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		<title>Going Home, Excerpt: The Basics (8V)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 8 ~ The Basics Once the welcome party is over and Gran’s had a chance to pinch our cheeks and remind us of our manners, what’s next? In the interest of our recently awakened awareness, Gran recommended we call home. If we can’t call, write, and if we can’t write, send smoke signals. It’s just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frontporchrambles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14852559&amp;post=319&amp;subd=frontporchrambles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 8 ~ Remember Your Manners Although the specifics of good manners are debatable, Gran thought their observance in general is more important than we realize. Not just for the sake of knowing where our napkin goes, which maybe isn’t all that important in the big picture, but because of the patterns and processes and ways [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frontporchrambles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14852559&amp;post=316&amp;subd=frontporchrambles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going Home, Excerpt: Visiting (8III)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 8 &#8211; Visiting But wait! Before we get too far from that front door, Gran said we might want to slow down and remind ourselves of a few things so this could, indeed, be the Best Visit Ever. She had three very practical suggestions for visiting – whether it’s your grandma, your best friend, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frontporchrambles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14852559&amp;post=312&amp;subd=frontporchrambles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going Home, Excerpt: Welcome Home! (8II)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 8 ~ Welcome Home! Once you’re sure you’re in the right place, what’s next? Per Gran, be ready to party! If you don’t have your happy hat on, better get it quick. After all, you’ve come home to love, to yourself, to all the good things you can hardly imagine, they’re so great, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frontporchrambles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14852559&amp;post=309&amp;subd=frontporchrambles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going Home, Excerpt: One Note (8I)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 8 ~ You Have Reached Your Destination No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. ~ Lin Yutang At the end of each journey, which is really just the beginning of another, we reach our destination. Depending on the trip, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frontporchrambles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14852559&amp;post=304&amp;subd=frontporchrambles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going Home, Excerpt: Stronger Shoulders (7XII)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 7 &#8211; Stronger Shoulders Like everyone else, Gran had made some tough decisions along her journey, ones she’d just as soon have avoided. Eventually, each fork in the road we ignore reappears, no matter how many times we think we snuck past it undetected. Gran noticed that whenever she took the easy road, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frontporchrambles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14852559&amp;post=301&amp;subd=frontporchrambles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going Home, Excerpt: Home Stretch (7XI)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 7 &#8211; Home Stretch So, where were we? Oh yes, coming into the home stretch. At this point we tend to punch the gas a wee bit, eager to pull in and put ‘er in park. But there’s one home stretch we tend to dawdle on. Our final trip to that Big Rocking Chair [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frontporchrambles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14852559&amp;post=297&amp;subd=frontporchrambles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going Home, Excerpt: Maintenance (7/X)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 7 &#8211; Maintenance There are other things involved in traveling – like all the stops. There are expected stops for snacks and bathroom breaks, and sometimes there are a few unexpected stops, too. In general, the more of the first we make, the fewer of the last pop up. If we stop every so often [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frontporchrambles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14852559&amp;post=293&amp;subd=frontporchrambles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going Home, Excerpt: Leaders (7/IX)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 7 &#8211; Leaders Sometimes we travel in a team on our way home, picking a leader to guide the group. Gran thought true leaders are made, not born, as they pass through the fires of their own challenges. Whom we choose for this role is very important, she said, because their directions may mean [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frontporchrambles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14852559&amp;post=290&amp;subd=frontporchrambles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going Home, Excerpt: Asking for Directions (7/VIII)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 7 &#8211; Asking for Directions Getting lost can happen to the best of us. When this happens, we don’t need to be afraid to ask for directions, but we’ll want to be discerning about whose we follow, especially if it arrives unsolicited. When that nice man in a strange city eagerly directs us into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frontporchrambles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14852559&amp;post=287&amp;subd=frontporchrambles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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