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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am participating in the A to Z Challenge on my writing blog, Coming Down the Mountain, so anyone looking for the real alphabet posts can go there. However, with all these letters swirling around in my head, and seeing &#8230; <a href="http://karenjonesgowen.com/2012/04/03/d-is-for-dreams-coming-true/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenjonesgowen.com&amp;blog=23539558&amp;post=814&amp;subd=karenjonesgowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love real life stories. From the time I was young, the biography shelf of the children&#8217;s section in the library lured me in.  Fantasy bores me. Give me a solid memoir any day. I&#8217;m curious about what people eat &#8230; <a href="http://karenjonesgowen.com/2012/02/01/writing-your-story/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenjonesgowen.com&amp;blog=23539558&amp;post=723&amp;subd=karenjonesgowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Farm Girl Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The following is an excerpt from Farm Girl, reflecting on Christmas during the Great Depression) The Depression didn&#8217;t make any difference with birthdays, or with Christmas either, because children never expected much at those times. Back then children weren&#8217;t showered &#8230; <a href="http://karenjonesgowen.com/2011/12/10/a-farm-girl-christmas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenjonesgowen.com&amp;blog=23539558&amp;post=676&amp;subd=karenjonesgowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Gratitude. And Maple Bars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My son in law loves maple bars. Two years ago my daughter gave him maple bars for his birthday. But not just any maple bars. Think made from scratch, dough rising, cut in shapes, then fried, iced while hot, made &#8230; <a href="http://karenjonesgowen.com/2011/11/23/remembering-gratitude-and-maple-bars/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenjonesgowen.com&amp;blog=23539558&amp;post=656&amp;subd=karenjonesgowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my novel Uncut Diamonds, the main characters, Marcie and Shawn McGill, experience some rough times. It is the seventies, when the U.S. had one of the worst recessions since the Great Depression. Marcie has to get resourceful to make &#8230; <a href="http://karenjonesgowen.com/2011/10/24/use-it-up-wear-it-out-make-it-do-or-do-without/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenjonesgowen.com&amp;blog=23539558&amp;post=431&amp;subd=karenjonesgowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Either Time or Money</title>
		<link>http://karenjonesgowen.com/2011/09/20/its-either-time-or-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 05:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had a conversation with a son who needed to get something and I told him about a less-expensive place to purchase it. He said, &#8220;It&#8217;s not the money, it&#8217;s finding time to go buy it.&#8221; His comment got &#8230; <a href="http://karenjonesgowen.com/2011/09/20/its-either-time-or-money/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenjonesgowen.com&amp;blog=23539558&amp;post=420&amp;subd=karenjonesgowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Myself</title>
		<link>http://karenjonesgowen.com/2011/05/27/all-about-me-me-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 22:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a wife, a mother, a writer, a knitter, a gardener and lover of nature, a blogger, a cookie baker, an editor, a creative genius, sometimes a madwoman. I am a writer who has never been interested in finding &#8230; <a href="http://karenjonesgowen.com/2011/05/27/all-about-me-me-me/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenjonesgowen.com&amp;blog=23539558&amp;post=20&amp;subd=karenjonesgowen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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