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<title>Smell the Coffee: Opening the Facebook</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Amy is asking for patience to deal with stupid people and for courage to tolerate their ignorance, &quot;Because Lord knows if I ask for strength, I will beat them to death.&quot;  Madeline is making a cow laugh to see if milk will...]]></description>
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Doing the next next thing</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A few weeks back I wrote about a series of struggles that had me coming unglued. A recently paid-off car that needed a new engine. A surgical procedure that required the $900 co-pay up front. Both a dog and a furnace in need of rep...]]></description>
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Scariest of them all</title>
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Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Do the next thing</title>
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Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: A tale of fish heads</title>
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Finding a healthy medium</title>
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Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Cell phone users lack civility</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It had happened to me before, but Im a slow study, so I fell victim again.  &quot;Hey there!&quot; the friendly woman said as we crossed paths in the restroom, with her taking the stall Id just left.  &quot;Hi,&quot; I said, turnin...]]></description>
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Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Fighting like cats and squirrels</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- &quot;We got one of those midnight phone calls last night,&quot; my friend said. &quot;It was our neighbor. They had a squirrel in their house.&quot;  Turns out my friends husband has a reputation for being the go-to guy for random...]]></description>
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Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: The woman on page 194</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It was just a 3- by 3-inch picture in a magazine, but it caught and held my attention in such a way that I decided to visit the magazines Web site to leave a comment about it. A quick note of thanks.  Turns out I was hardly alo...]]></description>
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Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Dancin to the music</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- &quot;This ones a definite for my Monday File,&quot; I said to my husband as he took my place at the computer.  &quot;Is that what youre calling it now.&quot; asked Geoff. &quot;What happened to -- what was it. -- your <em>visual a...]]></description>
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Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Dont bug me</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Seventeen bugs died before I abandoned my original subject and started typing this column instead.  <em>Ha. Two at once!</em> Make that 19.  I hate bugs. Hate them with the -- <em>dang it!</em> I missed -- same searing hatred my hu...]]></description>
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Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Parasitic parents and bird brains</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Sometimes a thing happens so fast you arent sure youve seen it at all. This was one of those times.  Crows arent generally known for being kind and loving. Their reputation leans more toward being one of natures more notorious pran...]]></description>
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Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Most people take gifts to graduation parties. We left with one.  My husband, daughter and I had gone to a high school graduation party for Katie Harman, the oldest daughter of our friends Gale and Jodi. While there, Celeste spotted...]]></description>
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Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- This time next year, Ill be the mom of a teenager.  A wise friend who has college-age children has been trying to prepare me for what she claims is the inevitable. She swears the teen years are awful so that its easier on parents w...]]></description>
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Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Isnt it romantic.</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  &quot;Ill never forget the last time I saw them together,&quot; said Trish, my former neighbor, about her in-laws, Ralph and Janet Holmes.  &quot;They were leaving Moms house after dinner, walking out to their car, holding hands...]]></description>
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Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I recently read an article where the author Walker Lamond told how hed begun compiling a list of life lessons hed learned from his dad. He wanted to pass them on to his own future offspring.  But rather than record the wisdoms ...]]></description>
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Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Breaking the trust with a pet</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- &quot;I was reading todays paper and the back page of section D has pictures of the animals up for adoption,&quot; wrote Debra Cantley of Charleston in her letter to me.  &quot;One picture is of a sweet little dog that is 10 ye...]]></description>
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Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: This green house</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- You couldve knocked me over with a feather.   In spite of having spent the past year or two being thoroughly turned off by the &quot;go green&quot; movement, I recently took a survey and discovered that much to my surprise, Im ...]]></description>
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Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: We never outgrow our heroes</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- When &quot;X-Men Origins: Wolverine,&quot; the latest of the X-Men movies, was released, my husband, daughter and I were there for opening night. Like so many others, were fans of shows about characters with superpowers. Iron Man. ...]]></description>
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Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: E-mail delivers a precious gift</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- At the end of May, I wrote about mediums, psychics and grief -- topics that my friend Becky and I had been discussing quite a bit in the months since the death of her son and the approach of what shouldve been my second daughters s...]]></description>
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Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Daughter says a mouthful</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Last weekend, my daughter and I ran up to my parents house to see my brother, Kurt, and his fiancee, Kurts three kids, and his eldest daughters boyfriend, who were all in from Ohio to attend a graduation party for a friends daughte...]]></description>
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Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Well done by a rare medium</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Growing up, I was fascinated with ghosts, psychics and most anything paranormal. Over the years, my interest faded until my only forays into mystical matters were when I caught the occasional episode of &quot;Medium&quot; or a midd...]]></description>
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Sat, 30 May 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Moms say the darnedest things</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I love it when someone alerts me to a subject they think might make a good column. But I <em>dont</em> love it when I become so thoroughly absorbed by the subject theyve suggested that many hours slip by before I realize Ive sp...]]></description>
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Sat, 23 May 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>How the French first learned to surrender</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Even though our back yard is fenced, the occasional rabbit will become captivated by the voluptuous virgin sod -- grass seldom sullied by lawn mower blades -- and will burrow beneath our fence so it can lunch on our lawn.  I had ju...]]></description>
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Sat, 16 May 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>How to play a bad hand</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Its hard to remember which of the recent stock-market crashes it was that had my bosses bemoaning their losses, but while they were grumbling, I realized my own mood was completely unaffected by Wall Street. I suppose theres so...]]></description>
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Sun, 10 May 2009 00:15:00 -0400
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<title>Red Rover, Red Rover</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Making the news this week was a story about South Korean scientists who, through cloning, have produced four beagles that appear normal in daylight, but put the pups in the dark or under ultraviolet light and the Rovers glow red.  ...]]></description>
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Sun, 03 May 2009 12:00:00 -0400
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<title>Youve been sentenced</title>
<description><![CDATA[  CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  I expect most everyone has experienced this: You make what you believe to be a striking change to your appearance -- trying a drastic haircut or dramatic new hair color, switching from glasses to contacts, swapping sober browns and ...]]></description>
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Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:00:00 -0400
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<title>Surprises in unsticking the saved</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I have bulletin boards on three walls in my home office. Occasionally, when I run low on pushpins (I buy them in bulk) or when one of the boards gets so heavy it begins to pull loose from the wall, Ill sift through the pierced pape...]]></description>
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Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400
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<description><![CDATA[My husband teaches writing. Novel writing, life writing, sudden fiction. Its kind of the Fuller family business, a trade he learned from his father, an English professor.Ive taken Geoffs classes myself many times - partly because I love getting something f...]]></description>
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Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400
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<title>We all can help the company save money</title>
<description><![CDATA[<em>CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- After weeks of being barraged with stories about corporate cutbacks and cost-saving measures, I thought it might be interesting to play boss for a bit. To those who have been grumbling over how bad things are at work now, consider ...]]></description>
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Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400
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<title>Crushing on a house</title>
<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, while visiting our friends Sandy and Bob Underwood (who own The Printing Press in North Charleston), Geoff and I got a tour of their home. It was large and open, but still warm and inviting. I admired it openly, maybe a bit effusively. &q...]]></description>
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Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400
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<title>Karin Fuller: Gold digger</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- In my never-ending quest for column material, I often take on new endeavors (and new animals) because of their gold mine potential. For instance, a few years back, when I agreed to finish out the term of an ousted Brownie leader, it wa...]]></description>
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Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400
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<title>My kid, the charity case</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I should know better by now than to challenge my child. Even though shes only 11, she is infinitely more creative and crafty than I am.In a nutshell, we were talking about plans for this summer. For the past year, Celeste has talked ob...]]></description>
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Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400
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<title>I (heart) 7-year-olds</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. - My friend Lisa was telling me about a recent rushed morning at their house. She had just finished showering when her 7-year-old daughter, Emma, barged in and was immediately distracted by the steamy window. Unable to resist the lure of ...]]></description>
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Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0400
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<title>Theres strange, then theres stranger!</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Mom buys me a new calendar every year at Christmas. For a long time, she chose &quot;Far Side,&quot; until Gary Larson called it quits and she switched to &quot;Quote of the Day.&quot; This past Christmas, however, she chose for me a c...]]></description>
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Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500
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<title>What does that pill do again.</title>
<description><![CDATA[When pharmaceutical companies are putting together those long lists of potential side effects of their drugs, I wish theyd consider adding a warning that simple exposure to certain brand names can potentially send some 11-year-olds into prolonged fits of t...]]></description>
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<title>Forcing the why</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Two years ago last month I wrote the first of two columns about my friend Becky Conrad of Burnsville. At the time, Becky had just been diagnosed with lymphoma of the brain, a rare form of cancer, and the diagnosis hit her hard. Shed already been throug...]]></description>
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Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500
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<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I doubt any parent likes to think about the ways they might have failed their child. Lately, though, Ive thought about it a lot. It started because of a few old pictures my parents scanned and e-mailed to me, including a shot of my bro...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Im a big fan of the new year, have much fondness for the idea of starting off fresh.But someone wrote on my clean slate.And Im pretty sure they used permanent marker.&quot;Taking you down to one arm could be Gods way of making you rest,&quot; my husband sa...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The weeks leading up to the holidays were more frenzied than usual for me, but even so, I shouldve known better than to repeatedly say the only thing I wanted for Christmas was a break. A break is very nearly just what I got.Imagine as...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[&quot;If you promise youll take us, we swear well get up,&quot; Celeste said. &quot;Please.&quot; asked her friend Madi. &quot;Ive never done it before.&quot;Going shopping at 4 a.m. mightve sounded like fun to 11-year-olds, but to this 44-year-old - not s...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[I expect few have trouble recalling their first.  Age 15. Long-time crush. Same school project. His living room. Burnt-orange shag carpet, sectional couch. Members Only jacket, Izod shirt.His dad in his chair, newspaper in his lap. Wet-looking comb-over. P...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- There are a few things I dont like about West Virginia. I dont like how some have no qualms about discarding their trash along riverbanks and roadsides.I dont like how the many who arent racist must suffer the embarrassment brought on ...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Starting last Saturday, as my NaNoWriMo group members were hard at work at their desks; I was hard at work on mine. They were all starting novels, with one month to finish. I was starting my desk, removing its finish. You see, much like athletes, writers o...]]></description>
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