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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Feel Entitled, I Feel Guilty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Christmas with My Homeless Aunt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 14:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Mackenzie Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my father smiles, the wide gaps between his teeth are on cartoony display. His family could afford braces for only one child, and, as the girl, his sister’s looks won priority. In adulthood, Debbie was the homeless woman with &#8230; <a href="http://janetmackenziesmith.com/2012/12/24/published-on-slate/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janetmackenziesmith.com&#038;blog=33920178&#038;post=496&#038;subd=janetmackenziesmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Proposal Regarding Proposals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Mackenzie Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mom: It's a rhetorical question. Me: What is? Mom: 'Speak now or forever hold your peace.' Me: Well, it's not a question, it's a command... Mom: Regardless, it's culturally rhetorical. Me: But if it's a truly great friend... <a href="http://janetmackenziesmith.com/2012/09/04/hairpin-homily-a-proposal-regarding-proposals/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janetmackenziesmith.com&#038;blog=33920178&#038;post=338&#038;subd=janetmackenziesmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Animality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Mackenzie Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vampires, zombies, and nightmares are good and useful things? Maybe it's restful for our brains to engage in a world of fight or flight where attention can be paid to large and largely simple fictional forces?  <a href="http://janetmackenziesmith.com/2012/08/10/animality/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janetmackenziesmith.com&#038;blog=33920178&#038;post=317&#038;subd=janetmackenziesmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t pretend to be normal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2012 19:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Mackenzie Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instead of a corsage, it was Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human. I was a freshman going to the prom with a junior named Doug. He was a deep thinker and thought I might be too.

Doug and his parents were from Chicago, which made them exotic in small-town North Carolina. They were also into new age spirituality. Doug learned the art of pranic healing – the cleansing of chakras with crystals – and practiced on me. (I think that my chakras were beyond repair even at the tender age of fourteen.)  When Doug told me that his Chicago-based shaman named Blue thought we were both indigo children, I felt strangely in awe of Doug and his shaman, even as I was fairly certain I could not believe in such things. <a href="http://janetmackenziesmith.com/2012/07/08/shamans-and-growing-up/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janetmackenziesmith.com&#038;blog=33920178&#038;post=283&#038;subd=janetmackenziesmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Mackenzie Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen, Lena, this relationship is over. I just can’t do it anymore. Each episode of GIRLS drives us further apart. In the show’s first weeks, I so looked forward to Sunday nights. Well, in truth, I looked forward to Monday &#8230; <a href="http://janetmackenziesmith.com/2012/06/14/dear-john-letter-for-lena-dunham/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janetmackenziesmith.com&#038;blog=33920178&#038;post=217&#038;subd=janetmackenziesmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PDP (Public Displays of Pain)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 05:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Mackenzie Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDP (Public Displays of Pain) The world generally agrees that anything more than momentary PDA goes against decorum, citing the public interest and the risk of distracting drivers or other operators of heavy machinery, etc. But, how should we feel about PDP, public displays of pain? <a href="http://janetmackenziesmith.com/2012/06/04/first-homily-is-up-on-the-hairpin/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janetmackenziesmith.com&#038;blog=33920178&#038;post=158&#038;subd=janetmackenziesmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humanist Homily Homunculus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 01:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Mackenzie Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the beginning, I wanted to call the book I&#8217;m working on Cogitate instead of Generation Special. When I was in London for graduate school my mother made me go to church and the sermon was about misdirected charity. Basically, &#8230; <a href="http://janetmackenziesmith.com/2012/06/03/humanist-homily-homunculus/"><em>Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></em></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janetmackenziesmith.com&#038;blog=33920178&#038;post=89&#038;subd=janetmackenziesmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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