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		<title>&#8220;There&#8217;s a Lot of Beauty in Ordinary Things&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Waking up. Morning routines. Commute. Coffee breaks. Homework. These are all ordinary things. None of which will ever be the topic of a Jerry Bruckheimer movie. We all have ordinary routines strung throughout our days. And more often than not, they can grow redundant, monotonous, and just plain boring. That&#8217;s why a lot of us [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adoptingjames.wordpress.com&#038;blog=33835812&#038;post=1869&#038;subd=adoptingjames&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I Learned From Michael Scott</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 17:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 25, 2005, Jerry Seinfeld, Tim Allen, and the cast of Friends stepped out of sight of adoring fans to make room for the newest addition of what would become a multi-Emmy-winning sitcom, unlike any the United States had ever seen before. And it would continue for nine years, taking its final bow on May 15, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adoptingjames.wordpress.com&#038;blog=33835812&#038;post=1859&#038;subd=adoptingjames&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Casting Stones</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 12:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was driving to work yesterday, just a regular 80&#8242;s-music-induced drive. I drove the usual speed limit, dealt with the usual traffic not knowing how to merge, and then it happened. I was singing along with the Cranberries (don&#8217;t judge), and I actually saw the white pebble slip out from under the truck in front [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adoptingjames.wordpress.com&#038;blog=33835812&#038;post=1851&#038;subd=adoptingjames&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Historical Fiction, and My Next Book Announcement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 12:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve read The Man in the Box, you know that I am a huge proponent for combining fiction with reality. That&#8217;s probably why I loved Life of Pi so much. Now, to be sure, I&#8217;ve learned to be very weary of historical fiction books, such as Gingrich&#8217;s To Try Men&#8217;s Souls.  But there is one I&#8217;d like to point [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adoptingjames.wordpress.com&#038;blog=33835812&#038;post=1846&#038;subd=adoptingjames&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doors, Dogs, and Doubt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 12:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it has finally begun. I realize I&#8217;ve been quiet on the topic of our adoption journey since I&#8217;ve first started this blog early last year. Well, with our classes out of the way (not much to blog about there), the paper work filled out (most of if), and house made as child-proof as can [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adoptingjames.wordpress.com&#038;blog=33835812&#038;post=1839&#038;subd=adoptingjames&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life of Pi: To Read or to Watch &#8230; That&#8217;s the Question, Isn&#8217;t it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 13:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarabeth and I sat down to watch Life of Pi less than an hour after I finished reading the book. Having read the book of course, I was extremely excited for the movie &#8211; and curious as to how it had maintained just a PG rating. I know some of my readers have yet to see the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adoptingjames.wordpress.com&#038;blog=33835812&#038;post=1834&#038;subd=adoptingjames&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Delivering to Designing: A Close Look at Enrich Design, a Graphic Arts Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 13:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Christmas I was doing a delivery run in a terrible snow storm &#8230; I was greeted by the warm smile of a woman who must have been at least 150 years old. &#8220;How are you?&#8221; she asked &#8230; &#8220;I&#8217;m excited for my shift to end so I can go home and see my son. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adoptingjames.wordpress.com&#038;blog=33835812&#038;post=1828&#038;subd=adoptingjames&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama Adresses Planned Parenthood</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I try to stay quiet on political issues on this blog, but there are just a few things that I cannot stay quiet about. Besides, it&#8217;s not hard for any regular follower to read between the lines on where I stand on many issues. Last week President Obama took the initiative to be the first [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adoptingjames.wordpress.com&#038;blog=33835812&#038;post=1820&#038;subd=adoptingjames&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Honest Worship, Honest Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A.W. Tozer once said, &#8220;Christians don&#8217;t tell lies &#8211; they go to church and sing them.&#8221; Like you, the phrase caught me off guard. But when given to deeper thought, I realized it was true. Let&#8217;s start with the basics. A popular verse found in many Christian songs is, &#8220;I lift my hands and I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adoptingjames.wordpress.com&#038;blog=33835812&#038;post=1734&#038;subd=adoptingjames&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pee, Puppies, and God</title>
		<link>http://adoptingjames.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/pee-puppies-and-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They had it. They had my trust. Then they lost it. And I had it. I had had enough. It was time to start locking them up again. We have three dachshunds living with us. One of them, the small red one, is Pixie. She&#8217;s ours, and just turned four. The other two, Roxy (black) [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adoptingjames.wordpress.com&#038;blog=33835812&#038;post=1726&#038;subd=adoptingjames&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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