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		<title>Hey Mom, Who Invented Rap?</title>
		<link>http://kristenbuckley.com/2012/03/07/hey-mom-who-invented-rap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Buckley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent question from my son, and one that, strangely enough, I have the answer to. The ‘rap game’ has a history that can be traced all the way back to the 14th Century Mali Empire in Africa, where each &#8230; <a href="http://kristenbuckley.com/2012/03/07/hey-mom-who-invented-rap/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kristenbuckley.com&amp;blog=5042903&amp;post=768&amp;subd=kristenbuckley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The War That Killed Achilles</title>
		<link>http://kristenbuckley.com/2012/02/23/the-war-that-killed-achilles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Buckley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Reading List]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caroline Alexander]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greek Gods]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus&#8217; son Achilleus and its devastation. Re-reading The Iliad has been fairly eye-opening.  Back in high school I actually sympathized with Paris and Helen.  This time around, it&#8217;s Achilles I&#8217;m feeling for.  His reluctance to &#8230; <a href="http://kristenbuckley.com/2012/02/23/the-war-that-killed-achilles/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kristenbuckley.com&amp;blog=5042903&amp;post=764&amp;subd=kristenbuckley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE READING LIST</title>
		<link>http://kristenbuckley.com/2012/02/21/the-reading-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Buckley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Reading List]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iliad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. John's College]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If I had all the money in the world, I would happily transform my home into a library and study all day long.  Since I don&#8217;t have all the money in the world, here&#8217;s the next best thing: St. John&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://kristenbuckley.com/2012/02/21/the-reading-list/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kristenbuckley.com&amp;blog=5042903&amp;post=772&amp;subd=kristenbuckley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gone</title>
		<link>http://kristenbuckley.com/2012/02/20/gone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Buckley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[gone adj. no longer in existence If, in the immediate aftermath of Homo sapiens petrolerus, the tanks and towers of the Texas petrochemical patch all detonated together in one spectacular roar, after the oily smoke cleared, there would remain melted roads, twisted pipe, &#8230; <a href="http://kristenbuckley.com/2012/02/20/gone/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kristenbuckley.com&amp;blog=5042903&amp;post=756&amp;subd=kristenbuckley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Memory Of Gil Scott Heron&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://kristenbuckley.com/2011/06/01/in-memory-of-gil-scott-heron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Buckley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gil Scott Heron]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ This was a short piece I wrote from Coachella 2010 about GSH&#8230;  I am at Coachella in the hushed Gobi tent waiting for Gil Scott Heron, who is known in many circles as “The Godfather of Rap”. Given the political &#8230; <a href="http://kristenbuckley.com/2011/06/01/in-memory-of-gil-scott-heron/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kristenbuckley.com&amp;blog=5042903&amp;post=741&amp;subd=kristenbuckley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Favorite Painting</title>
		<link>http://kristenbuckley.com/2011/05/28/new-favorite-painting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 23:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Buckley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ART]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Impressionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Segalman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My daughter Peyton was given a lovely book on Impressionists for her birthday.  It&#8217;s one of those fantastic Taschen volumes &#8211; and this painting was on the cover of Volume 2.  It&#8217;s aptly named Young Woman on the Beach (1886-88) and &#8230; <a href="http://kristenbuckley.com/2011/05/28/new-favorite-painting/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kristenbuckley.com&amp;blog=5042903&amp;post=736&amp;subd=kristenbuckley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A World Without Irony?</title>
		<link>http://kristenbuckley.com/2011/05/20/a-world-without-irony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 17:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Buckley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All this talk about the world coming to an end reminds me that I once had an interior designer named Daniel who had MASSIVE  angel wings tattooed on his back.  One afternoon we were looking at fabric swatches, and I &#8230; <a href="http://kristenbuckley.com/2011/05/20/a-world-without-irony/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kristenbuckley.com&amp;blog=5042903&amp;post=604&amp;subd=kristenbuckley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have a Happy Day!</title>
		<link>http://kristenbuckley.com/2010/10/08/have-a-happy-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Buckley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mom recently told me that prior to the early 1970s, no one ever said &#8220;Have a nice day&#8221; to one another.  I&#8217;m not sure I believe this, because I find it hard to believe that people did not use &#8230; <a href="http://kristenbuckley.com/2010/10/08/have-a-happy-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kristenbuckley.com&amp;blog=5042903&amp;post=723&amp;subd=kristenbuckley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Homage to Josef Albers</title>
		<link>http://kristenbuckley.com/2010/10/04/homage-to-josef-albers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Buckley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I admit, it&#8217;s not every person who sits around wondering &#8230; how could I pay homage to Josef Albers? But there are some of us out there. For  Francesco Vezzoli the answer is to needlepoint Albers&#8217; color studies. I&#8217;m not &#8230; <a href="http://kristenbuckley.com/2010/10/04/homage-to-josef-albers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kristenbuckley.com&amp;blog=5042903&amp;post=714&amp;subd=kristenbuckley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sleep</title>
		<link>http://kristenbuckley.com/2010/08/15/sleep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Buckley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[17th Century poet, John Milton once asked, &#8220;What hath night to do with sleep?&#8221; This is a question I can completely relate to mostly because sometimes weeks go by and I get barely a few hours each night.  However unlike Milton &#8230; <a href="http://kristenbuckley.com/2010/08/15/sleep/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kristenbuckley.com&amp;blog=5042903&amp;post=711&amp;subd=kristenbuckley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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