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	<title>Debra Darvick</title>
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		<title>Writing Out of Their Depths</title>
		<link>http://debradarvick.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/writing-out-of-their-depths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jewish Book Fair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lauren Grodstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norman Lebrecht]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SJ Rozan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, your erstwhile Book Fair reporter is back in the saddle. It&#8217;s been a wild ride being on both sides of the corral, listening to wonderful authors and having the delight of presenting my own book as well.
First up is a bindery of novelists: SJ Rozan who penned The Shanghai Moon,  A Friend of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debradarvick.wordpress.com&blog=3701695&post=1506&subd=debradarvick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>November &#8212; My Favorite Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carolyn Hessel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irwin Shaw]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jewish Book Fair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish Book Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish Book Month]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love of reading]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And not because I like pumpkin pie.  And definitely not because fall is waning and we begin the unavoidable trek into winter. No. The eleventh month is high on my list because November is Jewish Book Month, celebrated with a book lover&#8217;s equivalent to a ninth inning grand slam &#8212; Jewish Book Fairs.
You don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debradarvick.wordpress.com&blog=3701695&post=1484&subd=debradarvick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Official &#8212; I Love Jewish Faces is Out!</title>
		<link>http://debradarvick.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/its-official-i-love-jewish-faces-is-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Fair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bookshelf Picks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish Book Month]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish children's books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish diversity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After six years, three editors, rewrites, more hours of photo research than I ever dreamed possible, and a hefty yet worthy debate over the implications of using the word Shabbos, Shabbat or Sabbath, my children&#8217;s book &#8212; I Love Jewish Faces &#8212; has been published!  Two slim copies arrived via plain old USPS but it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debradarvick.wordpress.com&blog=3701695&post=1451&subd=debradarvick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-spouse Pronouns</title>
		<link>http://debradarvick.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/anti-spouse-pronouns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divorce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How does something as small as a possessive pronoun hold so many years of disdain, frustration, and enmity?  I’m talking about the possessive pronouns used by ex-spouses.  Not the “my” as in “my ex-husband” or “my former wife”. But the “your” as in “your mother”. Or the “her” as in “her father”. Came [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debradarvick.wordpress.com&blog=3701695&post=1439&subd=debradarvick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For a Sweet New Year</title>
		<link>http://debradarvick.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/for-a-sweet-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High Holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judaism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rosh Hashanah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Torah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yom Kippur]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ramping up for the High Holidays I do not know how many posts I will be able to manage in the next few weeks.  There is all that cooking to do, not to mention the harder work of soul searching. So if you look to the right you will see a new addition to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debradarvick.wordpress.com&blog=3701695&post=1428&subd=debradarvick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Would Big Bird Do?</title>
		<link>http://debradarvick.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/what-would-big-bird-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[texting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t believe I scooped my twenty-something daughter with my vast knowledge of up and coming websites. Here&#8217;s the back story. A guy and a friend, local college grads bound for law school, have an idea on the fly &#8211;  create a site inviting text messages that distill (operative word here) the texters&#8217; prior evening&#8217;s experiences. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debradarvick.wordpress.com&blog=3701695&post=1341&subd=debradarvick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have a Cookie&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://debradarvick.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/have-a-cookie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Good News to Know News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cookies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kosher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sweet Tammy's]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8220;Our ovens are always warm, and you are always welcome.&#8221;
Ranking right up there with Sprinkles in LA and Magnolia Bakery in New York, Sweet Tammy&#8217;s not only has the warm oven welcome down pat but the baked goods are outta this world. Chocolate chips, oatmeal raisin, and snickerdoodles; more pies than you can shake [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debradarvick.wordpress.com&blog=3701695&post=1271&subd=debradarvick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Debbi by Any Other Name</title>
		<link>http://debradarvick.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/a-debbi-by-any-other-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Then & Now]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenyon College]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Newman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reunions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty some odd years ago I changed my name. Nothing too radical &#8212; from Debbi to Debra &#8212; but it was a step I&#8217;d wanted to take for years. At the time I was swimming in Debbis and Debbies, Debs and a Debi or two. My first and closest friend here in Michigan was a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debradarvick.wordpress.com&blog=3701695&post=1275&subd=debradarvick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twice Blessed</title>
		<link>http://debradarvick.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/twice-blessed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bookshelf Picks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Quindlen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blessings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal essay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ I love Anna Quindlen.  I envy Anna Quindlen. I&#8217;ve wanted to BE Anna Quindlen from time to time. Ever since her Life in the 30&#8217;s column for the New York Times I have admired her.  I&#8217;ll never forget the one she wrote about sharing books with her son. She likened his mind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debradarvick.wordpress.com&blog=3701695&post=1268&subd=debradarvick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>53 ski-doo (almost)</title>
		<link>http://debradarvick.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/53-ski-doo-almost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water skiing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Foolish? Risky? Foolhardy? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
But I had to do it anyway. When my friend said, &#8220;Wanna try?&#8221; I realized I did. I wanted to do something utterly new. Something completely out of my comfort zone. Something that up until that moment I would have said, &#8220;What? Are you outta your mind? No way!&#8221;
So I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debradarvick.wordpress.com&blog=3701695&post=1265&subd=debradarvick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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