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		<title>earth scouts visit paws</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2012/01/11/earth-scouts-visit-paws/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today our Earth Scouts group paid a visit to PAWS of Tinley Park. PAWS is a no-kill animal shelter dedicated to the protection of domestic animals. Our current Earth Scouts&#8217; focus is to make a difference through participatory democracy&#8211;and through those means, together, we chose to focus our attention on animal welfare. Specifically, we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>aidan the guitar player</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been a month of performance for Aidan. From theater to musicianship&#8211;he loves performing arts and doesn&#8217;t mind being in the spotlight too much either, as long as he&#8217;s on a stage that is. For the past six months or so, Aidan has been taking guitar lessons and has been having fun with it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>aidan&#8217;s big break</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/12/14/aidans-big-break/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aidan debuted in his first big stage production this past December 6, 2011 with the Stage Play Musical Theater Company. He played two roles&#8211;the Brave Combat Hero Soldier Prince and the Huntsman. Both were speaking parts and the latter included a full scene with a song. The show took place at the Lockport Township High [...]]]></description>
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		<title>chicagoland earth scouts go online</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/12/01/chicagoland-earth-scouts-go-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I have taken on the new responsibility of assisting my beautiful wife with a project dear to her heart. She has been a facilitator for a youth group called Earth Scouts for the past four years now; recently her co-facilitator has stepped down, allowing me the opportunity to step up, and I am very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>glass houses and safe danger</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/11/15/glass-houses-and-safe-danger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for something to do Sunday morning, we decided to drive west of the city to the sleepy little town of Plano, IL to visit one of the most famous works of modern residential architecture from the 20th century. Tucked amidst sparse trees beside the cold black rush of the Fox River in autumn is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>dalai lama comes to chicago</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/11/11/dalai-lama-comes-to-chicago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We learned recently that H.H. the XIV Dalai Lama is scheduled to give a public talk on non-violence at Loyola University in Chicago on April 26, 2012. Tickets are very limited, but we have sent in our request and are hopefully awaiting a response as the date nears. More information is on this event is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>october roundup</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/11/07/october-roundup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October has been a crazy fun month&#8211;so busy in fact, I&#8217;ve had no time to write. So, to keep the blog alive, I threw together a quick montage of snapshots in the video below. We&#8217;ve been hiking, going to fall fests and carnivals, visiting nearby cities, hosting parties, pumpkin hunting, and trick-or-treating to name a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>stone soup, homemade bread, and apple cider</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/10/15/stone-soup-homemade-bread-and-apple-cider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We spent yesterday afternoon sitting around a backyard campfire with a group of friends from Aidan&#8217;s Junior Great Books club. They had been reading folktales and recently read the classic folktale &#8220;Stone Soup.&#8221; You know the one&#8211;about the pilgrim who comes to town and tells the hungry town folk that he can make soup-enough-for-all from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>colorfully creating</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/10/04/colorfully-creating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, this fall has been a busy one so far with many activities and running around. One of the activities that Aidan has been participating in is a drop-in art class. Last week seemed an especially busy one and the thought of leaving the house by 9am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>quick trip north: a visit to harlow lake and sugarloaf mountain</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/09/25/quick-trip-north-a-visit-to-harlow-lake-and-sugarloaf-mountain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend, we drove like crazy people eight hours north to take care of some details as we edge ever closer to realizing our dreams of a northwoods retreat. We&#8217;re almost there now. After more than a year of searching for land, and over a hundred days of trying to secure ingress/egress easements before [...]]]></description>
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