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  1. Today's the day...

    "No more fooling around.

    Set an egg timer for forty-five minutes, and don't get out of the chair until the timer dings. Even if you sit staring at the page the entire time, you're ingraining a habit.

    Chickens and fraidy-cats may begin with five-minute segments."

    The Pocket Muse, Monica Wood
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  2. A Poem—Two Ancient Lands Meet: Eire and Hellas

    I visited the Aran Islands in 2005 and found myself at a place beyond my imagination. Housed on the edge of a cliff (hundreds of feet above the ocean) on the island of Inishmore was a stone fort aging back to the Iron Age—Dún Dúchathair (The Black Fort). The stones of these forts have no mortar; they're just standing on their own without any ropes or fences.

    When I visited this fort, early one morning, a dog was roaming around, sniffing the rocks, and when I ventured a little closer ...
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