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		<title>Lunch With the CEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Everybody Loves Raymond; lunch; CEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All morning long that quote from the movie Office Space kept replaying in my head, “Uh-oh. Sounds like somebody&#8217;s got a case of the Mondays.” I’m almost certain you’ve encountered a “case of the Mondays” regardless of the day of week. You sit down at your desk ready to conquer a plethora of projects only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barbaratownsley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6720951&amp;post=124&amp;subd=barbaratownsley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rosewood Walls and Wallowing in My Own Guilt</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 03:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got nervous when I looked down at my cell phone to see that it was my mother calling.  It was Monday afternoon and she rarely ever calls me during the day.  I thought for sure she must have seem my Facebook pictures from the weekend bachelorette party I&#8217;d planned for a girlfriend and that she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barbaratownsley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6720951&amp;post=118&amp;subd=barbaratownsley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Text Message Train Has Rolled Through Town Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barabara Townsley</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://barbaratownsley.wordpress.com/?p=116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After nearly 3 months of no text messaging, I&#8217;m back on the texting train or perhaps I should say I&#8217;ve fallen off the wagon.  I&#8217;m using again, text messages that is.  Regardless, I&#8217;ve again embraced the convenience of a quick text to get an address of a restaurant or to confirm plans with friends. I must [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barbaratownsley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6720951&amp;post=116&amp;subd=barbaratownsley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Step Ahead of My New Year&#8217;s Resolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barabara Townsley</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://barbaratownsley.wordpress.com/?p=109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an attempt to make and actually stick to my New Year&#8217;s resolution, I thought why not start before the big rhinestone encrusted ball drops in Time Square.  So three days ahead of schedule I did the deed and the minute I hung up the phone with my cell phone provider I felt a wave of panic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barbaratownsley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6720951&amp;post=109&amp;subd=barbaratownsley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Defriend, Declutter and Don&#8217;t Text</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an attempt to declutter my life, I'm giving up text messages, Facebook and instant messenger. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barbaratownsley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6720951&amp;post=107&amp;subd=barbaratownsley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let Sit Before Removing Cork. A Review of Lightning in a Bottle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barabara Townsley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[B.B. King]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Radio City Music Hall]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://barbaratownsley.wordpress.com/?p=103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in the Philadelphia Arts Writer, Volume 2, Issue5.   I&#8217;m sitting comfortably in my seat at the Ritz Five and before too long I feel as though I&#8217;m a member of the audience at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Even though I&#8217;m not all that familiar with the sound of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barbaratownsley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6720951&amp;post=103&amp;subd=barbaratownsley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surviving Single in the City</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barabara Townsley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s difficult enough navigating the hardware store alone or attempting to install a window air conditioning unit. But no need to fret ladies. Assembled here you’ll find a list of household items, you likely already own, to help you survive as a single in the big city. Plus, these tips will hopefully save you a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barbaratownsley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6720951&amp;post=80&amp;subd=barbaratownsley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Second Date?</title>
		<link>http://barbaratownsley.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/a-second-date/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barabara Townsley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bus]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://barbaratownsley.wordpress.com/?p=83</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I over heard a stranger on the bus chatting away to whom I assumed was one of her close girlfriends. She&#8217;d apparently been on three dates with the same guy now and was contemplating what they should do on the next one. &#8220;One, two, three dates and now this will be the fourth and maybe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barbaratownsley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6720951&amp;post=83&amp;subd=barbaratownsley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Invisible to the Outside World</title>
		<link>http://barbaratownsley.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/invisible-to-the-outside-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m accident prone, this much is true.  I mean there was the time I went skiing and broke my nose when a misguided T-bar collided with my face or how about when I was thirteen years old and throw a rotten corn cob at my younger brother causing a bone chip in my right elbow. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barbaratownsley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6720951&amp;post=71&amp;subd=barbaratownsley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Customer Service Number</title>
		<link>http://barbaratownsley.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/no-customer-service-number/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barabara Townsley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s the utility company again and they insist that I have an unpaid gas bill. I find that hard to believe since I’m the analycital type. In fact I still balance my check book each month when the statement arrives in the mail. You may laugh, but I blame it on the fact that my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barbaratownsley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6720951&amp;post=65&amp;subd=barbaratownsley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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