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		<title>Happy Birthday, Dear Da-Da</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 03:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I woke up and wrote the first thing that popped into my head, which was this: My dad would have been seventy-five today,&#160;but after some consideration he decided&#160;to end his contract early. Some melt slowly, others blaze&#160; at twice the speed of light,&#160; then Poof they&#8217;re gone.&#160; Bummer huh? And as far as [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moonbeammcqueen.com&#038;blog=1405870&#038;post=4806&#038;subd=moonbeammcqueen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 20:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Becomes a Miracle The sun gleams bright up in the sky, Its beams shine on your face, A hundred bluebirds sing up in the trees, Fields of flowers bloom like valentines made out of lace, Painted butterflies float on a breeze. In the night the moon glows bright, The crickets sing their song, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moonbeammcqueen.com&#038;blog=1405870&#038;post=4762&#038;subd=moonbeammcqueen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Dreamt I Went to Heaven</title>
		<link>http://moonbeammcqueen.com/2013/05/02/i-dreamt-i-went-to-heaven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 19:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I dreamt I went to Heaven, and God reviewed the record, of my days upon this Earth, and of my past, so checkered. As I stood there waiting, Beside the pearly gates, The Lord said, “Wow, your blog stats, were really pretty great. But your posts were mediocre, Your Facebook page, third-rate. Your LinkedIn was [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moonbeammcqueen.com&#038;blog=1405870&#038;post=4754&#038;subd=moonbeammcqueen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://moonbeammcqueen.com/2013/04/29/southern-comfort/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A ten-pound cast iron frying pan, is how the whole thing starts; Granny&#8217;s food is heavenly, but hell upon our hearts. Relying heavily on pork, she seasons what&#8217;s upon our forks; Collard greens and pinto beans, Gravy, cornbread, Chitterlings; They start out bland, but fatback&#8217;s grand, for adding flavor to these things. Catfish swim in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moonbeammcqueen.com&#038;blog=1405870&#038;post=4742&#038;subd=moonbeammcqueen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>She&#8217;s Still Teaching</title>
		<link>http://moonbeammcqueen.com/2013/04/24/shes-still-teaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the story of Miss Reed, my first-grade teacher? It started with this one little post I wrote about her several years ago. About a  month ago, I followed it up with this one, about how I finally learned what became of that miracle worker of a woman.  Although she died a few years ago, I was able [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moonbeammcqueen.com&#038;blog=1405870&#038;post=4713&#038;subd=moonbeammcqueen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Book of Fallopians: An Audio-Video Odyssey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I totally overstated the title of this post. I hope you weren&#8217;t expecting some sort of laser light show. I just couldn&#8217;t think of anything snappy this time, because my brain is panting from exhaustion. I&#8217;ve recently giddy-upped across a new (to me) frontier, a creative hayride that&#8217;s given me ulcers, migraines, several silver hairs and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moonbeammcqueen.com&#038;blog=1405870&#038;post=4701&#038;subd=moonbeammcqueen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Downside of Hamming It Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know that thing that I wrote about in my last post? About how much I love reading my work in public? How, basically, I encouraged everyone to run out the front door and just start hamming it up? Well, I&#8217;ve thought about it for a bit, and I believe I was somewhat irresponsible in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moonbeammcqueen.com&#038;blog=1405870&#038;post=4688&#038;subd=moonbeammcqueen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Release Your Inner Ham</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was invited to read one of my stories at an event I&#8217;ve grown very fond of. It’s held every couple of months in the lounge of a hotel in a neighboring town, and participants are given fifteen glorious minutes to perform. They invite you once; if you’re decent, they invite you back. “You’re family [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moonbeammcqueen.com&#038;blog=1405870&#038;post=4676&#038;subd=moonbeammcqueen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Rant About Reggie</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abby the Spoon Lady and I chatted on Facebook a few weeks ago. She mentioned a news story about some train hoppers who&#8217;d been killed in an accident in Alabama. The rail riding community is a close-knit crew, and since Abby has logged her share of miles on trains, she was trying to find the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moonbeammcqueen.com&#038;blog=1405870&#038;post=4650&#038;subd=moonbeammcqueen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ripple Effect</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 02:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By my standards, something incredible happened yesterday&#8211;something huge and wonderful and heartstring-yanking and a little mind-blowing. I&#8217;d planned to wait a while before writing about it, but it&#8217;s 2 a.m. and I can&#8217;t sleep, because it just keeps jumping around inside me. I’m going to try to at least begin telling you the story now. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moonbeammcqueen.com&#038;blog=1405870&#038;post=4614&#038;subd=moonbeammcqueen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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