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	<title>Wisconsin Tomboy</title>
	
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	<description>by Laura Beck Nielsen</description>
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		<title>Scones for a Paddling Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 03:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[My Culinary Creations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lake Mendota]]></category>
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Before a big day on the small Lake Mendota, I ensure my guys and I have some tasty hearty buttermilk scones.  Sunday, May 16th, my crazy brain decided we needed both a sweet scone and a savory scone.  I woke up determined to bake these two batches of scones, bathe the dogs, ride Dave&#8217;s bike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baloo’s Epic Bathing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 02:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Dogs and Dog Mom stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baloo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bouvier]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many a dog mom knows the tell tale signs that the domestic beast in the house needs a bath.  Perhaps with a human child, a mom can point to the tub and announce the event, &#8220;Bath time!&#8221;  My ninety-pound Bouvier des Flanders is deaf.  He responds to hand signals and my facial expressions.  When I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good News, Bad News</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 01:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Great Outdoors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[door county]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Door County Half Marathon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[thirty-something]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks after running my first half marathon, the Door County Half Marathon, I visited the doctor to ensure I was O.K. to run again.  My knee had swollen to literally the size of a white grapefruit two days after the race.  Like a good girl I iced it and took an anti-inflammatory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>She Smoker</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[poem]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[She stood out
there out where
air usually lifts my lungs
but she
she smothered the day
in rank fumes she
sounded squeezed under an invisible
hand    She stuck like
thirty-year-old masking
tape
cracked, brittle,
yellowed about to crumble
into fine
sticky dust
She
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		<title>bitters on the cruise</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Flash Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imaginary Conversations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flash fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[imaginary conversation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Philippine man tended the bar in his fancy maroon vest and fake gold pocket watch chain.  The president of the company staggered up to the bar.  Everyone in the bar staggered.  The cruise boat finally set off to into the ocean and the drinks poured freely with no tab.
&#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;I know, yes, Hello.  My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tale of Hypnopotamus- Second Attempt</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flash fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[groove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hypnopotamus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laura beck nielsen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[madison bands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[micro fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[short fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not so far away, on the planet Funk, there lives the Hypnopotamus, a creature of intense powers.  Boasting many rich cultures, the planet Funk is famous for cohabitation through music appreciation.  It is said that Hypnopotamus was solely responsible for instilling this world peace through his almighty groove powers.
One day, the evil Dr. Buzzkill plotted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tale of Hypnopotamus- first attempt</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new groovy band names itself after the fabled "Hypnopotamus".  Read the fable, written by Laura Beck Nielsen.]]></description>
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