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		<title>She Doesn&#8217;t Live Here Anymore</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 02:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog has moved to Public Frog. You can find me there&#8230; Thanks for reading.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bothhands.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1311336&amp;post=383&amp;subd=bothhands&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Last Nights of Summer, Last Days of Both Hands</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I have three nights left of summer. And tonight, I&#8217;m watching Something&#8217;s Gotta Give while I decoupage my autobiography box (a model for my students). And, well, I forgot how wonderful and hopeful and kind of gross it is to see these two old people fall in love like a pair of bipolar teenagers. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bothhands.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1311336&amp;post=373&amp;subd=bothhands&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An awkward return to blogging and some thoughts on forever</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so I&#8217;ve taken a hiatus from my blog for, oh, I don&#8217;t know, like a year? This post for me feels about as awkward as the first post ever (which I composed nearly four years ago!). I&#8217;ve lost a bit of the feel of writing as a daily habit. I&#8217;m always telling my students [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bothhands.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1311336&amp;post=314&amp;subd=bothhands&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Painted Smiles and Iron Guts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, my classroom is buzzing with the taptaptaptapping of students&#8217; fingers on keyboards. I thought I would miss the sound of pencils and pens scraping against paper, scratching out ideas and shaping words. The tapping has much more energy&#8211;it&#8217;s a sound you can almost ride, and I do. And I almost feel like I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bothhands.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1311336&amp;post=297&amp;subd=bothhands&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t even guess that I was happy&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://bothhands.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/i-didnt-even-guess-that-i-was-happy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is this wiggle-shimmy-dance-thing that I do whenever I am enjoying what I&#8217;m eating. It&#8217;s subconscious. I never knew I did it until I caught Ruthie doing it one day across the dinner table from me. We were positively inhaling sugared strawberries from a bowl between us. She started wiggling her little booty on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bothhands.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1311336&amp;post=290&amp;subd=bothhands&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PJ Rides</title>
		<link>http://bothhands.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/pj-rides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Saturday morning begins with the heavy sounds of Ruthie barging down the short  hallway that joins our rooms, still half-asleep, blanket and bear in tow, her hair teased a solid four inches out from her head by what I call sleep-traveling. She&#8217;s almost always smiling, proud of herself for spending the night alone and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bothhands.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1311336&amp;post=276&amp;subd=bothhands&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sink or Swim&#8230; Er, Float</title>
		<link>http://bothhands.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/sink-or-swim-er-float/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, Ruthie and I, along with a very dear friend, broke into a local neighborhood pool while its patrons were at church. Thankfully, there was only one family there, and they were lounging at an angle that would allow us (and by &#8220;us,&#8221; I mean my dear friend) to inconspicuously jiggle the gate in just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bothhands.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1311336&amp;post=266&amp;subd=bothhands&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where I&#8217;ve Been and What I&#8217;ve Been Doing</title>
		<link>http://bothhands.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/where-ive-been-and-what-ive-been-doing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sun Belt has begun, and, as in years past, it has been all-consuming, exhausting, and exhilarating. We have a nice mix of folks in the room this year from all parts of the education spectrum: elementary teachers, secondary teachers, English teachers, Social Studies/History teachers, media specialists, a principal. Every year, the first week surprises me. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bothhands.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1311336&amp;post=267&amp;subd=bothhands&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Super Fruity</title>
		<link>http://bothhands.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/super-fruity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 18:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fruit selection is not my strong point when it comes to grocery shopping. Bananas especially stress me out. I feel like they&#8217;re always either all green or beginning to turn brown, and I can never gauge how long it will take for my bananas to spoil, which attracts those annoying hovering fruit flies that take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bothhands.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1311336&amp;post=251&amp;subd=bothhands&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;To fight aloud, is very brave&#8221;</title>
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