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	<title>the Nixionary</title>
	<link>http://megannix.com</link>
	<description>Observations, Obsessions.</description>
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		<title>Boys and Girls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been swimming a lot lately because moving through water feels like it equalizes my body more than ever. Most days, I feel better than normal now, a little more calm or mattering more or something. But there are small annoyances. I have sacroillia join point from the hormones making my pelvis wider and my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://megannix.com/2012/05/12/boys-and-girls/</link>
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		<title>Midwives Under a Sky of Milk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m in Cayucos for the weekend, the small seaside town where Luke and his family used to come in the summers when he was young and still got in big trouble and had privileges like crab fishing taken away. I had planned to be here with Luke and his parents since this is the marathon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://megannix.com/2012/04/21/midwives-under-a-sky-of-milk/</link>
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		<title>Dwindling Chicken in the Fridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been living off rotisserie chicken. Because I&#8217;m five months pregnant. And because Luke already left for Alaska. Five months ago, I meant to blog about our house, post before and after&#8217;s, plant vegetables, paint the second bedroom, write more, puke less, but I learned no matter how excited you are to be pregnant, first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://megannix.com/2012/04/18/the-dwindling-chicken-in-the-fridge/</link>
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		<title>Bed, Bath&#8230;and Beyond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got frustrated yesterday. I know part of buying a new house is being patient, but what about when you don’t feel like being patient? By mid-day yesterday, I had finished painting the kitchen, the pantry, and the upstairs bathroom, and there was nothing else for me to do. There was tons for me to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://megannix.com/2012/01/04/bed-bath-and-beyond/</link>
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		<title>Small Victories and a Sliding Dog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We slept in our new house for the first time last night. Woke to gray light coming through gray curtains. I had dreams about Paris and La Familia, the pool in Baker where I used to swim. It has only been a week, and that neighborhood feels like snow-covered streets in a different city. (The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://megannix.com/2011/12/28/small-victories-and-a-sliding-dog/</link>
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		<title>Briefing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are under contract on a house. I&#8217;m not sure if I should say this here. The house is not the place I expected to like, but I do. Actually, I refused to let the realtor take us there the first few times she tried. When I finally said yes, I was set on another [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://megannix.com/2011/11/22/briefing/</link>
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		<title>Lately at Lighthouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been doing this.
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		<link>http://megannix.com/2011/09/30/lately-at-lighthouse/</link>
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		<title>Twisting Ropes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent all of last week on Lake Powell, pulling warmed skin through water, hiking up chalky canyons, drinking in the morning, looking for wild horses, watching the sky not change while wind ripped at the ropes holding the boat to the rocky shore. The chords groaned and stretched, sagged, then snapped tight again, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://megannix.com/2011/09/12/twisting-ropes/</link>
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		<title>The Look of Strangers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer evenings arrive here with a bank of clouds pouring blue-gray over the mountains. When I swim after work, it&#8217;s a race between me and those clouds, back and forth-ing with one or two other people in the warm water. Sometimes I have to swing out of the way of kids slapping the surface with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://megannix.com/2011/08/26/the-look-of-strangers/</link>
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		<title>Our Comfort Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few things have changed since I got back to Denver three weeks ago. Crow moved out. Gone is the spray-painted address on the white stucco wall at the bottom of the dirt driveway. Gone, the trailer with dusty windows streaked into backwards letters by a messenger finger. Gone, his son who smiled and played [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://megannix.com/2011/08/23/our-comfort-stuff/</link>
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		<title>Modern Marvels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Natalia came over this morning for sticky buns and coffee. It’s my mom’s recipe—pour a stick of butter, a small bag of slivered almonds, a cup of brown sugar, and a teaspoon of cinammon over 20 frozen Rhoades dinner rolls, and leave them out overnight to rise—and we ate them with juicy, perfect sliced peaches [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://megannix.com/2011/08/20/modern-marvels/</link>
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		<title>Monumental Objects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I woke up and walked to the library downtown this morning, and when I arrived, a few things happened. A voice ratcheted off sky-rise walls, high-pitched but low-pitched at the same time, a rumbly screech echoing from somewhere further away than where the voice was actually coming from. I could hear the voice from a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://megannix.com/2011/08/19/monumental-objects/</link>
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		<title>Open Water Techniques</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One bummer about Sitka this summer is that the town didn&#8217;t have enough money to keep the pool open. When I go to the gym, I look past the dark glass doors and into the hole that once had water and I wish every day that it was full.
I spent the last week in Anchorage, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://megannix.com/2011/07/20/open-water-techniques/</link>
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		<title>I Want to Share My Mango!</title>
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I&#8217;ve been in Sitka for three days and have woken twice to the optimism brought here by the sun. Yesterday, Natalie and her two-year-old twins and I hiked up above town, stopping to yell &#8220;poop!&#8221; at dog poop and to sling rocks into a trickling stream. At the end of our hike, we walked to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://megannix.com/2011/06/22/i-want-to-share-my-mango/</link>
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		<title>Puke and Corn at La Familia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been swimming a lot lately. Last week, though, Denver Public Schools let out for summer, which poses problems for us lap swimmers at La Familia. The lifeguards only block off three lanes, so the other half of the pool is filled with wriggling fleshy  kids.
What disturbs me is that some of them can&#8217;t swim, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://megannix.com/2011/06/09/puke-and-corn-at-la-familia/</link>
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