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	<title>God Blogging (and more) &#187; happiness</title>
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		<title>Rally to Restore Sanity, Tucson version</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/2010/10/27/rally-to-restore-sanity-tucson-version/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>reneeschaferhorton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting on the patio of The Cup Cafe this morning in a post-student-teaching reward-yourself moment, I overheard a few suits talking about a local version of Jon Stewart&#8217;s Rally to Restore Sanity to be held Saturday at Tucson&#8217;s Historic Hotel Congress. (The schedule for the national event, held in D.C., was reported today by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology, revisited.</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/2010/06/11/technology-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>reneeschaferhorton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[happiness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cell phones]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, I wrote about how too much technology could be bad for your brain. I made the comment that there was no real reason any child under 16 needed a cell phone &#8211; if the argument for cell phones is safety. I&#8217;ve been handily challenged via comments and other methods to reconsider that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A challenge for us all: No negative words for 30 days</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/2010/05/25/a-challenge-for-us-all-no-negative-words-for-30-days/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/2010/05/25/a-challenge-for-us-all-no-negative-words-for-30-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 15:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>reneeschaferhorton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sterling Swanson wants you to join her on a 30-day journey to positivity. The midday personality at the popular contemporary Christian Radio station K-LOVE, launched a 30-day no-whining campaign yesterday on air and on the station&#8217;s Face Book page. As of Monday afternoon, about 450 people had committed on Face Book to joining the 30-day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The best video in the world. Really.</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/2010/05/22/the-best-video-in-the-world-really/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/2010/05/22/the-best-video-in-the-world-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 17:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>reneeschaferhorton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[happiness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jessica's daily affirmation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I can&#8217;t yet post videos at this site, but soon, dear readers, soon! The redesign of TucsonCitizen.com will be near the end of next month, and video-posting training is part of the deal. But this video is too precious to wait until then. &#8220;Jessica&#8217;s Daily Affirmation&#8221; is a video that will make the most [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blogging through The Happiness Project</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/2010/01/09/blogging-through-the-happiness-project/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/2010/01/09/blogging-through-the-happiness-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>reneeschaferhorton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/?p=375</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As promised, I&#8217;m going to blog my thoughts as I work my way through Gretchen Rubin&#8217;s The Happiness Project. I&#8217;m only through the first chapter, but I&#8217;ve already discovered my major problem where it comes to being happy: I am not really sure what makes me happy. I know what brings me pleasure, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and the meaning of Christmas &#8211; and some advice for Christmas sermons</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/2009/12/24/obama-and-the-meaning-of-christmas-and-some-advice-for-christmas-sermons/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/2009/12/24/obama-and-the-meaning-of-christmas-and-some-advice-for-christmas-sermons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>reneeschaferhorton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/?p=361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You have to wait until minute 13 of this 18 minute video to hear it, but President Barack Obama, in a Dec. 21 visit to the Washington D.C. Boys and Girls Club, does a little evangelizing about the &#8220;reason we celebrate Christmas&#8221; after reading the Polar Express to the kids and listening to a litany [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some thoughts for Happiness Wednesday</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/2009/09/23/some-thoughts-for-happiness-wednesday/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/2009/09/23/some-thoughts-for-happiness-wednesday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>reneeschaferhorton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/?p=262</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you out there serious about increasing your own happiness, I will once again recommend The How of Happiness. I am more than half-way through and, of the dozens of self-help, raise-those-endorphins books I&#8217;ve consumed in the past decade, this is by far the most practical. It is also the only one that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>24 hours of absolute solitude &#8211; a way to absolute happiness?</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/2009/09/16/24-hours-of-absolute-solitude-a-way-to-absolute-happiness/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/2009/09/16/24-hours-of-absolute-solitude-a-way-to-absolute-happiness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>reneeschaferhorton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[happiness]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/?p=193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[St. Frances de Sales, the patron saint of journalists and writers, once said, &#8220;Half an hour&#8217;s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.&#8221; I&#8217;ve been thinking about statement almost obsessively over the past five days for two reasons: One, I read this article on the &#8220;radical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happiness, one day late</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/2009/08/27/happiness-one-day-late/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/2009/08/27/happiness-one-day-late/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>reneeschaferhorton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to post something about happiness on Wednesday after writing about the death of Sen. Kennedy, but I did think about it alot. And mostly what I thought was this: Why do we often sabotage our own happiness? For instance, I know through experience that exercise makes me happy. The problem is, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Test-driving happiness</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/2009/08/19/test-driving-happiness/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/2009/08/19/test-driving-happiness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>reneeschaferhorton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, truth-in-advertising time: I am not a naturally happy person. I wish I was (oh how I wish I was!), but I&#8217;m not. There are specific causes for this trend toward crisis/critical-mode thinking, but blaming one&#8217;s circumstances of early childhood is like spitting in the wind: you just get slobbered on, and nothing really changes. [...]]]></description>
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