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	<description>Just another weblog? Maybe not.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Blog Value: You are NOT Your Google Rank</title>
		<link>http://anniegirl1138.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/blog-value/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who have paid attention there is a button for Fuel My Blog on the main page of this blog. It&#8217;s a community I joined but admit I haven&#8217;t participated in as much as I could - mainly because I am always so pressed for hours in a day which is hardly an original [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeding My Soul is the Hump Day Hmmm</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Julie asked, What feeds your soul. What do you do to renew yourself? And how does this fit within the cultural boundaries that fence you? Big questions that grew out of a friend&#8217;s need to cook for others as she looked for footing and more level ground following the death of her father.
My reply is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting the Past</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[remarriage]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Des Moines]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[revisiting old places]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in Des Moines and haunting myself in an Ebeneezer Scrooge kind of way has brought me round to a not so profound conclusion - moving on and away from the past is better than constantly, or even just occasionally, ruminating on the fairness or unfairness of the cards we are dealt.
What I hope I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s iPod is the Monday Meme - What&#8217;s Your List?</title>
		<link>http://anniegirl1138.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/obamas-ipod-is-the-monday-meme-whats-your-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Meme]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Marginal Revolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While testing Google Reader I discovered a site called Marginal Revolution and a piece written by Tyler Cowen about the musical tastes of presidential candidate Barack Obama. It appears that like most people of my generation, he was shaped and is still stuck in the 1970&#8217;s though he threw in some jazz for the elitists and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Read</title>
		<link>http://anniegirl1138.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/the-big-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[National Endowment of the Arts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Big Read]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I found this on Darcnyt&#8217;s site, he found it somewhere else. I could mark off quite a few but that&#8217;s mostly because I was an English major in college and because one summer I got it into my head to read classics. 
It&#8217;s an interesting exercise. As a former reading teacher, I know first hand that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let the Melodrama Begin (or Just Continue Perhaps)</title>
		<link>http://anniegirl1138.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/let-the-melodrama-begin-or-just-continue-perhaps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We ended up leaving my folks to stay in a hotel Friday night about nine-thirty. I suppose I could have headed the whole thing off with a bit of frank, honest conversation earlier in the day, but between trying to &#8220;let things slide off me&#8221; as Rob suggested and Mom&#8217;s bouts of tears and self-pity, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overheard at the Shopper&#8217;s in Fort Saskatchewan</title>
		<link>http://anniegirl1138.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/overheard-at-the-shoppers-in-fort-saskatchewan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[cutting in line]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[personal lubricant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Actually I didn&#8217;t overhear anything. I witnessed it.
My daughter and I stopped at the Shopper&#8217;s to get stamps and a Father&#8217;s Day card for Rob. Katy gave me a card on Mother&#8217;s Day that talked and wanted something similar for her dad. Rob just wanted a &#8220;masculine&#8221; card. No ponies or kitties or tiny winged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love and Marriage: A First Anniversary</title>
		<link>http://anniegirl1138.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/love-and-marriage-a-first-anniversary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Rob and I were married a year ago today. I have written a lot about where and how we met, our long, long distance relationship, the whole emigrating thing and ad nauseum about our happiness.
One might think we were the perfect couple, and while we believe we are pretty darn close to that most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Become My Mother</title>
		<link>http://anniegirl1138.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/ive-become-my-mother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we were children, warm weather meant our mother could safely banish us to the outdoors for hours on end. She would even lock the screen doors and find us our lunch on the picnic table. Getting back inside for any reason other than using the bathroom called for inventiveness and mom usually would just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Single Serving Acquaintances: Filling in for Hump Day Hmm*</title>
		<link>http://anniegirl1138.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/single-serving-acquaintances/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vacation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the movie Fight Club, Edward Norton&#8217;s character first meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) on an airplane in what he explains is a &#8220;single serving friend&#8221; relationship. Basically it likens the whole idea of striking up friendly banter and interaction with people you will never see again to a ketchup packet or the shampoo offerings [...]]]></description>
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