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		<title>Why I am optimistic about the future</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2018 20:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many folks are depressed. Many people I know are withdrawing from social media, unable to process the discourse. Unfriending is going on en-masse, even between people who have been friends for years. Alas, some folks are withdrawing from life completely. 1 in 3 people in the US are on some form of anxiety or depression [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Blogs &#8216;n&#8217; YouTube</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graeme]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2018 22:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hey folks, I thought I&#39;d share some interesting travel-related blogs and YouTube channels that I follow: Blogs totesmboats.blogspot.com Ester has decided to live on a houseboat on Lake Union, Seattle. Follow her journey. rootlessroutes.com Follow Eli, who in her 50&#39;s decided to take to the road on an endless road trip with her cat, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Readers: What authors really want from you</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graeme]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2014 18:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Readers, what do authors want from you? Ha, that&#8217;s an open-ended question isn&#8217;t it? I bet you answered &#8220;to buy all your books.&#8221; Yes, that&#8217;s true. Most of us desire to make a living from our writing, not so much to be stinking rich but enough that we can make writing our full-time career. That&#8217;s a win [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Orbis: My charity of choice</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graeme]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2014 01:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Charities are a very personal thing. Each of us chooses to donate for a variety of reasons. Often we assist an organization that affects us or our families, typically someone close that suffers from an ailment or perhaps died from it. Many people gravitate to such medical charities, or perhaps to humanitarian efforts around the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What annoys me as a reader</title>
		<link>https://graemeing.com/commentary/what-annoys-me-as-a-reader/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graeme]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2014 19:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a writer, I&#8217;m fairly forgiving of books that I read; fully appreciative of the long hours, sweat, anguish, mood swings and sheer number of hours required to write a book. I hope that few readers take books for granted. Writing is hard work and takes a lot of time. Knowing this, if I spot [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Just Do it</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graeme]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2013 23:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I trust everyone had a super Holiday time, and we still have New Years to come? I&#8217;ve been sick since Christmas Eve and have achieved very little except wallow in self-pity. Tamara says that men make the worst patients. I won&#8217;t disagree. It has given me plenty of time to catch up on TV (including [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Do you review books?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graeme]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2013 23:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s talk about book reviews. Do you review books? Many people don&#8217;t. Some folks have grown up in a culture where professional critics review books or movies, usually in newspapers and magazines. It&#8217;s easy to forget that social media gives us all the power to influence others by writing a review. Other people just don&#8217;t [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Don&#039;t drive like an ass!</title>
		<link>https://graemeing.com/commentary/dont-drive-like-an-ass/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graeme]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 04:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you didn&#8217;t know, I&#8217;m a dilettante student of urban planning and transportation efficiency. Forgive me, but sometimes I like to rant about gross inefficiencies I see in the urban transport sphere. This is one such post. 🙂 I&#8217;m sorry Americans (especially Californians), but there is a reason many interstates are either at a standstill, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">1030</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Are self-publishing and ebooks destroying our bookstore heritage?</title>
		<link>https://graemeing.com/commentary/are-ebooks-and-self-publishing-destroying-our-bookstore-heritage/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graeme]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There has been considerable press for years about what effect self-publishing and ebooks are having on our literary culture, be it bookstores and libraries or even literary masterpieces themselves. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve all heard the rhetoric that allowing &#8220;normal&#8221; folk to publish whatever they want with no agent or publisher to act as a gatekeeper [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The St. Patrick&#039;s Day Green-Eyed Monster</title>
		<link>https://graemeing.com/commentary/st-patricks-day-green-eyed-monster/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graeme]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day everybody! We just got back from a visit to our local winery, Orfila. OK, not the typical beer-swilling venue you&#8217;d expect for today, but after wine tasting we had a great picnic with bread and cheese, and yes, I had a great Irish Stout to wash it all down. I didn&#8217;t [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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