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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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		<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>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>
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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>To all the veterans in my life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Histories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips and Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National World War II Memorial]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Veterans Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a particularly somber Veterans Day. The losses mourned at Fort Hood and the seven fallen soldiers honored at Fort Lewis add to the gravity of this day. I&#8217;m thinking today  of all the veterans of the U.S. armed forces who have touched my life. My husband, US Army, Vietnam. Our dear friend, US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What good is friendship?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Histories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One good question usually leads to another, doesn’t it? In her Photo Detective blog, Maureen Taylor asked “What children’s book influenced your life?” I immediately thought of “Wind in the Willows” for its exploration of the beauty and power of friendship. You can go to Maureen’s blog to find out her answer and share your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Air raid sirens and cookies&#8211;Cold War memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Histories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brown Elementary School]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[duck-and-cover drill]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The air raid sirens were tested every Wednesday at noon. If I ran home when they blew, I would get a cookie. My favorites were the crispy wafer cookies that came in brown, pink, or white squares. This reward program, instituted by my mother, was a regular feature of childhood summers. I recently had occasion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The worst job ever</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Histories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What was your worst job? That was the question going around the dinner table at the end of the day at the Association of Personal Historians conference. How typical of a bunch of story tellers to tell stories.  Who won?  It’s not my place to say, but I can say it wasn’t I.  I told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A lesson learned from Dad: real men give flowers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Histories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In this CNN column today, the writer advises men to give women flowers. It isn&#8217;t the specific advice that grabs me. It is the way the writer learned the lesson. From his father.
While the same lesson can be extrapolated from scientific research, it&#8217;s so much more real and interesting and meaningful to see and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Sound of Music&#8221; and Silence in the Back Seat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Histories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips and Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first date]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sound of Music is a much loved movie. Other people like it, but I don’t. 
Christopher Plummer who played the von Trapp patriarch, derided the film as the Sound of Mucus, for maudlin sentimentality. That’s not my objection to the movie. I don’t like it because it was the occasion of the disaster that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A peek through a window closed forever</title>
		<link>http://onwithyourstory.com/a-peek-through-a-window-closed-forever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Histories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eulogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tribute]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I saw a side of my brother that I hadn&#8217;t seen before and never will again.
My brother Jeff died two months ago from a heart attack at the age of 57. In his recent years, he had taken up dancing. He told me when he signed up for a country line dancing class [...]]]></description>
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