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		<title>Blogcabin</title>
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		<description>Come sit by the fire. Watch out for the sparks. Coffee?</description>
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			<description>&lt;H1&gt;Oh, Crumb.&lt;/H1&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Okay, well, looks like I have to go back to &lt;A href=&quot;http://blogs.salon.com/0004214&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.salon.com/0004214&quot;&gt;http://blogs.salon.com/0004214&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/A&gt;, because this address is going to do to me what I saw Mark Hoback&apos;s doing to him...recycling comments. How totally random. Please see the REAL BLOGCABIN from now on, at &lt;A href=&quot;http://blogs.salon.com/0004214&quot;&gt;this spot&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Thanks.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
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			<description>&lt;H1&gt;&lt;FONT color=seagreen&gt;New Start, By Force.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/H1&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Well, within five minutes of miraculously remembering my old Radio Userland password to access my old blog address&amp;nbsp;(which this is!), I successfully and tragically erased all four months of what I wrote at this address. I wrote a lot. I have no backup of all this writing. I am a touch shellshocked. I guess this is the newest begininng of all for Meg in her writing career...letting go of what she has done in the past, and not resting on her laurels. I&apos;m horrified to have lost it all, but maybe on some level I needed to, in order that I&amp;nbsp; may begin to devote energy to it anew.&amp;nbsp;Or perhaps I am just trying to make myself feel better. Alas. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Tune in...I guess&amp;nbsp;I have some writing to do.&amp;nbsp;I never did treat my blog as a journal, and I don&apos;t think I will even now that&amp;nbsp;I have cleared the decks, but it remains a great place to learn about me and what I do. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Thank you to everyone&amp;nbsp;who has encouraged me and&amp;nbsp;read me and emailed me to tell me you think&amp;nbsp;I am making a good move in quitting my job to&amp;nbsp;write full time. &amp;nbsp;It is, by far, the scariest leap I have ever made, and I am going to need all the connections I can get. If you need any writing done, you let me know...&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Consider this my shingle!&lt;/P&gt;</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:06:39 GMT</pubDate>
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