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		<title>Brawling with Books</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2013/06/09/brawling-with-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark E. Smith The prevalence of alcoholism and drug abuse of many great writers, both past and present, is unmistakable, as is their urge to travel, expatriation in some cases. From Hemingway to Boroughs to Bourdain, our best writers have all sought escape in their lives. Why is that? As a writer, I can tell [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&#038;blog=1337417&#038;post=1556&#038;subd=wheelchairjunkie&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Upward Mobility</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2013/06/02/upward-mobility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 17:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith Anyone who tells you that “all men are created equal” is simply stating rhetorical idealism. The fact is, we know we&#8217;re not all born equal – some are born into lives of privilege, while others are born into far more grave circumstances. If you weren&#8217;t born into a life of privilege [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&#038;blog=1337417&#038;post=1553&#038;subd=wheelchairjunkie&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Abandonment</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2013/05/27/the-power-of-abandonment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 01:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. -Patti Smith By Mark E. Smith The only sport that my disability level ever truly allowed me to compete in was downhill sit-skiing in the 1980s, when the technology – a kayak-type device, steered with short poles and edges on the bottom – just matched my [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&#038;blog=1337417&#038;post=1548&#038;subd=wheelchairjunkie&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guys Nights</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2013/05/21/guys-nights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. -Jim Morrison By Mark E. Smith “Bionic Brogan” is what one of many headlines called him. But we just call him Mitch. He&#8217;s one of only a handful of people in the world to own an exoskeleton, a $110,000 bionic “suit” that allows [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&#038;blog=1337417&#038;post=1544&#038;subd=wheelchairjunkie&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heavy Sky</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2013/05/12/heavy-sky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 18:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now I&#8217;m a grown man, with a child of my own, and I swear I&#8217;m not going to let her know all of the pain that I&#8217;ve known. -Art Alexakis By Mark E. Smith When I was 17, I spent a lot of that summer camping in Yosemite&#8217;s White Wolfe region. It was part independence [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&#038;blog=1337417&#038;post=1539&#038;subd=wheelchairjunkie&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Gets Better</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2013/05/06/it-gets-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 12:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Morgan Duffy &#38; Crew, Stanford Class of 2013 By Mark E. Smith Author’s Note: There’s a disturbing undercurrent that, in this modern day, some teens with physical disabilities still feel isolated, depressed, even suicidal. So, let us talk about being a teen with a disability, and how life gets better&#8230;. As a teenager struggling with [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&#038;blog=1337417&#038;post=1534&#038;subd=wheelchairjunkie&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Deed, Punished</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2013/04/28/good-deed-punished/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith My mother raised me with her unique philosophy toward charitable giving. “Do right simply because it&#8217;s the right thing to do,” she used to say. “But, never forget that no good deed goes unpunished&#8230;.” She told me that saying hundreds of times, and I remember questioning her on it once, where [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&#038;blog=1337417&#038;post=1531&#038;subd=wheelchairjunkie&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The $29 Advocate</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2013/04/21/the-29-advocate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 22:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark E. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith In my recent HME News column, I talked about how, unlike in the classic 1975 School House Rock song, a bill isn&#8217;t just a bill, rather, it&#8217;s about people, not paper, where getting legislation passed is about Capitol Hill face time, convincing our elected officials and their staffs to sign-on and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&#038;blog=1337417&#038;post=1525&#038;subd=wheelchairjunkie&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Empty Words</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2013/04/14/empty-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith The two symbolic, ground-breaking shovels that sit in the corner of his office catch my eye. One is gold-plated and the other, chrome. They&#8217;re the type of shovels that dignitaries and politicization use to pose with in a dirt patch when kicking-off a new development project. And, they&#8217;re leaning in the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&#038;blog=1337417&#038;post=1522&#038;subd=wheelchairjunkie&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Find A Way</title>
		<link>http://powerchairdiaries.com/2013/04/07/find-a-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark E. Smith I&#8217;m not a miracle worker, but no matter what problem you throw at me, I can tell you in three words how to solve it: Find a way. If there&#8217;s one life-changing, ever-empowering truth that disability experience has taught me, it&#8217;s that there&#8217;s always a way to resolve or accomplish what [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=powerchairdiaries.com&#038;blog=1337417&#038;post=1516&#038;subd=wheelchairjunkie&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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