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		<title>Lessons From Genny</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2013 15:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I originally wrote this short story about 7 years ago.  It&#8217;s based on a real moment and real conversation that I overheard at church one Sunday morning.  A few weeks ago, I pulled it out to use in the beginning fiction workshop course that was part of my creative writing program at SNHU.  I went [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lynnmcmo.com&#038;blog=7635737&#038;post=1315&#038;subd=lynnscorner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leftovers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 19:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew rolled his eyes.&#160; “Leftovers,” he said with an air of disgust that only a preteen can muster, “are disgusting.” His younger brother breathed an exaggerated sigh of agreement.&#160; “Can’t we just order pizza?” I squeezed my eyes shut, took a deep breath, and counted to ten.&#160; All calming tricks I’d learned in my years [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lynnmcmo.com&#038;blog=7635737&#038;post=1297&#038;subd=lynnscorner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watermelon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 19:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not a big fan of fruits.&#160; As far as I can remember, I never have been.&#160; It’s not a taste thing so much as a texture thing.&#160; Most fruits feel odd and squishy in my mouth.&#160; Makes me squirm just to think about it.&#160; And then there are the seeds.&#160; I cannot stand [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lynnmcmo.com&#038;blog=7635737&#038;post=1295&#038;subd=lynnscorner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Groupons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Groupons?&#160; What in the world are groupons? I know it can’t be what first comes to mind…a group of tampons.&#160; I mean, really….&#160; Who would care about those? From what I understand, they are supposed to be group coupons.&#160; Still, the name is so dumb.&#160; It’s really stupid. Sorry, dear readers, but this isn’t really [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lynnmcmo.com&#038;blog=7635737&#038;post=1293&#038;subd=lynnscorner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food Poisoning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She didn’t want to poison him, not really.&#160; Not enough to kill him anyway.&#160; But if she could make him just a little bit sick…. She heard about food poisoning on the news.&#160; It happened quite often, actually, and almost always was seen as an accidental thing.&#160; Something wasn’t cooked long enough or perhaps it [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lynnmcmo.com&#038;blog=7635737&#038;post=1285&#038;subd=lynnscorner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coffee &amp; Cigarettes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Your total is $12.92.” Ginny tried to put some sort of feeling into the words, tried to make them sound as friendly as she hoped the smile on her face looked.&#160; Truth was, she just wasn’t feeling it today.&#160; She handed over the pack of Marlboros, watched her customer run his credit card through the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lynnmcmo.com&#038;blog=7635737&#038;post=1278&#038;subd=lynnscorner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Skipping Class</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2013 14:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had two best friends during my school years, one in middle school and one in high school.&#160; These two girls were different in so many ways.&#160; Thinking back, I can name only three things that they had in common: they attended the same school, they liked New Kids on the Block, and they both [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lynnmcmo.com&#038;blog=7635737&#038;post=1276&#038;subd=lynnscorner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Couch Surfing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, couch surfing….&#160; One of the few sports my family enjoys.&#160; Yeah, I know.&#160; We need more hobbies.&#160; We especially need more athletic hobbies.&#160; Well, except for my middle son.&#160; Give him a ball and a basic idea of the rules of the game, and he will put his whole heart into it.&#160; My youngest, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lynnmcmo.com&#038;blog=7635737&#038;post=1272&#038;subd=lynnscorner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monologging</title>
		<link>https://lynnmcmo.com/2013/08/23/monologging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am enjoying some time off between terms.&#160; *SIGH*&#160; Oh, it’s been nice!&#160; Don&#8217;t get me wrong—I have no regrets about being back in school.&#160; I know this is the right thing for me to do, it’s the right thing for me and for my family.&#160; When I started in January, though, I did not [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lynnmcmo.com&#038;blog=7635737&#038;post=1274&#038;subd=lynnscorner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You May Have Already Won</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life takes some funny twists and turns. At least mine did. In high school, I was completely focused on my future. I’d earn a track scholarship to the University of Michigan. While, there I planned to study hard. There were so many things I wanted to do- teach, be a judge, write bestselling novels. I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lynnmcmo.com&#038;blog=7635737&#038;post=1141&#038;subd=lynnscorner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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