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		<title>What Wonder Woman and I Have in Common: It&#8217;s Not What You Think</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/07/what-wonder-woman-and-i-have-in-common-its-not-what-you-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who somehow missed the news, last week Wonder Woman unveiled her new look.
When I saw her picture, two thoughts flashed across my mind in quick succession:  First, she dresses a whole lot like me.  Second &#8212; and this is the one that stuck, overcoming any embarrassment the first ought to impart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girls&#8217; Night Out</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/06/girls-night-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my friend Teri invited me to a girls&#8217; night, my first idea of what to do was panic.
There was a time when I was all about the girls&#8217; night out.  When I believed in a sort of aggressive-defensive-sexy Woman Power and cosmopolitans and thinking my friends and I looked like the gals in Sex [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full Circle</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/04/full-circle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/04/full-circle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[being connected to everything]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[feeding my child]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[karma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[patience (and losing it)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been writing YogaMamaMe since Jake was younger than Lily is now.
This makes me think a lot of things:  How quickly time passes when you have kids.  How scary it is to watch time pass so quickly, especially when you have kids.  And how I seem to be repeating myself.
Take last night, for instance.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Been Coming Full Circle Lately</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/ive-been-coming-full-circle-lately/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/ive-been-coming-full-circle-lately/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am, frankly, not sure whether it makes me feel better or worse that a piece I wrote almost exactly two years ago more or less sums up my night last night.  It is called &#8212; in a feat of clarity &#8212;  How Being Kicked in the Face By a Baby Reminded Me That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When a Fresh Perspective Requires a Fresh Perspective (Don&#8217;t Look at Your Butt Redux)</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/when-a-fresh-perspective-requires-a-fresh-perspective-dont-look-at-your-butt-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/when-a-fresh-perspective-requires-a-fresh-perspective-dont-look-at-your-butt-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[yoga class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dressing room mirrors]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d think I&#8217;d have learned my lesson when I looked at my butt in a mirror at my sister-in-law&#8217;s house while four months pregnant.
You would, in fact, not be expecting too much to think after that shock I would be smart enough not to look at my butt in a changing room mirror at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Can Cook!  And Lots of Other Things You&#8217;d Never Know I Can Do</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/12/i-can-cook-and-lots-of-other-things-youd-never-know-i-can-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/12/i-can-cook-and-lots-of-other-things-youd-never-know-i-can-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the end of our Thanksgiving meal, life as a mother, as someone who is (can it only be?) eight-and-a-half months postpartum, and as a still relative newcomer to my new home &#8212; it was all beginning to seem manageable, pleasurable even.
And then Ellen turned to Mike.  &#8220;You and I should have monthly Iron Chef-like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Co-Sleeper Is Gone &#8230; And Time Marches On</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/11/the-co-sleeper-is-gone-and-time-marches-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/11/the-co-sleeper-is-gone-and-time-marches-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next to my side of the bed there is a large, clean(ish) patch of floorboards.  On the other side of that large, clean(ish) patch of floorboards there is room to open the drawers on the left side of my dresser.  In between there is space for my discarded shoes and socks to breathe without having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Everything Is Easier the Second Time Around</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/09/not-everything-is-easier-the-second-time-around/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/09/not-everything-is-easier-the-second-time-around/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is more than likely that I will spend pretty much the rest of my life debating whether Lily is such a patient, generous soul because I was in yoga practicing vasisthasana right up to the day before she was born or because, as the second child, she is doomed to my &#8220;been there, done [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Refuge</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/04/my-refuge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/04/my-refuge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[centering]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[inner beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inner peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opening your heart]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday afternoon, I was lucky enough to be invited to the dedication of a lovely meditation space in downtown Asheville, the WriteMind Institute.  And even more lucky to have a mother-in-law in town and an infant feeding schedule that allowed me to attend.
It felt pretty darned great to take a shower, put on real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief Return to a Past Life, or How (Really) Did I Get Here?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/03/a-brief-return-to-a-past-life-or-how-really-did-i-get-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/03/a-brief-return-to-a-past-life-or-how-really-did-i-get-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Columbia Law School]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, Mike handed me a book that had come free to his workplace.
&#8220;I doubt it&#8217;ll be very good,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but it&#8217;s a memoir about going to Columbia Law School.  I thought you might be interested.&#8221;
Maybe it&#8217;s the buddha-like peace that has descended on me as I prepare to give birth.  [...]]]></description>
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