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	<title>Estella Ramirez</title>
	<link>http://www.estellaramirez.com</link>
	<description>Poet / Musician</description>
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		<title>How to take ballet classes</title>
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How I did it: I looked at the course schedule for informal classes at Santa Monica College and then signed up online.&#160; It was a 5-week course.&#160; I was empowered, freed, and inspired.&#160; I have ballet slippers to prove it.
I felt like an odd duck at first, but then I caught on to the counting, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.estellaramirez.com/2009/09/12/how-to-take-ballet-classes/</link>
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		<title>How to be an English tutor.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How I did it: My goal was to work as an English tutor because English is my subject of choice. However, I also love math, and possibly more people are in need of a math tutor than an English tutor, so I offered myself as both.&#160; 
Learning how to market my services was the key [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.estellaramirez.com/2009/07/12/how-to-be-an-english-tutor/</link>
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		<title>First Ballet Class</title>
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I signed up for Adult Ballet I at Santa Monica College, and went to my first class, wearing a t-shirt, zippered sweater, yoga pants, and running sneakers.
I danced barefoot, which made it difficult to slide my feet across the floor, so I think I&#8217;ll get some ballet slippers.  I secretly want a leotard and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.estellaramirez.com/2009/06/26/first-ballet-class/</link>
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		<title>Vash is Obese!</title>
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The vet told us that Vash is obese!
When we first found him, nearly three years ago, he was emaciated and got fevers all the time.  He smelled funny, like he&#8217;d been eating out of the trash.  His teeth were not pretty&#8230;
Now he&#8217;s made up for lost time:  he has a big beautiful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.estellaramirez.com/2009/02/22/vash-is-obese/</link>
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		<title>Vegan Valentine&#8217;s Day 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Valentine&#8217;s Day, Carlos and I made fried tofu, mushrooms, and spinach over a potato and carrot purée.  

Ingredients:
1 package of extra firm tofu (NOT the silken kind)
enough potatoes for the two of you
carrots (I used 6 baby carrots because that&#8217;s what I had in the fridge)
as many mushrooms as you like
a couple handfuls [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.estellaramirez.com/2009/02/15/valentine-day-vegan-dinner/</link>
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		<title>Reinvent America and the world.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Reinvent America and the world.&#8221;
&#8211;Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I like reading this imperative.  It doesn&#8217;t mean we should all reach international stardom like the Beats did or like Barack Obama has.  We do, each of us, have the potential to reinvent ourselves, our communities, even our country and our world, but I don&#8217;t, not at this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.estellaramirez.com/2009/01/22/reinvent-america-and-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Vegan Thanksgiving 2008</title>
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For my fourth Vegan Thanksgiving, Carlos and I cooked Thanksgiving dinner all by ourselves.
We bought a Tofurkey and Tofurkey Gravy from Whole Foods, we made a butternut squash casserole, corn muffins, and sweet potato fries.  We didn&#8217;t have cranberry sauce, but we drank cranberry  juice!  And for dessert we had pumpkin pie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.estellaramirez.com/2008/11/28/vegan-thanksgiving-2008/</link>
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		<title>Facing Old Demons</title>
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Yes, I was a choir girl growing up.  I always loved music.  But I was very shy and was scarred for life by the negative experiences I had in school.
But as I matured, I realized that I let my insecurities distract me from reaching my potential as a singer.  I never once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.estellaramirez.com/2008/11/21/facing-old-demons-2/</link>
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		<title>The Job Search:  I&#8217;m a substitute teacher!</title>
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Well, we moved to the Los Angeles area &#8211; Marina del Rey, CA to be precise &#8211; so that Carlos could work on an assignment for his company.  We&#8217;re here temporarily, so I was limited in my job search that way.
Even though I would have liked a full-time job as a teacher, I looked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.estellaramirez.com/2008/11/20/im-a-substitute-teacher-2/</link>
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		<title>Yoga Classes and Biodegradable Mats in Santa Monica</title>
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I&#8217;m here in Santa Monica, looking for a job, and we are looking for an apartment while hubby Carlos starts his new assignment here.
Yesterday, I spent the whole day walking around Main Street.  It&#8217;s where Carlos works, and there are lots of shops and coffee shops to see.  It seemed, to me, that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.estellaramirez.com/2008/09/03/yoga-classes-and-biodegradable-mats-in-santa-monica/</link>
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