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		<title>Girl Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you, Suzanne Blievernicht! At a class given at Stanford, the last lecture was on the mind-body connection &#8211; the relationship between stress and disease. The speaker (head of psychiatry at Stanford) said, among other things, that one of the best things that a man could do for his health is to be married to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ammaponders.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14057943&amp;post=2214&amp;subd=ammaponders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Baby Whisperer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first blog post, in June, 2010, a few months after my 1st granddaughter was born, was an explanation of &#8220;Amma&#8221;&#8211; It&#8217;s my grandmothering name. According to Mary Earle, author of The Desert Mothers: Spiritual Practices from the Women of the Wilderness, &#8220;these women lived in the fourth and fifth centuries, C.E. The ammas, as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ammaponders.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14057943&amp;post=2370&amp;subd=ammaponders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://ammaponders.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/her-eyes-are-homes-of-silent-prayers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Alfred Tennyson) Margaret Jane was born January 11, 2012.  Maggie and her mom (Stephanie) and dad (Will),  are all doing well, except for that newborn-exhaustion-that-can&#8217;t-be-described. &#8230;everyone is a hero at birth, where (one) undergoes a tremendous transformation, from the condition of a little water creature living in the realm of amniotic fluid, into an air-breathing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ammaponders.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14057943&amp;post=2332&amp;subd=ammaponders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bite Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bit my fingernails for many years.  We moved every couple of years (4 elementary schools, 1 junior high, 2 high schools).  I was an introvert and a driven over-achiever.  I finally quit in my early 20&#8242;s because I wanted a picture of our new wedding rings the day we got married.  Of course, by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ammaponders.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14057943&amp;post=2308&amp;subd=ammaponders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>She Did What??</title>
		<link>http://ammaponders.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/she-did-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gramma Reaugh liked the boys (my brother and two cousins) better than the girls (my sister and me).  Especially my brother.  I remember crying one time, asking my mom why Gramma was like that.  I doubt if she had a good answer. Gramma used to give my brother Coke in a baby bottle long after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ammaponders.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14057943&amp;post=2277&amp;subd=ammaponders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop, Look, and Listen</title>
		<link>http://ammaponders.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/stop-look-and-listen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 22:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I wrote a post about Christmas titled &#8220;Whimsy and Wonder.&#8221; (click here to read).  Recently, I read in The Sun magazine this quote from a Rachel Carson excerpt titled &#8220;The Sense of Wonder&#8221;: A child&#8217;s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.  It is our misfortune that for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ammaponders.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14057943&amp;post=2252&amp;subd=ammaponders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are You in Control of Anything?</title>
		<link>http://ammaponders.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/are-you-in-control-of-anything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[God will keep giving us opportunities to learn we are not in control.  I read that in a book this morning.  You know it&#8217;s true, don&#8217;t you? I&#8217;m getting better about not-so-significant stuff, like lines and being on hold and the whole health insurance mess.  But the big stuff still gets me in the pit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ammaponders.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14057943&amp;post=2226&amp;subd=ammaponders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dog Food Diet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We drove to Costco to buy a big bag of Alpo for our dog.  While he paid and I waited behind the cart, a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. Why else would I be buying dog food?? On impulse, I told her that, no, I didn&#8217;t have a dog. I told [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ammaponders.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14057943&amp;post=2193&amp;subd=ammaponders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today Is World Aids Day (Dec. 1, 2011)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a giant red ribbon hanging on the front porch of the White House today. December 1 is still World AIDS Day.  There still is no cure.  People still get sick and die because of AIDS. People are also living much longer and are taking medicines that really do help slow the progress of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ammaponders.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14057943&amp;post=2183&amp;subd=ammaponders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Write To Soul (a workshop/retreat)</title>
		<link>http://ammaponders.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/write-to-soul-a-workshopretreat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody knew everybody.  Some didn&#8217;t know anybody.  One is 20.  One is soon to be 40.  A couple are almost 50.  Two will soon be 60.  There were two more: one who admits to being in her mid-70&#8242;s and her friend who never did share her age but looks cool even in velcro sneakers.  (They [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ammaponders.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14057943&amp;post=2166&amp;subd=ammaponders&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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