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	<title>Preserving Your History &#187; Reminiscence</title>
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		<title>Save your 9/11 stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National September 11 Memorial and Museum is collecting history by archiving stories from September 11, 2001.  Everyone has a story from that day.  Everyone was touched in some way, no matter where in the world they were.  Add your story and make history.
Make History! Share your 9/11 story
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		<title>More Aha Moments</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trish</dc:creator>
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Has the Mutual of Omaha Aha Tour come to your hometown yet?  Check out their tour schedule to see if the van is going to be near you.  They are going around the country recording people&#8217;s aha moments.  Do you have one you&#8217;d like to share?
Here&#8217;s their definition of an aha moment: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Your Words Gonna Linger?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have a story to tell?  Have you thought about writing it down but talked yourself out of it?  &#8220;No one would want to hear my story.&#8221;  Not true!  Maybe you just need some help to get started.
I would recommend you pick up a copy of &#8220;My Words Are Gonna [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verbal Skeletons in Our History &#8211; The &#8220;N&#8221; Word</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 22:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trish</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reminiscence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My great-grandfather, Ed Rinne, was born in 1880 in Illinois.  As  a young man, he spent a short time farming with his father in Alabama.  I am lucky to have an audio interview with him done sometime in the late 70&#8217;s when he would have been 90+ years old.  But I was shocked when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listening is Powerful Medicine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite essays from the NPR show &#8220;This I Believe&#8221; entitled Listening is Powerful Medicine.  It reminds me of what a gift listening can be and how hard it is sometimes to just be present and let someone&#8217;s tale unfold. We need more people in our lives to say, as the old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keith Olbermann Says Goodbye to Mom</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.avividmemory.com/2009/04/keith-olbermann-says-goodbye-to-mom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a lovely tribute by Keith to his mom.  She was the ultimate baseball fan.

&#8220;&#62;
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		<title>I Want My Story To Be Told</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.avividmemory.com/2009/03/i-want-my-story-to-be-told/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.avividmemory.com/2009/03/i-want-my-story-to-be-told/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trish</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aha moments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mutual of Omaha is running a series of ads about people&#8217;s &#8220;aha&#8221; moments.  This clip is about Bob, a man finally writing his memoirs.
&#8220;I always wanted to be sure the truth was told about my life. And I realized, the only one who was going to make that truth was me.&#8221;
Watch Bob explain his &#8220;aha&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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