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		<title>Unbalanced</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know why it is, but I get my best ideas for blog posts when I’m emailing someone. Maybe by email I mean free writing. And maybe by best I mean only. Oh, well. It’s all about me anyway, now isn’t it? Something is always awry in my checkbook, which is no doubt why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vadasmaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1648838&amp;post=145&amp;subd=vadasmaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>End the befuddlement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things apparently taken for granted in the world befuddle me. Granted, I am easily befuddled, but that’s just one more reason things shouldn’t be so out of whack. So as not to confuse me. It’s very important that I not be confused, and if you don’t believe me, just ask around. And don’t think I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vadasmaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1648838&amp;post=139&amp;subd=vadasmaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get a clue</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I despair. I’m beginning to think that if we worked as hard to make money as we do to stay ignorant we’d be rich indeed. Do people really not know racism is a bad thing? Seriously? Maybe it’s just that they know the definition of racism. Here it is, courtesy of the American Heritage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vadasmaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1648838&amp;post=122&amp;subd=vadasmaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Go ahead. Rate your professor. See if she cares.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ratemyprofessor.com is to teachers what truth is to politicians—unwanted, unneeded, and, ultimately unnerving. I mean, seriously. Who wants to do a job where every day the people who don’t like the way you do it can—well, as a friend says, put it on your permanent record! You know the permanent record, right? It must be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vadasmaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1648838&amp;post=118&amp;subd=vadasmaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Home Work</title>
		<link>http://vadasmaker.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/home-work-and-the-perils-thereof/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So here I sit, in front of the computer. I’m teaching only online, and I did the happy dance for two weeks in anticipation. I thought it would be the best idea I’ve ever had. It’s not. You know why it’s not? No, no. Don’t guess! I’m going to tell you why. First of all, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vadasmaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1648838&amp;post=114&amp;subd=vadasmaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Serendipity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The thing about serendipity is that you have to pay attention. You also have to accept the idea that discoveries by chance can produce positive changes that thirty years of psychotherapy couldn’t. Not that I’ve had thirty years of therapy. Or know anyone who has. Or have experienced positive changes. Not this week, anyway. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vadasmaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1648838&amp;post=110&amp;subd=vadasmaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At least we have Jon Stewart</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike many other countries, the United States has no oversight when it comes to the media. Supposedly, that’s because oversight would infringe on the journalist’s role as fulfillment center of “the people’s right to know.” Prior restraint, Qualitative Inquiry calls it. Well, all right then. We wouldn’t want to get in the way of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vadasmaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1648838&amp;post=107&amp;subd=vadasmaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KISS, KISS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m in Oklahoma City for the spring residency requirement in my MFA program. My head is so full I wouldn’t be surprised if it exploded, which is why I haven’t posted anything lately. This afternoon I was in a travel writing class with James Bernard Frost—if you get a chance to read something by him, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vadasmaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1648838&amp;post=105&amp;subd=vadasmaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Irresolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time for those wicked resolutions again. The media is full of them. Friends reference them. Even the spam in my inbox offers to help me make and keep them—for a price. Inasmuch as I have no resolve on hand—I have to buy it at Walmart, and I am not going in there—I’m not going to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vadasmaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1648838&amp;post=91&amp;subd=vadasmaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t give them what they want . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teaching creative writing is usually a joy, but not always. The difficulty arises when I try to articulate the reality of writing versus the myths of writing. That struggle can be encapsulated in one Continuing Education class I taught several years ago. It was called “So You Want to Be a Writer?” It wasn’t a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vadasmaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1648838&amp;post=85&amp;subd=vadasmaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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