<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:15:03 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@dfrankle/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[An American Success Story: Karthika Audinet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Karthika Audinet believes design "is the perfect balance between being artistic and giving meaning to your art." She studied textile design at the National Institute of Design in India and the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/travel/@dfrankle/l5o83f82</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/travel/@dfrankle/l5o83f82</guid><category><![CDATA[travel]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dfrankle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2018 20:56:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/46aP2QbqUqBqwzwxM6L1P6uLNceBDDCM9Fe2zHgwHpqLReHBhWEjHRrUGswTF5baxfgC3DiX3Qc2UbCriVW2X2fqNASW?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[An American Success Story]]></title><description><![CDATA[This summer, a few friends and I are taking a road trip across the country on a mission to find American success stories. We didn’t have enough money to do it ourselves, so we reached out to our favorite]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/art/@dfrankle/an-american-success-story</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/art/@dfrankle/an-american-success-story</guid><category><![CDATA[art]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dfrankle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:21:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmpkAajNhT5SKFVdb44GSSHghuU8hy6rTWSs9wdK3SiHr3rjUNqt58vSAfq3Sd?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[An American Success Story: Brooke Lanier]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meet Brooke Lanier, a painter, art educator, and curator who owns Brooke Lanier Fine Art, a gallery, studio, and classroom in Philadelphia. She's just now putting the finishing touches on a painting she's]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/art/@dfrankle/cb9zfjk5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/art/@dfrankle/cb9zfjk5</guid><category><![CDATA[art]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dfrankle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2018 13:54:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/46aP2QbqUqBqwzwxM6L1P6uLNceBDDCMAAtoz2XK6HwocapNeVwHP14RfJ2tMWNosGZ9vSBXu7Aq1xh4xg1gXCG9j1nN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[An American Success Story: Brooke Lanier]]></title><description><![CDATA[This summer, a few friends and I are taking a road trip across the country on a mission to find American success stories. 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In 1978, Len Goldstein started running the used formalwear store,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/travel/@dfrankle/1j3721yq</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/travel/@dfrankle/1j3721yq</guid><category><![CDATA[travel]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dfrankle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2018 06:13:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/46aP2QbqUqBqwzwxM6L1P6uLNceBDDCMCU5Kd6CFieLRqceTrwdphHTzQV8Xip5mehuXXDN8YK21M2hcaG9vjywVZN9A?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cheesecake Factory gave me and two friends money to work on a personal project. Here’s what we did with it. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1978, David M. Overton opened a small restaurant in Beverly Hills, California. 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The problem was my friends and I were a little strapped]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/travel/@dfrankle/fueled-by-cheesecake-sponsored-roadtrip</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/travel/@dfrankle/fueled-by-cheesecake-sponsored-roadtrip</guid><category><![CDATA[travel]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dfrankle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2018 00:04:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interviews with Strangers: Olatz]]></title><description><![CDATA[Olatz “I am a girl of 22 years who loves music because I play the cello and the piano, and I sing too. So for me the music is my life. Since I was a kid, I love English, so that’s the reason that I’m here.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@dfrankle/interviews-with-strangers-olatz</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@dfrankle/interviews-with-strangers-olatz</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dfrankle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2018 20:39:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interviews with Strangers: Olatz ]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this first episode of my new series, I ask Olatz personal questions and record her responses. It's a knock-off of Humans of New York, but you get to see the whole interview! Featuring music from the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@dfrankle/ixpk0jgg</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@dfrankle/ixpk0jgg</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dfrankle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2018 16:47:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/46aP2QbqUqBqwzwxM6L1P6uLNceBDDCMAD34XniZjr8jibA17DaBk6keKhjpB3z7ype1w6RZGbmwPUswCfDE4CP2UwLz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[(flashfiction) Distance Between Strangers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Distance Between Strangers I miss you. The last time I rode in an Uber with you, we were silent. It was a pool, so there was a stranger additional to the driver, who was also a stranger. You and I, we]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@dfrankle/flashfiction-distance-between-strangers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@dfrankle/flashfiction-distance-between-strangers</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dfrankle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2018 18:48:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Universal Love: A Story About the Shakers Written in Early Modern English, structured off the Book of Matthew (part 1)]]></title><description><![CDATA[The First Testimonie of Christ’s Second Apperynge Ch. 1 The Father is first in the order of the newe creation, and the Mother is the second, the glorie, wisdom, and perfeccion of the Father.  And]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@dfrankle/universal-love-a-story-about-the-shakers-written-in-early-modern-english-structured-off-the-book-of-matthew-part-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@dfrankle/universal-love-a-story-about-the-shakers-written-in-early-modern-english-structured-off-the-book-of-matthew-part-1</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dfrankle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:13:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote a fake history essay about the politics of setting up a Mars colony (part 2/2)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Read Part 1 here Opening a New Frontier Within the next year, Congress passed a detailed plan for America’s involvement terraforming the red dot Romulus worshipped as his God of war. The international]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@dfrankle/i-wrote-a-fake-history-essay-about-the-politics-of-setting-up-a-mars-colony-part-2-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@dfrankle/i-wrote-a-fake-history-essay-about-the-politics-of-setting-up-a-mars-colony-part-2-2</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dfrankle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2018 16:24:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote a fake history essay about the politics of setting up a Mars colony (part 1/2)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Opening a New Frontier The US Senate has twice decided to make a mighty empire out of the first, and sometimes faltering, modern experiment in Democracy. Both occasions were marked with treaties. The first]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steemstem/@dfrankle/i-wrote-a-fake-history-essay-about-the-politics-of-setting-up-a-mars-colony-part-1-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steemstem/@dfrankle/i-wrote-a-fake-history-essay-about-the-politics-of-setting-up-a-mars-colony-part-1-2</guid><category><![CDATA[steemstem]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dfrankle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2018 00:46:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an essay I wrote on Harry Potter for a Harvard class]]></title><description><![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Master Race: A Deconstruction of the Superiority of Wizards over Muggles I. Introduction J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has been heralded as an allegory vilifying the evils of]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@dfrankle/this-is-an-essay-i-wrote-on-harry-potter-for-a-harvard-class</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@dfrankle/this-is-an-essay-i-wrote-on-harry-potter-for-a-harvard-class</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dfrankle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2018 04:23:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living in the present moment: Why I'll never have kids]]></title><description><![CDATA[Months before he embezzled our money and ran away to Las Vegas, my instructor with a penchant for ending lessons with preachy, value-rich and truism-filled speeches, ended this lesson instead with a story.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/busy/@dfrankle/living-in-the-present-moment-why-i-ll-never-have-kids</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/busy/@dfrankle/living-in-the-present-moment-why-i-ll-never-have-kids</guid><category><![CDATA[busy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dfrankle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2018 02:48:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends Who Haven't Met Yet (flashfiction)]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’m lucky to have met so many friends and even more lucky to have so many more unknown, untapped, so many friends who I haven’t yet met.  The first time I saw her, it was at a bar. I don't remember]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@dfrankle/friends-who-haven-t-met-yet-flashfiction</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@dfrankle/friends-who-haven-t-met-yet-flashfiction</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dfrankle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2018 03:49:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends Who Haven't Met Yet -- Traveling Alone (flashfiction)]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’m lucky to have met so many friends and even more lucky to have so many more unknown, untapped, so many friends who I haven’t yet met. The first time I saw her, it was at a bar. I don't remember meeting]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@dfrankle/friends-who-haven-t-met-yet-traveling-alone-flashfiction</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@dfrankle/friends-who-haven-t-met-yet-traveling-alone-flashfiction</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dfrankle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2018 02:56:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Altruistic Genie, part 9 -- Prom Night]]></title><description><![CDATA[Altruistic Genie “Do a kindness unto another person for a pain of equal and opposite proportion unto yourself.” Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9: Prom Night At the start of]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/fiction/@dfrankle/altruistic-genie-part-9-prom-night</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/fiction/@dfrankle/altruistic-genie-part-9-prom-night</guid><category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dfrankle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2018 21:16:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjWMGm4Xa2MvD5AT2bJsSA8F9WeC71v1s1fKfGkK9mMKuc3LcvF4KigbWg9UsrpEPFvkVqjK7CosV4zFQDr94kHCjGdBbArQFaeo7CC4TmaPg?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>