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		<title>January 2012 Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(I know I said I wasn&#8217;t going to write for a while, but&#8230;) Always Coming Home Ursula K LeGuin January 4 I read this at the beach, dipping in and out of it in between spooning and freezing swims and laying on the floor watching nature shows and doing the dishes. I’ve read it more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anymore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t want to write here, anymore, in this way, in this place. For a while. Forever? For some time, now. Writing here used to be one of the signal pleasures of my little life, you know? People were always asking me &#8220;Are you going to put that on your blog?&#8221; and I&#8217;d be like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2012/01/17/anymore/</link>
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		<title>Ten Years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s the solstice tomorrow, I think, and the light stays long, a couple of days before Christmas. I didn’t sleep well last night but it’s hard to nap with the sun so high and bright. Ten years ago I wrote the first post for this blog, or, as I would have said at the time, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2011/12/22/ten-years/</link>
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		<title>Talking With Alice On The Couches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alice came over for dinner Monday night. I have a table and chairs in my lounge but I never eat dinner on them; I sit on the couch like everyone else. Alice sat too. We ate zucchini pasta and talked about my work and her midwifery exams and about the weather and about the election [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2011/11/30/talking-with-alice-on-the-couches/</link>
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		<title>Yes, I&#8217;ve Voted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Zealand politics are, in my experience, just as convoluted and crazy-making as American politics, but I have to say the experience of voting is a lot simpler. I enrolled online several months ago, I got a voting card in the mail last week, and yesterday I walked myself down the road to my local [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2011/11/27/yes-ive-voted/</link>
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		<title>Circulation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I went with my friends Rachel, Angela, and Miriam for Circulation, a big ol’ circus festival down in freezing cold yet oddly sunny Dunedin. I have been super extra busy for the past…well, for the past forever, I guess, and since I haven’t been doing circus for months I just forgot about it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2011/11/21/circulation/</link>
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		<title>Back To Yoga</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After something like four months with no regular exercise except walking around and the occasional dance party, I’ve started going to yoga again, three times in the last four weeks. I know the studio and they know me, and it’s all pretty straightforward, going to class again, even though I haven’t gone very much this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2011/11/02/back-to-yoga/</link>
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		<title>Band Tension</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Chiara and her bandmate Jez are working on their new song at their friend Rachel’s flat. From behind a closed door some indications of band tension begin to emanate…] Chiara: But it goes: the verse about the whiskers, then the pre-chorus with the abalone, then the Pacific Ocean pre-chorus, then the chorus. Jez: What I’m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2011/10/19/band-tension/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Been Busy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not much to report, really—everything’s been very busy but it’s the kind of busy where even though you’re doing lots of stuff there isn’t really a way to write about it. I mean, what are you supposed to write? You have a friend in town and there are parties and dinners and cups of hot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2011/10/15/its-been-busy/</link>
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		<title>Daylight Savings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s Daylight Savings now, light later and later. My sun guilt is very firmly entrenched but I sit on one of the 80-percent-life-size couches anyway, up against the large lounge window, looking at the outside drying racks in the back yard, the chittering birds and peeling paint and golden sun of Mt. Victoria. Meant to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2011/09/27/daylight-savings/</link>
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