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		<title>Personal Training, Or My Bi-Weekly Lesson in Humility</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two months ago, my husband and I decided to give each other 6 months of personal training sessions as a 10th wedding anniversary present. (Year 10 is the “tin” anniversary – what were we doing to do? Exchange cans of soup?) I question this decision twice a week now. Trainers appear to have an extra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musings of a Former Pretty Person</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to be pretty. Now before everyone gets all pat-on-the-head “oh, please, you still are,” let me state two things unequivocally: 1) I’m NOT fishing for compliments here and 2) My assessment is realistic (confession: the picture of me on this website has all the wrinkles and under-eye-bags photoshopped out.) A friend of mine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Glamorous Life of a Writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even for us non-best-seller, struggling novelists, writing’s hard work. I can’t order “the muse” to visit me on command, and more often than not, I find myself either staring at a blank page for half an hour or – better yet – procrastinating. Here’s how a typical writing day goes: 8:00 – Into my office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 23 Days of Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m seeing Valentine&#8217;s Day candy in the stores, but we still haven&#8217;t quite finished with our last holiday. Which prompted me to write the following: The 23 Days of Christmas Finally this morning, I could no longer look away And said &#8220;We have to de-Christmas today! (I mean, look at this place! We have&#8230;) Twelve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s All in the Zhuzhing</title>
		<link>http://www.katymcdermott.com/2013/01/05/its-all-in-the-zhuzhing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write this, my hair’s in a ponytail. (Well, it’s not long enough for a ponytail, really – think of it more as a pony tuft.) The point is, I’m no longer in high school (shocking, I know) and have long since outgrown my default hairstyle, the classic easy-care ’do of the Young and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have Yourself a Merry Little Virus</title>
		<link>http://www.katymcdermott.com/2012/12/29/have-yourself-a-merry-little-virus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cookies have already been baked, the presents exchanged, the parties attended. The reindeer sweaters worn and the sappy movies watched. Only one thing remains to make the holiday complete: the Christmas Cold. Every year, millions of people (or at least half of any one person’s Facebook friends) suffer the same fate. For some, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out of Ireland</title>
		<link>http://www.katymcdermott.com/2012/10/04/out-of-ireland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book research trip or terrific vacation? Happily for me, last week was both. After spending our first night in Dublin to shake off our jet lag, we drove four hours to the west coast of Ireland, where I’m planning to set my next book, and checked in at the Dun Rí Guesthouse. We could see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Brief Encounter with 9/11</title>
		<link>http://www.katymcdermott.com/2012/09/11/my-brief-encounter-with-911/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 04:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We saw the twin towers of the World Trade Center today. Painted on a homemade banner suspended from a highway overpass, they formed the letter “H” in the message “Home of the Brave.” Twenty minutes later, as we crossed the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, we saw the skyline of New York City, forever changed. The cloud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Lovelorn Letter to My Healthy Back</title>
		<link>http://www.katymcdermott.com/2012/09/07/a-lovelorn-letter-to-my-healthy-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2012 01:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Healthy Back, I miss you. Please come home. I took you for granted, I admit it. I never realized how much I needed your strength, relied on your support. Without you in my life, I toss and turn all night – I just can’t sleep anymore. Well, not comfortably, anyway. You’ve always been there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s New With Meeting Scandal… and What’s Next, Too</title>
		<link>http://www.katymcdermott.com/2012/08/22/whats-new-with-meeting-scandal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.katymcdermott.com/2012/08/22/whats-new-with-meeting-scandal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things are pretty exciting these days for me (and my main characters Laurie and Tim too!) My third book, Meeting Scandal, continues to chug along. I’m waiting for a review from the Midwest Book Review (that I’ll link to as soon as I see it on Amazon—not that I check every day or anything…) Last [...]]]></description>
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