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		<title>Money Issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently someone asked me how I dealt with economic pressures through the years of raising a large family on not a large income. I consulted Money Horse, and we came up with twelve tips to help one cope with financial challenges: Learn how to be satisfied with less or you will never be satisfied with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenjonesgowen.com&#038;blog=23539558&#038;post=1368&#038;subd=karenjonesgowen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tender Mercies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week my husband suggested an idea. He said, &#8220;How about every day we talk about God&#8217;s tender mercies that come to us.&#8221; So we began. And we couldn&#8217;t think of anything. It was a stressful day at work and neither of us felt particularly good or energetic or joyful. Tender mercies? Couldn&#8217;t name a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenjonesgowen.com&#038;blog=23539558&#038;post=1300&#038;subd=karenjonesgowen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Mom. I will always miss you most in January.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[death of a parent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucille Marker Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mothers and daughters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mom died on New Year&#8217;s Day. She had a severe stroke in October from which she never fully recovered, hanging in there through the holidays, just long enough to welcome in another year but not long enough to see her 94th birthday. She would be 96 today if she were still alive. What a wonderful [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenjonesgowen.com&#038;blog=23539558&#038;post=1146&#038;subd=karenjonesgowen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas 2012!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenjonesgowen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Gowen Family]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And yes, they are all ours! Our highest and best achievement. From our home to yours, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I&#8217;ll see you all back here in 2013!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenjonesgowen.com&#038;blog=23539558&#038;post=1091&#038;subd=karenjonesgowen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As Young as You Feel</title>
		<link>http://karenjonesgowen.com/2012/11/01/as-young-as-you-feel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenjonesgowen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging gracefully]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jones Girls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucille Marker Jones]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mom used to say it. &#8220;You&#8217;re only as young as you feel.&#8221; She lived it, too. At age 90, she went with me on a book tour to Nebraska for the book about her youth, Farm Girl. At age 91,  she was driving younger women in their seventies and eighties to their doctor appointments. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenjonesgowen.com&#038;blog=23539558&#038;post=1069&#038;subd=karenjonesgowen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Changes</title>
		<link>http://karenjonesgowen.com/2012/10/29/changes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenjonesgowen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coming Down the Mountain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally made the big move. After utilizing Blogger for the past four years as my author blog, Coming Down the Mountain (where I have over 1000 followers and 4000 views a month), I&#8217;ll now blog here (where I have 29 followers and about 100 views a month). Probably not a smart move. But I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenjonesgowen.com&#038;blog=23539558&#038;post=1033&#038;subd=karenjonesgowen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And Then What?</title>
		<link>http://karenjonesgowen.com/2012/09/25/and-then-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenjonesgowen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My novel, Lighting Candles in the Snow, is now out. Reviews are coming in, and gladly they are positive. And then what? Which is the big question really, about all kinds of things that one might look forward to with great anticipation. And then what? There are the people who look ahead with excitement for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenjonesgowen.com&#038;blog=23539558&#038;post=998&#038;subd=karenjonesgowen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Three D&#8217;s: Divorce, Dieting and Dating</title>
		<link>http://karenjonesgowen.com/2012/09/18/the-three-ds-divorce-dieting-and-dating/</link>
		<comments>http://karenjonesgowen.com/2012/09/18/the-three-ds-divorce-dieting-and-dating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenjonesgowen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lighting Candles in the Snow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mirka Breen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you don&#8217;t realize what your book is about until someone tells you. When Uncut Diamonds came out, the marketing director at WiDo called it &#8220;Steel Magnolias with Mormon characters,&#8221; which I&#8217;d have never pegged but it was exactly the right description. (Even though it takes place in the Midwestern United States not the South, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenjonesgowen.com&#038;blog=23539558&#038;post=991&#038;subd=karenjonesgowen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Look at My Favorite Book</title>
		<link>http://karenjonesgowen.com/2012/08/29/first-look-at-my-favorite-book-2/</link>
		<comments>http://karenjonesgowen.com/2012/08/29/first-look-at-my-favorite-book-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenjonesgowen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog Posts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First look at my favorite! Yes, I admit it. Lighting Candles in the Snow is my favorite. There was too much anxiety with Farm Girl and Uncut Diamonds, since they were my first, to really enjoy the process. And House of Diamonds, although I really like that novel, I was disappointed in the typesetting. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenjonesgowen.com&#038;blog=23539558&#038;post=982&#038;subd=karenjonesgowen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Painted Horses</title>
		<link>http://karenjonesgowen.com/2012/08/20/painted-horses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenjonesgowen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[downtown art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ogden Utah]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only an hour away from our home is the city of Ogden, the best kept secret in Utah. No crowds, no traffic, not a destination spot. But for my husband and me, it&#8217;s our new favorite place. Because among other attractions, how can you not love a city that has statues of painted horses lining [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenjonesgowen.com&#038;blog=23539558&#038;post=961&#038;subd=karenjonesgowen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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