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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, all! I hope everyone&#8217;s summer is off to a great start. I wanted to drop a little note here to let you know I&#8217;m going to be offline and on a bit of a vacation for a couple of weeks. I haven&#8217;t forgotten you, just recharging the batteries. Be well, and be happy. alisa [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningtosubmit.com&#038;blog=28335521&#038;post=4246&#038;subd=learningtosubmit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Memorial Day Musings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 15:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fallen soldier, today I think of you, who gave your life for me, for us. You are young, and old, tall and short, male, female, human and animal. The one thing you all have in common is that your spirit rose up and up, and you went away, so that this morning I could do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningtosubmit.com&#038;blog=28335521&#038;post=4240&#038;subd=learningtosubmit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Cowboys Don&#8217;t Get Fat &amp; Why Monkey Bar Gym Is Dumb</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 16:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mizvaldes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My cowboy is 53 years old, and he eats like a teenager &#8212; which is to say he eats a lot, and much of it is red meat, full-fat cheese, eggs, butter and bread. He should be fat and sickly, if you believe common nutritional wisdom in the nation right now. But he&#8217;s not. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningtosubmit.com&#038;blog=28335521&#038;post=4233&#038;subd=learningtosubmit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cowboy in Training</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mizvaldes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, we&#8217;re living in our new house in the city, my son and I. The cowboy came up from the ranch last weekend to help do things like install the gas dryer, teaching my son as he went. Yesterday, two days after the cowboy left the city to go back to the ranch, my kid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningtosubmit.com&#038;blog=28335521&#038;post=4227&#038;subd=learningtosubmit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Life Has Taught Me</title>
		<link>http://learningtosubmit.com/2012/05/23/what-life-has-taught-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 16:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mizvaldes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent the better part of the past week moving into a new house in Albuquerque. For the first time in more than two years, I&#8217;m settled in a place large enough to regroup all of my various items from storage. Among the things I&#8217;ve discovered in unpacking my boxes are a little stack of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningtosubmit.com&#038;blog=28335521&#038;post=4222&#038;subd=learningtosubmit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letting the Stronger Person Lead</title>
		<link>http://learningtosubmit.com/2012/05/22/letting-the-stronger-person-lead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 13:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mizvaldes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many things I discuss at length in my forthcoming memoir (LEARNING TO SUBMIT, out January 3, 2013 from Gotham Books) is how I learned to trust the cowboy to be in charge &#8212; and bit by bit, let him. Few things in my life have been as liberating to my spirit as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningtosubmit.com&#038;blog=28335521&#038;post=4213&#038;subd=learningtosubmit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Leading Cows, Cowboys, and Marriage</title>
		<link>http://learningtosubmit.com/2012/05/14/on-leading-cows-cowboys-and-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mizvaldes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay. So I tried to understand what the cowboy was telling me about &#8220;leading&#8221; cows as opposed to &#8220;pushing&#8221; them&#8230;his symbolic way of trying to give me advice about how best to approach independent cowboys like him when you want them to do something like, oh I don&#8217;t know, marry you. Here&#8217;s an email he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningtosubmit.com&#038;blog=28335521&#038;post=4205&#038;subd=learningtosubmit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>3 Things I&#8217;ve Been Wrong About Lately</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mizvaldes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. It was wrong to think I could put a &#8220;fun little post&#8221; on this blog about how SOME things were better in &#8220;the old days&#8221;. I should have known it would be difficult for SOME people to read the word SOME and take it to mean, well, SOME. I should have known that if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningtosubmit.com&#038;blog=28335521&#038;post=4178&#038;subd=learningtosubmit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Thing of Beauty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 01:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mizvaldes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw these mugs at Cost Plus World Market, and can&#8217;t stop thinking about them. They are made with vintage French stencil designs. Aren&#8217;t they just beautiful? My son and I are moving into our pretty new house in the city on Wednesday, and I&#8217;m thinking I might just have to get myself a housewarming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningtosubmit.com&#038;blog=28335521&#038;post=4188&#038;subd=learningtosubmit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Better in the Old Days</title>
		<link>http://learningtosubmit.com/2012/05/07/better-in-the-old-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 20:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mizvaldes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I met the cowboy, I was a typical progressive who  thought the only things that were better in the &#8220;old days&#8221; were water and air. Everything else was oppressive and demeaning and needed changing. But I have started to realize there are lots of things that were better in the past. Some of these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningtosubmit.com&#038;blog=28335521&#038;post=4170&#038;subd=learningtosubmit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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