<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Difficult History</title>
	<atom:link href="http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:41:15 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.com/</generator>
<cloud domain='difficulthistory.wordpress.com' port='80' path='/?rsscloud=notify' registerProcedure='' protocol='http-post' />
<image>
		<url>http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png</url>
		<title>Difficult History</title>
		<link>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com</link>
	</image>
	<atom:link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/osd.xml" title="Difficult History" />
	<atom:link rel='hub' href='http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/?pushpress=hub'/>
		<item>
		<title>The Origins of &#8220;A Body by the Wayside Strange&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/the-origins-of-a-body-by-the-wayside-strange/</link>
		<comments>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/the-origins-of-a-body-by-the-wayside-strange/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>~jesseca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ain&#039;t Nothing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meta]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/?p=299</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over on Facebook, Jennifer Barber, who published my poem &#8220;A Body by the Wayside Strange&#8221; in the 16.2 issue of Salamander, asked me to write a paragraph about the poem&#8217;s origins. However, since I am only ever concise in poems, this paragraph has turned into several, and I thought I might as well also offer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=difficulthistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7249037&amp;post=299&amp;subd=difficulthistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/the-origins-of-a-body-by-the-wayside-strange/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">~jesseca</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>My favorite time of the year!</title>
		<link>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/my-favorite-time-of-the-year/</link>
		<comments>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/my-favorite-time-of-the-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>~jesseca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mulling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/?p=295</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[God, I love back to school season. I start getting into the spirit of the season when emails from Staples land in my inbox with daily deals for penny pencils and fifty cent reams of paper. Then my heart thrills in Target to see the signs that say something like &#8220;Dorm Central This Way!&#8221; I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=difficulthistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7249037&amp;post=295&amp;subd=difficulthistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/my-favorite-time-of-the-year/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">~jesseca</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>I don&#8217;t know what kind of writing I want to do anymore.</title>
		<link>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/i-dont-know-what-kind-of-writing-i-want-to-do-anymore/</link>
		<comments>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/i-dont-know-what-kind-of-writing-i-want-to-do-anymore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>~jesseca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mulling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/?p=291</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know what kind of writing I want to do anymore, I decide while punching holes in a copy of my dissertation so I can put it in a 3-ring binder. This is a familiar ritual, where I first gather up work I&#8217;ve shunned and then revise it and submit it for publication. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=difficulthistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7249037&amp;post=291&amp;subd=difficulthistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/i-dont-know-what-kind-of-writing-i-want-to-do-anymore/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">~jesseca</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Review of Falling Skies</title>
		<link>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/review-of-falling-skies/</link>
		<comments>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/review-of-falling-skies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>~jesseca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mulling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/?p=285</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After only the double-episode premier of Falling Skies, I’m ready to declare that it’s pretty much awesome, and you should watch it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=difficulthistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7249037&amp;post=285&amp;subd=difficulthistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/review-of-falling-skies/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">~jesseca</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Totally Uplifting Advice about How Not to Shoot Your Eyes Out in Graduate School</title>
		<link>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/totally-uplifting-advice-about-how-not-to-shoot-your-eyes-out-in-graduate-school/</link>
		<comments>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/totally-uplifting-advice-about-how-not-to-shoot-your-eyes-out-in-graduate-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>~jesseca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mulling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/?p=270</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m a recent graduate of graduate school (by Jimminy, John Irving got the Gradual School part right!), so who better to write a blog post about how survive its terrors than me! Also, I’m acting out some fantasy wherein I write an academic advice column in the voice of a writer for my new favorite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=difficulthistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7249037&amp;post=270&amp;subd=difficulthistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/totally-uplifting-advice-about-how-not-to-shoot-your-eyes-out-in-graduate-school/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">~jesseca</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Revival</title>
		<link>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/revival/</link>
		<comments>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/revival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>~jesseca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meta]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/?p=265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been not quite a year, but long enough for my sister-in-law to conceive and deliver a new, beautiful baby. I no longer live in the house with the holly bush whose thorny leaves protect fledgling brown thrashers from a Beagle&#8217;s bred-for purpose. I live in Montgomery and teach at Alabama State. When I visited [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=difficulthistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7249037&amp;post=265&amp;subd=difficulthistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/revival/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">~jesseca</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Thrashers and Cotton Flowers</title>
		<link>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/thrashers-and-cotton-flowers/</link>
		<comments>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/thrashers-and-cotton-flowers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>~jesseca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Visiting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/?p=253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, in the evenings, I&#8217;ve been going outside to read theory for the academic portion of my dissertation. After the sun hits a certain angle and the evening breeze from the west picks up, it&#8217;s quite comfortable in the shade of the maple tree, even in low 90s upper 80s, even with lower Alabama&#8217;s famous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=difficulthistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7249037&amp;post=253&amp;subd=difficulthistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/thrashers-and-cotton-flowers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">~jesseca</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://difficulthistory.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/img_9453.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">IMG_9453</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Xcjvc4lThQ0/TD9ICaHCjvI/AAAAAAAACr0/1rl1aij0Vuk/s640/IMG_9432.JPG" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Parent Brown Thrasher</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Xcjvc4lThQ0/TD9IEERL48I/AAAAAAAACsA/eslIxS8yNhc/s640/IMG_9463.JPG" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">White Cotton Flower</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Xcjvc4lThQ0/TD9IEq8oilI/AAAAAAAACsE/mAsYcoUABe0/s640/IMG_9466.JPG" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Pink Cotton Flower</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Least Interesting of Posts</title>
		<link>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/the-least-interesting-of-posts/</link>
		<comments>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/the-least-interesting-of-posts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>~jesseca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meta]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/?p=250</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No posts for a while because I&#8217;ve been busy working on finalizing the dissertation, which I&#8217;m trying to knock out before I start work at Alabama State in the autumn, which, okay, is really only 6 weeks away, the autumn semester starting so much earlier than the autumn quarter I&#8217;ve become accustomed to in Ohio. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=difficulthistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7249037&amp;post=250&amp;subd=difficulthistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/the-least-interesting-of-posts/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">~jesseca</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Today</title>
		<link>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/today/</link>
		<comments>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 05:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>~jesseca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Visiting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/?p=234</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Circled the lots and garages at the Vienna Fairfax station buzzard-like for an hour or more today. Finally got 10 bucks in change and fed a 12-hour meter. Everyone on a train looks sad and awkward and lonely. Things I did not expect to see today: Ducks and their concomitant duck poop; two police officers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=difficulthistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7249037&amp;post=234&amp;subd=difficulthistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/today/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">~jesseca</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://difficulthistory.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/img_45981.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Rodin's Lady</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://difficulthistory.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/img_4599.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Rodin's Lady</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://difficulthistory.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/img_4589.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">IMG_4589</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>&#8220;An Argument Worth Rehearsing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/an-argument-worth-rehearsing/</link>
		<comments>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/an-argument-worth-rehearsing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 05:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>~jesseca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mulling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/?p=228</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My own argument worth rehearsing is one that I've been playing over in limited variation in my head since I began my project. Sometimes I ask myself what right do I have to write about the things I've chosen as my subjects. Sometimes I interrogate my intentions and purposes. Often I wonder about what it means to be a white woman today who's become so fascinated with a form of ritual violence that was most frequently visited on black men of the past.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=difficulthistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7249037&amp;post=228&amp;subd=difficulthistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://difficulthistory.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/an-argument-worth-rehearsing/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">~jesseca</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
