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		<title>Sad Things I Wish I Never Knew</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I encountered a concept today that I can’t get out of my mind &#8212; children’s hospice. I know that hospice exists; I’ve seen someone go. I know that children get sick; I wrote a book about it. Yet, in my mind, those two saddest thoughts never met until today, when I ran across a website [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadesofwhitematter.com&amp;blog=6121653&amp;post=1583&amp;subd=shadesofwhitematter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Men and Women and the Top of the Corporate Ladder</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read an article about how few women there are in top positions at some grand old companies, and the string of comments below it ranged from conspiracy theories to sentiments like working with women is like getting pecked to death in a henhouse to exaltation like all women are great managers and should [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadesofwhitematter.com&amp;blog=6121653&amp;post=1573&amp;subd=shadesofwhitematter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Flip Side of Stability and the Seasons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a common saying in New England and East Tennessee: If you don&#8217;t like the weather, wait a minute. That serves as a good analogy for this week, which started with an old story lying in the graveyard and ended with a new story winning a contest. Offer anyone in New England or East [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadesofwhitematter.com&amp;blog=6121653&amp;post=1546&amp;subd=shadesofwhitematter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Story Graveyard</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The crickets were chirping after last week’s post, so I’m sending it to the story graveyard. This graveyard is not a sad place, though; it’s a release. I have files upon files of unfinished stories &#8212; some are just a title and one is 53,000 words &#8212; and I feel guilty that I can’t spend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadesofwhitematter.com&amp;blog=6121653&amp;post=1531&amp;subd=shadesofwhitematter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feline sibling rivalry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spunk the cat sat on a hot brick deck just swishing his tail around. He wanted some fish, and he wanted it bad But there wasn’t a bone to be found. Because Teddy cat ate it; she was quick on her feet Of that there was no doubt. But Spunk has the last laugh on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadesofwhitematter.com&amp;blog=6121653&amp;post=1523&amp;subd=shadesofwhitematter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Woodpeckers Don&#8217;t Get Headaches</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristalynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;For years, I haven’t known what to do with this scrap of a story that I jotted down after a dream one night. So I’m posting it here and opening the floor to any and all ideas about who and what this story is about! ************************************** Where were you last night? I asked myself the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadesofwhitematter.com&amp;blog=6121653&amp;post=1500&amp;subd=shadesofwhitematter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Beauty of Bridges</title>
		<link>http://shadesofwhitematter.com/2012/01/05/the-beauty-of-bridges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristalynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t love heights, but I love bridges. To me, the middle of a bridge is the most beautiful spot in the world, literally and figuratively. Because bridges aren’t just for getting from one place to the next; they provide a vantage point to see both where you were and where you are going &#8212; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadesofwhitematter.com&amp;blog=6121653&amp;post=1483&amp;subd=shadesofwhitematter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Orphans of Destiny</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristalynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He grew up on stories of rescued children &#8212; of Moses, who, in being rescued became the savior of a civilization, and of Jesus, who was adopted by a father who loved him like his own. &#8220;You are meant for great things&#8221;, the nuns had said. &#8220;Saved children have a special destiny. But for now, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadesofwhitematter.com&amp;blog=6121653&amp;post=1460&amp;subd=shadesofwhitematter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The World by a 6-year-old</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristalynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I started this blog with my niece, Keara, in mind, and have used it as a place to work out some of my thoughts and observations about the world. Today I’d like to share some of Keara’s thoughts and observations, through a collection of her poems &#8212; spelling intact. POEMS ONLY by Keara Kids Kids [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadesofwhitematter.com&amp;blog=6121653&amp;post=1409&amp;subd=shadesofwhitematter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Shadow Dog&#8217;s Promise</title>
		<link>http://shadesofwhitematter.com/2011/03/29/a-shadow-dogs-promise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristalynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[     Tonight would be the final test. A perfect night of distractions. Gretchen stirred her batch of special cookies, sure to tempt the town&#8217;s children who were gathering on the dock. Shadow balanced on his hind legs with his great, black paws on the cabin windowsill as he sniffed at the darkening dusk. Gretchen had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadesofwhitematter.com&amp;blog=6121653&amp;post=1397&amp;subd=shadesofwhitematter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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