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		<title>Students, PaganCentric And Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always amazed when I log in to my web site and discover that I haven&#8217;t posted anything in months. It&#8217;s the first day of August, and I haven&#8217;t posted anything since May 21st. Not that I&#8217;ve really had anything to say. I&#8217;m just surprised at how quickly the days of my life are slipping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clairemulkieran.com/?p=274</link>
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		<title>Tired Of Having To Making Sense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes in a quiet moment I will stop and reflect that I am, for the most part, rather good at being me. I&#8217;ve cobbled together enough bits and pieces of myself to approximate a human being. And if no one looks too closely, the image holds up. Of course, sometimes it&#8217;s necessary to hold people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clairemulkieran.com/?p=269</link>
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		<title>All That I Am</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am so tired of fighting all of you. Is there nowhere I can go where I don&#8217;t have to construct these concessions to the demands of other people sensibilities? Isn&#8217;t there some dark corner of the world I can escape to where I can just be myself, where I don&#8217;t feel like I spend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clairemulkieran.com/?p=265</link>
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		<title>Unexpected Vacation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s good to be home again. Those who know me are no doubt aware that I just spent five days in Broughton State Hospital for &#8220;evaluation&#8221;. You&#8217;ve all been talking about it, I know. There have been a lot of rumors floating about. Which is understandable, I guess, given my past (hey, I&#8217;m trying not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clairemulkieran.com/?p=255</link>
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		<title>A Visit From A Familiar Presence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from late night notes] I should be freaked out. But I&#8217;m not. I&#8217;ve felt this presence since I was a girl. Why now, though? I&#8217;ve stopped teaching. It&#8217;s been ages since I&#8217;ve cast a circle. If anything, I&#8217;ve shielded myself. Why now? Maybe the last 72 hours stripped my defences. I haven&#8217;t slept since Saturday. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clairemulkieran.com/?p=250</link>
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		<title>Tell Me What You Want</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s about 2am. I&#8217;m tied but can&#8217;t sleep. Dreams have been strange again. I saw Asheville burning. Large swaths of the city were reduced to rubble. Flying craft in the air. Not planes or helicopters. Floating, noiseless craft. I don&#8217;t remember much else. I got up and poured myself a small bit of Rock &#8216;N&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clairemulkieran.com/?p=247</link>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Claire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d celebrate reaching the 25 mark today with my traditional solo meal, but wound up instead having lunch with a potential client at Early Girl Eatery. The meeting didn&#8217;t go so well. What I thought was going to be a discussion about freelance work (which is what I do) turned into a job [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clairemulkieran.com/?p=241</link>
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		<title>About That Yule Log</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I forget sometimes that my traditions are not the same as everyone else&#8217;s. In recent correspondence with a friend about secular traditions and Yule spirit (in regard to how I celebrate the holidays), I explained my family&#8217;s peculiar tradition regarding the Yule log. I thought I would share it here. The one and only lasting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clairemulkieran.com/?p=238</link>
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		<title>Random Rants, And Enough With &#8220;Hey Baby&#8221; Already</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time, kids, for the recurring rant about the rampant lack of social skills in this country. There are a lot of examples that have me complaining about this. Lately was an e-mail from a guy who introduced himself by saying; &#8220;Whats up baby? Hit me up for a good time if you ever wanna [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clairemulkieran.com/?p=235</link>
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		<title>Aspects Of Asria (Notes On A Dream)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was on a space ship of some sort. There was a huge window that looked down on the Earth. It made me dizzy. I felt like I was going to fall and wouldn&#8217;t get near the window. But there was a woman there with me. She held my hand. It gave me courage. As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clairemulkieran.com/?p=233</link>
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