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		<title>Boomer Pants</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol Craig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 05:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There’s an uncomfortable curse I’d like to debunk. One that’s all too familiar to those of us hailing from days past. It involves travel and its dogma regarding “acceptable” ways to show up anywhere in the world while living out of a suitcase.  This “doctrine” involves, ahem, undergarments.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Baggage (Un)Claim</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol Craig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2021 05:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is one place I avoid like the plague at an airport: the circular mayhem of erratically tossed suitcases, aggressive hands, and potential bagless despondency, Baggage claim. That “Carousel of Hope” has forever lost its luster as my bestie, and thankfully so ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>13.1</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol Craig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2021 05:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I recently finished my first half-marathon, a 13.1-mile trial of discipline and perseverance. Unlike my past rollercoaster rides of inactivity followed by bursts of overachieving, this was a respectable, incremental effort of kinder steps followed by an event completed without needing four day’s rest. I will, however, admit to experiencing a migraine requiring meds and a nap later the same afternoon. And, yes, according to the data from my fitness tracker, I still overachieved, but far less than the usual gross negligence of my physical wellbeing. I still have work to do. Fitness is a process and the discipline required to stay fit never ends. So, how do I persevere? Baby steps.]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Slightly Skewed College Road Trip Guide</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol Craig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2021 05:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Another dose of caffeine seeps into my bloodstream while my teenage chauffeur drives. Heading home from a two-week, five-state college tour blitz with my twin daughters, I feel the road weariness, the bloat from vacation dining, and the weight of parental concern for two young ladies leaving the nest ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Girlfriend Garmin</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol Craig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2021 05:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Are you EVEN kidding me?!,” I annoyingly ask out loud to the flat round screen on my wrist. Having just completed a two-hour sweat fest, I feel as though my efforts have gone somewhat unnoticed by this feisty fitness “friend.” Based on the data she has collected, her smug determination that I have merely maintained my fitness, and not improved it, tweaks my ire. Rolling my eyes, I cave to her assessment, vowing to train a tad smarter with the next workout ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Heartland Holiday</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol Craig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2021 05:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With reverence for this weekend that remembers so many lost, each pilgrimage to this part of America’s heartland starts with this foremost habit of paying our respects and reconnecting the dots of our past ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Heaven at Seven</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol Craig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2021 05:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We stand vigil around Mom’s hospital bed sporting matching yellow isolation gowns and masks. Our humorous spectacle as a banana bunch offers the dichotomy of levity and the gravity of life’s potential end. As family of humor seekers, laughter, as well as respect, has been part and parcel of our DNA through all our earthly trials, even death.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dry Dock Fun</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol Craig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2021 05:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My husband and I celebrated our fully vaccinated status in grand style with another vaccinated couple: one of the first dinners outside the confines of our home since the start of the pandemic. To begin the festivities, our hosts proposed a toast to this milestone that would be best enjoyed “on the boat.” ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Earning Wings</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol Craig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2021 05:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My mother guides us to our airport gate, my 5-year old hand warm and safe in her firm grasp. Hallways and doorways appear as an endless, towering maze to my low-to-the-ground wide eyes. I marvel at how Mom knows where to go. Affable smiles from passers-by are reciprocated with Mom’s knowing winks. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Giraffe and The Gettysburg Photo</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol Craig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2021 05:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The one-eyed giraffe winks at me; not because he wants to, but out of necessity. He lost one of his small felt eyes somewhere along the past 52 years of loving use and storage. For whatever reason, I had chosen this souvenir from a family trip to the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - a far cry from a giraffe’s natural habitat - back in the late 1960s ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Work Mom</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol Craig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2021 05:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A younger colleague recently sent me the following screenshot, immediately thinking of me and adding a red heart emoji: “Having a work wife/husband is cool but y’all ever had a work mom? That’s the real deal.” ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Southern Hotdish</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol Craig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2021 05:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A funny thing happened on the way to the microwave. Carefully sidestepping the dog, guarding the bowl of leftover squash casserole in my hand prompted me to reminisce about the origins of my love affair with the simple southerly nourishment about to be consumed. A story spanning 46 years and counting ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Different Light</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol Craig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2020 04:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve always loved the woods. Shaded and cool, quiet, and perfumed with nature, I breathe in a welcome retreat from the glare of daily life. Sunshine is great, mind you, but the lush, comforting enclave of the forest wraps its soul around you as a hug from Mother Nature herself.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Breakfast in a Small Town</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol Craig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2020 02:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A rush of air stirs the fine hairs on my crossed arms. A bustling waitress, arms full of clean coffee cups, briskly passes us en route to her table, its tired recipients grateful to receive their morning jolt. A swirling cloud of food envy envelopes us as we wait. The delightful smokiness in the air is balanced by scents of fresh biscuits, eggs, and fried potatoes. The counter is lined with locals - farmers, professionals, seniors - all starting this new day in familiar camaraderie. Mugs clink, forks scrape and conversation flows along with the free refills. I sit quietly, enjoying the fervor of the morning as I read the scribbled menu on the grease board complete with the plethora of daily pie selections.]]></description>
		
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