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		<title>A little update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve let this site languish lately as I&#8217;ve been keeping very busy with freelance work.  I&#8217;ve added a new regular client, writing for www.finovate.com.  I&#8217;m thrilled to be working with this great team and covering the fascinating world of financial innovation, I&#8217;ve covered this space before at Prosper Lending Review, so it is great to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WIP: My  NaNoWriMo Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my first stab at fiction. Earlier this week I was playing around with writing some scenes in my planning notebook. Would love to know what you think. I&#8217;m intending this for a YA audience I think&#8230;but things could change. I&#8217;m thinking this will be the opening scene for my NaNoWriMo novel. Thoughts? Ideas? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jessicaward.me/?p=209</link>
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		<title>Summer Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a pretty busy summer. I scaled back my writing a lot and focused on some classes and writing exercises. I&#8217;m still writing a Prosper Lending Review, and also now as a guest writer for DebtKid.com. I&#8217;ve had a few essays published as well, my favorite being &#8220;Dimples in the Rain&#8221; which was published [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jessicaward.me/?p=206</link>
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		<title>Appearance on Job Club on ABC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be taping Job Club with Tory Johnson later today, and I think it is scheduled to run on Wednesday.  This is my first television appearance. We&#8217;ll be talking about my essay &#8220;Dear John, Thanks for the Layoff&#8221; which ran on the BusinessWeek.com Web site last month. If you are looking for more information about our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jessicaward.me/?p=194</link>
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		<title>Prosper Lending Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My other small business, which is usually fairly low-key, really revved up in May, so I cut back my writing calendar a lot. Here&#8217;s a few of my recent posts&#8211;all with Prosper Lending Review, a blog about peer-to-peer finance and investing. Prosper.com, The Only P2P Player on the Beltway? Financial Services and Web 2.0: Having [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jessicaward.me/?p=192</link>
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		<title>6/1/09: Seattle&#8217;s Child, The Full Plate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was my first food story, for Seattle&#8217;s Child, &#8220;The Full Plate&#8221; is their food section.  The story was prompted by the plan to take my kids this summer to pick our own berries to freeze and can.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jessicaward.me/?p=187</link>
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		<title>5/26/09: BusinessWeek.com&#8211;Dear John, Thanks for the Layoff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve done a run of personal essays lately, and this one is no exception.  &#8220;Dear John&#8221; started as a therapudic writing project to give myself a snapshot of where I&#8217;d come  in the three months since I was laid off from my job.  (The essay was published several months after it was written).  Friends and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jessicaward.me/?p=183</link>
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		<title>5/5/09 Guest Personal Finance Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I was excited to have the opportunity to guest-post for BibleMoneyMatters.com, one of my favorite PF blogs, while the writer takes a few days off for a family emergency.   Here&#8217;s a funny thing about bloggers. We really help each other out.  In the print world, this blog and mine would be in direct [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jessicaward.me/?p=155</link>
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		<title>5/1/09 Seattle&#8217;s Child: Slice of Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My three year old daughter, adopted in September 08. When I wrote down a nightmare I had about my daughter being abandoned by a babysitter outside in the snow, I felt as if I&#8217;d stepped way, way out on a limb.  This has been the most difficult manuscript I&#8217;ve worked on to-date, and I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jessicaward.me/?p=153</link>
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		<title>New Experience: LiveBlogging FINOVATE Conference in S.F.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;m livebloging the San Francisco FINOVATE conference, and thanks to the modern technologies, I&#8217;m actually doing this from the comfort of my own home, with the company of my secretary-cat, Arthur. The conference is now on break, so I&#8217;m catching up on posts and setting up all of my link-backs, but the experience of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jessicaward.me/?p=148</link>
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