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		<title>Weddings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;in DUMBO. Three, to be exact, in one day. The first we pretty much attended, at Empire Fulton Ferry. It was hard to hear with the dinky P.A. system that looked like a boom box and trains roaring over the &#8230; <a href="http://lifeonanisland.wordpress.com/2010/08/22/weddings/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeonanisland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9301294&amp;post=408&amp;subd=lifeonanisland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming home</title>
		<link>http://lifeonanisland.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/coming-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>farfalla1278</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around 5:20 this past Monday evening, I landed at John F. Kennedy airport. I had been gone from New York for eleven full days; it felt like a lot longer. I’ve always thought New York is the kind of place &#8230; <a href="http://lifeonanisland.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/coming-home/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeonanisland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9301294&amp;post=392&amp;subd=lifeonanisland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Growing up, or, will I ever live in Boston?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I spent the weekend in Boston. I was there seeing a good friend and old roommate, one of those people I’m not very good at keeping in touch with but who, when I see her, I &#8230; <a href="http://lifeonanisland.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/growing-up-or-will-i-ever-live-in-boston/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeonanisland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9301294&amp;post=380&amp;subd=lifeonanisland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Orchard Corset</title>
		<link>http://lifeonanisland.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/orchard-corset/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 20:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, two of my coworkers and I left work in a hurry at 5 o’clock. For me this meant leaving early—half an hour early—but our mission was important. We were venturing to the Lower East Side to find the &#8230; <a href="http://lifeonanisland.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/orchard-corset/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeonanisland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9301294&amp;post=356&amp;subd=lifeonanisland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Subway etiquette</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, one of the entries in my daily ArtsJournal newsletter was curiously headlined, “The Best Sign in the History of the World.” Clicking on it, I discovered that the writer of the blog, Laura Collins, was referring to the &#8230; <a href="http://lifeonanisland.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/subway-etiquette/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeonanisland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9301294&amp;post=345&amp;subd=lifeonanisland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The kindness of strangers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>farfalla1278</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weather was beautiful—clear blue sky and 70 degrees. It was a Sunday morning that was really an afternoon and ripe for brunch at Tom’s Restaurant, where I had just joyously consumed apple walnut pancakes with cinnamon butter. My old &#8230; <a href="http://lifeonanisland.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/the-kindness-of-strangers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeonanisland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9301294&amp;post=331&amp;subd=lifeonanisland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being present</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the second-floor atrium of the Museum of Modern Art, an artist is sitting right now. Wearing a long garment that trails on the floor and looks like a well-fitted, mock-turtleneck Snuggie, she occupies a chair at one end of &#8230; <a href="http://lifeonanisland.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/being-present/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeonanisland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9301294&amp;post=319&amp;subd=lifeonanisland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Changing boroughs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months&#8211;more like years, actually&#8211;of saying I’d never do it, of denying I had any interest in it, I went and did it. Two weeks ago. I moved to Brooklyn. Countless friends and acquaintances can attest to countless denials on &#8230; <a href="http://lifeonanisland.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/changing-boroughs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeonanisland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9301294&amp;post=301&amp;subd=lifeonanisland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A pair of legs</title>
		<link>http://lifeonanisland.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/a-pair-of-legs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday morning I felt tired and weary as always, although a little moreso than usual because of a late-ish night involving alcohol consumption. Walking down the subway platform toward my regular waiting spot—three or four steps past the pay &#8230; <a href="http://lifeonanisland.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/a-pair-of-legs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeonanisland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9301294&amp;post=288&amp;subd=lifeonanisland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What, me worry?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy belated New Year! Now that I’m back from a long hiatus, I can finally address something I’ve been meaning to write about for over a month: this. In short, back in December, the New York Times reported on a &#8230; <a href="http://lifeonanisland.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/what-me-worry/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeonanisland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9301294&amp;post=280&amp;subd=lifeonanisland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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