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		<title>Shanghai(ed)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Putnam County folklore when I was girl, if I dug deep enough in the red clay of the Willard community, I could dig to China. I used to imagine my head popping into the world of cherubic little children with straight black bangs and slanted eyes. Little did I know I’d have an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Literacy Lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to my parents and Putnam County schools my risk of being illiterate was zero – until I came to China, that is. I’m living in Shanghai differently from those who come on prearranged tours with English-speaking guides. Amidst thousands of people at a bus station reading characters instead of letters and yelling in musical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monkey Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Typhoon Muifa bore down on Shanghai and ultimately gave her a glancing blow, we were on a bus to Anhui Province. Our quest was two-fold: visit granddaughter Sofi, who is becoming a Primatologist like her grandfather; and, meet her research subjects, threatened Tibetan Macaques, one of the few monkeys Irwin has never seen. Coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customer Disservice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of sounding old and crotchety, I’d like to ask whatever happened to the basic tenet of customer service. Is the customer never right anymore? The economy is bad, shopping is stressful, and businesses should be trying to hold onto patrons instead of mining us for personal info. I just want to buy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eye of Sole</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Neuroma,” the podiatrist diagnosed my recent foot pain and went on to ask if I remembered a childhood trauma in that location. Of course, it’s as clear as the eye on the sole of my foot. I am sure to be one amongst few ever to stare at the bottom of their foot and find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As it often does, my heart leapt with love for Athens as I hurried out of City Hall and dashed across College Avenue. My home for forty years, this is a magical place. Brightly lit at the end of the street, the University of Georgia’s Arch is a reminder of her international status. Wuxtry on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I dreamed of Lindsey Scott. It was 1980 again and we were in Jacksonville at the GA/FL game. He, in a white Number 24 jersey, stood in the backfield and raised his hand overhead to wave at me in the stands. I, wife of a die-hard Georgia fan, was easy to see in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Un-Romance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I’m not romantic,” the man stated with scientific certainty, his trim gray beard jutting out. “What’s romance?” the woman asked, disillusioned from her failed marriage. “Oh, you know,” he said.  His face touched her hair as he encircled her with his arms.  “Women expect things like candy and flowers.  They want poetry, not to mention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrap It Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You’re going to have to get out the gift wrap,” my friend Shelby said, her gentle reminder for me to stop taking back worries I have given to God. “I don’t think I have enough paper,” I sobbed, trying to cope with the news of my son’s deployment. I could barely breathe. “What about that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uh Oh Turkey O</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instead of visions of cornbread dressing and cranberry sauce, grocery store bins overflowing with Thanksgiving turkeys bring two stories to my mind: Story 1 – The freight train that chugged past my childhood home usually tooted a friendly hello to Sister, Brother, and me. But it jarred my four-year-old psyche the day it careened to [...]]]></description>
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