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	<title>Cynthia Kraack</title>
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	<description>Author of Minnesota Cold &#38; Ashwood series</description>
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		<title>Of Puppies and Revisions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rocky recently joined our household. He is a fur ball of energy. We’ve laughed over his insane play, grown tired of his sharp teeth testing toes, rewarded outside pooping, and begun teaching the many lessons a puppy needs to co-exist with humans. (I promise this will turn to writing strategy and not be a gushing puppy love piece.) The puppy training bible recommends owners remember that everything done in these early months establish the rhythms and rules of a dog’s &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://cynthiakraack.com/of-puppies-and-revisions/">read more</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Music and Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 04:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Kraack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some nights, silence is the best music as words become sentences and paragraphs fill the page. Some nights the womanly voices of Adele or Bonnie Raitt lure creativity onto a blank page then another and another. Or maybe lost in the beat of Justin Timberlake or Dave Matthews or old Rolling Stones, a new chapter rolls to completion. There was a time music was a required part of my writing routine. I had to be in a private place where I &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://cynthiakraack.com/music-and-writing/">read more</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Weight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 03:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Kraack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attending literary events lately has led me to the non-scientific observation that writers in this part of the Midwest might eat too many calories per hour while sitting at their computers during extended cold weather. Pictures from a June book release party featured more people in loose fitting clothes in comparison to images from a similar September event. Add in the Minnesota writer living in Los Angeles since the holidays who announced on Facebook that he’s dropped so much weight &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://cynthiakraack.com/winter-weight/">read more</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Unfinished Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Kraack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I were a carpenter my workshop would be crammed full of three legged tables and boxes without drawers and skeletons without shelves. Story fragments have been dragged from computer to computer over the decades, as useless as the matching belt of a coat long ago donated to charity held on to because of a teasing dream of possibility. The pieces written by hand don’t bother me as much as the bits stored digitally. If a character profile is in &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://cynthiakraack.com/unfinished-business/">read more</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Easter Bunny Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Easter Bunny is making his first appearance at the Bay Park Mall in Green Bay. (Note the “he” and move on. Like a ‘she’ bunny couldn’t deliver candy.) If the Easter Bunny is working then why aren’t you? At least the guy in that bad furry costume is earning a few bucks while you stare out the window and think about whether a character should walk out of the room or sneeze. Wait, isn’t that work? If the character &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://cynthiakraack.com/easter-bunny-thoughts/">read more</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Pollen Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 03:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfgang Laib’s largest pollen art installation is on display at the Museum of Modern Art. On an elevated surface, the artist spread 18 jars of hazelnut pollen across a space measuring approximately 18 x 21 feet. Laib’s work is visible from most levels of the museum.  Exit galleries displaying Renoir, Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Frank Lloyd Wright and you look down at a bright rectangle of yellow on a light grey concrete platform. People stand and stare at pollen that was &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://cynthiakraack.com/pollen-art/">read more</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Drones and the Nervous Writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Kraack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write speculative fiction. Not the kind with aliens or wizards. I write about the near future. It’s not like I haven’t thought about drones being used against civilians to gather information, dispense stuff, even cause collateral losses (aka death of civilians). From spying to patrolling borders to targeted bomb strikes that kill,  the international debate about drones cannot be ignored. Truth is I haven’t been ready to travel along the thought path where drones might exist in my neighborhood &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://cynthiakraack.com/drones-and-the-nervous-writer/">read more</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>My father speaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 03:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Kraack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My father is dying. The many physical failures of his eighty-five-year-old body have gained control in a way no medical intervention can defeat. He has a health directive in place so our family waits. In this holiday month a Christmas tree lights his apartment and seasonal music has become lullaby and comforter. After the first assault of pictures, he will not watch the news from Connecticut. He said “We’ve seen this before” and asked the channel be changed.  After growing &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://cynthiakraack.com/my-father-speaks/">read more</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Ghosts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Kraack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing about holidays is tricky. What do you really remember about childhood holidays? Was the Thanksgiving meal served at noon or maybe in the early evening? Did you realize that somebody had to be in the kitchen by about five in the morning to have a turkey ready to serve at noon? As a kid you didn’t have to think about that side of the holiday. If Grandma or Mom or Auntie Martha wasn’t as silly as the rest of &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://cynthiakraack.com/holiday-ghosts/">read more</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>About Book Festivals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Kraack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember when the Scholastic Book Fair was set up in the hallways at your school? With clean order forms and a pencil in hand, you and your class got to walk through the stacks and pick out books that birthday money or your parents might buy. Then there were the cool stickers and trinkets that could only be bought during the event. It was hard to stretch your dollars during this once a year delight. Zoom through a few decades &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://cynthiakraack.com/about-book-festivals/">read more</a></div>]]></description>
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