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		<title>Redbone by Ron Stodgill</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished reading Redbone-Money, Malice and Murder in Atlanta by Rod Stodgill.  I didn&#8217;t want it to end.  I ended up liking it a lot, because it opened a little window in to African American life in Atlanta, and the history of African Americans there.  The victim, perpetrator and author are all African American, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whizbangwoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9953978&amp;post=887&amp;subd=whizbangwoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading, read&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 02:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Janet Reitman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mommy's Little Girl]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Year of Magical Thinking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zelda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Zelda by Nancy Mitford  It was excellent.  Many of her letters, especially to her husband, Scott, survived, and she was an excellent writer.  Even her letters as a very young woman are sophisticated.  I wonder what the true nature of her mental illness was.  Living with a drunk who steals your writing (it appears) couldn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whizbangwoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9953978&amp;post=883&amp;subd=whizbangwoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Reason by Sally Grablick</title>
		<link>http://whizbangwoman.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/the-reason-by-sally-grablick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual/Emotional/Philosophical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grieving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kahlil Gibran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sally Grablick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Prophet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, the last time I posted anything was my last day off!  I felt like The Reason deserves its own post, because it is so helpful. The author kindly sent me this book because I sometimes write about grief here, and she wanted me to review it.  I read it, I loved it, and I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whizbangwoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9953978&amp;post=878&amp;subd=whizbangwoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading, read</title>
		<link>http://whizbangwoman.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/reading-read-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Black Sun]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[several books. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and how it changed America by John M. Barry.  I liked this book because it included a rich history of the Mississippi River and its geography, and of our history of manipulating it.  It also recounted how blacks were treated in the Delta during this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whizbangwoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9953978&amp;post=873&amp;subd=whizbangwoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The No Celebrating Rule</title>
		<link>http://whizbangwoman.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/the-no-celebrating-rule/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[in American football is racist.  This occurred to me today when I saw it enforced during a college football game.  It brought back memories of how annoyed people around me would be when I was a kid and the player celebrated after a touchdown.  I remembered it as being an annoyance with black players, specifically.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whizbangwoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9953978&amp;post=869&amp;subd=whizbangwoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have been busy&#8230;. and racism and respect</title>
		<link>http://whizbangwoman.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/have-been-busy-and-racism-and-respect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[michelle obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whizbangwoman.wordpress.com/?p=862</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[with work, trying to get more organized, and reading.  Had some minor surgery yesterday, and spent the week at both works trying to prepare for a few days incapacitation.  It is kind of like the week before vacay. Here is what I had to write about:  Michelle Obama&#8217;s trip to Target this week.  I saw [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whizbangwoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9953978&amp;post=862&amp;subd=whizbangwoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Photo..</title>
		<link>http://whizbangwoman.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/a-photo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elsie]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Elsie, photo<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whizbangwoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9953978&amp;post=859&amp;subd=whizbangwoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I must be more careful</title>
		<link>http://whizbangwoman.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/i-must-be-more-careful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m busy in my job, as most of us are.  Where I work, it&#8217;s more a retirement center with assisted living, not a nursing home.  Thus, we have few patients in wheel chairs.  If they do have a wheel chair, they usually have a personal nurse. On the rare occasion I push someone in their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whizbangwoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9953978&amp;post=857&amp;subd=whizbangwoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Books I&#8217;ve Read &amp; Liked</title>
		<link>http://whizbangwoman.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/more-books-ive-read-liked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whizbangwoman.wordpress.com/?p=855</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Emmanuel Carrère The Mustache &#38; Class Trip Philip Weiss American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corp Lawrence Schiller  Into the Mirror: the Life of Master Spy Robert P. Hanssen, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town; Cape May Courthouse, American Tragedy (some of these are collaborations with other authors.) Vincent Bugliosi Helter Skelter, And the Sea Will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whizbangwoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9953978&amp;post=855&amp;subd=whizbangwoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bullying Homesexual Kids: It&#8217;s Not New</title>
		<link>http://whizbangwoman.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/bullying-homesexual-kids-its-not-new/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 02:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bullying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suicide]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whizbangwoman.wordpress.com/?p=853</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have I ever mentioned &#8216;Tracy&#8217; (name changed for privacy)?  I may have mentioned her before.  She was 15 years old, a dear friend&#8217;s younger sister.  Sadly, she was confused about her sexuality.  She was often mistaken for a boy.  Most of her interests were things that interest boys.  My friend and I were close, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whizbangwoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9953978&amp;post=853&amp;subd=whizbangwoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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