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		<title>Relaxing Ferry Rides, Effective Marketing Workshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2015 20:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A recent trip across the water to Vancouver Island and a terrific author marketing conference was both enjoyable and exhausting. Thank goodness for the restfulness of the ferry rides coming and going over calm water. Alas, I saw no orca pods. I suspect they were elsewhere than along the route of the big ferries. Each ... <a title="Relaxing Ferry Rides, Effective Marketing Workshop" class="read-more" href="https://katevale.com/2015/adventures/relaxing-ferry-rides-effective-marketing-workshop" aria-label="Read more about Relaxing Ferry Rides, Effective Marketing Workshop">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Feathered Friends and Frenemies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2014 17:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My bird feeders have generated hordes of new visitors this year. In the spring, I was pleasantly surprised by yellow finches who seemed to have realized that my finch feeder was full and waiting for them to partake—which they did, sometimes four and five at a time! The brilliant yellow of the males made for ... <a title="Feathered Friends and Frenemies" class="read-more" href="https://katevale.com/2014/localisms/feathered-friends-and-frenemies" aria-label="Read more about Feathered Friends and Frenemies">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Real Estate and My Novels</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2014 19:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of my several careers over the years has involved real estate sales and service. It’s hard to believe but sixteen years ago, I considered myself an original “April fool” for jumping into the real estate game—one reason related to my love of reviewing open houses when I was a teenager dreaming of what my house ... <a title="Real Estate and My Novels" class="read-more" href="https://katevale.com/2014/localisms/531" aria-label="Read more about Real Estate and My Novels">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>To-Do Lists</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Vale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2013 19:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m in shock! I prepared a “to-do” list yesterday, the better to organize both my thoughts and my writing work schedule. That list now exceeds four pages! Have I been laying back lately, playing instead of working? Or am I simply anticipating what I want to accomplish before the holidays and family obligations intervene? In ... <a title="To-Do Lists" class="read-more" href="https://katevale.com/2013/localisms/to-do-lists" aria-label="Read more about To-Do Lists">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>My Characters: I Can&#8217;t Let Them Go</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2013 18:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Someone at a recent writer’s conference reminded me of something that I thought was a personal problem. After the book is finished, I miss talking to my characters, thinking about them, wanting to know more about them, imagining how their life thread will spool out after the story is over. I can’t seem to get ... <a title="My Characters: I Can&#8217;t Let Them Go" class="read-more" href="https://katevale.com/2013/localisms/my-characters-i-cant-let-them-go" aria-label="Read more about My Characters: I Can&#8217;t Let Them Go">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I am a serial careerist!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Vale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is retirement? Am I now retired? The question arises out of my most recent action, in which I chose—a key word, I think—to stop doing what I had been doing in favor of other work that has occupied only a portion of my waking day, but numerous dream nights for several years. Ruminating about ... <a title="I am a serial careerist!" class="read-more" href="https://katevale.com/2013/localisms/i-am-a-serial-careerist" aria-label="Read more about I am a serial careerist!">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fall is finally here!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After one of the longest Indian Summers on record (and 81 days without a drop of rain!), I no longer have to water my garden. The rains have arrived, along with heightened color in the woods. The birds have returned for free lunches at the bird feeder and squirrels&#8211;still hopeful they can grab a snack, ... <a title="Fall is finally here!" class="read-more" href="https://katevale.com/2012/localisms/fall-is-finally-here" aria-label="Read more about Fall is finally here!">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What is it about flowers?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Vale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is something about my garden that soothes my soul, particularly on days when nothing seems to have gone well&#8230; characters in my latest book draft are sailing off course, insisting on engaging in behavior I never expected; my cats insist on attention when I&#8217;d rather they leave me alone; the laundry is piling up ... <a title="What is it about flowers?" class="read-more" href="https://katevale.com/2012/localisms/what-is-it-about-flowers" aria-label="Read more about What is it about flowers?">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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