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		<title>Free Write: Apology To My Brown Boy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About ten years ago, a  few years before I became a mother, I wrote a poem called Apology To My Unborn about my fears for my then unborn son. My son is now 5 years old and has been asking me about Trayvon Martin. I&#8217;ve done the best I can to answer him in ways [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basseyworld.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8358738&#038;post=666&#038;subd=basseyworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RIP Whitney Houston</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RIP Whitney Houston &#160; I have a series of poems about famous women who have “broken” in the public eye. The first poem was for Britney Spears, then Phyllis Hyman and the last was for Lauryn Hill. The third poem, was more of a triumphant trumpet for Whitney Houston,  woman who came back from broken. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basseyworld.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8358738&#038;post=661&#038;subd=basseyworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day of Letter Writing Challenge (crush)</title>
		<link>http://basseyworld.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/day-of-letter-writing-challenge-crush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started a secret blog. It’s where I’m putting most of my writing. It’s private and locked so nobody can find it. It’s better this way. I want to return to this every day of writing. Before too many eyes and opinions and strangers convinced me to hold myself a little quieter. In order to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basseyworld.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8358738&#038;post=654&#038;subd=basseyworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Allow Yourself Morning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pronounced "ahhh" like a sigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allow Yourself Morning I was kind of quoted in the Chicago Tribune. If you knew the kind of “time” I’ve been having the last few weeks/months/years, you’d understand why the traffic of The Root article and now this Tribune quote means a lot more than it probably should. No matter how much we like to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basseyworld.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8358738&#038;post=656&#038;subd=basseyworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Siwe Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pronounced "ahhh" like a sigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the summer, I wrote about Siwe Monsanto, the amazing, beautiful, talented 15-year old daughter of my friend, Dionne. I wrote about what  a wonderful human being she was. I wrote about how funny she was. I wrote about what a wonderful mother Dionne was. I wrote about how sad Siwe was at times. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basseyworld.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8358738&#038;post=646&#038;subd=basseyworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lost Ones.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pronounced "ahhh" like a sigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems that the going is just too rough And things go wrong no matter what I do Now and then it seems that life is just too much But you&#8217;ve got the love I need to see me through &#160; I&#8217;ve been a little down lately. And by lately, I mean about a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basseyworld.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8358738&#038;post=640&#038;subd=basseyworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Write: On Ringing Phones and Persistent Good Byes</title>
		<link>http://basseyworld.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/free-write-of-ringing-phones-and-persistent-good-byes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pronounced "ahhh" like a sigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immigrants know it too well&#8211; the way these phones ring at these ungodly hours. The way they jar you out of sleep. The first call can be ignored. It can be dismissed as a cousin wanting money or an uncle confused about the time difference only wanting to say hello. The second is an annoyance. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basseyworld.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8358738&#038;post=636&#038;subd=basseyworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Didn&#8217;t Turn Out Exactly How (my) Mom And Dad Wanted Me To Be</title>
		<link>http://basseyworld.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/didnt-turn-out-exactly-how-my-mom-and-dad-wanted-me-to-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pronounced "ahhh" like a sigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I call my blog &#8220;Tales of an Underachieving Overachiever&#8221;. It&#8217;s a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgement that the expectations I predicted or were predicted for me as a child have gone largely unfulfilled. Even in my young adult hood, I was carving my path and okay with what I was seeing but I also allowed fear to be more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basseyworld.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8358738&#038;post=621&#038;subd=basseyworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get Out of My Dreams&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://basseyworld.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/get-out-of-my-dreams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pretty much certain everything I write for the next few days will have a Billy Ocean lyric as the title. You&#8217;re just going to have to deal with it. I&#8217;m sorry. I&#8217;m not sorry. I really liked that song when I was little. I think it was half in cartoon. It&#8217;s the same reason [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basseyworld.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8358738&#038;post=618&#038;subd=basseyworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When The Going Gets Tough</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pronounced "ahhh" like a sigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been listening to a lot of Billy Ocean the last few days. I don&#8217;t mean, I play his greatest hit CD on iTunes once a day. No. I mean, that continuously from the moment I wake up until the seconds I fall asleep, Billy Ocean is on a continuous loop. I&#8217;ve always been a fan of his. Since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basseyworld.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8358738&#038;post=616&#038;subd=basseyworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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