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Topics: expertiise, virtues, rural life, small business, heartland, real america
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Topics: south dakota, colorado, rural life, small towns
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Grandma’s Tale, part 3: She Eats Snails and Sees a Miracle
JUNE 18, 2011 9:56AM
Topics: it's a miracle, earrings, the madonna, snails, what no cell phones, early 1900s, rural life, sicily, italy, family, memories, grandmother
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Riding The Great Asmara Railroad - in Pictures
APRIL 30, 2011 1:50PM
Topics: railroads, photography, travel, eritrea, asmara, massawa, rural life, youth, view of the world
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Fledgling
MARCH 4, 2011 5:21PM
Topics: outdoors, family, environment, animals, dogs, turkey, rural life
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The Deadwood Diaries: Stinging Nettles for Dinner
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Topics: meatballs, spaghetti, the deadwood diaries, nettles, rural life, health, food/drink
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The Choice of Joy: Day 30, The Not-Quite-Rights
FEBRUARY 11, 2011 12:28PM
Topics: contemporary, poupular culture, rural life, language, special education, joy, mentally challenged
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I Took a Trip Back Home, North.
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Topics: family, belief/religion, rural life
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Learning to Live Country Again Pt 3 Christmas Eve Night
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Topics: carolina, hunting, guns, rural life, country, family
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Who Thinks "the Caged Bird?" Should Stop Singing?
NOVEMBER 13, 2009 11:17AM
Topics: american library association, feminism, "a year of reading dangerously", change, growth, family, the real housewives of orange county, porn, law and order: svu, huntington beach, the national organization for women, censorship, books, reading, banned books, rape, childhood, sexual abuse, trauma, teen pregnancy, maya angelou, poetry, racism, rural life, civil rights, race, religion, faith, orange county, autobiography, memoir, growing up, memories
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Stalking the Wild Parsnip
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Topics: seriously do not mess with this stuff, rural life, triffids, toxic plants, wild parsnip, pastinaca sativa, phytophotodermatitis
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- 476 Views
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Why I miss hunting
JUNE 23, 2009 9:23PM
Topics: hunting, rural life, environment
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The Continuing Education of a City Girl
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Topics: ranch life, swimming pools, ponds, cattle, cows, ranching, family, entertainment, crawdads, mud bugs, rural life, oklahoma, the continuing education of a city girl
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- 1279 Views
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The Disappointed Gardener: Clay, Nature's Play-Doh
APRIL 22, 2009 2:08PM
Topics: gardening, rural life, clay, peas. clay peas, dogpatch clay clump clod gradation scale, lake vermont, champlain sea, whales
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The Disappointed Gardener: The Gift of Kale
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Topics: gardening, rural life, poverty, kale, collard greens, rabbits, compost
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Troubles with Ticks
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Topics: free lunch, depression, the importance of hygiene, fairy godmothers, global warming, alien vampire zombies, poverty, the end of the world, fleas, ticks, rural life, dogs, cats
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- 2498 Views
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The Disappointed Gardener: Too Many Tomatoes
MARCH 20, 2009 3:32PM
Topics: the disappointed gardener, ben quisenberry, tomatillos as weeds, seed savers, seedlings, seeds, weeds, tomatoes, rural life, gardening, depression
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My new neighbor is such a stud
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Topics: i finally learned to do photoshop!, studly neighbors, rural life, open call
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- 700 Views
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I Don't Get Snowshoeing, Yet
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Topics: wimp, rural life, snowshoes, skiing, snow, winter, arthritis, being a recluse, dogs chasing cars, dogs
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