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		<title>Fresh start</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 19:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Lippincott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After what seems like eons of urgent sidetracks, I&#8217;m feeling pulled back into this project. Something subtle shifted, connecting me with the drama and tension of the day we moved to Los Alamos. That day was a huge milestone in my life and as I pondered it, I noticed all sorts of omens I&#8217;d never [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=losalamosgirlhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11489977&amp;post=435&amp;subd=losalamosgirlhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The power of hand on paper</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Lippincott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything I've written on this project has been typed in. This morning as I wrote in my journal, by hand, I circled back to explore an area I've typed about. What a difference! New thoughts and insights gushed onto the page, breaking through a wall I've only dimly knew existed. I've known for ages that printing things out makes a quantum difference. Things just look different on paper than on screen. So why would this not also be so when the words go directly to paper? <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=losalamosgirlhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11489977&amp;post=428&amp;subd=losalamosgirlhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did I finally find the thread?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 04:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Lippincott</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://losalamosgirlhood.wordpress.com/?p=423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's been another month between entries here.  The fact is, I've been totally absorbed in transforming my Writing for the Health of It workshop to include narrated slideshows I can use when I teach it via teleseminar (it will be listed as a Story Circle Network winter offering). This memoir project has sat untouched in the shadows. Work on my memoir has ground to a halt, at least in terms of applying fingers to keyboard. But it's never far from mind.

This morning as I scanned Jerry Waxler's latest post on his Memory Writers Network blog, I was suddenly transported back to the summer of 1951 into my seven-year-old body<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=losalamosgirlhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11489977&amp;post=423&amp;subd=losalamosgirlhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Restructuring</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Lippincott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since my last post here, a month ago, I spent two weeks in New England, one each in Vermont and New Hampshire, where my husband and I attended Road Scholar programs. Each program included multiple discussions of local history. I was fascinated to learn that the Indians taught early settlers to kill trees in order to create open spaces for growing food. The settlers eagerly seized upon this tool and amplified it to new levels. Eventually they not only killed the trees, but cut them down for lumber and fuel. They defoliated most of the area. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=losalamosgirlhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11489977&amp;post=416&amp;subd=losalamosgirlhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A new tool appears</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Lippincott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m doing some work with Christina Baldwin&#8217;s family myths concept that I mentioned in the last post. Results are mixed. I&#8217;m seeing lots of family myths that affected my life in powerful ways back then &#8230; and even now. I&#8217;ve discarded some on my own, and others have been outgrown by the whole family. Relatively [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=losalamosgirlhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11489977&amp;post=412&amp;subd=losalamosgirlhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catching my story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Lippincott</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://losalamosgirlhood.wordpress.com/?p=398</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes turning my attention to other things is just what the doctor ordered, and that's just what I've been doing the last few weeks. Putting the polish on my Writing for the Health of It class has consumed my attention and time. But as often happens, turning my attention elsewhere sparked new insight for this project.

In this case, one of the key discoveries, perhaps a key tool, has come from delving back into Christina Baldwin's book Storycatcher, a book I've nibbled on many previous times<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=losalamosgirlhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11489977&amp;post=398&amp;subd=losalamosgirlhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Omen in a dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Lippincott</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://losalamosgirlhood.wordpress.com/?p=391</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Between the press of preparations for the all new Writing for the Health of It  class I'm teaching this fall for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, and family chaos revolving around a relative's recent cancer diagnosis, I have barely thought of this memoir project for several weeks now.

Yesterday I began mentally picking up pieces and looking for an entry point back into the process. The search was daunting, and easily dropped. Last night I had a dream. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=losalamosgirlhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11489977&amp;post=391&amp;subd=losalamosgirlhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m back, sort of</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Lippincott</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://losalamosgirlhood.wordpress.com/?p=385</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The grandchildren have come and gone. At the risk of seeming to brag, I've got to say, they are ideal grandchildren. As teenagers, they are respectful, helpful, considerate, well-behaved, full of insightful ideas and great conversationalists. And so, so full of energy. The constant rush to cram a life-time of visiting into a week took its toll on this grandmother. I'm exhausted.

But I'm also refreshed and feeling  a bit of new perspective nibbling at the back of my heel. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=losalamosgirlhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11489977&amp;post=385&amp;subd=losalamosgirlhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking a break</title>
		<link>http://losalamosgirlhood.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/taking-a-break/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Lippincott</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://losalamosgirlhood.wordpress.com/?p=381</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Having realized the dramatic shift in focus my story has taken, I set it aside to ferment a bit. I'm gently coming to the realization that the 2000 visit is not the best mechanism after all. I'm not yet clear on the possibility of combining the Love Letter to Mother Earth with my basic Los Alamos Girlhood story. Mother Earth needs to include additional material from recent years, and I think it also needs to culminate in an additional visit for closure with the new form Mother has taken — with her new wardrobe, so to speak.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=losalamosgirlhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11489977&amp;post=381&amp;subd=losalamosgirlhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why am I writing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Lippincott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago I was talking with a friend about my memoir. I must have sounded frustrated, and she's the sort of friend who calls things as she sees them. I cherish friends like that — they are rare gems.

"Why are you writing this?" she asked. "What are you trying to prove?" That sort of stopped me. In fact, the last part of the question stunned me.

"Trying to prove? You think I'm trying to prove something?" I had that buzzy feeling like I was rubbing my old shorted out mixer, or standing on a rug about to be yanked.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=losalamosgirlhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11489977&amp;post=363&amp;subd=losalamosgirlhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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