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	<title>WRITING GRANDMA'S BOOK...finishing what she started</title>
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		<title>On Gratitude&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve read two unrelated articles in the last day that have really made me stop and think.   I&#8217;ve been in mega self-improvement mode for the last year, and two weeks from tomorrow my sabbatical ends and I go back to teaching full time, so I&#8217;m trying to tie up some loose ends.
Looking back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Writing Assignments for Kids:  Writing Under Pressure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeh, so after I returned from Scandinavia, it was back to work for that kid o&#8217; mine!  I&#8217;m a regular crack the whip kinda mom.  SO MEAN!  Yes, I re-instituted the three-hour work cycle that I was having him complete earlier in the summer.
Anyway, this week it occurred to me that since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in Buying Local: Visiting the Fishmongrel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading Barbara Kingsolver&#8217;s book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.  A fabulous read, I thought, as did my book group from church.  I knew that there were good reasons to buy local and all that, but it was inspiring reading about how Kingsolver&#8217;s family spent a whole year trying to eat only food grown by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dog Idolatry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please do not be offended.  It&#8217;s not my fault that idolatry is tolerated in my home.  I am certainly not guilty of it!  My son isn&#8217;t doing it.  My husband isn&#8217;t&#8230;well..isn&#8217;t doing it, per se, though he is the object of devotion, a household god of sorts.
Our dog, as I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few Pixs from Northern Norway</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wish I could put up the photos I took of the relatives, but I do not have their permission, so I&#8217;m sticking to scenes of great natural or urban beauty/interest and strangers, who are in my picture by virtue of being in the right place at the right time.   For now, I&#8217;m just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norma needs&#8230; (meme)</title>
		<link>http://writinggrandmasbook.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/norma-needs-meme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diane @ Much of a Muchness tagged me for this meme.  Thought I&#8217;d play along!   
She says: &#8220;I found this meme at Kim’s @ Laketrees. She borrowed it from Sandee’s @ Comedy Plus who was tagged by Mimi of Mimi Writes for the The Needs Meme. Mimi was tagged by Shannon’s Moments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anniversary Gift</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week my husband and I marked our 18th wedding anniversary.  The hubbster gave me a thoughtful and well-written card (he&#8217;s a fabulous writer), and I gave him my annual poem written for the occasion and enclosed in a less thoughtful and well-written card. But, hey, he got a poem, so I&#8217;m off the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Tragedy: On Defending Liberal Values &#8230; with One&#8217;s Life</title>
		<link>http://writinggrandmasbook.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/our-tragedy-on-defending-liberal-values-with-ones-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No doubt you&#8217;ve heard. Another shooting.  This one strikes a little closer to home for me.  It was a church in my denomination that was hit.  What was not immediately in the news, though, is that this crime was apparently motivated by hatred.  See this excerpt of a news article I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Review: The Only Place for Tea in Liverpool</title>
		<link>http://writinggrandmasbook.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/restaurant-review-the-only-place-for-tea-in-liverpool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Adelphi?  No, that old rundown hotel was blaring Barry Manilow as we walked into the ballroom to enjoy a lovely afternoon tea.  The desk clerk had confirmed that they served until four o&#8217;clock, so we had hustled up from our Mersey Ferry ride to the Adelphi and arrived at 3:30 expecting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome Back: On Loving Our Diverse and Complicated Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The audience sat hushed in the oldest church in Lowell this morning.  Even the baby near the back who had been fussing for most of the concert was silent.  Then the familiar strains began of our national anthem. It was the final song of an hour-long concert.  As I looked at the [...]]]></description>
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