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		<title>If you miss me</title>
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In my world it is forever the Long Winter and I am still twisting the proverbial haysticks needed to burn through to the end of this blasted book, this bloody blanged bucking book!  BUT. I am now an occasional contributor to the Beyond Little House blog, where I have written about Miss Virginia Kirkus and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poundy.com/2010/02/01/if-you-miss-me/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll buy you a pony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Like Frosty says, I&#8217;ll be back again someday.
Not blogging has its advantages.  I don&#8217;t have to wonder whether the people who send me their blog-related press releases and promotion requests actually read my site. When someone emails me suggesting that I plug their $20 PDF book (!) in my next post, I know right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poundy.com/2009/12/22/buy-you-a-pony/</link>
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		<title>The Launch of Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ To celebrate the release of Love is a Four-Letter Word, Michael Taeckens, our esteemed anthology editor, is the Guest Blogger over at the Penguin Blog this week, and today I was the Guest Blogger Guest with my post about the bizarre side effects of writing about past boyfriends. Go ye forth and read as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poundy.com/2009/07/28/the-launch-of-love/</link>
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		<title>Too much (AWESOME) information</title>
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Hey, remember when I used to write about other things besides sunbonnets?  This week Nerve is running an excerpt from my Love Is A Four-Letter Word essay and you can read it here. 100% Laura-free content hot and fresh.
Also, if you must know, the other day I went to the lady-doctor (yes, I&#8217;m being euphemistic; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poundy.com/2009/07/24/too-much-awesome-information/</link>
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		<title>Of wheatfields and four-letter words</title>
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We made it home from the Great American Prairie Odyssey Extravaganza on Tuesday night. I think I&#8217;m still recovering from all the car time, road food, and prolonged exposure to the random whims of Midwestern &#8220;oldies&#8221; stations (like playing Russian Roulette, where the bullet is something like &#8220;St. Elmos&#8217;s Fire&#8221;), but here is a brief [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poundy.com/2009/07/19/of-wheatfields-and-four-letter-words/</link>
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		<title>Country party! Country party!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow Almanzo Chris and I are heading out to hang out on the banks of Plum Creek and by the shores of Silver Lake (which, sadly, is no longer a lake) and in the little town on the prairie! We will bring back some horehound candy for you if you&#8217;re good. Oh, oh, I am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poundy.com/2009/07/08/country-party-country-party/</link>
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		<title>Til you get enough summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was away for half the weekend, but I got back in time to catch a little of this weird and totally-awkward-to-watch author meltdown on Twitter yesterday.  I can&#8217;t say I know what Alice Hoffman was thinking (did she just not get that people read Twitter?), but I feel bad for her, that whatever kind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poundy.com/2009/06/30/til-you-get-enough-summer/</link>
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		<title>To-Do List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Write sixty gazillion pages for book project.
Email about five hundred people to interview for the book.
Find a maxi dress that doesn&#8217;t make me look like an nightgown-wearing loony lady.
Write BUST column.
Plan road trip to Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota to see Laura Ingalls Wilder homesites in July.
Order Walnut Grove Laura Ingalls Wilder pageant tickets. 
Plan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poundy.com/2009/06/18/to-do-list/</link>
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		<title>Author talks, Bloggangangers and little houses</title>
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Alert! I&#8217;m doing an author talk at StoryStudio Chicago on Saturday, May 30th, along with Stephanie Kuehnert and Simone Elkeles, and we&#8217;ll be talking about living the literary life, Chicago-style (because that&#8217;s what the program says), which lately for me involves whole days spent indoors eating nothing but pitas from the Al-Khayyam bakery on Kedzie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poundy.com/2009/05/12/author-talks-bloggangangers-and-little-houses/</link>
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		<title>How it was</title>
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People keep asking me if I&#8217;m jetlagged, but I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;m not, at least not in the sense that my body thinks it&#8217;s 3 pm in the middle of the night. However it does seem like it&#8217;s reverted to some kind of Central Standard Tired As All Hell time zone, so who knows what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poundy.com/2009/04/02/how-it-was/</link>
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