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		<title>Exhaustion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These last weeks have been physically and emotionally exhausting. My heart is still broken over the loss of Vicki&#8217;s husband. I want so badly to take away her pain, but there is nothing any of us can do. I made another trip back to see her, to try to help her, to do whatever needed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pointedcommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=711683&amp;post=405&amp;subd=pointedcommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SEVEN TIPS FOR YOU TO HELP WIDOWS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My sweet sister posted this a few days ago. Her husband passed away suddenly almost a month ago, I hope it will help someone out there in the blogosphere. Please do stay connected. There is already a huge hole in my universe. Do not assume I need space to grieve. Please do say you are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pointedcommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=711683&amp;post=402&amp;subd=pointedcommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meteorology is HARD!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I have to take a Physical Science course as part of my degree.  Since I&#8217;m trying to take as many online classes and since there were only two avaialble: Oceanography (I live in Ohio so &#8211; not applicable) and Intro to Meteorolgy, I took Meteorology. To make a long story short, I&#8217;m struggling with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pointedcommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=711683&amp;post=395&amp;subd=pointedcommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Normal is OK</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the traumatic events of last week, normal is OK. I am back at work, reading umpteen-million e-mails and loving it. Only a few people at work know the details (no one here knows them all) and that&#8217;s cool- I shouldn&#8217;t have to tell the story much. Hope you all have a great day!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pointedcommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=711683&amp;post=392&amp;subd=pointedcommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ten minutes can change your world forever</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My parents divorced when I was ten – it was not amicable – showed me the kind of relationship I didn’t want to have when I married. My grandparents’ sixty-eight year marriage showed me the kind I do want to have. My family was spread out, geographically, so there wasn’t much interaction with cousins, aunts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pointedcommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=711683&amp;post=388&amp;subd=pointedcommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Family is a funny thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 13:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s interesting how families come together. Some people have their parents and grandparents together their whole lives. Some people have blended or step-families (like me). I have virtually no relationship with my biological father, but a fantastic relationship with my step-father. I have a son by my first marriage (who has no relationship with his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pointedcommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=711683&amp;post=385&amp;subd=pointedcommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 15:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring term is finished at school and I passed everything (actually did better than just pass). Summer term starts in a few weeks. Turned out not to be as bad as I thought &#8211; lots more reading coming up though and I have to take a scinece requirements, so I chose Intro to Meteorology.  Figure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pointedcommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=711683&amp;post=381&amp;subd=pointedcommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April wrap-up</title>
		<link>http://pointedcommentary.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/april-wrap-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[70 degree temps one week, rain/snow and 40s the next &#8211; typical April in Ohio. Surgery went as expected, recover is going well.  Still get tuckered out pretty quickly but it&#8217;s getting better. Mom&#8217;s visit was uneventful, short enough that we didn&#8217;t get on each other&#8217;s nerves (or the hubby&#8217;s). Studying for finals next week [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pointedcommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=711683&amp;post=378&amp;subd=pointedcommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exhausted but happy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was the longest day of the year for me.  After the call yesterday that I might get to talk to my birth son after 29 years, the day seemed to take forever! I spoke to the young man who is probably my birth son, adopted when he was born, for the first time. We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pointedcommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=711683&amp;post=375&amp;subd=pointedcommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My heart is in my throat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got another phonecall from Linda Cecil today while at work so I ran off to a conference room to hear what she had to say.  She is pretty sure it is a match &#8211; the same doctor delivered at about the right time of night and how wiered is it that we share the same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pointedcommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=711683&amp;post=373&amp;subd=pointedcommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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