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		<title>Invest in Yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neysajensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of investing in yourself as a writer (were we? Indeed.), here is a conference that is well worth your investment. It’s called Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers and it’s held in the Salt Lake City area each June. The conference is a week long, so it is definitely an investment, but the cost [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemstatewriters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18935388&amp;post=3648&amp;subd=gemstatewriters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Resolutions, Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Mapp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My resolutions for 2012 Work on improving my health. Spend more time with my husband. Spend more time with my children. Spend more time with my friends and extended family. Spend more time taking joy from each and every day. In my previous blogs, I’ve written about my number one, two, and four resolutions.  This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemstatewriters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18935388&amp;post=3644&amp;subd=gemstatewriters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chihuahua Trapped In Bathtub!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Allen Conner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Certain words and phrases tend to catch our attention. In the mornings, as I&#8217;m starting my day, I often scroll through the news on the internet to see what is going on in the world. Journalists and editors have a knack for creating attention grabbing headlines or clips. How many times do you stop in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemstatewriters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18935388&amp;post=3636&amp;subd=gemstatewriters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Age Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Fredericks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The statistics are in. Demographers and human resource specialists predict a ‘looming crisis’ (Carroll and Moss 2002; Johnston and Packer 1987; Green 2000).  The workforce is projected to grow only 8.2% between 2008 and 2018 compared to more than 12% in the previous decade and workers that remain will be older and more diverse (Employment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemstatewriters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18935388&amp;post=3629&amp;subd=gemstatewriters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Search of the Great American Historical</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clarissa Southwick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy President’s Day to our American readers. For most, this celebration of our great historic leaders is nothing more than a three day weekend, a chance to shop the sales and spend more time with the family. As a writer of historical fiction, I naturally see it as a time to reflect on our country’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemstatewriters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18935388&amp;post=3619&amp;subd=gemstatewriters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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