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		<title>Traveler Alert: No Turning My Passport Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 13:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seize the Rain</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last night I sat on my porch with a few sputtering candles and listened to the wind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Your Happy On!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Where is your happiness barometer set point? Or, rather, what is your natural state of gratitude? And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The WordShop’s Best Vibe Series: SongtownUSA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Chronister</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introducing the &#8220;Best Vibe&#8221; series for Songwriters, Writers, Artists, Travelers, Foodies, and Creative Types at The WordShop facebook [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A John Smith. Writing the Voiceless.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Chronister</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I flip open my word processing program and choose another “Blank Page.” I’ve got a swirl in my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memphis Jones ~ The Tour Guide with SOUL</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Chronister</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MEMPHIS JONES ~ TOUR GUIDE RECOMMENDATION! I met Memphis Jones last week on my first ever trip to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memphis&#8217; Central BBQ Downtown: Rib Smacking Leads to Lip Smacking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; After a week in the South, my stomach is travel weary of Southern fare. Not because it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amélie&#8217;s ~ A Coffee Shop Gem Bats a Lovely French Eye Under the Charlotte Skyline</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[palmier]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Downtown Charlotte, North Carolina, looks a little too planned for this North-easterner. I’m absolutely not bragging about Philly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cab Drivers Who Look Like Anthony Hopkins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Chronister</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lynmouth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met a cab driver who &#8220;rescued&#8221; me from a stranded train in the English countryside two summers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Pub Deal&#8221; Songwriting News!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[12/12  Updated!  Didn&#8217;t make the Top 5, but totally jazzed to be included! I&#8217;m beyond happy to say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nostalgia is the Magic Happy, Achy Pill and I Take it Quite Often</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 23:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Chronister</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was dressing this morning, I turned to the mirror searching the middle of my back for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memory and the Secrets of a Face</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 06:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Chronister</dc:creator>
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		<title>Everything so far&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Chronister</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything creative so far&#8230; www.karenchronister.com]]></description>
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		<title>A Day in Philadelphia ~ City of Wonders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 23:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Chronister</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Day in Philadelphia: City of Wonders As posted on: A Road Taken ~ A Blog for Travel Warriors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The WordShop News (so far!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Chronister</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  2/13 Karen attends Travel South USA in Little Rock, AR, and Memphis, TN, as travel journalist. Finds [...]]]></description>
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