<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from rachelland.blog-city.com</title><link>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2009 rachelland.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:20:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from rachelland.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Saying Something</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rachelland.blog-city.com/saying_something.htm</guid><link>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/saying_something.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=saying%5Fsomething</comments><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Crumbs are not acceptable.  They're messy and offer just a hint of something--a something that isn't there anymore.  They're residual, leftovers--and so not worth the time or the effort analyzing where the cookie part has gone.]]></description></item><item><title>stories</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rachelland.blog-city.com/stories.htm</guid><link>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/stories.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=stories</comments><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's not a great story.  It's not even a happy story.  It's mediocre or fair-to-middlin', but it's my story.]]></description></item><item><title>...it&apos;s We The People</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rachelland.blog-city.com/wtf.htm</guid><link>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/wtf.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=wtf</comments><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you need to step back and say &quot;WTF.&quot;All of us are struggling right now--struggling under this economy and job market, struggling with personal demons, struggling with personal relationships, yet we treat each other like crap--beca]]></description></item><item><title>beginnings</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rachelland.blog-city.com/beginnings.htm</guid><link>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/beginnings.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=beginnings</comments><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&quot;Every new beginning comes from some other beginning&#39;s end.&quot;  These words reply in my mind as I sit here and type.Beginnings--in my life I&#39;ve pretty much always tied &quot;a fresh start&quot; to the start of the school year in Septe]]></description></item><item><title>without a cape</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rachelland.blog-city.com/without_a_cape.htm</guid><link>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/without_a_cape.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=without%5Fa%5Fcape</comments><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Mother-love is all-consuming. You have this person who looks to you as his/her world. Every need, every hurt, every victory is somehow felt by you, too. When your child is sick, you wonder how you can have the strength to deal with things, but you do]]></description></item><item><title>I grieve</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rachelland.blog-city.com/i_grieve.htm</guid><link>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/i_grieve.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:51:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=i%5Fgrieve</comments><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I stare out the acid-rain and dirt-streaked windows and admire Philadelphia&#39;s skyline.It&#39;s home--this brashness, this grittiness, this sophistication--is home.&nbsp; The streets below my 23rd story perch are familiar and comfortable.&nbsp; Ho]]></description></item><item><title>et tu, Lou?`</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rachelland.blog-city.com/et_tu_lou.htm</guid><link>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/et_tu_lou.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=et%5Ftu%5Flou</comments><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Betrayal.&nbsp; It&#39;s ugly, isn&#39;t it?&nbsp;Feel it with me--the way your pulse quickens and you get a metallic taste in the back of your throat.&nbsp; Are you clenching and unclenching your fists yet?&nbsp; Have you thrown my name in the middl]]></description></item><item><title>Until</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rachelland.blog-city.com/until.htm</guid><link>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/until.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=until</comments><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Until an extraordinary ordinary&nbsp;American&nbsp;becomes President there is no real change in Washington despite the current rhetoric to the contrary.Until we break free of the two-party system, we limit ourselves to so-called liberal or conservati]]></description></item><item><title>Hodge Podge</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rachelland.blog-city.com/hodge_podge.htm</guid><link>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/hodge_podge.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:53:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=hodge%5Fpodge</comments><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am the type of woman that cries over my daugther&#39;s missing hamster, and I&#39;ll laugh and kiss the little renegade when he&#39;s found.I smile like the Cheshire Cat when I find bargains in the flower department.&nbsp; &quot;Can you bring back]]></description></item><item><title>?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rachelland.blog-city.com/412125767.htm</guid><link>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/412125767.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=412125767</comments><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Was any of it real?That&#39;s the question I&#39;m left to answer, and like an unprepared student on a pop algebra quiz, i am struggling with the answer.Right now it doesn&#39;t feel like it was, but that&#39;s probably because I&#39;m in a place bey]]></description></item><item><title>&quot;I don&apos;t need a F*ing clairvoyant; that&apos;s what Myspace is for...&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rachelland.blog-city.com/i_dont_need_a_fing_clairvoyant_thats_what_myspace_is_fo.htm</guid><link>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/i_dont_need_a_fing_clairvoyant_thats_what_myspace_is_fo.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=i%5Fdont%5Fneed%5Fa%5Ffing%5Fclairvoyant%5Fthats%5Fwhat%5Fmyspace%5Fis%5Ffo</comments><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&quot;It&#39;s not what you know; it&#39;s knowing how to find out what you don&#39;t know that is important,&quot;&nbsp; said my Bibliography and Resarch professor in graduate school.God, how right he&nbsp;was.Research.&nbsp; I&#39;m hell at researc]]></description></item><item><title>C U L8R</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rachelland.blog-city.com/c_u_l8r.htm</guid><link>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/c_u_l8r.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:41:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=c%5Fu%5Fl8r</comments><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&quot;So, how bad was it really?&quot; you ask in a morning phone call.&quot;Pretty bad.&quot;&quot;He texted while I was speaking to him.&quot;Author&#39;s 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15:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=tiny%5Fbubbles</comments><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One of my favorite lines in the movie &quot;The Devil Wears Prada&quot; is when Nigel says to Andrea&nbsp;, &quot;When your personal life is falling to pieces you&#39;re probably on your way to a promotion.&quot;How true.For the last eight months I&#]]></description></item><item><title>Early Birds</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rachelland.blog-city.com/early_birds.htm</guid><link>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/early_birds.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=early%5Fbirds</comments><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Early Birds]]></description></item><item><title>Pompeii</title><guid 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14:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=no%5Fdime%5Frequired</comments><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Fun on a budget]]></description></item><item><title>Oh those metal spoons</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rachelland.blog-city.com/metal_spoons.htm</guid><link>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/metal_spoons.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=metal%5Fspoons</comments><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Metaphors at 2 am]]></description></item><item><title>Kidding ourselves</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rachelland.blog-city.com/kidding_ourselves.htm</guid><link>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/kidding_ourselves.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=kidding%5Fourselves</comments><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kidding ourselves can be harmful.]]></description></item><item><title>intimacy</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rachelland.blog-city.com/intimacy.htm</guid><link>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/intimacy.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=intimacy</comments><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A different type of love letter for a different type of intimacy.]]></description></item><item><title>too</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rachelland.blog-city.com/too.htm</guid><link>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/too.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=too</comments><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[too:  only 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punting.&nbsp; This new-old situation doesn&#39;t really bode well for me, but I]]></description></item><item><title>Helping Those Who Served</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://rachelland.blog-city.com/helping_those_who_served.htm</guid><link>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/helping_those_who_served.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://rachelland.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=helping%5Fthose%5Fwho%5Fserved</comments><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Donate Now:   http://www.pvmsec.org/]]></description></item></channel></rss>