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		<title>Flurrying</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This, according to meteorologists, is the first completely snowless winter in Victoria in recent memory. I was gone on purpose for most of the gray and gloomy months, leaving when the last golden leaves were still falling from the trees and coming back when the same trees were covered in blossoms. But still, when I think of ways to describe my life these days, the word &#8220;flurries&#8221; comes to mind. I made a big mistake when my first novel, The Four Seasons, came out. I had the idea that the publicist assigned to my book would put the necessary effort...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Real. Really!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laurel Weeks]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 02:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I know people who have published dozens of books. I know people who have published just one. I’ve published five to date. The number doesn’t matter when it comes to how one feels when the whole multi-year project falls into place. The biggest excitement comes when a box of copies arrives, and for book number six, ALOHA WANDERWELL TAKES THE WHEEL, I am still more than a month away from that. Last week I saw the typeset pages, but the even bigger thrill came a few days ago when I saw the cover. Yes, it’s really happening! Here it is!]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ready, Set, Go</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As usual, I can forget I have a blog for months at a time. Like everyone else I know, I get so busy I would forget to breathe if that were possible. My last few months have been taken up with the work of getting lectures in place for a couple of months of cruise assignments. I’ve lost count now of how many I have prepared this time, but my guess is it’s over 40, and I’ve been working on it since April. There’s a look people get sometimes on the ship and I know what they’re thinking, that they...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Photo Not Taken</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laurel Weeks]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[People say the honesty in my writing has been helpful to them or someone they have shared it with. I am pleased and a little surprised by this because in many respects my writing has been far more self-protective than revelatory.&#160;&#160;But I have reached a stage where I think I am strong enough to risk a little more.&#160; Part of this new strength comes from being old enough to give far less of a damn what people think of me, but it is combined now with a realization that for the first time—maybe ever, when I think about it—I don’t...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Liquid Time</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laurel Weeks]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[People often ask me if, after thirteen years of cruise lecturing, there is any place I haven’t been, and I always answer the same way: Inland.&#160;&#160; It is true by now that except for Japan, Antarctica, and parts of Africa there are very few cruise ports I haven’t been to at least once. Cruising has been a wonderful way to touch down around the world, but when you just spend one port day in a place, and your experiences are curated around what a country wants you to see, I always feel I have brushed up against a place but...]]></description>
		
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		<title>When Too Little Has to Be Enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 14:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[People who have been reading my blog for some time know how often I process something that’s happening in the political world by analogy to my personal life. I was in a long-term marriage to a narcissist, with my stubbornness to admit defeat being perhaps the single biggest factor in why I stayed married to him as long as I did.&#160;&#160;His behaviour brought me to the ground emotionally and financially, and in many respects, I have moved on without being able to fully recover. I acknowledge that every dysfunctional relationship is a dynamic in which both parties play roles.&#160;&#160;In my...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Introducing Aloha</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laurel Weeks]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[it’s been more than a decade since I have published anything, and I an delighted to share with you the news that a historical novel I have been working on for several years will be coming out in May 2026 from Sibylline Press. ALOHA WANDERWELL TAKES THE WHEEL tells the fantastic true story of a remarkable teenager who walks away from her boarding school in 1922 to go off on an adventure that will take her around the world behind the wheel of a Model T. Aloha’s story has everything—drama, comedy, adventure, romance, steamy sex, life-threatening events, glamour, heartbreak, joy....]]></description>
		
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		<title>Water Magic</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laurel Weeks]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 01:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[‘If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” This is the first line of the essay “The Flow of the River,&#160;&#160;which opens&#160;&#160;Loren Eiseley’s The Immense Journey.&#160;&#160;&#160;First published in 1959, the book is replete with anachronisms, such as using the word “man” to stand for humanity, and talking about how someday “man” will go into space, but it is to me one of the most exquisite collection of essays ever written.&#160; This line came to me today as I traveled along the western side of the Canadian Rockies. It started with two of my favourite geological features,...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kindness</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laurel Weeks]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[‘I have the milk of human kindness by the quart in every vein,’ My Fair Lady’s Henry Higgins claims in “I’m an Ordinary Man.”&#160;&#160;And what does ordinary mean to him? It’s someone “Who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance/ To live exactly as he likes and&#160;&#160;do precisely what he wants.” Of course the song highlights the stodgy professor’s cluelessness about what would actually make him happy.&#160;&#160;It takes a shabby flower seller in Covent Garden, with none of the qualities Higgins thinks he values, to show him how wrong he has been. I’ve been thinking about kindness a lot...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bus Number 8</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laurel Weeks]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I went on a tour out of the Chilean port of Puerto Montt to go to several villages on Lake Llanquihue, the second largest lake in the country.&#160;&#160;Its backdrop is Osorno, one of those perfect cone volcanos that make Chile so unique in our beautiful world.&#160; I’ll spare you all the little signs that this was not a day that would go exactly as planned, but suffice it to say that my travel companion Megan and I were laughing most of the way through the first stop in Frutillar about how just buying a take-out empanada became a project...]]></description>
		
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