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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope you feel inspired and centered as you ring in the New Year.
Good luck making your dreams, resolutions, intentions and desires come true.

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		<title>One of the World&#8217;s Smartest Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As most of you know, I love TED.com.  TED conferences bring together some of the most inspiring leaders and innovators to discuss their passions.  They are wonderful 5-30 minute clips that are filled with &#8220;ideas worth spreading.&#8221;
I recently came across this TEDx clip from a local event hosted in Asheville.  Birke Baehr is an eleven [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving: A Truly American Tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year, I celebrated my first traditional Thanksgiving in America since I was in high school.  After high school, I moved an ocean and a continent away from my parents with whom I had spent every Thanksgiving prior.  Although I observed Thanksgiving with friends throughout college, it has never lived up to the stereotypically traditional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Refreshing Taste of Freedom of Speech Among Tragedy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While visiting the Big Apple, I was compelled to see the memorial site of 9/11.  My 9/11 story began in  a Chicago suburb.  I was supposed to begin my cross country trip back to college in California two days before, but decided to push it back so that I could just make it to my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I think of immigrants arriving to the U.S. from Europe, I have a very specific image.  I see a boat with mothers bundled in jackets carrying all their belongings in one suitcase.  They are standing on the boat&#8217;s deck with a grey, wet sky overhead, looking at the land approaching.  They see Lady Liberty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photoblog of My Brazilian, WWOOFer Friend who I Met in France</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While WWOOFing in France, I met a friend from Brazil, Carol Moreno.  She is a journalist, traveler and I don&#8217;t doubt that she will speak twenty languages before she dies.  One of her projects for the time we spent on the Senechal Farm in Puoy de Touges, France was a daily journal that got published. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sum of All the Small Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I worry that I&#8217;m not doing enough for the world.  In the beginning of 2010, I set out to help people in every way I knew how, in big ways and small.  However, I really had this idea lodged somewhere that I would be changing the world— that I would be helping the poor, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sweet Smell o&#8217; Guinness in the Morning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In college, I had two friends who adored Guinness.  It was their beer of choice on any random Friday evening, and they dreamt of bathing in the dark, glorious liquid.  I tried really hard to love it with them.  I would watch the head form as they poured it so that I could validate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visit to Rota Naval Base and the Plight of a Navy Brat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a pretty amazing experience to visit places that I have lived in the past.  Like other Navy brats, what I call my home now doesn’t resemble my home from elementary school, high school or college.  I rarely get to visit the places that I lived before because they are so far away, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for Learning a Foreign Language</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent a good amount of my two months in Spain trying to improve my Spanish.  After being in Spain, and increasing my Spanish proficiency, I have realized a few things about language acquisition for people who, like me, do not have a natural talent in language.

Tip #1:  Keep speaking your native language!
When I [...]]]></description>
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