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		<title>&#8216;Donkey Work&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria S McDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attachment to characters and storylines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[back story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eleanor I]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael & Lizzy I]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[objective point of view]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peeling Layers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[procrastinating]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[starting in media res]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the exception of Eleanor I and Peeling Layers (Lizzy &#38; Michael I), I have put off the editing and revising processes of my other novels for far too long. It was, by and large, a deliberate process. I think every writer would tell you that once you&#8217;ve given birth to these characters, moulded and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Cooking Risotto</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 02:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria S McDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asparagus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheese melts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chicken brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[husband doesn't like risotto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risotto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slow-transforming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stir rice continuously]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love risotto &#8211; it is one of my favourite winter comfort food. I have also been very intrigued on how to make the perfect, creamy, yummy risotto for a long while. Two things have prevented me from mastering the art of making risotto sooner rather than later. One - my husband doesn&#8217;t particularly like the dish &#8211; nowhere [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liebster Award</title>
		<link>http://mariasmcdonald.com/liebster-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria S McDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[11 nominations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[11 questions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[award shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[can't sew]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dressing up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liebster Blog Award]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[night owl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[no beetroot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scared of death]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My sincere thanks to Lou Schwarz for nominating me for this award &#8211; I am very humbled. Rules of the Liebster Award: 1. Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog and link back to their blog. 2. Answer the 11 questions from the nominator, list 11 random facts about yourself and create 11 questions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Impostor Gardener</title>
		<link>http://mariasmcdonald.com/impostor-gardener/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria S McDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backyard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[front yard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green thumb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[landscape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[watering plants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Those who know me well would concur with this statement: I don&#8217;t have a green thumb. Nada. Zilch. Gardening, except from the concept of watering plants to make it grow, was very much an alien concept for me. I didn&#8217;t know the first thing about planting. No idea about which plant would survive in what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Town</title>
		<link>http://mariasmcdonald.com/home-town/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria S McDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[back-alley roads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[childhood memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cullinary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home town]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jakarta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[malls]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over Christmas-New Year holiday period, my husband and I had a chance to travel overseas. Naturally, we returned to a place we both loved &#8211; my home town, Jakarta. There is something extra-special about travelling back to your own home town; something that goes beyond than just soaking up the culture of the place, the tradition of its people, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflection</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria S McDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assertiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bobcat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jakarta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keyhole laparoscopy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[landscaping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new job]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Year's Eve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yearbook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Standing by our hotel bedroom&#8217;s window in Jakarta, waiting for the clock to strike midnight on 31 December 2012 and the fireworks to start, I found myself reminiscing of the year that was. A friend of mine asked these 3 simple questions, so I&#8217;m going to take a leaf out of her book and use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Versatile Blogger Award</title>
		<link>http://mariasmcdonald.com/versatile-blogger-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria S McDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[7 things about myself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Days of Our Lives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jacket fetish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kate Middleton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[needles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[no coffee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[no red roses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slurpee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spy wanna-be]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tea girl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[versatile blogger]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am very humbled to be nominated for this award by Kathleen Doyle, the blogger of Writing, Reading and Life. Now&#8230; once you are nominated, there are some rules that needs adhering to. 1. Thank the person that awarded you and link to their blog. 2. Share 7 things about yourself. 3. Nominate 15 other bloggers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining Moments, Part II</title>
		<link>http://mariasmcdonald.com/defining-moments-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 07:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria S McDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Archbishop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boys' toilet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cleaners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[groundsmen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hide and seek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loading furnitures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maintenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narrow footpath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new chapter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[office vs school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[repairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thrown into the deep end vs easing into the role]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ute driving]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As Monday greeted the start of another week, I began a new chapter in my career. I had been pre-warned, from various sources, of the vastly different setting I&#8217;m about to enter into. Working in a school, even if you&#8217;re not directly related to working with the kids, is very different to the corporate, office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining Moments&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mariasmcdonald.com/defining-moments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 23:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria S McDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bag-shaped cake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birthday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farewell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[formal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[last day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weekend away]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There had been many of these in the past month. First, my work colleagues threw me a lovely farewell on 20th April &#8211; three weeks before my actual last day. And even though I was fully aware of the event, I wasn&#8217;t prepared for quite a few things. Like the fact that my work held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behold&#8230; A Prologue!</title>
		<link>http://mariasmcdonald.com/behold-prologue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 05:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria S McDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[current novel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eldridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isabelle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prologue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I admit, I haven&#8217;t been writing as much, or as often as I would have liked, for various reasons I&#8217;ve described in here and here. But the muse came back this morning, and I have been a hermit today, staying at home and writing intermittently. And lo and behold, I think below will be a part [...]]]></description>
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