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		<title>Seagull nation</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/seagull-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My precious mother died young in 1983 at the age of 56, but before she left, she lived a life that was an embarassment of riches, literally. She grew up in the recently Old South &#8212; the New Orleans of the first half of the 20th Century &#8212; with footmen, chaffeurs, cooks, maids, summer homes, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=150&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A friend is someone who votes for you</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My earlier essay, An open letter to all my self-proclaimed “conservative” friends, got a few people asking, &#8220;Will I still have any friends if I repost THAT?&#8221; I want to be really, really clear. In An open letter&#8230;, I was asking my friends who frequently quote the most extreme of the conservative pundits (Beck, Limbaugh, and Palin) and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=685&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An open letter to all my self-proclaimed “conservative” friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Specifically anybody who by today&#8217;s standards considers themselves any combination of ultra-conservative, Tea Party, far right-wing, neocon, fundamentalist, religious right, and also my friend. I&#8217;m writing to you. I&#8217;m confused. Are you what you say or what you do? You aren&#8217;t a racist. I know that because you have friends and colleagues of other races [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=661&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>12 steps to health, harmony &amp; prosperity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t want to be happy, warning: This essay is not for you. A year ago, I was dead broke. I&#8217;d lost everything but my clothes and furniture to real estate investments and a brokerage that went belly-up after a 100-year hurricane washed it all away. No home, no car, no 401K, no money. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=2044&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t vote Republican if you love thy gay neighbor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the part where I have to get blunt. Not including the Westboro Baptist gang and their sadly misguided ilk, who I&#8217;m fairly certain wouldn&#8217;t be reading my blog anyway, is there anyone in the U.S. today who doesn&#8217;t know and love at least one gay person &#8212; friend, colleague, parent, child, cousin, neighbor? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=2013&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cyber-squeaking = not helpful</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/squeaky-wheels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I moved from Galveston to Atlanta last February. I love my island and quickly adopted the habit of reading the Galveston Daily News online a couple of times a week to appease my homesickness. It didn&#8217;t take long for me to notice a pattern in the online comments about a few apparently salacious subjects: the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1919&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shareholders only, please</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: There are truly stupid people of all stripes in this country. This essay calls out certain classes of them. If you are not one of them, then I am not talking about you. If you feel singled out, then maybe you should call somebody. __________________________________________ I haven&#8217;t written in nearly four months because I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1850&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to get a job in 8 (kinda) easy steps</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/how-to-get-a-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I uprooted my whole life in March because I could no longer make a living in real estate in Galveston, Texas. I spent my first three months in Atlanta unpacking and getting settled, being homesick and depressed and wondering what I was going to do next. But self-pity isn&#8217;t a strategy. What I needed was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1755&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t quit your day job</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/dont-quit-your-day-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took a sabbatical from the real world in 2006. I called it a &#8220;real estate career.&#8221; I was bored with my corporate job, burned out and tired of the travel. Surely there was a more exciting way to live life and make a living, too? I planned my exit well. Having been in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1707&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Fox in the Box Case</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/the-fox-in-a-box-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Casey Anthony verdict is shocking, but not unique. I knew an actress named Marcia Brushingham, 47, murdered by her brother David, 64, who stuffed her body in a plywood box he built and dropped at a bus stop at Lincoln Center in NYC in 1990. In the media, the case was known as &#8220;The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1673&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom&#8217;s just another word</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/freedoms-just-another-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[freedom versus independence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[what is freedom?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re all free in this country &#8212; every one of us. We&#8217;re free to get up every morning and go to (or look for) the job of our choice in a field we alone select. We&#8217;re free to partake of a multitude of educational and training opportunities, eat as much of our favorite food as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1584&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing my new food blog</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/introducing-my-new-food-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cajun food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cordon bleu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food porn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recipes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[southern cooking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I confess. My mother was a food star. She&#8217;s the one who taught me that life&#8217;s greatest pleasure is found in good wine, good food, and good conversation &#8212; that everything else is just filler until the next meal. My mother, Kaki, was the love child of Edith Bunker &#38; Scarlett O&#8217;Hara, with a little Lucy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1577&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If words could kill…</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/if-words-could-kill%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[adoptee in search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birthmother search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[can words kill?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coming out to your mother]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[journaling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[what not to write in a diary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What shall I write about? I asked. The smell of rain. Thirty minutes in your journal, someone said. Haven’t journaled in a long, long time, I thought. Not since I accidentally on purpose left my diary in my mother’s room and she read it and got her feelings hurt, which was predictable because I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1560&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I am not my FICO score</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/i-am-not-my-fico-score/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Real Estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit score]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FEMA assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FICO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida drug testing for welfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home ownership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hurricane Ike]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joplin tornado]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started buying real estate in 2003, I developed an unusual compulsion. I was a FICOmaniac. I joined one of those services that keeps track of your credit scores from the three major bureaus, and checked it nearly daily. I charted the ups and downs like a stock broker, kept spreadsheets, and analyzed every [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1517&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The First Amendment says nothing about the right to be published</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/the-first-amendment-says-nothing-about-the-right-to-publish/</link>
		<comments>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/the-first-amendment-says-nothing-about-the-right-to-publish/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 16:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[anonymous comments online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online newspaper comments]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[should online comments be moderated?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Should newspapers publish every letter to the editor and every comment on every letter online, no matter how vile, insensitive, ignorant, petulant, or mean?"<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1468&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Job Search 2.0.11</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/job-search-2-0-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 16:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alice Melott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[applying for a job]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finding work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to find a job]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HP]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[using LinkedIn to find a job]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven't looked for a job in a while, I've got news for you: The process has changed.

Gone are the days of calling your dad's best friend, the CEO, and asking for a job, any job, and having one the next morning.

Gone are the days of mailing in your resume, then following up with a phone call and actually reaching someone of consequence.

Gone are the days of sitting with a potential employer and walking through your job history, explaining the gaps and emphasizing the good stuff, asking what they want and saying, "I can do THAT!"<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1445&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of tornadoes &amp; hurricanes &amp; the uniquely qualified</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/of-tornadoes-hurricanes-the-uniquely-qualified/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 14:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Storms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 tornadoes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[meaning of Easter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meaning of Passover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pay it forward]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just last weekend, many of us recognized Easter and Passover, and meditated on the blessings of cleansing, renewal, and rebirth or freedom from the past, both literal and metaphoric. Some of us considered the practical application in our modern lives, and the idea that sometimes we make deliberate choices to separate from what has gone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1289&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Memories of Alabama, The Royals, and Alternative Weaponry</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/memories-of-alabama-the-royals-and-alternative-weaponry/</link>
		<comments>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/memories-of-alabama-the-royals-and-alternative-weaponry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baron Ian Robinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[royal bow hunt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dateline: Birmingham, Alabama, 1975. The all-girl production of Oliver closed as scheduled after a half-dozen sold-out performances. I had understudied Nancy and played the Strawberry Seller and Noah Claypole nightly while standing at the ready in case the star couldn&#8217;t go on. With just six performances, I knew the opportunity was scant, and I really didn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1206&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fantasy U.S.A.: The Right-Brain Version</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/fantasy-u-s-a-the-right-brain-version/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alice Melott]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tax corporations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[what would jesus do?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wind power]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend wrote me a long (about 2,500 words), thoughtful email today outlining the demise of the U.S. from an economic perspective. I tried to read it, but you know how it is &#8212; he&#8217;s left-brained and I&#8217;m right-brained &#8212; so I got a couple of paragraphs into it and started thinking about whether braised pork shoulder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1197&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We pay a price to follow our call</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/we-pay-a-price-to-follow-our-call/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Athens Georgia 1978]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. &#8212; Edmund Burke “Who inspires you?” she asked. “Courageous people,&#8221; I said. &#8220;To me, courage is what we uniquely bring to the party as an authentic expression of our heart, soul, and spirit. Courage is what raises us up. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1168&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming of age, embracing change</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/coming-of-age-embracing-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I had dinner with a group of friends that included a 77-year old and her 25-year old grandson. The conversation turned to the relative merits of Facebook versus MySpace, and listening to the two generations talk in terms of acronyms and modern hieroglyphics (like smiley face icons), I found myself time-traveling back thirty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=189&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting the inner circle of Hell &#8212; by subpoena</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/visiting-the-inner-circle-of-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mother of the Bride walks into The Main Attorney’s office and says, “I’ve been wronged and I need help.” “Come in,” says The Main Attorney, “and tell me your story.” “Well,” she says, “Last year, my daughter was getting married and I needed a Mother of the Bride hat for the wedding. I went [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1142&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NEXT!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us weren’t born to live and die in the same spot, doing the same thing day in and day out, following the tail of the tiger in front of us until we churn to butter under a tree. But sometimes we get comfortable in our lives, in our boxes, in our cages. Sometimes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1126&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not my fault</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/its-not-my-fault/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reality is, we need to talk about it. When Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot a few days ago, fingers started wagging and defenses went up. At first, the conversation (is that the right word?) was about the use and misuse of language, especially by people in power (i.e., those who should know better), and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1081&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And she was grateful</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A storm was coming, but it passed, and she was grateful. A second storm was coming, but it too passed, and she was grateful still. A third storm was coming and she thought, it won’t come here. But it did, and she had fallen ill and was sorry to be a burden and grateful to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1061&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>But enough about me. What do you think of my…?</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/but-enough-about-me-what-do-you-think-of-my%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I put out a call for subject matter last night. I was looking for one good worm to go fishing with this morning. Within minutes, I caught some really big rocks: follow your bliss, friendship, and the meaning of life. Well, I did ask. But before I had time to clip on my caribiner and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1046&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I never danced for my mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mother, I&#8217;m writing to you now because it&#8217;s Thanksgiving Eve, and for all the things that are good in my life today (and there are many), I have you to thank. A belle born in the New Orleans of 1927, you were a product of your environment and your time: fiscally and socially conservative, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=1007&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You used to be so nice. What happened?</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/you-used-to-be-so-nice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 14:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My deeply Southern mother, the love-child of Edith Bunker and Scarlett O&#8217;Hara, with a little Lucy Ricardo thrown in for time and place, taught me that the worst adjectives anybody could ever use to describe a person were cute and nice. As a result, I have lived a life surrounded by interesting people, rarely cute [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=995&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What if…?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 01:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if everything that&#8217;s important to you today had never happened? Because you were forbidden by law to marry your spouse. So you never had your community, family or church&#8217;s endorsement of your union. And you never had a marital home or a family of in-laws. Your children were never born. What if everything in your life was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=972&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The business of foreclosures&#8230; Say what?</title>
		<link>http://amelott.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/the-business-of-foreclosures-say-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Melott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 19, 2009, I wrote a piece called Face it, Galveston&#8217;s been Raped about my friend Alex&#8217;s Ike experience. It was awful &#8212; he lost his business and ultimately his home because the lender wouldn&#8217;t defer three months of payments during the Ike months, and wouldn&#8217;t restructure the loan because Alex was self-employed in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amelott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13056897&amp;post=967&amp;subd=amelott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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