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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is another Thanksgiving craft my son made in school. Isn&#8217;t it adorable? I want to wish you all a happy Thanksgiving. I hope your day is full of family, food and good memories. It&#8217;s hard to believe at this time last year I thought I was healthy and was sending out queries for my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rissawrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3688223&amp;post=678&amp;subd=rissawrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Hundred Days&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rissa Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is my 100th day since my bone marrow transplant. I have been home longer than I was in the hospital. I am getting stronger every day, though not as strong as I had hoped I would be at this point. I want to be able to walk around the store without using the electric cart [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rissawrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3688223&amp;post=673&amp;subd=rissawrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Homeward bound&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rissa Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Huzzah! Today after 41 days in the hospital  I get to go home. It has been a long tough stay. The first few weeks passed in a morphine induced haze. I suffered from mouth sores- heck I got a whole new mouth basically. The morphine was mostly needed for that pain. Then I had a set [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rissawrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3688223&amp;post=669&amp;subd=rissawrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday to me&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rissa Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got my new stem cells today. I am officially on day zero of my transplant. So from here I just need to wait for my counts to go up and to get over any host versus graft disease. (where the new bone marrow fights against what cells I have left). Then this nightmare may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rissawrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3688223&amp;post=666&amp;subd=rissawrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Endings: good, bad or sad every book should have one&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rissa Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading a book and it ended mid-scene. Literally it ended with the guy getting ready to be murdered pinned on the floor and stabbed to death. What the heck? That is not an ending. Well technically I guess it is a cliff hanger ending. But I hate them. They kill me. Luckily this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rissawrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3688223&amp;post=661&amp;subd=rissawrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A few Haiku for you&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rissa Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never really was a haiku person before, but they are really starting to grow on me. I&#8217;ve published a few since my little diagnosis and thought I would share with my writing readers. Enjoy. Heaven &#8211; A Haiku Baldness- A Haiku<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rissawrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3688223&amp;post=658&amp;subd=rissawrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Always a writer&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://rissawrites.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/always-a-writer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rissa Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had to get a very claustrophobic MRI of my head the other day. It was made worse than normal because I have to wear a germ mask any time I am out of the room and I always feel like I can&#8217;t get enough air in those things as is. So when they told [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rissawrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3688223&amp;post=654&amp;subd=rissawrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year&#8230;what? I have what? oh crap&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://rissawrites.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/happy-new-year-what-i-have-what-oh-crap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 06:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rissa Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tried to think of how to write this post. Gotta explain why I am gone from blogging for a while. But more importantly, need to thank such an amazing group of people. So back story- hey this could be a good hook opener for a book. On Christmas I was writhing in pain. (gotta love [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rissawrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3688223&amp;post=647&amp;subd=rissawrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dude, your writing&#8217;s all emo&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rissa Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to talk about emotions, more specifically emotions in your writing. The best stories invoke some sort of emotion in your readers. The stronger the emotion, the better your story. (With the exception of something that is truly offensive and/or disgusting). I submitted a dark short story to my critique group and one person&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rissawrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3688223&amp;post=637&amp;subd=rissawrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rissa Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  How adorable is this? My son made it for me in his 1st grade class. I am thankful for so many things this year. Way too many to list while I have a turkey to bake! I hope everyone (well, I guess only my American friends) has a wonderful Thanksgiving. And to those not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rissawrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3688223&amp;post=634&amp;subd=rissawrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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