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	<description>From corporate litigator to soul food maven, this is a blog about one southern girl's quest for adventure, happiness and homemade cookies.</description>
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		<title>Emerging from the fog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2018 01:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming back to this blog is like dusting off a favorite book that fell behind the bookcase&#8230; three and a half years ago. A lot has happened since my last post, but I&#8217;ll get to that later. I was inspired to write again, sort of, after taking a 27-hour sabbatical. I wasn&#8217;t sure where I&#8217;d [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>What Makes You Come Alive</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2014 03:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A New Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In Other News...]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Only a three month lag between posts this time. Progress? As expected, life is crazy. I&#8217;m neck deep in my campaign for city council, with a thousand houses left to canvass and the public forums coming up in two weeks. A majority of voters here vote by absentee ballot, so most of my campaigning [and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>On Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2014 22:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In Other News...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Business Of Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before I scare you off, no, I&#8217;m not talking about religion or spirituality. I hate the word &#8220;busy,&#8221; and I am trying to remove it from my vocabulary. Let&#8217;s just say life in the past six months since I last posted has been very full. When I turned 31 in January, I knew this was [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Year Of No Grudges</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Holding grudges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letting go]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Home for the holidays, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina I was sitting on the front porch of Poe&#8217;s, a popular bar on Sullivan&#8217;s Island, SC, recounting a conversation I had had with my grandmother the previous night. It was about holding grudges. &#8220;I only hold grudges against people when they disappoint me,&#8221; I said, pausing and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Juanita</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2014 23:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boyes Hot Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strong women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from spending the holidays back south. I was in Alabama for a week and a half for Christmas and Charleston, SC for a weekend for New Year&#8217;s Eve. This morning was my first back in Sonoma. I had a leisurely morning of watching Zoolander and then walked down to my neighborhood coffee [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Joys of Crowdfunding</title>
		<link>http://idratherbeinfrance.com/archives/3010</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 00:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Business Of Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drums & Crumbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food truck]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kickstarter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sonoma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember my first catering gig at the film set? We did it as a barter for our Kickstarter video. Well, the video is not only finished and awesome, the whole campaign is coming to an end in less than two days. Please check out the video and consider supporting my new food business as we [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Unexpected Results: Redux</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2013 05:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In Other News...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attorney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Bar Exam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exam advice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, another month passes. I can&#8217;t believe the week is over much less a month since I last posted something. The business is slowly crawling toward our vision, and if you want to see what we have been doing, check out our Facebook page: http://facebook.com/drumsandcrumbs. It occurred to me tonight that while I wrote about [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Eatin’ (Or Good Buyin’)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California??]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bounty from the farmer&#8217;s market I wouldn&#8217;t call myself particularly health conscious. My love of cocktails and pie should be beyond question at this point. I also sell fried chicken for a living. The constant ebb and flow of fad diets and exercise routines in my Facebook newsfeed inspires an internal eye roll on a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Alive!</title>
		<link>http://idratherbeinfrance.com/archives/2917</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Business Of Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Self portrait from the Drums &#38; Crumbs test kitchen Last night my business had its very first job. We catered a film set for a short film called Dub Step that one of Arthur&#8217;s buddies is directing. Over the course of the day, things went from nervous and excited to confident and prepared to borderline [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>On Choice</title>
		<link>http://idratherbeinfrance.com/archives/2884</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A New Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Business Of Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's this all about?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, is it April already? I&#8217;m sorry, I know I have been neglecting you. It&#8217;s been a weird time for me the past couple of months. I officially announced my new business and celebrated my 30th birthday at the end of January and then took the California bar exam (again) at the end of February. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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