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		<title>Seeking Testimony</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliza Amos</dc:creator>
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Almost everyone wants something more from their work. And how do we imagine getting that something? By jumping company ship, taking matters into our own hands and starting our very own freelance business&#8211;encouraged, without fail, by an armload of chirpy,  idealistic how-to guides.
After all, it just sounds so nice to wear pajamas to work. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=escapeart.wordpress.com&blog=964759&post=280&subd=escapeart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Next Steps</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone with an itchy mouse and an RSS Feed can plainly see that my commitment to the blog has waned in recent months. What does that mean&#8211;that I&#8217;ve gone and taken a day job, as I alluded to in my last post? Oh, c&#8217;mon. Surely you know me better than that.
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		<title>Allure of the Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliza Amos</dc:creator>
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Today, innocently surfing Craigslist for new gigs, I stumbled across something unexpected: a full-time job that I actually wanted. Not one that I might consider, not one that might not suck, but one that looked really, really good—appropriately challenging and full of all the right perks.
What’s that? Shocked that a self-proclaimed free agent like me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=escapeart.wordpress.com&blog=964759&post=272&subd=escapeart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Employees of the Month: Andrea Enright &amp; Michael Boudreaux</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 22:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, even the important ones, may have trooped by faceless and pale. And then … the glory … a man pours outward, a torrent of him, and yet he is not diminished. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=escapeart.wordpress.com&blog=964759&post=270&subd=escapeart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must &#8230; keep &#8230; going!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 07:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliza Amos</dc:creator>
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Fence post in my new neighborhood, Petaluma, Calif.
I know, I know &#8230; It&#8217;s plain rude to abandon a blog for a such long spell. The high-gloss journalistic mafia over at Media Bistro would say so, anyway.
When travel, relocation, the search for new gigs, and other transitions get hairy, I admittedly avoid the blog [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=escapeart.wordpress.com&blog=964759&post=266&subd=escapeart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Escape of the Day: GO</title>
		<link>http://escapeart.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/escape-of-the-day-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliza Amos</dc:creator>
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The title of the last post reminded me of the financial highlight of my week: an excursion to GO Grocery Outlet .
I&#8217;ve had an affinity for this store since 1997, when we used to go there on special outings with the students from the boarding school where I taught. (Why were they special? I dunno, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=escapeart.wordpress.com&blog=964759&post=264&subd=escapeart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going, going …</title>
		<link>http://escapeart.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/going-going-%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliza Amos</dc:creator>
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Bathhouse ceiling, Hot Springs, AR

Vagabond, writer, and general bad-ass Andrea Enright pounded out a two-sentence blog entry from Egypt yesterday that read:

I cut my own hair today and I’m actually pleased. I’m not sure whether this is a sign of self-sufficiency or frighteningly decreasing standards. 

More later on the zeal and drive of this dotcommer-turned-road [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=escapeart.wordpress.com&blog=964759&post=262&subd=escapeart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Escape of the Day: Kenneth Koch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliza Amos</dc:creator>
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One of the great things about April (in addition to rain showers) is that it is National Poetry Month, and you can sign on to receive a fine and beautiful poem every single day.  Beats heck out of a marketing newsletter, and leads you to writers you&#8217;d either never heard of or long since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=escapeart.wordpress.com&blog=964759&post=260&subd=escapeart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Escape of the Day: The Wish Jar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliza Amos</dc:creator>
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Get on over to Keri Smith&#8217;s crazy tangle of web links, collectively known as The Wish Jar, and start exploring. She is a modern day John Cage, a renegade public artist with few boundaries, little apparent ego, and a really good publishing contract. She is the type of artist who does stuff that surely you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=escapeart.wordpress.com&blog=964759&post=255&subd=escapeart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Changing Forecast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliza Amos</dc:creator>
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Look how the sun has emerged, despite
expectations and the wringing of hands.
A new warmth arises on the April wind.


I am here again at an old crossroads:action
at odds with intention. Accomplishment sacrificed
to the short-term pleasure of just being here.
&#8211;Barbara Swift Brauer, from &#8220;Changing Forecast&#8221;
West Marin Review, Spring 2008
Do pardon my ridiculously long hiatus. What kind of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=escapeart.wordpress.com&blog=964759&post=253&subd=escapeart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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