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		<title>The Force of Fashion &#8211; It&#8217;s the Shoes</title>
		<link>http://americanslife.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/the-force-of-fashion-its-the-shoes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Slocum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love shoes. More than Carrie Bradshaw. More than Imelda Marcos. More than is within reason. Not that I have even close to the 2,700 pairs that Imelda had carefully tucked away in her palace, my collection is much smaller, numbering less than two percent of hers. It&#8217;s not the quantity. It&#8217;s the look, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americanslife.wordpress.com&blog=3033718&post=625&subd=americanslife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spain Again: Ham and Wine &#8211; Las Bodegas</title>
		<link>http://americanslife.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/spain-again-ham-and-wine-las-bodegas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Slocum</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andalucian horses]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fernando de Castilla]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jerez Spain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protected Destination of Origin of the Jerez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Escuela Andaluza del Arte Ecuestre]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[vinos de Jerez]]></category>
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I first visited Spain more than thirty years ago. I was young and just married; it was my first trip abroad. In Barcelona, we stayed with the family of our friend, Juan Manuel, whom we had met in school. His father owned a ham business. Having known only boiled ham I found the ham served [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americanslife.wordpress.com&blog=3033718&post=586&subd=americanslife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spain Eye Openers: New Airport Terminal, Fast Trains, Hospital Emergency, and Wind Power: Part IV</title>
		<link>http://americanslife.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/spain-eye-openers-new-airport-terminal-fast-trains-hospital-emergency-and-wind-power-part-iv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Slocum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Acciona Energía]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gamesa Eólica]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the last of four pieces on Spain whose themes are not common in travelogues. I have chosen these because, each one, in some way, has informed or illuminated some issue or experience of my own life.  The subject of this episode came to me as we traveled from Madrid to Andalusia on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americanslife.wordpress.com&blog=3033718&post=539&subd=americanslife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spain Eye Openers: New Airport Terminal, Fast Trains, Hospital Emergency, and Wind Power, Part III</title>
		<link>http://americanslife.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/spain-eye-openers-new-airport-terminal-fast-trains-hospital-emergency-and-wind-power-part-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Slocum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third of four installments on Spain which I recently visited with my husband and two other friends. You never know when you are going to need health care. In this episode, an unlucky event turned into a fortuitous experience, Spanish style. An accident required a trip to the emergency room. That visit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americanslife.wordpress.com&blog=3033718&post=506&subd=americanslife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spain Eye Openers: New Airport Terminal, Fast Trains, Hospital Emergency, and Wind Power: Part II</title>
		<link>http://americanslife.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/spain-eye-openers-new-airport-terminal-fast-trains-hospital-emergency-and-wind-power-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Slocum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second of four installments on Spain which I recently visited with my husband and two other friends. In this post I remember my first experience with train travel more than thirty years ago and share the best way to travel in the 21st century. &#8220;Oh that more Americans might know what it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americanslife.wordpress.com&blog=3033718&post=485&subd=americanslife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spain Eye Openers: New Airport Terminal, Fast Trains, Hospital Emergency, and Wind Power: Part I</title>
		<link>http://americanslife.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/spain-eye-openers-new-airport-terminal-fast-trains-hospital-emergency-and-wind-power-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Slocum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first of four installments on Spain which I recently visited with my husband and two other friends. I am struck by how much it has changed since I first visited in June of 1975, just months before the death of Franco. Today, it is a modern, vibrant country, and like many nations, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americanslife.wordpress.com&blog=3033718&post=445&subd=americanslife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Street Fashion in Spain: Barcelona, Madrid, and the Andalucian cities of Cordoba, Granada, and Sevilla</title>
		<link>http://americanslife.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/street-fashion-in-spain-barcelona-madrid-and-the-andalucian-cities-of-cordoba-granada-and-sevilla/</link>
		<comments>http://americanslife.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/street-fashion-in-spain-barcelona-madrid-and-the-andalucian-cities-of-cordoba-granada-and-sevilla/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Slocum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spanish women like to look good. You can tell from the care they take in dressing; they think it out, project attitude, and have fun. They dress for themselves and according to the image they want to project. Walking down the street they exude vitality and engagement with the world. Their style is there no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americanslife.wordpress.com&blog=3033718&post=432&subd=americanslife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Safe House in New Orleans</title>
		<link>http://americanslife.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/safe-house-in-new-orleans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Slocum</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fundred Project]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We drive slowly. Lining both sides of the street are homes coming undone at the seams and parked cars, many just rusting hulks, wrecked and stripped. Women sitting on porches eye the neighborhood&#8217;s activities and note our passing. Kids walk aimlessly down the street. It is a hot and humid Saturday afternoon.



Some blocks down on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americanslife.wordpress.com&blog=3033718&post=412&subd=americanslife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Pig in the Front Seat and Other Stories from New Orleans</title>
		<link>http://americanslife.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/a-pig-in-the-front-seat-and-other-stories-from-new-orleans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Slocum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hurricane Katrina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I visited New Orleans with my friend Diana who had been urging me to make the trip for a while. She was eager to introduce me to some of the work and people there. This city hits you smack in the face.  It is a city of tragedy and crisis, of resiliency and redemption. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americanslife.wordpress.com&blog=3033718&post=382&subd=americanslife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Going on Here, Anyway?</title>
		<link>http://americanslife.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/whats-going-on-here-anyway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Slocum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just returned from a cross country jaunt to western Massachusetts for a weekend of  wonder with my friend Erica. We saw nature bursting from its winter hibernation at the insistence of an early heat wave, gangs of students, from the many colleges that populate the landscape, shaking off their winter blahs, dancers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americanslife.wordpress.com&blog=3033718&post=364&subd=americanslife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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