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		<title>Writing Exercise: Every Picture Tells a Story</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing exercise: Choose a photo for a writing prompt.]]></description>
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		<title>Late Summer Images from the Trail</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Images from a seasonal hike. ]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Trails, Bill Fogelman</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one knows why polio infected some people and not others. No one knows why some polio survivors get post-polio syndrome and some do not. For some people, polio was deadly; others never realized they had polio, recovering from flu-like symptoms in a matter of days. ]]></description>
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		<title>Eastern Phoebe Family: Trailside Journal Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rare opportunity to observe natural behavior in a wild setting. This is no "canned" nature experience.
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		<title>Solstice 2010</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What this year's summer solstice experience reveals, along with my prayers.]]></description>
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		<title>The Squirrels of Distraction and Writer&#8217;s Block</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 23:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The once literal "squirrels of distraction" have become a metaphor for writer's block for this nature writer.]]></description>
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		<title>The Impact of Mud Season on Child&#8217;s Play</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mud season inspires this childhood memory. ]]></description>
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		<title>When Winter is Scary</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The snow is waist deep. I&#8217;ve been snowed in since Thursday. It&#8217;s fun and at the same time, scary. What&#8217;s up with that? When did I become afraid of nature? The dense heavy snow is good for making a quinzee. But considering I spent close to four hours moving enough snow away from my door [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tracking in the Classroom: Unveiling the Thinking Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking out loud preparing for an engaging presentation on winter wildlife tracking.]]></description>
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		<title>A Blackberry is Still Something I Eat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What's in a name? Everything. A blackberry is still something I eat.]]></description>
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