<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from paulareed.blog-city.com</title><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2009 paulareed.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:57:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from paulareed.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>What He said</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/what_he_said.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/what_he_said.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=what%5Fhe%5Fsaid</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I can never say it better than Nicholas Kristof. This column on all the sky is falling worries over *gasp* reforming our health care system offers a great perspective using similar concerns on past programs.]]></description></item><item><title>Blessings</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/blessings.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/blessings.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=blessings</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Once again, I owe John Sherck for the blog idea.  Like him, I have noticed a number of folks on Facebook doing ?one thing I?m thankful for? every day in November.  And like him, I thought that any attempt to do this might go from waxing profound to w]]></description></item><item><title>I Don&apos;t Know Where She Gets It</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/i_dont_know_where_she_gets_it.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/i_dont_know_where_she_gets_it.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=i%5Fdont%5Fknow%5Fwhere%5Fshe%5Fgets%5Fit</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Alas, I have raised my children to face much frustration.  My daughter?s ninth grade American Government class is in the midst of a mock congress.  The kids took a test that evaluated their views and placed them into the appropriate political party.]]></description></item><item><title>Truly, Madly, Deeply...Angry</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/truly_madly_deeplyangry.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/truly_madly_deeplyangry.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=truly%5Fmadly%5Fdeeplyangry</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[John Sherck’s blog got me thinking.  He has resumed his “Thursday Think ‘n’ Share,” and one of the questions was about whether the reader was quick to anger.  Mostly, I have a slow temper.  For one thing, I’m very thick-skinned.  Insults often don’t]]></description></item><item><title>The Latest Incarnation of Hester</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/the_latest_incarnation_of_hester.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/the_latest_incarnation_of_hester.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Flatest%5Fincarnation%5Fof%5Fhester</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My galleys/ARC’s (advance reader’s copy) have arrived!  There are two of them, and they’re paperback because they are preview copies for reviewers.  Still, they have the cover on them and look very beautiful and official.  I have mentioned before tha]]></description></item><item><title>Traditional American Values</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/traditional_american_values.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/traditional_american_values.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:05:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=traditional%5Famerican%5Fvalues</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;I picked this up at the Libertine&#39;s blog. &nbsp; I&#39;m attaching the video, but if you want the text, head over to the Libertine&#39;s blog.]]></description></item><item><title>Hester</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/hester.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/hester.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=hester</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;It must be real, because there&#39;s a full-fledged page on Amazon  with cover quotes and...(drumroll, please) a COVER!&nbsp; I&#39;m not going to fuss because my publisher still hasn&#39;t sent me a jpeg.&nbsp; I found the sucker on Amazon, an]]></description></item><item><title>The Late, Great Pushmi-pullyu</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/the_late_great_pushmepullyou.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/the_late_great_pushmepullyou.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Flate%5Fgreat%5Fpushmepullyou</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Remember the pushmi-pullyu in Doctor Dolittle?  You know, the two-headed llama thing?  What would have happened to such a beast if one head made all of its decisions upon one solitary basis?to refuse to do what the other head wanted to do?  I think]]></description><category>bipartisanship</category><category>obama</category></item><item><title>Conceptual Crazy Quilt</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/conceptual_crazy_quilt.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/conceptual_crazy_quilt.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:41:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=conceptual%5Fcrazy%5Fquilt</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Not catching any breaks at Casa de Reed.  I keep thinking things are going to settle down, and they don’t.  I’m doing what I can to stay on top of stuff that just has to be done, and that means no time to really write or even think about writing.]]></description></item><item><title>The Fallout of Nasty Politics</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/the_fallout_of_nasty_politics.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/the_fallout_of_nasty_politics.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Ffallout%5Fof%5Fnasty%5Fpolitics</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Still, a friend sent me an op-ed link to the Boston Globe, "The School that Opted Out" , and it does such an excellent job of showing how the ugly, ugly tactics currently being employed by some political organizations is affecting us all—even our chi]]></description></item><item><title>The Dog Ate My Blog</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/the_dog_ate_my_blog.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/the_dog_ate_my_blog.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fdog%5Fate%5Fmy%5Fblog</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Okay, I admit this is a bogus excuse.&nbsp; Here&rsquo;s the truth about my patheticblogging, that is to say, here&rsquo;s what the last four weeks have been like:School started.&nbsp;There were plans to make and papers to g]]></description><category>family</category></item><item><title>Joe Wilson</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/joe_wilson.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/joe_wilson.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=joe%5Fwilson</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I can&#39;t believe I&#39;m saying this, but I feel sorry for the guy.&nbsp; For Pete&#39;s sake, the Republicans have crossed so many lines in recent months, you can hardly blame Rep. Wilson for not realizing that there are still some that shouldn&#]]></description><category>joe wilson</category><category>healthcare reform</category></item><item><title>The Speech</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/the_speech.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/the_speech.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fspeech</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here it is, folks: the text of the scary black socialist&#39;s anti-capitalism, anti-family speech.&nbsp; Can you believe that some parents are actually going to let this man tell their impressionable children that they, the students, have some respo]]></description><category>obamas school speech</category></item><item><title>Junk Education</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/junk_education_1.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/junk_education_1.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=junk%5Feducation%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I was replying to Teacherrefpoet&rsquo;s comment on yesterday&rsquo;s blog and realized that I have more than a comment&rsquo;s worth of comments.What&rsquo;s up with opting kids out of everything in schools?&nbsp; Parents are in a tizzy, opting thei]]></description></item><item><title>Education is Evil!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/education_is_evil.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/education_is_evil.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=education%5Fis%5Fevil</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is power.Power corrupts.Study hard; be evil.It&rsquo;s official.&nbsp; My country has a disturbing number of hysterical nitwits.&nbsp; You would not believe how many phone calls our school has been flooded with by parents who are outraged t]]></description><category>obama school speech</category></item><item><title>Under Cover</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/under_cover.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/under_cover.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=under%5Fcover</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Perhaps one day I&rsquo;ll get the hang of this.You may recall that I wrote earlier about not liking the first shot at a cover that my editor sent and the fact that a whole new cover was in the works.&nbsp; This week, she sent the cover that everyone]]></description></item><item><title>Bitter Sweet Good Bye</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/bitter_sweet_good_bye.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/bitter_sweet_good_bye.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bitter%5Fsweet%5Fgood%5Fbye</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We took the Reed son to the dorms at the University of Colorado at Boulder today.&nbsp; Wow.&nbsp; What a mish-mash of emotions.&nbsp; I loved my time at C.U.&nbsp; The world is about to become a much wider place for my son.&nbsp; He is going to lear]]></description></item><item><title>More on My Opinion of Opinions</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/more_on_my_opinion_of_opinions.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/more_on_my_opinion_of_opinions.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=more%5Fon%5Fmy%5Fopinion%5Fof%5Fopinions</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Warning:&nbsp; What follows is a hard-core rant.&nbsp; It is a rant full of critical thinking and information, but it is a rant, nonetheless.If Facebook and just about every casual conversation I&rsquo;ve had lately are any indication, folks are gett]]></description><category>healthcare</category><category>medicare</category><category>insurance</category><category>euthanasia</category><category>assisted suicide</category><category>political lies</category><category>political ignorance</category><category>facebook</category></item><item><title>Blogging About a Movie About a Blog</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/blogging_about_a_movie_about_a_blog.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/blogging_about_a_movie_about_a_blog.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=blogging%5Fabout%5Fa%5Fmovie%5Fabout%5Fa%5Fblog</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Today my daughter and I saw Julie and Julia.&nbsp; For the most part, we thoroughly enjoyed the movie.&nbsp; Meryl Streep was wonderful, and I especially loved the relationships between the women and their husbands.&nbsp; They had healthy, happy marr]]></description><category>julie and julia</category></item><item><title>Not All Opinions are Created Equal</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/not_all_opinions_are_created_equal.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/not_all_opinions_are_created_equal.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=not%5Fall%5Fopinions%5Fare%5Fcreated%5Fequal</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I had an email response to my last entry, and while it was considerably longer than this, I am pasting the part that I think is the crux of the problem I was writing about.&nbsp; The opening paragraph stated the following:&ldquo;I have opinions, and]]></description></item><item><title>Rules of Engagement</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/rules_of_engagement.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/rules_of_engagement.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rules%5Fof%5Fengagement</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have a question.&nbsp; Has the conservative perspective always operated in a world of overgeneralizations and insubstantial talking points, or are Fox News and email forwards to blame?Okay.&nbsp; That&rsquo;s an overgeneralization in itself.&nbsp;]]></description></item><item><title>Judging Books By Their Covers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/judging_books_by_their_covers_1.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/judging_books_by_their_covers_1.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=judging%5Fbooks%5Fby%5Ftheir%5Fcovers%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I had a chance to see the cover that had been designed for Hester.&nbsp; It was&hellip;um&hellip;not what I expected.&nbsp; Once again, I am so glad to have a wonderful agent.&nbsp; You see, a few days ago, my editor&rsquo;s assistant emai]]></description></item><item><title>Learning Style</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/learning_style.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/learning_style.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:47:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=learning%5Fstyle</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Your result for Your personal Learning Styles Inventory Test... 				        The Social ButterflyYou scored 100% on Interpersonal     					Interpersonal: This style operates primarily through person to person relationships and communication. If you ha]]></description></item><item><title>Judging a Book by its Font...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/judging_a_book_by_its_font.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/judging_a_book_by_its_font.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=judging%5Fa%5Fbook%5Fby%5Fits%5Ffont</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[St. Martin&rsquo;s is full of surprises.&nbsp; Mind you, with my first three books I had no say whatsoever about the covers.&nbsp; I liked them just fine, but if I hadn&rsquo;t, it would have made no difference.&nbsp; My editor showed me a couple of]]></description></item><item><title>Edit, Revise, Repeat as Needed...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/edit_revise_repeat_as_needed.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/edit_revise_repeat_as_needed.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:46:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=edit%5Frevise%5Frepeat%5Fas%5Fneeded</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Since I&rsquo;ve been chronicling the publication process with Hester, I thought I&rsquo;d jot a few quick notes on how copy edits with this novel and this publisher are different from the first three books with Kensington.I may have mentioned this b]]></description><category>copyedits</category><category>publishing</category></item></channel></rss>