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		<title>No where to go but up after looking down</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The damn branch broke my concentration. I had not planned for an overhanging tree limb to block the pathway walking three-quarters of a mile from my home to the train station with my head facing my feet the entire time. But I was ordered by an eye doctor to lean my head all the way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contoveros.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9633701&amp;post=11135&amp;subd=contoveros&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Meditation Desperately Needed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s time for my disappearing act to begin. I close my eyes, wave an imaginary magic wand, and slowly begin to vanish from existence here. All thoughts and fears come to an end as I find protection beneath a cloak of invisibility, safe from the savages outside and the demons within. I don’t know which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contoveros.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9633701&amp;post=11125&amp;subd=contoveros&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t &#8216;better&#8217; yourself by berating another</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was seething when I saw my former US senator decry Blacks receiving food stamps from the government. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania told an Iowa audience this week that he would tackle this “race problem” if elected president, thus echoing the sentiments of his old congressional colleague, Newt Gingrich, who suggested poor students in city schools clean [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contoveros.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9633701&amp;post=11118&amp;subd=contoveros&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Too afraid to say a woman scared you</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Why did you shoot her?” “I don’t know.” With these three words, the defendant buried himself, and no matter what I did to rehabilitate a self-defense claim before the jury, we were sunk. It showed that no matter what one plans, sometimes something can, and always will, go wrong. The defendant in the jury trial had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contoveros.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9633701&amp;post=11111&amp;subd=contoveros&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Messaging yourself to another generation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder what life was like for ancestors living fifty, a hundred or even 200 years ago? How would you like to read a journal of some great, great, great-aunt forced to raise a family alone after her soldier husband had been killed in the Civil War? Like to see your great-grandfather dressed in Irish kilts speaking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contoveros.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9633701&amp;post=11100&amp;subd=contoveros&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life-Long Habit &#8216;Stroked&#8217; Up In Smoke</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can think of many ways to stop a bad habit without having to suffer a stroke that goes untreated for years and years. That’s what happened when I quit smoking.  I believe I suffered a mild stroke that went undiagnosed mainly because of my inability to describe its effect on me. If you ever [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contoveros.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9633701&amp;post=11090&amp;subd=contoveros&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Like to change history? Try writing it</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How’d you like to go back in time and correct mistakes made in the past? No, you couldn’t go back to the moment before you were conceived, or any other time in your far distant past. Go back to more recent moments – say in the past year or two &#8212; when you believed you knew so much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contoveros.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9633701&amp;post=11069&amp;subd=contoveros&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Resolve to stop anger from feeding on me</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anger. It hits like a poison arrow causing me to drop what I’m doing and focus on the pain it inflicts. Where does it come from? Is it shot from a bow of some unseen foe hoping to do me harm? Or does it arise from within when certain buttons are pushed, like a crazy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contoveros.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9633701&amp;post=11054&amp;subd=contoveros&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recalling childhood angels with dirty faces</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can think of no worse place to be than in a church, a temple or a synagogue when an unbidden and involuntary giggle would invade my psyche and take control of me. A “giggle,” is too mild a word: uncontrollable laughter would rise to the level of guffaws and downright knee-slappers’ right at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contoveros.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9633701&amp;post=11046&amp;subd=contoveros&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The one and only time I stood before an all-women jury, I ended up asking for a mistrial after the judge and prosecutor entered the jury deliberation room without my knowledge and in violation of the sequestration rule to safeguard against jury tampering. The judge, a prosecutorial-oriented jurist, denied my request for a new trial, and I objected [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contoveros.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9633701&amp;post=11027&amp;subd=contoveros&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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