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		<title>Breakdown or Breakthrough?</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2012/01/26/breakdown-or-breakthrough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith Is your life a train or a boat? It’s an important question because the answer makes a huge difference. A train takes you exactly where you wish to go – it’s on rails, it’s smooth, it’s steady, it’s totally predictable. A boat, on the other hand, heads out on a meandering [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&amp;blog=1337417&amp;post=1023&amp;subd=wheelchairjunkie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playing With Itzhak</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2012/01/19/playing-with-itzhak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://powerchairdiaries.com/?p=1017</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith My entire life, I&#8217;ve been in awe of violinist, Itzhak Pearlman, never having known music without him. My late mother was a childhood prodigy violinist, including having been among the youngest members of the San Francisco Symphony. What made her story even more remarkable was that her father was in prison, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&amp;blog=1337417&amp;post=1017&amp;subd=wheelchairjunkie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Elegance of Ties</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2012/01/12/the-elegance-of-ties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith The sight of a hospital bed in a living room is as emotionally troubling to me today as when I first saw such a scene many years ago – it jolts me to the core. I mean, I&#8217;m as animated and as enthusiastic as ever when I enter one’s home, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&amp;blog=1337417&amp;post=1007&amp;subd=wheelchairjunkie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Farther Than Ourselves</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2012/01/05/no-farther-than-ourselves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Don't Push Me...]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith There were many reasons why Kurt Cobain of the band, Nirvana, killed himself on April 5, 1994. Suicide, you see, is often a very complex process, rarely attributed to a sole cause, but most often a culmination of unbearable emotions. However, as fellow musician, Henry Rollins, put it, much of Cobain&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&amp;blog=1337417&amp;post=1001&amp;subd=wheelchairjunkie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What the Weights Teach</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2011/12/29/what-the-weights-teach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://powerchairdiaries.com/?p=986</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith If you’re going to be somebody, you can&#8217;t be just anybody. To be an individual is the art of introspection. You must only be yourself, from within, outward – entirely. I first began working out with weights in middle school. My school didn&#8217;t have an adaptive physical education class, so I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&amp;blog=1337417&amp;post=986&amp;subd=wheelchairjunkie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Promise Lost, Promise Found</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2011/12/22/promise-lost-promise-found/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wheelchairjunkie.wordpress.com/?p=981</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith It was the poorest we&#8217;d ever been – a literal food-stamps Christmas. But, despite the fact that my father had split, leaving my mother with my brother and me, just six and seven, and an eviction notice served on our rental house, my mother somehow came up with a $20 bill [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&amp;blog=1337417&amp;post=981&amp;subd=wheelchairjunkie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alien on a Leash</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2011/12/09/alien-on-a-leash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith The dog sits on the stainless-steel examination table. “Maybe we should muzzle her, so no one gets bit,” the veterinary assistant says. “She&#8217;s deaf, it won&#8217;t help,” the vet says. And, I&#8217;m astounded that veterinary medical professionals are acting as if my 22 lb., 4-year-old French Bulldog is a viscous alien [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&amp;blog=1337417&amp;post=971&amp;subd=wheelchairjunkie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tennis, Anyone?</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2011/11/25/tennis-anyone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith Indeed, the winter holidays are among the most romantic times of the year, lovers snuggled by the fireplace, exchanging precious, heartfelt gifts, a season that will carry their love for decades to come. Unless, of course, you&#8217;re single, curled up in a fetal position on the couch, sobbing to Titanic, wearing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&amp;blog=1337417&amp;post=952&amp;subd=wheelchairjunkie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes Wheelchairs Should Just Be</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2011/11/19/sometimes-wheelchairs-should-just-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wheelchairjunkie.wordpress.com/?p=941</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith It’s a beautiful fall, Saturday morning in Midtown Manhattan, among the few times of the year when the city slows down on tourism, after the summer and before the holidays. Theatre tickets and restaurant reservations are easy to come by, and the winter weather has yet to set in. And, my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&amp;blog=1337417&amp;post=941&amp;subd=wheelchairjunkie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Step Back From That Ledge, My Friend</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2011/11/11/step-back-from-that-ledge-my-friend/</link>
		<comments>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2011/11/11/step-back-from-that-ledge-my-friend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith In 1995, I opened a book preface with the line, “There&#8217;s no challenge more or less significant than another; merely different.” And, in the many years since, that line has remained with me, with my understanding that empathy and compassion are two of the most sincere traits that we can possess. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&amp;blog=1337417&amp;post=927&amp;subd=wheelchairjunkie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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