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	<title>Magpie Girl (Rachelle Mee-Chapman) &#187; Magpie Mama</title>
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		<title>Best of Magpie Girl: A Shrine for Hard Feelings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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Things are a bit sparse over here while Magpie Girl is getting a face lift. I hope you don&#8217;t mind a little walk down memory lane, beginning with this piece from May 2008. Thanks for being here!
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Cate was yelling at me. Again.
Every day it’s the same story. I pick Cate up from school and she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Epiphany: Fairies, Snowballs of Honor, and Finding Your Star</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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Cate with the Snowball of Honor &#8211; a snow egg.
It is silent and still as &#8220;snow, on snow, on snow&#8221;  comes down. Cate and I are bundled up to our noses against the cold, but happy in the oasis that is the walled garden near our urban home.
&#8220;Can we visit the Fairy Tree?,&#8221; asks Cate.
&#8220;Of course!&#8221; I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kids and the Resistance Epidemic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Magpie Girl]]></category>
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Are your children fighting every request you make? Is nothing you say or do &#8220;right&#8221;? Are all of you grumbling under your breathe and making what my kids call &#8220;the huffy voice&#8221;?  That my friends, is Resistance.
 
Thankfully Nikki Di Virgilio of The Soul Reporter is here with a guest post for us today; and it&#8217;s full to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living by Your Own Rules: Sexual Integrity</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090928/living-by-your-own-rules-sexual-integrity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090928/living-by-your-own-rules-sexual-integrity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Body/Sex]]></category>
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From friends who have re-entered the dating pool at mid-life, to teenage mentorees, to children approaching puberty&#8212;sex and sexuality are a regular topic of conversations &#8217;round these parts. One of my girlfriends once said to me that as a teenager she decided &#8220;I just wanted to have a sexual history I could look back on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magpie Girl&#8217;s Guide to College</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090916/magpie-girls-guide-to-college/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090916/magpie-girls-guide-to-college/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Magpie Mama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ask magpie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[souren]]></category>
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The 19yo is talking about college. Of course, when I overheard him say, &#8220;I was reading this college catalog&#8230;&#8221; I stopped dead in my tracks. After several years of unschooling and some pretty serious slacker practice before that, I wasn&#8217;t even pretending that college was in his future&#8212;at least not right away. So this news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rites of Passage for Back to School</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090906/rites-of-passage-for-back-to-school/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090906/rites-of-passage-for-back-to-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s back to school season with the last of the schools in the U.S. starting up after this Labor Day weekend comes to a close. Children are trying on outfits, putting their names on backpacks and picking out new lunchboxes. But beyond the ritual of buying schools supplies, what can you do to create a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sacred Life Sunday: Light Keeping</title>
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		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090816/sacred-life-sunday-light-keeping/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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 Polyphonic Spree, Light and Day



I struggle to live in the moment. So often I am casting my gaze back in regret and longing, or throwing myself forward in to future worries. I know it&#8217;s healthiest for me to live mostly in the Now. But to the Now I feel foreign born, and like an adopted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>favorite things: child of my heart</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090813/favorite-things-child-of-my-heart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090813/favorite-things-child-of-my-heart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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He comes to me in my dreams, this child of my heart, separated now seas and ages.
Sometimes the dreams are all absurdity. Last night in my somnolence he came to me with a new love. I asked after her:  what captivated? what called? His serious reply: &#8220;She taught me the word &#8220;Huntington&#8217;s.&#8221; Ah, what meaning in that then? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soaring Lessons</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090806/soaring-lessons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090806/soaring-lessons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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Did you know you could fly?
Yes you, with the middle-aged greys springing out of your ponytail&#8230;
You with the quarter-life crisis and the world as your oyster&#8230;
You with Junior High staring at you from the business end of a double barrel&#8230;
You can soar, if only you will bend your knees and leap into the great unknown.
True, the next day, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surfire Things Kids Say to Get Your Parenthood Guilt-Goat</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090719/surfire-things-kids-say-to-get-your-parenthood-guilt-goat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090719/surfire-things-kids-say-to-get-your-parenthood-guilt-goat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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Cate as her pirate alter-ego, One-Eyed Jan, ready to defend her booty.
 
What the adorable offspring said:
&#8220;Mommy, why don&#8217;t you do something with me? All you ever do in Denmark is chores and work on the computer. And now all you are doing on our vacation is the computer!&#8221;
What actually happened the preceeding three weeks, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tweenager</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090707/tweenager/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090707/tweenager/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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 For the first time ever, Eden has asked that I NOT post her annual birthday letter on my blog. So in lieu of all that mushy goodness&#8230;this is she, and she is lovely.

			
				
			
		


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		<title>Nine is Just Fine!</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090622/nine-is-just-fine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090622/nine-is-just-fine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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Cate&#8217;s year of adventures, starting with the amusement park Tivoli in Copenhagen.
 
Dear Catie,
 
This morning when I woke up I was chewing, chewing, chewing away about what to write to you for this your Number Nine Birthday. 
 
I’ve been thinking a lot about how Mama and Grandpa like to tease you about getting so grown up. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sacred Life Sunday: Ironing Alchemy</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090517/sacred-life-sunday-ironing-alchemy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090517/sacred-life-sunday-ironing-alchemy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 06:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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The result of one of my favorite start-of-the weekend chores &#8212; ironing our homemade cloth napkins for the week ahead.
 
The hot smell of  iron on cotton rises to me in a hiss of steam. I spread the cheerful colors beneath my palm, watch them smooth and ease against the board. Fold. Press. Steam.
There are never enough to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help for when Mother&#8217;s Day is not so happy.</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090505/help-for-when-mothers-day-is-not-so-happy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090505/help-for-when-mothers-day-is-not-so-happy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 17:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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This Sunday is Mother’s Day in the States. For some this is a time to celebrate and fawn, thank and praise. For others it is a day that highlights their lack, or shines a spotlight on their sorrow. A complicated day then – and not at all as simple as the row of supermarket greeting cards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>*8 Things: Good Things My Parents Taught Me</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090430/8-things-good-things-my-parents-taught-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090430/8-things-good-things-my-parents-taught-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s nearly Mother&#8217;s Day and my mind has been wandering over to my dear, sweet parents halfway around the world. My Mom and Dad are just a joy. Their special talents are macadamia-encrusted grilled salmon and mojitos on the back deck, or micro brews and antipasti on the sailboat. Obviously, everybody loves them. So here [...]]]></description>
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