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	<description>Views of the world from a tiny island</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Book Launch: Papaya &#8230; and other seeds</title>
		<link>http://sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/book-launch-papaya-and-other-seeds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Hanks Benoiton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As promised, here are a few photos from the launch party. You can see how involved the kids were in the event by the fact that they are in the press shots like the one where I&#8217;m giving a book to the Minister of Education.
Sam signed every book I did and would say &#8220;Next!&#8221; when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Banner Day</title>
		<link>http://sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/a-banner-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Hanks Benoiton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
The banner went up last week to prompt sales of my book. It just happens to hang at an intersection Mark has to drive by at least 4 times a day.
Photos from the book launch party Friday evening will be posted soon. It was a wonderful event, and I&#8217;m hanging on to the boost it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AWOL</title>
		<link>http://sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/awol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Hanks Benoiton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry about the lack of posts lately, but for some reason all the excitement that should be happening with the book about to launch Friday is wrapped in a black cloud of sadness and I&#8217;m left with so little energy that all I have goes into keeping the kids on what level ground I can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moron update</title>
		<link>http://sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/moron-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Hanks Benoiton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a link to a site someone set up in response to the whole Moronic Miguel miasma. I have no idea who wrote and posted this, but am pleased and thankful nonetheless that someone took the time to address this topic with informed opinion and reasonable thinking.
You may or may not want to click [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Milestone: 200 Posts</title>
		<link>http://sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/a-milestone-200-posts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Hanks Benoiton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago last April, Paradise Preoccupied was born. It came about as a spill over from all the stuff I wasn&#8217;t allowed to write about on adoption dot com, much considered &#8220;off topic&#8221; &#8230; some of which actually was &#8230; and the frustration I felt as being so stifled.
Life was so much different all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How word gets around in a small island country</title>
		<link>http://sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/how-word-gets-around-in-a-small-island-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Hanks Benoiton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;m not talking about my husband&#8217;s middle age crisis and resulting fallout, even though one reader &#8230; someone called Chris something, and I&#8217;m guessing is male &#8230; sent me a snotty comment that said with all the compassion and eloquence one might expect from someone taking the time to post, &#8220;Gee Sandra. Whine much?&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healing from a heel, or just adjusting</title>
		<link>http://sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/healing-from-a-heel-or-just-adjusting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Hanks Benoiton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I must be beginning to heal &#8230; or, at least for today I&#8217;ve managed to work up a good head of indignation at the betrayal that has brought the end of my marriage.
One reason for breaking our family, out of the very few that my husband has managed to share with me, is that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consuming Grief</title>
		<link>http://sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/consuming-grief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 06:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Hanks Benoiton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
It isn&#8217;t simply that I am eating misery, and little else, for breakfast, lunch and dinner these days, but also that it is eating me.
 
From the moment I gain consciousness in the morning, the awareness that the fact that the life I had been living so happily is over, gone for good, forces itself down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The FWWPH</title>
		<link>http://sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/the-fwwph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 10:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Hanks Benoiton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Being an activist and a &#8220;take charge&#8221; kind of woman, a lunch yesterday with two of my friends here has me fired up and chomping at the bit to get something going.
 
Both of these woman are beautiful, funny, talented, dedicated woman, and both are married to men who screw around &#8230; a lot. Their husband&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perspective on misery</title>
		<link>http://sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/perspective-on-misery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 05:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Hanks Benoiton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers now know the past few months have had me in a personal hell that I&#8217;m finding very difficult to rise above, to move along, to get myself back into life and seeing colors again.
Food, sleep, concentrated thought, energy of anything but the nervous type escape my abilities almost completely, and I&#8217;m perpetually frustrated by [...]]]></description>
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