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	<title>Author Kay Strom</title>
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		<title>Help for Nikki~</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2018 05:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[" generosity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[a helping hand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gift of love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Year's Resolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Years Resolutiion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nikki]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that we are in the last days of 2018, I&#8217;m hearing lots of talk about New Year&#8217;s Resolutions.  Personally, I&#8217;ve never been a big fan of them.  I mean, why do so many people make resolutions when they aren&#8217;t &#8230; <a href="http://www.kaystrom.com/blog/help-for-nikki">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s to Being Grandma!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2018 01:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kaystrom]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Grandmothers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Native American wisdom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure how I would have made it through childhood without my grandma.  She loved me, comforted me, encouraged me, and taught me.  She told me the stories of our family.  She loved God, and she told me why: &#8230; <a href="http://www.kaystrom.com/blog/heres-to-being-grandma">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Candle or the Mirror?</title>
		<link>http://www.kaystrom.com/blog/candle-or-the-mirror</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2018 05:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kaystrom]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edith Wharton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[encouragement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pass it on]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflection]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week, as I unpacked and cleaned and straightened, I came across a box packed with picture I want to keep close &#8211; pictures of my children as little ones, of my own school days, pictures of Christmases and birthdays &#8230; <a href="http://www.kaystrom.com/blog/candle-or-the-mirror">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>To All of Us:  Welcome Back!</title>
		<link>http://www.kaystrom.com/blog/to-all-of-us-welcome-back</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2018 05:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AFTER so many months away from all of you, it seems as though we are coming home again.  I&#8217;m so glad to be back with you. Much has happened here in my corner of the world since I bid you &#8230; <a href="http://www.kaystrom.com/blog/to-all-of-us-welcome-back">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Time Out</title>
		<link>http://www.kaystrom.com/blog/time-out</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2018 18:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, friends, followers, and you who just stopped by~ After eleven years, my blog is having difficulties, and Facebook has stopped reposting.  So I am going to take a break until I  get the blog fixed. Then I&#8217;ll come back fresh and renewed and &#8230; <a href="http://www.kaystrom.com/blog/time-out">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who Are We?</title>
		<link>http://www.kaystrom.com/blog/who-are-we</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2018 03:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I inherited a box stuffed full of information on Manzanar, the World War II Japanese internment camp.  A sweet little old lady writer had accumulated it for a book on the unthinkable that she was certain would never happen again, but she died &#8230; <a href="http://www.kaystrom.com/blog/who-are-we">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden Pain</title>
		<link>http://www.kaystrom.com/blog/hidden-pain</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2018 19:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t it amazing how one thing in life prepares us for another? In one of my early books, Helping Women in Crisis, I wrote a chapter on suicide. I didn&#8217;t know much about the topic, except that a fellow I &#8230; <a href="http://www.kaystrom.com/blog/hidden-pain">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>War and No Peace</title>
		<link>http://www.kaystrom.com/blog/war-and-no-peace</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2018 03:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kaystrom]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[atomic bomb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enola Gay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiroshima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese surrender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manhattan Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nagasaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nuclear war.  The words that fill our hearts with dread and send chills down our backs are being spoken far too nonchalantly these days.  By people who should know better but refuse to step down, and by those who understand far too little but &#8230; <a href="http://www.kaystrom.com/blog/war-and-no-peace">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hats off to the Students of Stoneman Douglas High</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2018 05:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kaystrom]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["Road to Change" March For Our Lives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NRA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parkland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vote]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hooray for the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida! Everyone&#8217;s heard about the 19-year-old former student who walked into the school with a legally purchased AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and killed 17 people&#8211;mostly students.  I cannot begin to imagine what those survivors experienced.  Yet &#8230; <a href="http://www.kaystrom.com/blog/hats-off-to-the-students-of-stoneman-douglass-high">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Do Facts Matter Anymore?</title>
		<link>http://www.kaystrom.com/blog/do-facts-matter-anymore</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2018 04:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kaystrom]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We Americans are being flooded with lots of crazy stuff that way too many people believe.  I mean, stuff that can actually be proven wrong.  I guess, it&#8217;s not that surprising in times of such awful partisanship as we are currently enduring.  Maybe, but it&#8217;s still terribly depressing.  Partisanship is one thing, &#8230; <a href="http://www.kaystrom.com/blog/do-facts-matter-anymore">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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