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		<title>THIS BLOG NOW MOVED. Follow the link below. Thank you!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Jiang Stein</dc:creator>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Jiang Stein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.” (Isak Dinesen) For reasons I don’t fully understand, suicide is shrouded in secrecy. Like other secrets, can&#8217;t we refuse to keep the secret? How can we ever heal if we hide? Last week, a friend of mine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muttslikeme.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6595972&#038;post=1227&#038;subd=muttslikeme&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Veiled Lady</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Jiang Stein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Veiled Lady, 19th c. marble bust, Raffaello Monti For  years I&#8217;ve loved the illusions and magic in this sculpture, one solid piece of marble. Whenever and wherever I can, I visit this Veiled Lady. She&#8217;s inspired my story, Except for the Sea,  micro-fiction posted here on Fictionaut . I&#8217;d love to read your comments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muttslikeme.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6595972&#038;post=1219&#038;subd=muttslikeme&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tutu Brain Power</title>
		<link>http://muttslikeme.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/tutu-word-find/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 03:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Jiang Stein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say games increase brain power, so why not tutu games? And besides, you know about the research related to play and fun, right? Fun boosts morale and self-esteem, not that any of us have a problem with these but just in case, have a little fun once in a while. I&#8217;ve created several tutu [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muttslikeme.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6595972&#038;post=1206&#038;subd=muttslikeme&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The unPrison Project: Freedom on the Inside</title>
		<link>http://muttslikeme.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/the-un-prison-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Jiang Stein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.&#8221; ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This is my journey now, to walk out of silence and secrecy and use my voice. Not always easy for one like myself who spent many years silent, sometimes mute, and always with a secret [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muttslikeme.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6595972&#038;post=1184&#038;subd=muttslikeme&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mother Who Waited</title>
		<link>http://muttslikeme.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/1114/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Jiang Stein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The week of Thanksgiving, and I pause to recall the five days of solitude I took years ago at a retreat run by Franciscan nuns. I also joined them in their vow of silence for those days. I committed myself to frequent silent retreats then, to write with more seriousness, by now relieved to end [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muttslikeme.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6595972&#038;post=1114&#038;subd=muttslikeme&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>R &amp; R: Rebound and Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Jiang Stein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all need to replenish and renew ourselves. This is a working list for ways I know  to nurture a depleted mind, body, and spirit. I&#8217;ll continue to add as I think of things. What did I leave out? Stillness Reading Reiki Sex Cranial sacral therapy Therapy (who hasn&#8217;t put some therapist&#8217;s kids through college?) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muttslikeme.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6595972&#038;post=1104&#038;subd=muttslikeme&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IN THE WALLS, DID YOU?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Jiang Stein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I make no secret of it. I was born in a federal prison. I was born and lived my first year in the same West Virginia prison, long after Billie Holiday served one of her sentences there, also for heroin addiction and related crimes, like my prison mother. I honor my Prison Mother for her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muttslikeme.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6595972&#038;post=1093&#038;subd=muttslikeme&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mutt Meditation #18: Enough! Something has GOT to change</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Jiang Stein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why not take a deep breath, and reset what doesn’t work in life? Change is an adventure. I’ve re-invented myself a number of times. It’s fun actually, not only in the end, but also along the away even when it&#8217;s agitating. I keep what works, and shed the rest. (I have no idea where it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muttslikeme.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6595972&#038;post=1080&#038;subd=muttslikeme&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mutt Meditation #17: QUIZ: Do You Need a Mother-Mutt …mentor, spiritual advisor, or life coach?</title>
		<link>http://muttslikeme.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/quiz-do-you-need-a-mother-mutt-mentor-spiritual-advisor-or-life-coach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Jiang Stein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read the full article here, on Huffington Post. It&#8217;s all the rage now to reach out and touch, to find someone who can help you make sense out of life: a mentor, spiritual advisor, or life coach. Call it what you will, pretty much anyone you trust and has insights that you don&#8217;t have can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muttslikeme.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6595972&#038;post=1040&#038;subd=muttslikeme&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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