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		<title>Love is All You Need</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Love, love, love. . . . love is all you need! The sentiments of this Beatles song impressed Sally Short so much that she superimposed each letter of the phrase, abbreviated to LOVE IS ALL U NEED, on top of one another and then added a peace sign to create a unique design.  She sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MOVIE REVIEW:  Gnomeo &amp; Juliet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a playful fantasy romp, the star-crossed lovers of Shakespeare’s Romeo &#38; Juliet come to animated life as garden gnomes in a re-telling of the classic story in Gnomeo &#38; Juliet. Gnomeo (voiced by James McAvoy) and Juliet (voiced by Emily Blunt) are the representatives of the feuding Blue Gnomes and Red Gnomes, respectively.  They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Fun Facts For Friday &#8211; January 28, 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My high school English teacher used to start class on Friday with 5 words or phrases written on the board.  He’d then regale us with stories about the words or phrases, varying from tidbits about their etymology to translation of foreign phrases to quotes and more.  He called it Five Fun Facts for Friday.  If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies:  Gulliver&#8217;s Travels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s nothing like a little red carpet glamour to make you realize how hopelessly out of synch you are with pop culture.  Watching the Golden Globes the other night I could count on one hand the movies I’ve seen, and none of those were up for any major awards. With on-demand options available via any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh My Aching Back!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK friends &#8212; I know you’ve listened, and patiently I might add, to me complaining about my back pain.  It’s been going on for nearly two weeks now, and while I tried to ignore it in those first few days, reality kicked me in the butt and it became a full blown problem.  In (very) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy in Books: Read Along with Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s nothing like combining two things that you love, and for me the opportunity came with the Italy in Book reading challenge.  I love to read.  I love Italy.  Hey, this is a no-brainer! The challenge is to read 12 book that are set in Italy during the year.  They don’t need to be entirely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caffeine, Sugar &amp; Friends Welcome in 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In what has become a bit of a tradition, I started out the New Year with some fellow travel loving pals for doughnuts and coffee at the downtown location of Top Pot.  Besides having some of the best darn doughnuts around town, it’s a pleasant location (with free wi-fi) to meet up with friends for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Words for 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Year’s.  The time of staying up to see in the new year, champagne and a kiss or two with friends and loved ones, the turning of a calendar page (and a new calendar at that), and making resolutions.  Over the years my resolutions have morphed into goals, and that’s served me fairly well in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Let Me Buy Something!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve been reading the latest and greatest in business books and sales trends, you’ve read that you always need to be marketing.  Every opportunity to make an additional sale, promote your brand, and create a loyal customer must not be allowed to slip by.  And even more than that, we must constantly be researching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas to All</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During this holiday season take time to smile, to laugh, to be thankful, to love, and may you enjoy the many blessings of the holiday. Share on Facebook]]></description>
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