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	<title>Laura Roberts, Writer</title>
	
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		<title>The Portable Laura Roberts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 14:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Roberts</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Portable Dorothy Parker]]></category>
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		<description>I’ve been half-jokingly saying that I’ll publish a volume entitled The Portable Laura Roberts for a while now. At one point in my life, a then-boyfriend had dedicated a website to the notable quotables I had constructed in my various &amp;#8230; &lt;a href="http://buttontapper.com/2012/05/20/the-portable-laura-roberts/"&gt;Continue reading &lt;span class="meta-nav"&gt;&amp;#8594;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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		<title>Postcrossing: Reviving the art of snail mail</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 03:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Roberts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buttontapper Approved]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[William Saroyan]]></category>

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		<description>I recently joined Postcrossing, a neat postcard swapping site that lets people share postcards with strangers from all over the world. After sending off four postcards to various points on the globe (Russia, the Ukraine, Sweden and Taiwan, to be &amp;#8230; &lt;a href="http://buttontapper.com/2012/05/16/postcrossing-reviving-the-art-of-snail-mail/"&gt;Continue reading &lt;span class="meta-nav"&gt;&amp;#8594;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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		<title>Work vs. play? Dividing commercial and artistic writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Roberts</dc:creator>
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		<description>Do you ever have trouble distinguishing between writing for fun and writing for money? I certainly do. I actually had to sit down and make a list of my work commitments versus my personal projects, as they were starting to &amp;#8230; &lt;a href="http://buttontapper.com/2012/05/12/work-vs-play-dividing-commercial-and-artistic-writing/"&gt;Continue reading &lt;span class="meta-nav"&gt;&amp;#8594;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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