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		<title>Christmas blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Christmas is a time when you get homesick &#8211; even when you&#8217;re home.&#8221;  ~Carol Nelson As a longtime newspaper columnist, one of my toughest assignments has been writing an annual Christmas piece. For years, the holiday made me feel sad and unmoored, but I&#8217;m finally coming to terms with it. You can read about my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping the flame</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are years that ask questions and years that answer.&#8221; &#8212; Zora Neale Hurston For several years I&#8217;ve kept a small garden statue of a woman by our side entrance. I named her Hestia after the ancient goddess of home and family. In Greek mythology, Hestia&#8217;s role was to keep the flame of the hearth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Grinch&#8217;s notebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn&#8217;t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn&#8217;t come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more? &#8212; Dr. Seuss A few years ago, one of my editors challenged me to write an essay for the front page of the Christmas Eve edition. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking the holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tradition is a guide, not a jailer &#8212; W. Somerset Maugham Over dinner with my husband&#8217;s brother and his wife last year, my husband and I broached the delicate subject of &#8230; The Holidays. I appreciated the chance to have this discussion with my in-laws. Celebrating the winter holidays, after all, is an emotionally loaded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas potpourri</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.&#8221; &#8212; Peg Bracken Nothing stirs my Christmas nostalgia more than the co-mingled scents of oranges, cloves, pine, and cinnamon.Â  Several years ago at Christmastime, my dear friend Debbie came over with a holiday bag filled with all the ingredients to [...]]]></description>
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