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		<title>Emotional Training Helps Kids Fight Depression : NPR</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/276</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emotional Training Helps Kids Fight Depression : NPR.
This is a brilliant effort at nipping the downward spiral in the bud when children are at their most formative, and it is definitely running parallel to what I am trying to work on with my son.

Over the last two days my son has discovered the word &#8220;hate.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembrance Day</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/267</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think my father lived in the shadow of a brother with whom he could never compete. This brother was well-liked, affable by all accounts. He died in combat in 1966, a casualty of the conflict in Vietnam. He died just shy of his 21st birthday and thus, he will always live and loom larger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Push For Colleges To Prioritize Mental Health : NPR</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/265</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Push For Colleges To Prioritize Mental Health : NPR.
When I was diagnosed as bipolar in 1997, I was diagnosed by a college psychiatrist. My first real experience with a psychiatrist and navigating the ins and outs of having a diagnosis and trying to find a treatment plan that would allow me to function was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teen diagnoses her own disease in science class &#8211; CNN.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teen diagnoses her own disease in science class &#8211; CNN.com.
This is the ultimate in being your own best advocate. When you can&#8217;t find answer, continue looking, even if you have to go it alone. I think it especially highlights the need for quality control measures in pathology and medicine. We are allowed to routinely get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fire Across the Street Highlights Need for Disaster Preparedness</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/192</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lunasmom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier I blogged about community; one of the ideas presented was the idea that neighbors should &#8220;build a database of house locations, contact info, number and name of family members, number and name of pets, emergency numbers, etc for use during fire, earthquake or other disaster.&#8221;
When I opened my front door to see a geyser [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commune vs. Community</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/187</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I came across this story on NPR:
A Social Experiment: Communes In Cul-De-Sacs : NPR.
The story is about &#8220;cul de sac&#8221; communes, planned neighborhoods where people share resources. Different from the Utopian societies of yore, where the main requirement was isolation from the rest of civilization, this cul de sac commune idea integrates modern culture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Step in the Right Direction for Civil Rights</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/184</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iowa High Court Strikes Down Gay Marriage Ban : NPR.
I will never understand the fear and loathing surrounding the issue of gay marriage. If you don&#8217;t want one, don&#8217;t get one. Why shouldn&#8217;t love in all forms be celebrated? Aren&#8217;t the values embodied by marriage exactly the values we want to espouse? Separate is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compare and Contrast</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/131</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compare&#8230;
A.I.G. Planning Huge Bonuses After $170 Billion Bailout
and contrast&#8230;
More than a year ago, a handful of homeless people staked out the site on the northern edge of downtown Sacramento. Now there are more than 100 tents and anywhere between 300 to 400 people living without running water or sanitation. Their only protection from the elements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pollyanna and the Road to Immortality</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/122</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lunasmom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Optimists live longer, healthier lives than pessimists, U.S. researchers said on Thursday in a study that may give pessimists one more reason to grumble.&#8221; I told you so!
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE5247NO20090305?rpc=59

It&#8217;s better to think positive and forget all the haters. They&#8217;ll all be dead soon anyway.
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		<title>&#8220;Who looks not with compassion sees not what the eyes of compassion see. &#8220;</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/107</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lunasmom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a Tibetan saying. I thought it was doubly apt as the Dalai Lama is set to celebrate 50 years of exile from Tibet and the people of Tibet labor under oppressive restrictions on basic freedoms that we take for granted. But, I also  found other meanings to it; I am sure that I [...]]]></description>
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