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		<title>Do wild turkeys eat cats?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 03:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Essa Adams, Author</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This cat just couldn't stand it. All those juicy big birds. Why eat a mouse? Two minutes later the cat was flattened to the ground, pretending delirium to save its idiotic life. Because turkeys legs are ninety-inches long and they can run-walk far faster than it can bolt in terror.]]></description>
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		<title>Last Turkey Standing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I see them over there.  Two young turkey scouts looking for the hole in the fence. Finding not one hole big enough for a turkey, they flap over.  Do turkey fly?  IMHO, turkey only fly enough to save themselves or kill themselves, whichever it is remains debatable.  But after witnessing the aeronautics of one Wisconsin turkey, I then knew if it had not found the right wind current for uplift, there would have been one huge ball of bird crashing off my windshield.

The two scouts run to the wishing well feeder, one giving a horn-like puckpuck call.  Yes, he told the head Tom on the other side of the fence, yes, the suckers left out more food.  Today is their third visit since they discovered the wildbird smorgasboard.  They don't understand.  Their feast is the eared corn under the pines way down behind the gazebo.  I had not once envisioned them in my garden.  Long-legged, knobby-kneed turkey standing in my birdfeeders.  Or on the pool cover.  Or wondered until today, how many turkey does it take to cave in a pool cover?]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s About Time &#8211; just some dad humor&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Essa Adams, Author</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again I will illustrate what an opinionated and callous man he could be.  And hysterical, if one could remove their emotions and ego from the situation.  This is by far one of his best moments - one of the most humorous dad stories he could have left us with. ]]></description>
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		<title>Winners List for June Book Giveaway</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Essa Adams, Author</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book winners are on the Book Giveaway List for June 2010.  Check the list here.  Subscribe to the newsletter (form on side menu) so you will always be entered in the book giveaway.]]></description>
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		<title>Inner ear infection, bad hair days, vomit and skunk litter pans&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But where to put it.  I knew it was coming.  Dump my narrow, clear water glass on the carpet?  Gross and too small.  The wastebasket is actually wicker with large separations, so no.  My purse?  Open the window screen and vomit outside?  But I had already managed to slide the window down so the neighbors could not hear me... they were playing basketball and I am a very private person.... read more a short short dilemna from the women's fiction author of A BREATH FLOATS BY.]]></description>
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		<title>BOOK GIVEAWAY BEGINS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 17:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Essa Adams, Author</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The novel giveaway will begin anew in June 2010 using my newsletter subscriber list, ESSA&#8217;S LETTERS, which has been combined with the Age of Menopause Blog product giveaway and the Women&#8217;s Fiction Blog short stories and essays for women
To always be in the book giveways, just subscribe to ESSA&#8217;S LETTERS.  You will never need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If only I went to the dentist on the right day&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 22:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Essa Adams, Author</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frankly, the telephone call at one in the morning should have tipped me off that my day or dentist appointment would hold a glitch.  Yes, one a.m., as in after midnight, calling from a restricted number. If only the young lady had not sounded so professional.... if only...]]></description>
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		<title>Fat acceptance story about the plush girl . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 20:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A health at every size short story on the lies we are told as women. You know, the media, where we 'find out' we are considered defective... less than beautiful. Soooo, did you hear the one about the plush girl? As a supporter of NAAFA, ASDAH, and HAES, I am republishing this one in honor of the statement just made by ASDAH for inclusion of fat representation in all fat program development to thwart the fat discrimination that is sweeping the nation and fully enhanced with junk science by the media. Picture, a pretty and slender girl’s photograph over this hornet-target, confidence-zinger, self-doubt-builder caption. “Do you think you are fat?” What does that mean? It means you are not pretty if you are fat. Be anything, but don't be fat. That is the ultimate fat acceptance question. Do you think you are fat? The one that irks me the most.]]></description>
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		<title>600 Mother&#8217;s Day surprises</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 21:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was always surprising my mother. I was born during a blizzard, right in our kitchen and when she was alone.  First surprise.  Cord around my neck, second. With self-inflicted concussions, broken arms, food poisoning, getting lost, finding wild mice and being bitten, trying to save bats, and on and on... by the time I was eight, I imagine it was surprise number eight hundred and forty-two when I made Mother's Day breakfast for her. And gave her six hundred surprises in one sitting. Mother's Day morning, I woke early, went out a few hours after sunrise to gather flowers for the table.....]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s Fiction Books &#8211; List of Recommendations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Essa Adams, Author</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are women's fiction books by definition?
    * Women's fiction books are usually written by women, for women.
    * They are based on the motivation of women's issues and personal drama.
    * Most often, women's fiction is written sans the typical romance.
    * Even without this typical romance, these novels are seldom read by men.
    * Women's fiction books are almost always contemporary, given they are not in a genre such as Regency, historical, romance, supernatural, fantasy, horror or mystery.
    * Personal and career drama, environmental issues and political activism are tempered with the distinctive ways the protagonist deals with challenges and self realization.  However, the basic foundation for women's fiction novels is the lack of formula.  A list of books and slideshow recommended by the Women's Fiction Blog.]]></description>
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