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		<title>Reservations Required</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some things in life are sacred. For some it’s their morning coffee, for others maybe it’s the 6 a.m. tee-off on Saturday they wait all week for. For me, it’s home. Small though it may be, as we covered last week, it remains the one place where I don’t have to entertain, cater to or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contributionsofthemind.wordpress.com&blog=6100039&post=24&subd=contributionsofthemind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning, Living and Loving Patience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Waiting for things has never been my style. Once I decide something should happen, together, my excitement and determination turn into rocket fuel and I work and work until I get the results I want.
It has been with great frustration and an enormous amount of restraint that I have agreed to stay in my way-too-small [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contributionsofthemind.wordpress.com&blog=6100039&post=20&subd=contributionsofthemind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How-To: Bring Your Family Closer Together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Years has come and gone and I must admit, I made no formal resolutions. But, unofficially, I did recently decide to modify my home-life around in hopes of bringing my family and I closer together. A couple of the changes we’ve made so far are logical, free and seem to have made a substantial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contributionsofthemind.wordpress.com&blog=6100039&post=16&subd=contributionsofthemind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://contributionsofthemind.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/how-to-bring-your-family-closer-together/</link>
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		<title>Surviving Another Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The holidays make me sick . . . literally. There have been no more than a handful of special occasions where I remained in good health from beginning to end. True to form, smack dab in the middle of this year&#8217;s Christmas festivities, I have developed a very itchy, swollen, blotchy red rash all over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contributionsofthemind.wordpress.com&blog=6100039&post=13&subd=contributionsofthemind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2008 Holiday &#8220;Top 5&#8243;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christmas is fast approaching . . . only two paychecks left, for those of you who plan these things out like I do. With all the wreathes and lights and greenery around town, I find myself almost perpetually in the holiday spirit. I am looking forward to many things as the season wears on, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contributionsofthemind.wordpress.com&blog=6100039&post=10&subd=contributionsofthemind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Appreciating Thanksgiving More Each Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving is not my favorite holiday. In the beginning, the warmth of the season seems to take the sting out of everyday life. I don’t mind brain-dead drivers as much, I ignore daily onslaught of junk e-mails that never make it to the ‘junk’ folder and I don’t let the knowledge that I’m totally broke [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contributionsofthemind.wordpress.com&blog=6100039&post=3&subd=contributionsofthemind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://contributionsofthemind.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/appreciating-thanksgiving-more-each-year/</link>
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