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		<title>Being Married</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ QUESTION &#8220;What is it like being married?&#8221;   ANSWER The first two months were a bliss. After that, I don&#8217;t know. LOL! Well, it was mainly because, Dennis, needed to leave the country two months after tying the knot! So, my marriage arrangement was different.Every after nine months (Dennis&#8217; contract), I would be at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemwritinggems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22764093&amp;post=671&amp;subd=gemwritinggems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grammatical Errors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ QUESTION &#8220;Tell us about grammatical errors in writing..&#8221;   ANSWER Honestly, at times, I will just write and write and unfortunately, fail to be consistent with my grammatical tenses! For example, if my story covers the past, then, I have to make sure that ALL my verbs including my to-be verbs are ALL written in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemwritinggems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22764093&amp;post=659&amp;subd=gemwritinggems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winning a million dollars!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ QUESTION &#8220;If you win a million dollars, will you quit your job?&#8221;   ANSWER  Winning a million dollars will definitely achieve my money goal (see Outside the Box for related story)&#8230; &#8230; will I quit my job? NO. I love my job (I was an inclusion teacher 6 months ago, now I&#8217;m facilitating IEPs in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemwritinggems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22764093&amp;post=646&amp;subd=gemwritinggems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Forgiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ QUESTION &#8220;Why is it difficult to forgive?&#8221;   ANSWER Depending on where you are coming from.. …because you have not yet found it in yourself to love.. again …because you still need time to heal …because you feel the need to resist, resent and revenge …because you still feel the pain …because you feel it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemwritinggems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22764093&amp;post=636&amp;subd=gemwritinggems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Destiny: A Matter of Choice or Chance?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ QUESTION &#8220;Is destiny a matter of chance? or a matter of choice?&#8221; ANSWER Is destiny a matter of choice, or is it a matter of chance? And does knowing really matter? To clarify here’s what DESTINY means The events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future. The hidden power [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemwritinggems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22764093&amp;post=630&amp;subd=gemwritinggems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Giving</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ QUESTIONS &#8220;What are your thoughts on giving?&#8221;, &#8220;What is real giving?&#8221;   ANSWERS &#8220;What are your thoughts on giving? &#8220;Givers gain &#8211; takers lose&#8221; &#8220;The hand that gives &#8211; gathers&#8221; &#8220;As you sow, so shall you reap&#8221; Simple answers, I am sure we all know about it but sometimes how we are on giving of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemwritinggems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22764093&amp;post=625&amp;subd=gemwritinggems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Responding to Negatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ SCENARIO A friend confronts you and tells you that according to PEOPLE you are like this (NEGATIVE 1) and like that (NEGATIVE 2), how will you respond?   ANSWER My response will be to ask, “What about you, do you feel the same way?”  This way we can start a conversation, we can communicate. &#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemwritinggems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22764093&amp;post=619&amp;subd=gemwritinggems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Leader in Me.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer of 2010, I received a personalized letter from the new principal at the under performing school I worked with in New Orleans. He started so strong and was so determined and challenged that just after a couple of weeks, teachers were on their toes teaching with a different passion,&#160; students behavior seemed to change [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemwritinggems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22764093&amp;post=553&amp;subd=gemwritinggems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>180 degree</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Lord, give me a boyfriend, pleaseeeeeeee&#8230;.&#8221; I was 15 then and I still had no boyfriend. I belonged to NBSB club &#8211; No Boyfriend Since Birth! My life was going well though, I was getting A&#8217;s in school, and yes, I had boys as friends but never a boyfriend!!! Oh I had fun memories with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemwritinggems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22764093&amp;post=529&amp;subd=gemwritinggems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>StReSsEd!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I realize that I will never have control of what other people  think of me, what they say about me or what other people told them about me… all these, I have no control of BUT, I can control ME. People will always have something  to say, but at the end of the day, what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemwritinggems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22764093&amp;post=445&amp;subd=gemwritinggems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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