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		<title>Dealing with Disappointment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Tuan-Maclean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime in the very near future, half our country’s going to feel disappointment.  You may fall in that camp, or maybe me. Because my husband and I are on opposite sides of the political spectrum, someone in our marriage is going to be disappointed. How can we deal with our disappointment in a way that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Special Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Tuan-Maclean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back when Kai-Kai was born, my pediatrician told me I needed to have “special time” with 2 year old Ling-Ling—time set aside just for her even if it was only 10 minutes a day. “Then when you can’t give her attention, you can remind her that you will have special time later in the day.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Top 5 Attributes Do You Want to Pass On?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 01:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Tuan-Maclean</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[kids homework]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/whatshesaid/?p=2705</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight Kai came home with a homework assignment and said I had to help.  “I’ve been through 9thgrade, I don’t do my kids homework,” said I, the loving, supportive, full of energy Mom of the year. “Mom!  You need to help me—it’s an assignment.” “Where?” Suspicious.  “Let me see the assignment.” “Mom!  I’m so hurt!  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Take the Heat?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Tuan-Maclean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/whatshesaid/?p=2696</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Before they married, Mama told Baba she wanted to raise her children as Christians.  He agreed, neglecting to tell her until after their wedding that he was actually an apostate.  Throughout my childhood, Baba’s apostasy brought out the energy in him. “I,” he would proclaim, pointer finger in the air, chuckling with glee, deep dimples [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Testimony</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Edelschick</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/whatshesaid/?p=2693</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Spirituality Channel here at Patheos invited bloggers from across the site to share &#8220;stepping stones&#8221; from their spiritual journeys. I wrote something about how I experienced God in the years after Scott and Sarah died. For someone who regularly blogs, I was surprised by how exposed the whole thing made me feel. As someone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humans and Kings</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/whatshesaid/2012/09/humans-and-kings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Ferrell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/whatshesaid/?p=2686</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The king&#8217;s heart is like channels of water in the hand of the LORD; He turns it wherever He wishes. Proverbs 21:1 In my own small world I am in survival mode. Struggling to keep the souls in my home fed, loved, clothed. Juggling the two-yr-old’s numerous therapy sessions. Striving to teach young children to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex and Superglue:  Talking with Kids in a Hook-Up Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Tuan-Maclean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/whatshesaid/?p=2678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was a virgin when I got married at the ripe old age (back then) of 28.  I’ve kissed fewer men than the fingers on one hand.  I didn’t have a “serious” boyfriend until graduate school.  And for all those sexless, boyfriend-less, not being the sought-after-object-of-mens’ desires years, I felt pitiable, like a loser.  Even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fitbit, How I Love Thee</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Tuan-Maclean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/whatshesaid/?p=2672</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“You’re going to love this!!” Scott crowed when he got home, “This is going to change your life!” And he gave me. . . a pedometer.  A very expensive pedometer that we never in a million years would have bought for ourselves, but took when his workplace offered it for free. But the Fitbit is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abandoning My Kids for Paris</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/whatshesaid/2012/09/abandoning-my-kids-for-paris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Tuan-Maclean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/whatshesaid/?p=2663</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I did one of the most irresponsible things I’ve ever done as a parent.  I flew to Paris for a week—purely for fun—and left 3 children in their first full week of school without a parent at home. My sister surprised me just a few weeks ago by inviting me to go to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When you need art…</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/whatshesaid/2012/08/when-you-need-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Ferrell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chewy Lewis Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CS Lewis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join me in a collective sigh as we remember the irony of college graduation. For me, the irony: years of self-absorbed study, lectures, writing, scheduling, traveling, and planning culminated in some sort of misguided confidence. Truly, I had never felt more intelligent at a time I was actually so ignorant and so ill-prepared. Ignorant about [...]]]></description>
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