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		<title>When music gets social &#8211; 225 Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 19:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One epically slow Friday afternoon at my day job, I sat typing a horrendously long report—the kind that requires its own table of contents. Fridays are quiet around my office building. Rather than fall asleep at my desk, I broke through the silence with a song from Ingrid Michaelson. Then another and another. I listened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wedding Cakes + EoE = A Very Sad Girl</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I posted about my recent diagnosis with of a disorder called Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EE), which means I have an allergy to some kind of food. Although I&#8217;m still not entirely sure which foods make me sick, I have discovered that cutting out gluten makes me feel immensely better. But cutting out gluten isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Rebecca: Relationships that Make Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[****NOTE**** I wrote this post in September, but waited to publish it. Since today is Rebecca&#8217;s birthday, I thought it would be appropriate. _________________ People will forget what you said, People will forget what you did, But people will never forget how you made them feel. &#8211; Maya Angelou Recently, I&#8217;ve been spending a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Allergic to Food?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Food makes me sick &#8212; a lot. I never really knew why, though. I&#8217;ve been poked and prodded with scopes. I&#8217;ve been biopsied and even found myself in the emergency room once with abdominal pain so intense that I couldn&#8217;t stand. Through all of this, I never really had a primary care physician. Who has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Learned About Myself Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olive</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Powerful Women]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I learned about myself today is that &#8230; I am more willing to face an unknown tomorrow than I am to make tomorrow unknown for someone else. Can&#8217;t really explain it here, but those of you who have been there may understand. Suffice to say that we are who we are based not on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sad Side of College Sports</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon a Facebook friend posted a link to a graphic of dogs with buck teeth and wigs dressed up as Alabama cheerleaders. The person who posted the graphic made a comment that maybe we should remember that the people involved in SEC sports are 18 to 21 years of age &#8212; a good argument [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Intelligent Response to Stupidity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I could have written another blog post about how this article from the New York Times is ridiculous. Instead, I&#8217;ll let my friend Erin, who happens to be a scientist with a Ph.D., do it for me. Read her critique of the NY Times article here. Btw, Erin is amazing and a fellow Newcomb College, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Continental/United</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is an open letter to Continental/United that I submitted through their online form. My experience with their reservations system, their customer service telephone line, website and representatives were pretty horrendous. Worse still was the inability of Continental to fix admit their own mistake, apologize and make it right. I did eventually make it home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You have killer taste</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were an English major in college or you took a creative writing class once upon a time, chances are that you are familiar with the dread that comes from writing. You spend hours slaving over a poem, a short story, a piece of creative fiction and all you can think at the end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A big week for Louisiana seafood &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, New Orleans will play host to the first-ever Dine Out America event. The event&#8217;s organizers are working diligently to draw attention to Louisiana seafood &#8212; it&#8217;s safe, it delicious and it&#8217;s available! This week, Secretary Robert Barham from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and I will be attending the Dine Out [...]]]></description>
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