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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.  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.  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.  Each of them has taught me so much and I am a MUCH better person because of them.  I feel forever blessed to have been allowed the role as their mom.  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>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I am grateful that I can read, write, and communicate with others in a variety of forms.  There are so many people in the world that do not have this ability for a numerous reasons.  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 più&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes all of us need an attitude adjustment (or maybe it&#8217;s just me!).  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!).  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.  So, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook lists &#8211; maybe there *is* a purpose</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know there has been a lot of hoopla lately about Facebook&#8217;s new format.  I will admit that I&#8217;ve found it somewhat frustrating, along with others.  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!  I really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shattering Icy Illusions</title>
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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.  That&#8217;s exactly where I found myself yesterday morning &#8211; longing for home.  So, after a physically &#38; emotionally 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>The Ant Philosophy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Behind Closed Doors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
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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>2008 Confessions:  A Life not lived</title>
		<link>http://www.deephipps.com/2008/12/2008-confessions-a-life-not-lived.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[balance life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best life challenge]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[guilt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oprah]]></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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		<title>Instructions for Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received this in email a few days ago&#8230;and really thought it was worth sharing. The email (which is one of those crazy &#8220;you must forward this to x people or else&#8221; emails) attributed the following to the Dalai Lama. For the record, I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s right or not &#8211; but, the following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I learned from Build A Bear Workshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I had the pleasure to take my &#8220;kids&#8221;, some of my younger daughter&#8217;s friends, 2 of my nieces, and both of my great nieces to Build a Bear Workshop to celebrate my younger daughter&#8217;s upcoming birthday. I wasn&#8217;t so sure about the Build a Bear party to begin with &#8211; Fiona had been given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presenting our custom leather book to the Smithsonian</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of you have asked about my recent trip to the Smithsonian. I&#8217;ve promised to share photos and give more details once I had &#8220;decompressed&#8221; from the trip. Since it&#8217;s been a few weeks and I&#8217;ve still not absorbed the entire trip yet&#8230;.I thought I better post before everyone forgot! For those of you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My favorites &#8211; Vacation photos</title>
		<link>http://www.deephipps.com/2007/07/my-favorites-vacation-photos.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We went on vacation the last weekend of June. So, now that it&#8217;s been almost a month and everyone is &#8220;out of the mood&#8221;, I thought I would share some pictures. We spent the weekend in Omaha. It started out (and ended) very exciting since my almost-16 year old (Mike) drove the entire way there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The art of health &#8211; using essential oils for natural healing</title>
		<link>http://www.deephipps.com/2006/10/the-art-of-health-using-essential-oils-for-natural-healing.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just like the art of journaling, the art of health is another art that plays an important role in my life and the life of my company. Recently, I happened upon a conversation regarding the worth of using essential oils to achieve holistic healing, rather than relying on pharmokopeia (mind you, we are talking therapeutic [...]]]></description>
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