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		<title>Take a Chance</title>
		<link>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2012/01/31/take-a-chance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160; Dear Woman standing ahead of me at the Speedway gas station at 7:30 in the morning, &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Sweetie, I have something to tell you, and you&#39;re not gonna want to hear it, but it&#39;s the truth: you are NOT going to win the lottery. I don&#39;t care how many times you play your boyfriends&#39; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faster Than a Speeding Bullet</title>
		<link>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2012/01/28/faster-than-a-speeding-bullet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; My job would be so much more fun if&#160; I got to wear a cape. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; If&#160; only I could stride to the counter when a customer rings the bell and then, hands on hips, feet spread purposefully as my cape settles in behind me, cool theme music clearly implied, say,&#160; &#34;I&#39;m here to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sins of the Fathers</title>
		<link>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2012/01/20/sins-of-the-fathers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sins of the fathers are just water under the bridge these days. Forgive and forget! But oh, God sends the flood to punish the sins of the mothers. &#160;&#160;&#160; He does it by creating new life and then breaking it, in ways large and small- cleft lips, twisted limbs, unseeing eyes, wasting disorders, short-circuiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Enough Stars</title>
		<link>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2011/12/29/not-enough-stars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://meisky.com/soapbox/?p=1369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[He was my hero. &#160;&#160;&#160; He seemed larger than life, almost a legend, like Paul Bunyan: a tall, blond, curly-haired, blue-eyed teddy bear of a man, affectionately (and accurately) known as &#34;Big John&#34; Dwyer. &#160;&#160;&#160; I met him when he was a counselor my first year at Vinton County camp, when I was 11. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Dog</title>
		<link>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2011/12/16/good-dog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Daily Rant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; He was a houndish sort of a dog,&#160; a sturdy, dependable mutt, his coat the color of sensible brown shoes. He trotted placidly alongside his owner as the man pushed a shopping cart filled with plastic bags over the rutted, half-frozen earth to the end of the freeway exit ramp. One of those people. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wonder Drug that Works Wonders</title>
		<link>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2011/11/16/the-wonder-drug-that-works-wonders/</link>
		<comments>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2011/11/16/the-wonder-drug-that-works-wonders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Daily Rant]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://meisky.com/soapbox/?p=1356</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; After nearly 9 days of relapsing fever and frustrated by a diet of tylenol, cough syrup and exhaustion, I was back at the doctor&#39;s office. I was tired of fighting. I wanted him to give me something in a bottle that would make it go away. &#160;&#160; The doctor decided it was time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heat Lightning</title>
		<link>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2011/10/21/heat-lightning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a muttering in the heavy summer air of&#160;power &#160;yet to be unleashed, of tension not resolved an excess of ions, eager &#160;to detonate. Sultry and sulking, the air swirls around us and we turn our faces into the wind, welcoming the storm the ignition from desire a breaking of the heat . They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Unlearned (Culloden&#8217;s Lament)</title>
		<link>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2011/07/08/lessons-unlearned/</link>
		<comments>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2011/07/08/lessons-unlearned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[~I&#39;m still tweaking the words to this song, begun in my damp notebook on the Jacobite battle line at Culloden. It&#39;s kind of overly-sentimental and cliche, but I kind of think that&#39;s OK for a lament. &#160; &#160; Beneath Culloden&#39;s bitter fields, beneath the soil so poor among the bones and cannon balls there lies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iona</title>
		<link>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2011/07/05/iona/</link>
		<comments>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2011/07/05/iona/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://meisky.com/soapbox/?p=1280</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am sitting in a departure lounge at Heathrow airport reading poems about the island of Iona. In a fortress of granite,&#160; glass and chrome, a crossroads for travelers of the world, I am thinking of small cottages and the wind-swept bones of an ancient abbey, tumbling now to graceful, quiet ruin. Heathrow is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Up the Bonny Hills and Down</title>
		<link>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2011/07/02/up-the-bonny-hills-and-down/</link>
		<comments>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2011/07/02/up-the-bonny-hills-and-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://meisky.com/soapbox/?p=1275</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another true yet tragic tale&#160; of adventure from the highlands of Scotland. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Oh we were traveling towards Dunkeld town among the purple heather Sharing songs of old, of adventures bold in a bit of rainy weather. Sing hi diddle dee, hi diddle dum, we came to Scotland to have a little fun all up [...]]]></description>
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