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	<title>Signs Of Life</title>
	<link>http://pamelamajteles.com</link>
	<description>Columns by Pamela Majteles</description>
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		<title>Summer School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published on July 8, 2011 Reprinted with permission from Bay Area News Group &#8212; East Bay While my kids are giving their brains a break this summer, my head is working overtime. I’m trying to learn the latest schedules for my kids’ summer camps and activities, which change weekly, along with the logistics of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pamelamajteles.com/2011/08/17/summer-school/</link>
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		<title>Bad Neighbor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published June 24, 2011 Reprinted with permission from Bay Area News Group &#8212; East Bay I’m loud, messy and not composting properly, which makes me a bad neighbor. Instead of putting used coffee grounds in the compost bin, I carry them to the front of my house and spoon them onto my lawn where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pamelamajteles.com/2011/07/02/bad-neighbor/</link>
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		<title>Star Words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published on June 10, 2011 Reprinted with permission from Bay Area News Group &#8212; East Bay It’s hard to put into words everything I learned in kindergarten. But as my son finishes kindergarten, I can say that we’ve both mastered the star words taught this year.  Star words are high frequency words, such as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pamelamajteles.com/2011/07/02/star-words/</link>
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		<title>Girls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published March 18, 2011 Reprinted with permission from Bay Area News Group &#8212; East Bay If you listened to what they say about girls, you’d never want one. At almost any gathering of mothers who have daughters, I can count on the term “alpha girl” to crop up, usually to describe some other mother’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pamelamajteles.com/2011/03/19/girls-2/</link>
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		<title>Holes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published February 18, 2011 Reprinted with permission from Bay Area News Group &#8212; East Bay Nothing seems to be working any more.  I’m not referring to our government or the economy.  Right now, I’m talking about the sandwich. The peanut butter and jelly, tuna salad, and hummus are leaking, because of holes I’m finding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pamelamajteles.com/2011/02/18/holes/</link>
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		<title>Rachel Shtokfish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published February 4, 2011 Reprinted with permission from Bay Area News Group &#8212; East Bay Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about a little girl named Rachel Shtokfish.  I never met Rachel, who died in 1942 when she was nine years old, but my daughter talks about her. My daughter, Lily, has become acquainted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pamelamajteles.com/2011/02/09/rachel-shtokfish-2/</link>
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		<title>New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published on January 7, 2011 Reprinted with permission from Bay Area News Group &#8212; East Bay With a little luck, it’s going to be a good year. But luck can be pretty capricious, so you have to work it, which is something well known in my family.  When it comes to working the luck, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pamelamajteles.com/2011/01/14/new-year/</link>
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		<title>Houseguests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published December 10, 2010 Reprinted with permission from Bay Area News Group – East Bay The more the merrier at the holidays, I always say. So when houseguests stay longer than expected, like the painters at work in my house, I try and make the best of it. The painters are completing a renovation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pamelamajteles.com/2011/01/14/houseguests/</link>
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		<title>Crumbs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published November 26, 2010 Reprinted with permission from Bay Area News Group – East Bay I think it’s crummy when families can’t agree. In my family, we can’t agree on when it’s necessary to use a plate for eating. My husband, who’s cranky about crumbs, argues you should use a plate, bowl or other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pamelamajteles.com/2011/01/14/crumbs/</link>
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		<title>Waiting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published November 12, 2010 Reprinted with permission from Bay Area News Group – East Bay As long as kids have been around, parents have been waiting for them to come home. And while waiting, sometimes parents worry. It’s a low-grade kind of worry. Like when you have a slight temperature and the thermometer reads [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pamelamajteles.com/2011/01/14/waiting/</link>
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		<title>Stranded</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published October 29, 2010 Reprinted with permission from Bay Area News Group – East Bay If I were stranded on a desert island, and I could take only one thing, I know exactly what I’d bring. It would be one of my friends. Not one particular friend, any of them. Whoever it was, she’d [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pamelamajteles.com/2011/01/14/stranded/</link>
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		<title>RSVP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published October 1, 2010 Reprinted with permission from Bay Area News Group – East Bay I try to choose my words carefully, no matter what the occasion. Whether I’m responding to an Evite for a child’s birthday, ladies’ night-out or swanky soiree, I ponder what to write in the comment box that accompanies my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pamelamajteles.com/2011/01/14/rsvp/</link>
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		<title>Old Friends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published September 17, 2010 Reprinted with permission from Bay Area News Group – East Bay Lately, I haven’t been treating my friends very well. I’m ashamed to say I haven’t taken the time to see them or even thought about them at all. That’s something Fred and Ted, two of my oldest friends, would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pamelamajteles.com/2011/01/14/old-friends/</link>
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		<title>Italian Flavor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published August 20, 2010 Reprinted with permission from Bay Area News Group – East Bay Since returning with my family from Italy, I’ve been trying to capture the flavor of Italy at home. But I can’t quite grasp it. It’s as tough as trying to grasp slices of eggplant off the grill, as they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pamelamajteles.com/2011/01/14/italian-flavor/</link>
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		<title>Fit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published May 14, 2010 Reprinted with permission from Bay Area News Group – East Bay Like all busy parents, I try hard to fit everything in each day. So when my daughter’s teacher gives me five kids to drive on the school field trip, I gulp knowing my car can only fit four. “Oh [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pamelamajteles.com/2011/01/14/fit/</link>
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		<title>Scared</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published April 30, 2010 Reprinted with permission from Bay Area News Group – East Bay I admit it. I was scared. It was time to renew my driver’s license in person at the Department of Motor Vehicles. It wasn’t the reputation of the DMV – long lines, endless waits, bureaucratic service – that had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pamelamajteles.com/2011/01/14/scared/</link>
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		<title>Small Talk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published March 19, 2010 Reprinted with permission from Bay Area News Group – East Bay In parenting, no lesson is too small. That’s why I’m coaching my son on how to make small talk. He wants to play with someone he hasn’t played with before at preschool, and he doesn’t know quite how to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pamelamajteles.com/2011/01/14/small-talk/</link>
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		<title>Bird Watching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published March 5, 2010 Reprinted with permission from Bay Area News Group – East Bay Far out in the middle of Lake Merritt, I spot a Canvasback duck gliding through the water. A little closer to shore, I see a Lesser Scaup duck, an American Coot, and a Canada Goose. Even closer, on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pamelamajteles.com/2011/01/14/bird-watching/</link>
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		<title>Easy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published January 22, 2010 Reprinted with permission from Bay Area News Group – East Bay Yeah, I know what they say. When you have a problem, there are no easy answers, no cheap fixes and no magic solutions. But that’s not what Robert says when I tell him about the crack on my living [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pamelamajteles.com/2011/01/14/easy/</link>
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		<title>Will Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published January 8, 2010 Reprinted with permission from Bay Area News Group – East Bay Starting the new year, I’m on a diet. My goal is to consume less online news. It’s a test of my will power, because I have the bad habit of clicking on every news story that catches my eye [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pamelamajteles.com/2011/01/14/will-power/</link>
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