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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>
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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>
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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>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>
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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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		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[National World War II Memorial]]></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>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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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Hardy]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[first date]]></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>Why is it taking so long to write that memoir?</title>
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		<comments>http://onwithyourstory.com/why-is-it-taking-so-long-to-write-that-memoir/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can hear you. You want to write a memoir. You know the material well-after all you lived it. You&#8217;ve thought about it for years, even started writing-several times. What&#8217;s holding you back?
Paul Graham puts his finger on a big part of the problem in a July 2009 essay he calls &#8220;Maker&#8217;s Schedule, Manager&#8217;s Schedule.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell me more</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listening, really listening, is the best gift we can give to others. But it is remarkably difficult to do. If you are contemplating interviewing someone for a personal or family history project, a brush up on listening skills can help make the experience rewarding for both of you. The guidance about active listening provided in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When it comes to photos, don&#8217;t leave people guessing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 23:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Histories]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[covered wagon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oklahoma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One picture may be worth a thousand words, but some photos are almost worthless without a few words to identify them.  

I found this mystery photo after my grandmother Elizabeth died. Born in 1903 in Oklahoma, she lived an interesting and paripetetic life until settling down in Spokane, Washington in 1943. She moved from place [...]]]></description>
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