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	<title>The Bridge Beat</title>
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		<title>Ada and Frank Get the Blues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People say that we often romanticize the past.  We tend to forget what made us upset and think, &#8220;Gee, why did I dislike my situation so much?&#8221;  But not Ada.  No.  She keeps her rage and disdain right in the front pocket of her purse where she can pull it out like the pistol of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Buffalo’s Cast of Vacationing Characters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you think I was gone forever?  That this Bridge Beat of a blog had bludgeoned itself into oblivion?  That I had taken up writing for a newspaper, covering the municipal beat of an obscure suburb denoting it as my true vocation by which abandoning the zaniness of my insatiably creative brain?  Is insatiably a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebridgebeat.com/2010/08/new-buffalos-cast-of-vacationing-characters/</link>
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		<title>Stress, Economy &amp; the Workplace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of you know from my confession post that I&#8217;ve been meditating.  Occasionally I receive updates from my meditation teacher about how to handle stress.
I want to share this article with all of you to get your thoughts:
It&#8217;s very interesting and comes at an appropriate time for review.  Because of the current state of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebridgebeat.com/2010/08/stress-economy-the-workplace/</link>
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		<title>Childhood Chronicles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frank&#8217;s surgery led me to spend the weekend at my parent&#8217;s house.  Per usual, I stayed in my old bedroom where I still have piles and piles of papers, books and pictures of which I haven&#8217;t decided their fate.  It&#8217;s because I&#8217;m a pack rat packing away chronicles of my childhood. For example, I still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Waiting Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers,
I&#8217;m sorry I was absent last week.  I was busy with regular life duties and the preoccupation with my dad&#8217;s surgery.  But there is nothing to worry about, he is doing well.
I&#8217;ve heard that anytime there is a big happening within a family (wedding, funeral, major illness, major life-changing-event) the craziness of a family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Scene:
Sir Opti and I are on the way to a friend&#8217;s Sunday afternoon party.  We pull up to a very lovely colonial home with a well-manicured lawn in the west suburbs.   We proceed to walk to the backyard.  We narrow in on an object in the backyard.  We come to a quick realization that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebridgebeat.com/2010/07/the-party/</link>
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		<title>Lilith Fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, July 17th, thousands of women and 8 men stood in line with no shade and 100 degree heat to relive a concert that epitomized the late 90s &#8212; Lilith Fair.  However, the only thing this day ended up epitomizing was the phrase, you can&#8217;t go back home.  Save for the last 3 performers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebridgebeat.com/2010/07/lilith-fail/</link>
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		<title>Ada &amp; My Confession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ada, my mother, is not the greatest listener.  And by not the greatest, I mean she listens not at all.  When I was getting ready for school and eating breakfast in the kitchen, my mother would be bombarding me with questions while at the same time getting distracted by the crumbs on the counter, my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebridgebeat.com/2010/07/ada-my-confession/</link>
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		<title>Chicago and Independence Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On this July 4th as we celebrate our country&#8217;s independence from the red coats, by lighting fireworks, drinking Bud Light and relishing in the by-products of our capitalistic endeavors (lake houses, gas grills, el caminos),  I would like to feature some of the unique things about our independent country:
1.) Let us be proud of red, white and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebridgebeat.com/2010/07/chicago-and-independence-day/</link>
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		<title>Java’ing in Iowa City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chicago:
Population: 2,833,321
# of housing units: 1,152,868
Size: 227 square miles
Coffee scene &#8212; 0.
Iowa City:
Population: 62,649
# of housing units: 26,083
Size: 24 square miles
Coffee scene:  is and will always be &#8212; The Java House
Behold, friends and readers and those who fall into both categories, the best coffee in the world.
As an alumni of University of Iowa, I expected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebridgebeat.com/2010/06/javaing-in-iowa-city/</link>
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