<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from rachelland.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 rachelland.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-11-22T02:20:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2009-02-18:links.412154707</id><title>Saying Something</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/saying_something.htm"><![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.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/saying_something.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-02-18T10:39:00Z</updated><published>2009-02-18T10:39:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2009-01-23:links.412149758</id><title>stories</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/stories.htm"><![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.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/stories.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-01-23T14:18:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-23T14:18:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2009-01-22:links.412149579</id><title>...it&apos;s We The People</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/wtf.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/wtf.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-01-22T19:57:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-22T19:57:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2009-01-05:links.412146636</id><title>beginnings</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/beginnings.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/beginnings.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2009-01-05T04:38:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-05T04:38:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2008-10-14:links.412133339</id><title>without a cape</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/without_a_cape.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/without_a_cape.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-10-14T01:58:00Z</updated><published>2008-10-14T01:58:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2008-10-12:links.412133159</id><title>I grieve</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/i_grieve.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/i_grieve.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-10-12T12:51:00Z</updated><published>2008-10-12T12:51:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2008-09-18:links.412128966</id><title>et tu, Lou?`</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/et_tu_lou.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/et_tu_lou.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-09-18T03:38:00Z</updated><published>2008-09-18T03:38:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2008-09-03:links.412126316</id><title>Until</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/until.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/until.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-09-03T10:21:00Z</updated><published>2008-09-03T10:21:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2008-09-02:links.412126127</id><title>Hodge Podge</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/hodge_podge.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/hodge_podge.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-09-02T17:53:00Z</updated><published>2008-09-02T17:53:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2008-08-30:links.412125767</id><title>?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/412125767.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/412125767.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-08-30T14:22:00Z</updated><published>2008-08-30T14:22:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2008-08-27:links.412124915</id><title>&quot;I don&apos;t need a F*ing clairvoyant; that&apos;s what Myspace is for...&quot;</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/i_dont_need_a_fing_clairvoyant_thats_what_myspace_is_fo.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/i_dont_need_a_fing_clairvoyant_thats_what_myspace_is_fo.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-08-27T02:21:00Z</updated><published>2008-08-27T02:21:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2008-08-08:links.412120451</id><title>C U L8R</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/c_u_l8r.htm"><![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 Aside:&nbsp; I&#39;ve never had someone text while I was speaking to them on a date.&nbsp; I&]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/c_u_l8r.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-08-08T00:41:00Z</updated><published>2008-08-08T00:41:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2008-08-07:links.412120240</id><title>Endings and Beginnings</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/endings_and_beginnings.htm"><![CDATA[&nbsp;&ldquo;Love Remains the Same,&rdquo; plays on my computer.&nbsp; You know that I love you; I know it&rsquo;s an impossible situation.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve fought for an us that you don&rsquo;t care to birth, and admittedly, I&rsquo;ve grown weary o]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/endings_and_beginnings.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-08-07T02:34:00Z</updated><published>2008-08-07T02:34:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2008-08-03:links.412119486</id><title>Tiny Bubbles</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/tiny_bubbles.htm"><![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&#]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/tiny_bubbles.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-08-03T15:19:00Z</updated><published>2008-08-03T15:19:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2008-06-24:links.412112254</id><title>Early Birds</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/early_birds.htm"><![CDATA[Early Birds]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/early_birds.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-06-24T14:42:00Z</updated><published>2008-06-24T14:42:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2008-06-17:links.412110552</id><title>Pompeii</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/pompeii.htm"><![CDATA[Love's battleground.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/pompeii.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-06-17T04:10:00Z</updated><published>2008-06-17T04:10:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2008-06-12:links.412109645</id><title>From the Wings</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/from_the_wings.htm"><![CDATA[Thoughts backstage at a recital]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/from_the_wings.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-06-12T19:53:00Z</updated><published>2008-06-12T19:53:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2008-05-02:links.412100622</id><title>No Dime Required</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/no_dime_required.htm"><![CDATA[Fun on a budget]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/no_dime_required.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-05-02T14:36:00Z</updated><published>2008-05-02T14:36:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2008-04-14:links.412096489</id><title>Oh those metal spoons</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/metal_spoons.htm"><![CDATA[Metaphors at 2 am]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/metal_spoons.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-04-14T06:23:00Z</updated><published>2008-04-14T06:23:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2008-03-28:links.412093110</id><title>Kidding ourselves</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/kidding_ourselves.htm"><![CDATA[Kidding ourselves can be harmful.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/kidding_ourselves.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-03-28T21:52:00Z</updated><published>2008-03-28T21:52:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2008-01-15:links.412076764</id><title>intimacy</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/intimacy.htm"><![CDATA[A different type of love letter for a different type of intimacy.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/intimacy.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-01-15T22:06:00Z</updated><published>2008-01-15T22:06:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2008-01-12:links.412076059</id><title>too</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/too.htm"><![CDATA[too:  only three letters, but a pretty powerful word nonetheless]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/too.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-01-12T20:23:00Z</updated><published>2008-01-12T20:23:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2008-01-08:links.412075190</id><title>Mentor</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/mentor.htm"><![CDATA[Mentor-protege relationship]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/mentor.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-01-08T21:35:00Z</updated><published>2008-01-08T21:35:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2008-01-06:links.412074681</id><title>Scrimmage</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/scrimmage.htm"><![CDATA[A few timezones away you advise me how to handle the work situation.&nbsp; &quot;No direct tackle.&nbsp; You&#39;re not coming from a position of power.&quot;I feel like punting.&nbsp; This new-old situation doesn&#39;t really bode well for me, but I]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/scrimmage.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-01-06T14:50:00Z</updated><published>2008-01-06T14:50:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:rachelland.blog-city.com,2007-12-11:links.412068018</id><title>Helping Those Who Served</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/helping_those_who_served.htm"><![CDATA[Donate Now:   http://www.pvmsec.org/]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rachelland.blog-city.com/helping_those_who_served.htm"/><dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>Rachel</name></author><updated>2007-12-11T04:01:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-11T04:01:00Z</published></entry></feed>