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		<title>Charlotte on my mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought about Charlotte this morning, as I passed my dining room table, picked up a book there, and carried it back to my office, where I am writing this. I was 21 when I met Charlotte, a middle-aged women with teenage children. With blond carefully set hair and a slightly plump figure in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;This I Believe&#8221; honors mothers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 07:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Mother&#8217;s Day.  &#8220;This I Believe&#8221; is featuring essays about mothers today. I just read one about how a girl should know her mother by a women who lost hers young.  Perhaps you heard authors read their &#8220;This I Believe&#8221; essays on National Public Radio.  The radio series ended but the program continues online.
Why not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A family mystery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 21:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ancestry.com]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Who Do You Think You Are]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you been watching the TV series, Who Do You Think You Are. I have and I&#8217;ve been struck by the almost universal response to the discovery of a family connection. When Spike Lee discovers an ancestor who worked as a slave in a Confederate pistol factory, he wonders what the man may have thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Albums of clues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend recently shared with me the photo album his mother created shortly before dementia stole her memories. I remember meeting her only once; she gave a me recipe for a sour cream peach cobbler that I have made many times. The first page of the album is a handwritten list of the major milestones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grilled cheese and warm memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Traditions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comfort food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grilled cheese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Gatos Silver-Tonged Cats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[table topics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have ever attended a Toastmasters meeting, you know what Table Topics are: impromptu opportunities to speak for two minutes on a surprise topic. Because, among other things, April is &#8220;grilled cheese sandwich&#8221; month, the top topic at this week&#8217;s meeting of the Los Gatos Silver-Tongued Cats toastmasters club was&#8211;tah dah&#8211;how to make the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dance marathons: a bad old idea becomes a good new one</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News and Events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Superbowl XLIV (44 for the Roman numerally challenged) grabbed most of yesterday’s media attention, Stanford University students made news by updating a Depression era phenomenon—the Dance Marathon.
In yesterday’s event, Stanford students danced for 24 hours to raise money for Partners in Health, a nonprofit that provides healthcare to AIDS sufferers in the poorest parts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The longer things take, the longer they take</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips and Ideas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tip #2: Tactics for getting and keeping your writing moving.
It&#8217;s a truth: the longer things take, the longer they take. One lesson I learned while writing for companies is that delays beget more delays. If you want to get something done, keep moving at all times.  I’ll give one example. Once I worked on a short [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money and me</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I signed up for DailyWorth, “a free daily personal finance email for women,” and that got me thinking about the lessons relating to money and financial well being that I learned from the generations before me.  Relationships with money are fascinating and enlightening topics for personal histories.  Money is mixed up with our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Twain tribute to women</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Histories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Twain toasted women at a Washington DC correspondents&#8217; banquet in 1868. It&#8217;s outmoded but still funny. Here&#8217;s a link to the full text (be sure and read the expurgated parts marked by asterisks, they are the funniest bits.).  In short, he says&#8211;
&#8220;Wheresoever you place woman, sir &#8212; in whatever position or estate &#8212; she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A life story doesn’t have to start at the beginning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips and Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memoir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spokane]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tip #1 for getting your writing going
If you want to write your life story or memoir but are having trouble getting started, remember this:
Your life started at the beginning but your telling of it doesn’t have to.
Starting at the beginning&#8211;“I was born on October 11, 1949 in Spokane Washington”&#8211; is fine if that is your [...]]]></description>
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