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		<title>A Writer&#8217;s Free Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[                What do writers do when they&#8217;re not writing? Ummm , mostly hang out with other writers and attend book-related events.     Here&#8217;s one group of L.A. Children&#8217;s Book Writers that likes to gather together. Left to right, Kathryn Hewitt, Lin Oliver, Betsy Rosenthal, Marla Frazee, Eve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That time of year again</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[              I believe this was my first day of first grade (yes, I was and am tall). I think my mom is actually applauding the fact that my sister Janet and I are going back to school with our nifty new shoes, socks, and lunchboxes. I mostly took the summer off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winnie the Pooh and Me &#8211; Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[     Continuing our trip to the real Pooh Corner, my friend Min and I started out at the Pooh Corner Shop in Hartfield &#8211; the door is a little on the low side.  After dropping a few pounds and pence at the shop, we headed out for the Ashdown Forest. In the books, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winnie the Pooh and Me &#8211; Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Pooh Corner friends &#8230; and me (pregnant)! It&#8217;s still strange to me to think of how much of my life has been intertwined with Winnie the Pooh. While I always had an awareness of Pooh, I don&#8217;t recall reading the books when I was a child. By the time the Disney films (and the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Potter and me</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to take a detour away from blogging about my favorite children&#8217;s books &#8211; and I apologize for my absence! I was invited to speak at the Edinburgh BookFest, which is part of the famed Edinburgh Festival. Who could pass that up? So my husband and I spent 2 1/2 weeks in Scotland. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The arrival of summer brings back so many wonderful childhood memories: long days of playing in the yard with friends,  playing games inside the house with friends, swimming, roller skating, jump rope, hopscotch,  jacks,walking to the movies, and reading! I read all year, but there was even more time for books in the summer. My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HAPPY-HAPPY-HAPPY Holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things have been hectic as the holidays are bearing down on us &#8230; and I still haven&#8217;t finished Humphrey book seven. Eerk! Hopefully in 2010, I&#8217;ll be back to blogging. Meanwhile, thanks so much and Season&#8217;s Greetings to Humphrey&#8217;s friends and to the entire Sassafras Springs community!]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m back, I think</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been back from the UK and NY for a week and a half and I&#8217;ve been unusually quiet &#8211; I think I just need to process all I saw and did. I&#8217;ll be filling in the backstory as I go through the hundreds of photos I&#8217;ve taken. But rather than a blow-by-blow, I&#8217;ll just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where we&#8217;ve been and where we&#8217;re going</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We spent a week in Caterham, Surrey with Wendy (sister of my good friend Nicky) and Roger in their guesthouse &#8230; and with their daughter Min (our friend for 20 years), who lives next door with her children, Jonny and Suzy and hamster, Smudge. We had a glorious day in Bath Sunday, a sold out crowd for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HARROWING HAMSTER HORROR STORY (with happy ending)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humphrey&#8217;s friend, Bobbi! Awesome author and fellow LAYA Paula Yoo just blogged a SCARY-SCARY-SCARY story about her intrepid hamster, Bobbi, who recently interviewed me. (Bobbi&#8217;s a good writer, too. So is Paula&#8217;s cat, Oreo, who is writing a novel!) Bobbi experienced a rather dramatic experience at the vet&#8217;s office this week. I have to tell you [...]]]></description>
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