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		<title>We can fly</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My 21-year-old daughter, a college student studying abroad called from her destination, and shared her first view and impression of Europe.
“I was sipping my coffee and eating a croissant as the plane approached London,” she whispered to me over the phone quickly, “we were not allowed to land right away so we were circling the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opening gifts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christina’s hand rested on her belly. Just an hour before, it had been full with baby Ethan.
Now Ethan lay sleeping peacefully on the hospital bed beside her, swaddled in a light cotton receiving blanket. His shallow breaths caused an up-and-down movement of his perfect little chest, and his ruddy face seemed peaceful and full of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advent etiquette</title>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2011/11/advent-etiquette/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the beginning of Advent, I always hope to come up with something more meaningful, amazing and inspiring than the previous year. This is silly. While we’ve done, as a family, some wonderful Advent readings, made some pretty nice Advent calendars, and spent fruitful time lighting Advent candles and trying to integrate spiritual reading with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond ‘I do’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The night before David’s and my wedding, there was a big storm. Winds ripped through the area and blew out the electricity. As my mom was scurrying around, trying to get my younger siblings dressed in the dark, considering whether the food in the refrigerator would spoil and worrying about whether the church lights would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entertainment fit for TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have some suggestions for any TV producers who may be open to ideas. With American Catholics numbering around 68 million, maybe there’d be a market for something that these parents can relate to — what do you think?
First up, in the genre of “American Pickers,” a  TV series that has hosts scouring garages, basements and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inspirations for decision-filled times</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael, my second son and a recent college graduate, moved to Wilmington, N.C., last month to begin his new job. In the months prior he had a difficult decision to make. He had been considering going to law school and had studied for and taken the LSAT exam.
His scores put him nicely in the “highly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salt in the most unusual places</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I had the fortunate opportunity to travel with seven of my children and my husband to Los Angeles to visit my oldest son, who is now living and working in Hollywood.
When people find out David has moved to Hollywood they sometimes act a little surprised.  Some have sarcastically commented, “Well, how’s that going?” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making your mark</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There it was — “Angela,” written on the front of the peanut butter jar. When I asked my six year old why she did it, she stopped what she was doing and said simply, “I wanted everyone to know I was going to eat peanut butter.” When she wrote her name on the sheets a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I want to hold your hand</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 19:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 1979 I was 16 years old. One muggy, warm evening I was picked up by my first date ever and went to the county 4-H fair. As my date and I were engaging in polite conversation and making our way through crowds of people to a stand where you tossed rings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mysteries in the hardware store</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran into a friend in the hardware store yesterday. She was in the paint section, looking to match some paint to refresh some of her rooms. I was also in the paint section, hoping to find some clean, pretty colors to replace our wallpaper. I hate wallpaper. 
Anyway, Susan is the mother of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Channel of grace</title>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2011/03/channel-of-grace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David was 17 years old the summer he started working in the plastics factory, which was owned by his uncle. He took this job in between his junior and senior years in high school hoping to maximize earnings for college, which was just a year away. He also hoped that he would learn something about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving Sundays: Part two</title>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2011/03/saving-sundays-part-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes when you throw a little pebble in a pond you get a surprisingly big ripple. That’s what happened with my column last month. I tossed out the rather old and rather biblical idea that Sundays are special, that they ought to be honored as the Lord’s Day and respected as a day for families. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A vacation transition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I type this, my two oldest sons (one a recent college graduate who now works and lives in California, and the other a college senior who is considering both law school and a job opportunity for which he flies out to Atlanta next month) are at the gas station with their dad, filling up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What your wife really wants for Christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/12/what-your-wife-really-wants-for-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas is coming. You’re spiritually ready. You took the kids to Confession and went too. You have been lighting the Advent candles and doing just a bit of spiritual reading (not as much as you originally planned or hoped, but you’re doing okay). You’ve given food to the poor, and are keeping the season Christ-centered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qualified</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Qualified.” It’s a loaded word. It means capable, competent, skilled, trained, experienced. We look for the most qualified plumbers, contractors, builders. We scour through applicants, if we are in a position to hire, to find those most qualified for a specific job. Colleges want the most qualified students. Voters want the most qualified candidates. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picture perfect</title>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/09/picture-perfect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I had cancer, I was NEVER going to allow my picture to be taken. Dealing with Hodgkins lymphoma was one of the most difficult things I had endured in my life. I didn’t want to remember it. I certainly didn’t want to document it. In fact, wanted to run away from it, and maybe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to make things happen</title>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/07/learning-to-make-things-happen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really, really want a set of encyclopedias! I thought this over and over as we were about to embark on homeschooling. It was the beginning of summer and we’d start homeschooling in the fall. I was trying to pull everything together. This was in the mid-1990s, before Internet, and I desperately and specifically wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The secret of silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you want to reduce the amount of times you lose your temper with your kids? Do you want to create more satisfying, relaxed and lighthearted conversations with your spouse? Do you want to be able to hear and thus follow God’s personal direction for your life? Do you want to be happier, more peaceful? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Press on!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every ironing mama knows that her best thoughts come while doing that task. Whether it’s the perfect retort to an earlier slight, an inspiration about home organization or a book she’s been tossing around in her head, thoughts flow when the steam blows through the iron. For me, it’s gotten to the point where I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improve your prayer life today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine confided that she started saying a daily rosary after her son graduated from college and moved 2,000 miles away. Another friend told me she started praying a daily Memorare and started going more frequently to Adoration after her son was diagnosed with a life-threatening condition. Another mom was motivated to pray [...]]]></description>
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