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	<description>Life as a councilwoman and environmentalist in northeast Ohio</description>
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		<title>Identifying my month for change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is March my magical month? The best time to start new things? Maybe it's just my best time for dropping bad habits.]]></description>
		<link>http://janegoodman.com/wordpress/?p=72</link>
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		<title>Dinner with friends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mom's gilt and cream china, my first try at making dhal, sumptuous chocolate dessert candy with tart cherries and lavender, good company. Priceless. ]]></description>
		<link>http://janegoodman.com/wordpress/?p=64</link>
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		<title>Icehouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I watched an icicle grow, gravity working with water, together placing a drop at the low tip where at the right temperature the liquid becomes solid and, voila, another quarter inch of ice hangs off the gutter.]]></description>
		<link>http://janegoodman.com/wordpress/?p=58</link>
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		<title>Feeding the birds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re getting a winter whuppin&#8217;, this time its thick and wet snow. Hard on the blower, heavy on the shovel.
The birds still show up for breakfast.
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		<link>http://janegoodman.com/wordpress/?p=48</link>
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		<title>Recycling day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure why I choose to walk the dog on trash mornings. It just aggravates me and that&#8217;s the wrong way to start any day.
This morning I looked down the block and saw only three homes with blue recycling bags on the curb. Three out of thirty-two, and one was mine.
I passed a curb [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://janegoodman.com/wordpress/?p=42</link>
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		<title>Ah, tis the sound of the snowblower in the morning</title>
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First big snow. Finding out the painful way that my broken wrist is not healed enough to do much real shoveling, I approached the snowblower cautiously so as not to startle it. Poured half a bottle of Heet into the tank, primed the pump, said a tweet-sized prayer to the god Toro and pushed the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://janegoodman.com/wordpress/?p=37</link>
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		<title>A New Year&#8217;s Resolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New years resolutions are as important in the making, I think, as they are in the doing. They at least get us to put a mental filter on our actions, a "to do" item on the list. ]]></description>
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