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	<description>Art, Life, and Work</description>
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		<title>Day 4:  Thankful for shelter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I am thankful for a place to live &#8211; a shelter from the elements.Â  I sometimes wonder what it would be like to not have this &#8211; it seems like such a small thing, often taken for granted &#8211; but there are so many people who do not have this.Â  I am so grateful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 3:  I&#8217;m thankful for my kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I am grateful for my three offspring.Â  Each of them has taught me so much and I am a MUCH better person because of them.Â  I feel forever blessed to have been allowed the role as their mom.Â  I can&#8217;t imagine my life without them &#38; am grateful for them every day &#8211; even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 2: Literacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I am grateful that I can read, write, and communicate with others in a variety of forms.Â  There are so many people in the world that do not have this ability for a numerous reasons.Â  I feel so amazingly blessed and fortunate to have been given the opportunity to learn how to read &#38; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mio amato uno piÃ¹&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[30 days of Thanks Giving]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes all of us need an attitude adjustment (or maybe it&#8217;s just me!).Â  I have a tendency to get &#8220;in my head&#8221; so much that it&#8217;s hard to be around me (even for myself!).Â  Lately, I&#8217;ve been leading a drive within my company and to be very, very honest, it&#8217;s made me not-so-much-fun.Â  So, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why you should never, ever, ever work without a contract</title>
		<link>http://www.deephipps.com/2011/10/why-you-should-never-ever-ever-work-without-a-contract.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contracts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freelancing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.deephipps.com/?p=1181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of us who work with other business owners, we all know the common mantra &#8220;never work without a contract&#8221;.Â  The thing is, no matter how many times we read that with all the *very* good reasons to support the idea, it&#8217;s really tempting at times to skip the contract signing step.Â  Maybe you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook lists &#8211; maybe there *is* a purpose</title>
		<link>http://www.deephipps.com/2011/10/facebook-lists-maybe-there-is-a-purpose.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know there has been a lot of hoopla lately about Facebook&#8217;s new format.Â  I will admit that I&#8217;ve found it somewhat frustrating, along with others.Â  Honestly, if I have someone on my friends list on Facebook, it&#8217;s *because* I actually want to know what they are doing &#38; see their status updates!Â  I really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shattering Icy Illusions</title>
		<link>http://www.deephipps.com/2009/12/shattering-icy-illusions.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, you just want to be in the familiar surroundings of home.Â  That&#8217;s exactly where I found myself yesterday morning &#8211; longing for home.Â  So, after a physically &#38; emotionallyÂ draining week away, I determinedly checked out of the hotel, stopped for some gas (despite my general policy of *not* buying gas in that area of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work ethic, deviance, and cougars &#8211; oh my!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last month, I&#8217;ve had the ultimate experience ofÂ interacting within an interesting subculture which has really laid down some really sharp demarkifications between Generation X (my generation) and Generation Y &#8211; that I find, personally, extraordinarily frustrating but equally interesting. So, first, let me clarify the generational periods &#8211; because there is some overlap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ant Philosophy</title>
		<link>http://www.deephipps.com/2009/07/the-ant-philosophy.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(By Jim Rohn) &#8220;The ants are a people not strong, yet they gather their food in the summer.&#8221; Proverbs 30:26 Over the years I&#8217;ve been teaching children about a simple but powerful concept &#8211; The Ant Philosophy. I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. The first part is: Ants never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death of Icons</title>
		<link>http://www.deephipps.com/2009/06/death-of-icons.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has definitely been a long week for Hollywood, with the death of three icons (two in the same day). Â While some deaths may not have been suprising (because the icon had been ill for quite some time), another left the world asking &#8220;why?&#8221;. Then, our little state lost its own icon in a tragic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cows and world ideologies</title>
		<link>http://www.deephipps.com/2009/06/cows-and-world-ideologies.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two posts in one day? I know&#8230;it rarely happens. On my drive to the city today, I recalled an excellent explanation regarding world government/ideologies/societal structures that I read as a forwarded email years ago (see the last definition below to get a feel for when&#8230;it was highly relevant at the time I read this originally). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind Closed Doors</title>
		<link>http://www.deephipps.com/2009/06/behind-closed-doors.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.deephipps.com/?p=1138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If there is one thing I understand to the core of my being, it is that a person should never make judgments of someone else based on what we perceive to be his or her life &#8211; because you do not know what happens &#8220;behind closed doors&#8221; in his or her world. As I approach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Peanut Butter, Hamster Dancing, &amp; Explosions</title>
		<link>http://www.deephipps.com/2009/01/blue-peanut-butter-hamster-dancing-explosions.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What doesn&#8217;t kill you makes you stronger. First, a few weeks ago, I read an article about blue peanut butter. Yes, you read that right &#8211; BLUE peanut butter. Apparently, someone decided that Blue Dye No. 2 *may be* chemically similar to compounds that bind to cancer-causing chemicals, limiting their ability to mutate DNA. To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for our Daily Journal Writing prompts?</title>
		<link>http://www.deephipps.com/2009/01/looking-for-our-daily-journal-writing-prompts.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.deephipps.com/2009/01/looking-for-our-daily-journal-writing-prompts.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daily Journal Writing Prompt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of my &#8220;simplify&#8221; aspect of my 2009 goals&#8230;.I&#8217;ve chosen to combine my daily journal writing prompts blog (formerly at:  http://www.daily-journal-writing-prompts.com/)  with this one &#8211; that gives me one spot to write each day &#8211; instead of many.  The goal is, of course, to provide the journal writing prompts as often as possible, amongst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008 Confessions:  A Life not lived</title>
		<link>http://www.deephipps.com/2008/12/2008-confessions-a-life-not-lived.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.deephipps.com/2008/12/2008-confessions-a-life-not-lived.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008 review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balance life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best life challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[changes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guilt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oprah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workaholic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wait&#8230;..you may want to read this&#8230;.it&#8217;s not the normal 2008 in review&#8230;.nor is it a post full of platitudes about the upcoming year. This is a real look at the life of this entrepreneur &#8211; one that I haven&#8217;t wanted to put into writing, but, feel compelled to do so as I&#8217;ve realized I&#8217;m not [...]]]></description>
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