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		<title>The Atonement of Snow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a month before the new year began, the liturgical year commenced with the first Sunday in Advent. I remember the shift, because the following day, the temperature plummeted. After taking my oldest to pre-school that morning, I biked onward with the baby toward the lake. The fields were white with frost, and the sky [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anastasiahacopian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1836751&amp;post=177&amp;subd=anastasiahacopian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the current state of democracy in the Netherlands</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece was published in the Dutch national morning newspaper, NRCnext, on October 19, 2010.  It placed fourth in the essay competition asking readers to answer the question: &#8220;What is the current state of democracy in the Netherlands?&#8221; &#160; Om half elf is er koffie &#8230;en wie dat niet zint, is niet zoals wij Alles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anastasiahacopian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1836751&amp;post=159&amp;subd=anastasiahacopian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Runner´s Greet</title>
		<link>http://anastasiahacopian.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/runner%c2%b4s-greet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never was a cornflake girl. &#8211; Tori Amos It all began in high school in a college town called Claremont.  My father would drop me off somewhere between the main shopping street and the five-campus college sprawl,  a fifteen-minute drive away from home.  I´d spend entire Saturdays armed only with a backpack full of books [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anastasiahacopian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1836751&amp;post=143&amp;subd=anastasiahacopian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mother of All Buggies</title>
		<link>http://anastasiahacopian.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/mother-of-all-buggies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stasia08</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dutch seem to like it when you blend in.  Roughly translated, one Dutch saying reads: “If your head sticks out above the cornfield, it will get chopped off.” Enforcement of this social code continues to fascinate me five years after moving to the Netherlands.  I am unforgiving in my criticism, though, and no wonder: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anastasiahacopian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1836751&amp;post=125&amp;subd=anastasiahacopian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What It Took</title>
		<link>http://anastasiahacopian.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/what-it-took/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stasia08</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good friend from college days dropped by a couple weekends ago while en route from Lesotho to Washington D.C. via Amsterdam.  I met Mark during my last year of college at Berkeley.  He and I lived in the same dorm, where he´d liked hanging out in the doorway of my room, chatting up my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anastasiahacopian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1836751&amp;post=110&amp;subd=anastasiahacopian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Before Apple Picking</title>
		<link>http://anastasiahacopian.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/before-apple-picking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stasia08</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autumn has a certain way with me.  Every year I sense its arrival through a shift transpiring in a different dimension.  Poets attempt to articulate this plane with words like “the inner world” (Rutgers) or “the strange and dark side of the divine” (L ´Engle).  My friend Anne identifies it as the part of heaven [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anastasiahacopian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1836751&amp;post=103&amp;subd=anastasiahacopian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Missing America</title>
		<link>http://anastasiahacopian.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/missing-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stasia08</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend who has been living here in the Netherlands for twenty years went back to Sri Lanka to visit her parents a few weeks ago.  Since immigrating here, she has, with the exception of the last, returned to Sri Lanka with her husband and children every summer.  Having travelled with my own mother to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anastasiahacopian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1836751&amp;post=92&amp;subd=anastasiahacopian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rite of Spring</title>
		<link>http://anastasiahacopian.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/rite-of-spring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I admit to having daydreamed of throwing on shorts, a light sweatshirt, sandals, and sunglasses to drive over to Target for Christmas shopping.  As a wise friend from San Diego once said to me, “You can take the girl out of California, but you can’t take California out of the girl.”
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		<title>The Nun In Me</title>
		<link>http://anastasiahacopian.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/the-nun-in-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stasia08</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  On a street corner on Broadway near Columbia University is a square coffee shop with a red neon frieze reading “Tom’s Restaurant.”  It is run by a loud, Greek family whose priority is a high customer turnover.  Before I have finished a last drop of coffee, my syrup-doused plate is deftly removed with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anastasiahacopian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1836751&amp;post=64&amp;subd=anastasiahacopian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Beast and the Champ</title>
		<link>http://anastasiahacopian.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/champ/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stasia08</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[loss]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of the summer, the grief came up. It sputtered to the surface, gasping for air. Struggling under the wet weight, I was paralyzed by the dripping, livid beast. I fell flat on my back, resistant to resilience.   I woke up with a pain in my chest, the chronic kind of which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anastasiahacopian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1836751&amp;post=44&amp;subd=anastasiahacopian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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