid of the impracticality, or like my character, Oliver, (in my novel April &#38; Oliver), I was simply afraid. Accessing one’s own creative power can be terrifying. Disowning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Independent Booksellers Support Fledgling Authors</title>
		<link>http://tesscallahan.com/2009/07/17/independent-booksellers-support-fledgling-authors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the events on my book tour so far have or will take place at independent bookstores. The people behind these stores, wave makers in the industry, are feverishly devoted to books. Originally, I was supposed to have no book tour at all. After all, if you are a first time novelist without name [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Perfect Day: An Experiment</title>
		<link>http://tesscallahan.com/2009/07/16/the-perfect-day-an-experiment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I’m trying an experiment. Bear with me. Stacey Harwood, creative mastermind of the Best American Poetry website, commented on my post there, “Cracks in Everything: Parenthood and the Writing Life,” that she often has a perfect blueprint for her day that somehow eludes her. That applies to me, as well, not only in terms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cracks in Everything: Parenthood and the Writing Life</title>
		<link>http://tesscallahan.com/2009/07/15/cracks-in-everything-parenthood-and-the-writing-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Ring the bells that still can ring,/ Forget your perfect offering./ There&#8217;s a crack in everything./ That&#8217;s how the light gets in.&#8221; – from Anthem by Leonard Cohen. In her comment on my previous post (originally published on the Best American Poetry blog) &#8220;Poem as Fissure: Geophysics and the Value of Frailty,&#8221; poet and artist [...]]]></description>
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