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	<title>Karen Spears Zacharias</title>
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		<title>Memorial Day &amp; the Mattress Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 23:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Spears Zacharias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in Portland for a book event tonight (Thursday) at Powell&#8217;s bookstore (7 p.m. Cedar Hills). So this morning I did a round of media in advance of the event. The first stop included an interview with KATU&#8217;s AMNorthwest. My time slot was the last segment, which meant that I had to wait in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing the Ugly Cry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 05:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Spears Zacharias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ms. Terry wants everybody to know one thing: &#8220;I may not be the happiest person you&#8217;ve ever met but I&#8217;m the most grateful person you&#8217;ll meet.&#8221; If that sounds incongruent, it&#8217;s only because you don&#8217;t know the rest of the story yet. Ms. Terry works as a motel maid. It was the only job she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Poetic Conspiracy</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/karenspearszacharias/2012/05/22/a-poetic-conspiracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 03:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Spears Zacharias</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/karenspearszacharias/?p=4175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So I have this beautiful neice. Taylor. You know a girl is beautiful when she looks like this after a morning of fishing. Like her brothers and her father, Taylor loves to fish. She&#8217;s pretty good at it, too, as you can see. Taylor would never tell you this but I&#8217;m her favorite aunt. That&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Redneck &amp; the Owlet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 02:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Spears Zacharias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s my friend Swede upon that ladder rigging up a redneck fix to a very complicated problem. Swede is no tree-hugging liberal. He&#8217;s a contractor for classic custom-built homes. But on Sunday, Swede was trying to fix the home of this little critter. Swede nicknamed him Harry. I&#8217;m not sure he is a he but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love Wins but at what cost?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 15:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Spears Zacharias</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/karenspearszacharias/?p=4151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I worry about The Marine sometimes. He would scoff at me for that, so I&#8217;ve never made mention of it until now. The news reports of 29-year-old Jaman Iseminger of Indianapolis, In. are a reminder to me that there is a real cost to serving others the way Jaman did, the way The Marine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for the Church to step up</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/karenspearszacharias/2012/05/18/time-for-the-church-to-step-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 05:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Spears Zacharias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; It never fails. Every time I speak before any group about A SILENCE OF MOCKINGBIRDS, someone will approach me, usually quietly, and confide one of the following: - They were abused as children - They have a grandchild who has been abused - They have a friend or family member who is being abusive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Sides of Creation</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/karenspearszacharias/2012/05/14/two-sides-of-creation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Spears Zacharias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; This is the place where my mother creates. Had she been born to another time and place, my mother would likely have made her living as an artist. But circumstances and three children and a dead husband demanded else of her. Throughout her life my mother has been a pursuer of beauty. Where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raised by Lousy Moms</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/karenspearszacharias/2012/05/13/raised-by-lousy-moms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 15:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Spears Zacharias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dolores Aguilar 1929 – Aug. 7, 2008 Dolores Aguilar, born in 1929 in New Mexico, left us on August 7, 2008. She will be met in the afterlife by her husband, Raymond, her son, Paul Jr., and daughter, Ruby. She is survived by her daughters Marietta, Mitzi, Stella, Beatrice, Virginia and Ramona, and son Billy; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Children set the Example</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/karenspearszacharias/2012/05/12/when-children-set-the-example/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 18:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Spears Zacharias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: Traveling back across country today. Today&#8217;s guest post is from the lovely Renea Winchester, author of one of my favs &#8211; In the Garden with Billy. &#160; By Renea Winchester A few weeks ago, my daughter and I visited The Book Exchange in Marietta, Georgia for an event where Karen Spears Zacharias was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fifty Shades of Grey: Masturbation of the Mind</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/karenspearszacharias/2012/05/10/50-shades-of-grey-masturbation-of-the-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 06:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Spears Zacharias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The young prosecuting attorney called me into his office. &#8220;Take a look at these,&#8221; he said, handing me a stack of photos. We&#8217;d just left the courtroom where a sex offender was given less than five years for sodomizing an 8-year old boy and raping  a 12-year-old girl. The deal was offered in an effort [...]]]></description>
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