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		<title>Wordy Wednesday: Tree-Climbing Grandma</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 15:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My mom is a lovely, lively, mischievous, loving, kind, empathetic, funny, good, God-fearing woman. She often has more energy than I have and sometimes she gets around better than I do. As evidenced by her climbing this tree with the other kids in the playground and I&#8217;m like, &#8220;Ugh &#8211; I have to lift my&#8230; <a href="https://writefromkaren.com/2026/05/06/wordy-wednesday-tree-climbing-grandma/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Wordy Wednesday: Tree-Climbing&#160;Grandma</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 01:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I killed my phone. Correction, someone, or some entity, built an evil virus and attached it to a link that I must have clicked on at some point, because one day, my phone flickered, flashed and basically lost it&#8217;s computer mind. It&#8217;s zeros and ones programming became a jumbled mess that not even my phone&#8217;s&#8230; <a href="https://writefromkaren.com/2026/05/04/my-dumb-smart-phone/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">My Dumb Smart&#160;Phone</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>You’re Being Manipulated – By Language</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 14:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a language nerd. Some would call me a Grammar Nazi &#8211; I can certainly be a &#8220;Karen&#8221; about language, at times. My co-workers even gave me a t-shirt that read, &#8220;I am silently judging your grammar.&#8221; And I do &#8211; I ABSOLUTELY judge a person by the way they talk and CERTAINLY by the&#8230; <a href="https://writefromkaren.com/2026/05/01/youre-being-manipulated-by-language/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">You&#8217;re Being Manipulated &#8211; By&#160;Language</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wordy Wednesday: Mop Show</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This was Easter. This is me showing my family the mop I use to clean our hardwood floors. Please do not think I enjoy cleaning house. I do not. At all. If we could afford a maid, I would 100% hire a maid. That&#8217;s not true, I would WANT to hire a maid, I would&#8230; <a href="https://writefromkaren.com/2026/04/29/wordy-wednesday-mop-show/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Wordy Wednesday: Mop&#160;Show</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Book Review: A Life Unraveled</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Confession &#8211; I don&#8217;t read anymore. Not physical books, not even e-books. My latest obsession is audio books. I know, I know &#8211; I used to scoff and make fun of people who listen to audio books &#8211; &#8220;that&#8217;s cheating! You call that reading?!&#8221; And yet &#8211; here I am. I listen to books and&#8230; <a href="https://writefromkaren.com/2026/04/27/book-review-a-life-unraveled/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Book Review: A Life&#160;Unraveled</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>April Reflections 2025</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of these days, I&#8217;ll actually catch up to these Reflections&#8217; entries. I really want to finish these because they&#8217;re an extension/expansion of the daily journal I write in. I have to say, it&#8217;s pretty fun to go back and read my journal. I will likely never read it again. Apr 1 I&#8217;m looking forward&#8230; <a href="https://writefromkaren.com/2026/04/24/april-reflections-2025/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">April Reflections 2025</span></a>]]></description>
		
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