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	<title>Diana Rajchel</title>
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	<description>a sense of humor,a sense of honor,a sense of the absurd,a sense of the Divine</description>
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		<title>Critic&#8217;s guilt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided for myself I&#8217;m something of a critic when it comes to occult and new age writing. Nobody else named me, I just dubbed it on myself, and now I live with the consequences. When at last I myself issue a book into the wild, I&#8217;m positive that no one will hold back. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2010/03/11/critics-guilt/</link>
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		<title>Where the books began</title>
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I vaguely remember the conversation that prompted it. My father discovered I liked reading classic novels, and even preferred them to the Sweet Valley High books I&#8217;d torn through until I could not stand any further comparison between Jessica and her &#8220;chocolate brown walls&#8221; or Elizabeth&#8217;s ponytail and lip gloss.
He began bringing books home for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2010/03/10/where-the-books-began/</link>
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		<title>Have you read &#8230;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No.
Chances are, I haven&#8217;t read any book you will recommend or reference, especially if it&#8217;s got award-winning buzz or time on the New York Times bestseller list.
It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m not a reader. I read all the time. Constantly. I have stacks upon stacks of books &#8211; it&#8217;s actually something of a problem.
But in my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2010/03/09/have-you-read/</link>
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		<title>That hoodoo that you do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a long story, but last winter I came into possession of hoodoo coins. I did not, of course, immediately know they were hoodoo coins. I just thought they were eleven cents that I randomly picked up off the ground and dropped in my purse.
Suddenly I&#8217;m looking at my high school peers&#8217; sport of bouncing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2010/03/08/that-hoodoo-that-you-do/</link>
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		<title>Wicca as &#8220;dark&#8221; and &#8220;violent&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not.
The only time I&#8217;ve encountered darkness and violence as a result of my religious preference has been when people who are NOT Wiccan decided to be assholes about it. Much of the &#8220;violence&#8221; comes when a family member who is not Wiccan has an inappropriate sense of what s/he has any right to control.
But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2010/03/06/wicca-as-dark-and-violent/</link>
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		<title>RIP, Clarks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I bought the boots in 2005. Part of my second or third paycheck from the corporate job that meant to Change Everything1 I dropped a significant chunk of my income on two pairs of shoes. The second pair, I sadly don&#8217;t remember. But the first, a pair of 1.5 inch Clark&#8217;s ankle boots, I due. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2010/03/06/rip-clarks/</link>
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		<title>The Future of Herbs Essay from last year</title>
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Last year, the Herb Companion ran an essay contest inviting its subscribers to write on &#8220;the future of herbs.&#8221; What won were very sentimental my kids and grandkids future stuff, which does fit into the vein of the magazine.
Here is what I submitted, that lost:
Herbs, those little green subversives poking their heads above ground just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2010/03/04/the-future-of-herbs-essay-from-last-year/</link>
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		<title>10-24-8 9-11-3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, my second high school locker combination popped into my head as I woke up. 10-24-8. I avoid thinking about high school &#8211; if it weren&#8217;t for Facebook I might have succeeded in my lifelong quest to pretend that the living hell of my senior year and all the events and people that led [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2010/03/03/10-24-8-9-11-3/</link>
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		<title>Banishing magic: Made of fail pens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have this box of pens, a type I used to love before gel pens were invented. The kind that live in that in-between space; not quite a marker, not quite a pen. I acquired them when a company I worked for went out of business. I snatched the box of them, knowing that I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2010/03/02/banishing-magic-made-of-fail-pens/</link>
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		<title>A few points on pagan writing style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a standard formula for what constitutes a &#8220;good&#8221; Wiccan book that I&#8217;ve seen in various Internet postings and at least one pagan gathering in the past decade. It is as follows:
1. Must have a long bibliography. The more pages of the bibliography, the higher the estimation.
2. Must be historically accurate in whatever form of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2010/03/01/a-few-points-on-pagan-book-critique/</link>
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