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	<title>Cynthia &#187; Vignettes</title>
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	<description>My life, my sculpture...and other things</description>
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		<title>Lisa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right around lunchtime I heard a quiet tapping on my front door and sighed. (door to door peddlers famously interrupt my Saturday afternoons) I opened the door to a woman about 25, slim, vivacious and smiling.

"Hi!" she said brightly, "I'm Lisa, and you're going to think this is really weird, but can I take a picture of your tree?"]]></description>
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		<title>Pancakes in Coos Bay</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know you're in Oregon when you walk into a dockside pancake shack and the sign on the wall says, "Gluten-free pancakes with organic chai tea."

I'm down in Coos Bay this weekend, about five hours south of Portland, working through a casting problem with Hugh McKay of Cast Glass Forms. Hugh's in Port Orford; Gigi the iPhone led me a merry GPS dance through cow pastures and abandoned farmland to get there.

"Geeeez, that's hours out of the way," said Hugh, "Don't you computer people ever look at a map?"]]></description>
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		<title>Toadbutt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday a girl ran headlong down the aisle at the Container Store, skidding to a halt about five inches from my belly.

She was maybe 17, a blue-eyed brunette dressed like a tree. (Typical glasslander costume: Nondescript fabric in grey, brown and moss, none too clean, shaggy so you're not quite sure there's a girl in there and a couple of holes thrown in for spice.) She took a deep breath and opened her mouth all the way back to her tonsils.]]></description>
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		<title>Surges, Henry and Darryl</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's something seductive about working from home, whether it's in a studio or behind a computer. You can be as unwashed and floppy as you like and wear things the Goodwill wouldn't accept if you paid 'em (even in Portland).

What you can't do, however, is drop everything and get to your next meeting on time. Too often I look up from whatever it is I'm doing and realize I have 15 bloody minutes to shower, blow-dry, make-up, dress, print out whatever it is I need and drive across town.]]></description>
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		<title>Michelle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["I just need $14.50," the woman said anxiously, "And I'll have enough for a room for the night. That's all, and I'm not lying! It's only so I have a place to sleep."

I'd had a rare hour to spare before my next appointment in Portland's Pearl District and so I did my favorite thing: I drifted through the streets and watched.]]></description>
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		<title>Flying fish</title>
		<link>http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/2010/latest/flying-fish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then there was the time I drove through a perfect storm of fish&#8230;
Dunno what&#8217;s prompting me to keep diving into memory lane, except that I&#8217;m swamped with work and sculpture and friends and not finding a lot of new stories. When you&#8217;re not listening to strangers on a train or a park bench, the storytelling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brewskiville</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don't drink beer.

Nothing against it, just don't like the taste, not into the foam, don't see the point. In glassland, that makes me a very odd duck indeed.

I've been told that glassland (Portland, for those of you who don't speak Cynthia) has more artisan breweries per capita than any city in the world. Could be true for all I know, and there sure seem to be a lot of them, but like I said: I don't drink the stuff.]]></description>
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		<title>The art of ignorance</title>
		<link>http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/2010/glasswork/the-art-of-ignorance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["I just LOVE your collection," I gushed, "It's absolutely incredible. How long have you been collecting?"

My host looked puzzled...]]></description>
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		<title>Limo ride</title>
		<link>http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/2010/latest/limo-ride/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The important dude sat opposite me in the limo, confident and just a tad patronizing, flanked by his PR handler and the most amazingly beautiful woman I'd ever met.

He was the CEO of a big multinational and I was covering his company's new product line. His only available timeslot was the early-morning drive to the airfield, so here I was, scooted in next to his grownup son.]]></description>
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		<title>Mary and lonely</title>
		<link>http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/2010/latest/mary-and-lonely/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The train was delayed--they didn't say why--so Mary and I talked about lonely.

"The thing is," she began, "as long as you don't know you're lonely, you're not. But once you realize it, you'll always be lonely."

I blinked at her logic. "So if I just don't think I'm lonely, I'm not, but if I do, I can't be anything else?"

She smiled. "Exactly. Once you find out you're lonely, it's a permanent condition. But you learn to like it..."]]></description>
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