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		<title>What The Real Question Is</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2012/05/23/what-the-real-question-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 11:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith My friend was recently interviewed on a television show. And, based on my friend being a triple amputee, the subject of sex came up, and the interviewer was bold enough to ask, “Can you?” My friend answered, “Yes, I do well,” and both he and the interviewer chuckled. However, I sat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&#038;blog=1337417&#038;post=1149&#038;subd=wheelchairjunkie&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chased By It</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2012/05/09/chased-by-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 14:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://powerchairdiaries.com/?p=1141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith Among the incidents in my life that has haunted me most is the suicide of singer and quadriplegic, Vic Chestnut. Some things just hit too close to home for comfort. As I&#8217;ve written and spoken extensively about – although Vic&#8217;s suicide was a combination of factors – arguably the largest factor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&#038;blog=1337417&#038;post=1141&#038;subd=wheelchairjunkie&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Video &#8211; Airline Crotch Kick</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2012/05/02/video-airline-crotch-kick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 14:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://powerchairdiaries.com/?p=1136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t seen me tell tales live, you don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re missing! But, here&#8217;s a fun video excerpt that I think you&#8217;ll enjoy. -Mark<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&#038;blog=1337417&#038;post=1136&#038;subd=wheelchairjunkie&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s No Problem</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2012/04/12/theres-no-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://powerchairdiaries.com/?p=1104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith Authors of online “blogs” are always tracking the statistics of their readerships. And, here&#8217;s a statistic of my readership that horrifies me: 25% of you will die of a drug-related death. No, I&#8217;m not talking heroin or cocaine or any illicit drug. Rather, it&#8217;s the prescribed medications – the benzos, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&#038;blog=1337417&#038;post=1104&#038;subd=wheelchairjunkie&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Jackass Chronicle</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2012/04/04/the-jackass-chronicle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://powerchairdiaries.com/?p=1093</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith The first and only time that I met Jacki, I ate a cigarette. Everyone else in the group knew me, but Jacki and I didn’t know each other, and I immediately recognized that the impression that I made upon her was the wrong one. See, I performed a vaudeville trick, where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&#038;blog=1337417&#038;post=1093&#038;subd=wheelchairjunkie&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Listening, Loving &#8211; Present</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2012/03/28/listening-loving-present/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith It can be argued that there&#8217;s no song more emblematic of the late 1960&#8242;s counter culture of flower-power, psychedelic drugs, and free love than “Purple Haze” by Jimi Hendrix. However, contrary to the logical presumption that Purple Haze is about drug use, the late Hendrix swore it is a love song, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&#038;blog=1337417&#038;post=1083&#038;subd=wheelchairjunkie&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wild Thing</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2012/03/15/the-wild-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://powerchairdiaries.com/?p=1066</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Author’s Note: If your mind leads you down the path of twisting tasteful innuendos and a dose of cleaver sophomoric humor – all with a relevant message! – into your own biased views of “inappropriateness,” skip this piece, as it requires maturity (and a semblance of empathetic humor), to read. By Mark E. Smith In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&#038;blog=1337417&#038;post=1066&#038;subd=wheelchairjunkie&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Words for Robert</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2012/03/01/words-for-robert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://powerchairdiaries.com/?p=1055</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith Words. People too often underestimate the power of words – the absurd, the reverbs. Words really can define the direction of one&#8217;s life, changing it from dark to light, from day to night, from blind to sight. Words. A few words can inspire, liberate, desire to be one&#8217;s best. However, to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&#038;blog=1337417&#038;post=1055&#038;subd=wheelchairjunkie&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Changing Like the Rising Sun</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2012/02/09/changing-like-the-rising-sun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith My daughter looks so cozy, curled up, under the covers on the sofa bed this morning as the sun rises over the Vegas strip, the full-wall of window glass framing her. She hated the thought of the sofa bed at first, preferring her own bedroom, but now she loves it – [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&#038;blog=1337417&#038;post=1046&#038;subd=wheelchairjunkie&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ladybug Effect</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2012/02/02/the-ladybug-effect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith For quite some time now, I&#8217;ve been trying to convince a dear friend of mine to get a Ladybug tattoo. It all started when, over cheesecake and coffee one night, I asked her what she&#8217;s always wanted to do but has never done, and she brought up her wish to get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&#038;blog=1337417&#038;post=1033&#038;subd=wheelchairjunkie&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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