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		<title>The Thigh War</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was winter.  It had been raining for two weeks straight.  I was depressed. “You are having an existential crisis,” said a friend. “Go to church.” Now, I hadn’t been to church in a very long time. The last time I can remember going was the day my son was baptized and he cried the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melaniegideon.com&blog=7765070&post=225&subd=melaniegideon&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Parents of Mr. Hemlock’s Third Graders are proud to present . . .</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Mr. Hemlock Thinks Plays Should be Taken Out of the Elementary School Curriculum Parent 1: Welcome!  Welcome to the play. Parent 2: I should be Parent 1. I don’t know why I’m not Parent 1. Why am I always Parent 2? Parent 3:  Welcome!  Welcome to the play. Mr. Hemlock: (in a whisper from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melaniegideon.com&blog=7765070&post=218&subd=melaniegideon&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I bought my son a copy of The Dangerous Book For Boys. Okay, I know, I&#8217;m a little late to the game here. I read the book that night from cover to cover and saw just how we had failed him.  All the knots we hadn&#8217;t taught him to tie.  All the rabbits we hadn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melaniegideon.com&blog=7765070&post=195&subd=melaniegideon&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s one song for me that evokes a New England summer in all its glory&#8211;its heartbreak, humidity, brevity, longing and hope, its clamcakes, Levi&#8217;s, docks and lakes and rivers, its yellow cellophaned packages of Swedish Fish, it&#8217;s Listen To What the Man Said, by Paul McCartney. It was the summer of 1974.  The camp [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melaniegideon.com&blog=7765070&post=170&subd=melaniegideon&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I purportedly went to my favorite independent bookstore, A Great Good Place for Books to hear Chandler Burr read from his fabulous new novel You or Someone Like You the other night, but really I went because I wanted him to smell me.  You see besides being a novelist, a journalist and a screenwriter, Chandler [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melaniegideon.com&blog=7765070&post=150&subd=melaniegideon&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maple Honey Caramels</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every so often I become obsessed with a particular kind of candy.  Candy other than Twizzlers, that is.  And Butterfingers.  Sweet Revolution Maple Honey Caramels.   I can&#8217;t stop thinking about them.  I bought a little box at Miette on Chestnut Street in San Francisco to give to my husband for father&#8217;s day.   I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melaniegideon.com&blog=7765070&post=133&subd=melaniegideon&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pajamaist</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t that an amazing title? I wish I had thought of it. I&#8217;m reading Matthew Zapruder&#8217;s book of poetry The Pajamaist and it&#8217;s brilliant. I&#8217;m so inspired that I have been practicing being a pajamaist. What is a pajamaist, you may ask. I&#8217;ve come to realize that&#8217;s a very personal question and I can only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melaniegideon.com&blog=7765070&post=88&subd=melaniegideon&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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