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		<title>My bible</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2008/06/28/my-bible</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I just finished Muffy Mead Ferro&#8217;s Confessions of a Slacker Mom. This may as well be the book I was supposed to write, the book I would&#8217;ve written had I gotten my act together. Then again, I&#8217;m not just a slacker at mommying. Highlights: The example of making-do, photographed here. It&#8217;s so true that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random question: Is cheating part of evolution?</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/12/12/random-question-is-cheating-part-of-evolution</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you take your partner back if he or she cheated on you? Would you be able to go past the betrayal? Is moving past the betrayal the only sign of maturity, of enlightenment, of true love? Is resisting the impulse never to do anything wrong despite one&#8217;s lifeless life a rejection of one&#8217;s humanity? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A daily dose of intellect</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/12/10/a-daily-dose-of-intellect</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading David S. Kidder and Noah Oppenheim&#8217;s The Intellectual Devotional these past few weeks. It&#8217;s a 365-day devotional (a devotional in the bible sense is scripture reduced to 365 days of mini-lessons to make for easy daily reading) for knowledge in seven fields: philosophy, visual arts, music, history, science, religion and literature. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good evening</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/11/06/good-evening</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Living room, mid evening. Tipsy from sipping a 25.4oz bottle of Frutezia, Passion Blend. Alcohol content 6%. Jeremy Irons is reading Vladimir Nabakov&#8217;s Lolita. Humbert Humbert is describing making love to the newly made Mrs Humbert, aka the mother of the real object of his desire, Lo. &#34;Bathed through the undergrowth of dark, decaying forests&#8230;&#34; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I could not help myself&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/08/28/i-could-not-help-myself</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;but this was circulating on email. Made my day, really. I added my own in brackets. 19 things I learnt from Movies 1. If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in a passing St Patrick’s Day parade &#8211; at any time of the year. 2. All beds have special L-shaped top sheets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-fat people are wise people</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/08/27/ex-fat-people-are-wise-people</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pasta Queen&#160;(your name should be in a spelling bee, lady), a fellow blogger and hostel mate I met in Chicago last month at Blogher, just wrote this amazing post about the importance of remembering how it feels to be 300lbs. Her book, Half of Me: The Last 200lbs are the Hardest, out April 2008, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh. My. God.</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/07/19/oh-my-god-4</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received an email from Amazon. My pre-order has shipped. My pre-order of Book Seven. Please, please, please, PLEASE&#160;let it reach my house BEFORE I go to Chicago. PLEASE!! And if you don&#8217;t hear from me about two nights in a row, you know what&#8217;s up. So if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I need to drop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serendipity</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/07/09/serendipity</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I started reading Jodi Picoult&#8217;s The Tenth Circle. I had no idea what the book was about, as I love Picoult and had held a few of her books at the library. And then I read the Prologue: To. a. tee.]]></description>
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		<title>Good Reads: Miranda July&#8217;s No One Belongs Here More Than You</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/06/30/good-reads-miranda-julys-no-one-belongs-here-more-than-you</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/06/30/good-reads-miranda-julys-no-one-belongs-here-more-than-you#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first learnt about Miranda online through Miss Snark&#8216;s (now expired) blog where she&#8217;d put a link to Miranda&#8217;s ingenius website marketing her new book. And now that I&#8217;ve read it, I am more in awe of the lady, for Miranda is a true genius as her stories are beautifully original, quirky and a learning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scattered</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/06/26/scattered</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I woke up this morning feeling only a fraction of myself. Scrapped and read until 2am last night. For some reason (and it&#8217;s not coffee &#8211; I drink only a cup a day these days &#8211; used to be three or more &#8211; mostly more), insomnia&#160;has kept me up this last week. I woke up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Read, read, read</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/06/19/read-read-read</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, I&#8217;m on a blogging spree tonight. To make up for the silence the whole of last week. I was super bee-say. Anyway, a few of my preschool friends asked me how Raeven is reading so well today (she can actually read my blog so I have to put a stop to my incessant swearing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So good I&#8217;m crying</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/06/13/so-good-im-crying</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished Jodi Picoult&#8217;s My Sister&#8217;s Keeper. The last five pages had me sobbing naked in the can (I was going to take a shower but ended up sitting on the toilet half an hour trying to finish the book without soaking it in tears). To those who&#8217;ve read it: I thought the ending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: Life of Pi</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/05/07/book-review-life-of-pi</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 17:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally finished Yann Martel&#8217;s Life of Pi yesterday. My amateur review at my Librarything: This is my first Man Booker book and I can see it won the hearts and minds of the judges for at least one reason: originality. Reading it, I can&#8217;t help but admire Martel&#8217;s zoology knowledge and research. I now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr Clooney has a fan</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/04/30/mr-cloone</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Funniest thing I&#8217;ve read in a month. Trust me. You NEED to read this. ps. Have you ever heard of Dan Liebert? You&#8217;re gonna want to bookmark this. He makes &#8216;verbal cartoons&#8217;: My Living Will: I no longer wish to go on living if I should lose control of my body functions or if my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small town life, a novel</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/04/19/small-town-life-a-novel</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished Ken Haruf&#8217;s Plainsong&#160;for my book club. What an uplifting read. Wrote a short review at my Library Thing: I&#8217;ve not read many American books, most of which were thrillers/murder mysteries, so Kent Haruf&#8217;s Plainsong allowed me a peek Americana that had me turning pages deep into the night. It may not be an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Middlemath</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/12/20/middlemath</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While watching Superman Returns, the part where Superman goes back to rip out the chunk of kryptonite from the earth: Raeven: Why is he going back, Daddy? Daddy: To save the world. Raeven: Because Superman RETURNS? So it&#8217;s been one natural disaster after another in the last two months. First the floods, which turned our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raising creativity</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/11/09/raising-creativity</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband, the dear man, shared with me a TEDtalk video yesterday, which just blew my socks off. It was of Sir Ken Robinson, a leading expert on innovation and human resources. Here, he speaks of the flaws of today&#8217;s archaic education systems worldwide that focus on providing human capital for the present (or the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look ma, my vocab is expanding!</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/11/09/look-ma-my-vocab-is-expanding</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up with a pair of English teachers can be trying, not so much because of the &#8216;English&#8217; but more the &#8216;teachers&#8217;. My life was full of rules and schedules and times tables (you read right. The timeS tables, as in multiplications!). My dad also taught math. I remember very clearly that my father, being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting Mitch!</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/10/06/meeting-mitch</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Starbucks, I will be meeting Mitch Albom on 16th Oct 2006! He&#8217;s having a book signing of his latest, for one more day, which I got out of coincidence at a Starbucks I frequent &#8216;coz I&#8217;s completely forgotten about it, lordy lordy. For fans, Albom will be at the Starbucks @ Madison Park [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enrich your vocab!</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2003/06/24/enrich-your-vocab</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte two weeks ago (for my Lit Appreciation Class) and so far, have reached Page 52 &#8211; largely due to lack of toilet/nodding off to sleep time. I&#8217;ve discovered a huge number of strange words. Beautiful, but strange &#8211; words I think we should start using again!: 1. [...]]]></description>
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