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		<title>A Nice Little Cake</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I go next door to visit my mother almost every day, and we like to have tea and treats when I do. Sometimes she makes cookies, and sometimes I make cake. Ever since I found that recipe for &#8220;5-minute cake&#8221;, I&#8217;ve been making those. It&#8217;s fun to experiment with different ingredients for different flavor combinations. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marianallen.wordpress.com&blog=2498605&post=1907&subd=marianallen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Dick Stodghill</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was saddened to learn that mystery writer and all-around gentleman Dick Stodghill passed away. I first met Dick at a mini-workshop the Midwest Writers Workshop put on in New Albany. His presentation there literally changed my life.
&#8220;Don&#8217;t take yourself too seriously,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but always take your work seriously.&#8221; He told us to respect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marianallen.wordpress.com&blog=2498605&post=1905&subd=marianallen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Veterans Day 2001</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 11, 2001, Community Unity organized a Veterans Day tribute in Corydon, Indiana. I was asked to write a speech to be delivered by one of our other members, a police officer. This is the speech, which I offer here in tribute to all the heroes who have fallen since.
~~~
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		<title>NaNo In Progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m deep into my National Novel Writing Month project. The goal is to write 50,000 words in 30 days. That comes to between 1600 and 1700 words a day. I&#8217;ve set myself a personal goal of averaging 2000 words a day. So far, I&#8217;m behind&#8230;.
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		<title>Best. Soup. EVAR!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got this in an email from my #4 daughter:
I made the most yummmmmy fall soup today!  I had about 3/4 of a medium yellow squash left over from something I fixed last week, so I looked through my cookbooks and sort of roughly followed a recipe for butternut squash soup, although I had to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marianallen.wordpress.com&blog=2498605&post=1898&subd=marianallen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunshine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beautiful day today. Clear blue sky, platinum sunshine, supposed to get up to the 70s. But, alas, the leaves are mostly gone. We were expecting a long, colorful autumn this year, but we had one brief glow of rather muted glory, then the leaves fell like big brown snowflakes.
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		<title>A Rude But Tasty Breakfast</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charlie made SOS for breakfast this morning. He&#8217;s the king of breakfast, I&#8217;m telling you! I usually do all the cooking, but he and daughter #1 did it between the time his late wife passed and the time I got into into the picture.
He says they had SOS a lot in the Army, though they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marianallen.wordpress.com&blog=2498605&post=1893&subd=marianallen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zzzzz&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m so sleepy today I can hardly keep my peepers open.
I&#8217;ve been slaving away over a hot laptop, working on my project for National Novel Writing Month, and maybe it&#8217;s this living two lives that&#8217;s wearing me out. I always have stronger dreams when I&#8217;m working hard on a project, too.
The other night, I dreamed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marianallen.wordpress.com&blog=2498605&post=1891&subd=marianallen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Happened to Autumn??!?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the sky was pure blue and a hawk the size of an SUV was in the tree outside my front window. Today, it&#8217;s freakin&#8217; SLEETING! The sky is gray and the air pressure is so high, the smoke from the woodstove is billowing around the ground level. It looks like a cheesy production of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marianallen.wordpress.com&blog=2498605&post=1888&subd=marianallen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Contest Results</title>
		<link>http://marianallen.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/contest-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody guessed what my costume was, in spite of all my hints:

I&#8217;m all in black
sparkley
lots of flowers
Jiminy Cricket included
I&#8217;m the title of a book, non-fiction but reads like fiction, published in the latter half of the 20th century

Here are the guesses, in no particular order, some made before various clues were posted:

witch
pumpkin
Audrey Hepburn
Emma Kalanikaumakaamano Kaleleonalani [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marianallen.wordpress.com&blog=2498605&post=1886&subd=marianallen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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