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		<title>On the Road Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since American Ghost came out last week (or week before? Is it passing that quickly?) I have been speaking and driving, and driving and speaking, in that order. After two years of conversation about cornbread and butter-beans with Cracker Kitchen, &#8230; <a href="http://janisowens.com/?p=239">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>His Grace Will Lead Us Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 04:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Into the mix of a particularly difficult summer &#8211; losing Mama and helping Daddy readjust, while meanwhile trying not to become clinically obese &#8211; yet another card has fallen. It&#8217;s a particularly painful card and all the more painful as &#8230; <a href="http://janisowens.com/?p=196">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Valley and the Shadow of Book Reviews</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had to loosen my grip on the summer&#8217;s great loss in order to attend to the immediate future &#8211; American Ghost, which debuts on October 9. I&#8217;ve just posted an update on the Tour Schedule and am getting &#8230; <a href="http://janisowens.com/?p=186">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Haunting of Brother Roy, Part III, conclusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2012 04:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8216;m going down to Ocala tomorrow with an assortment of Mama&#8217;s granddaughters to do a final great day of cleaning on her house. In the process of nailing our plans with daddy, I casually asked about his ghostly &#8220;shadder.&#8221; He &#8230; <a href="http://janisowens.com/?p=180">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Book Tour Posted</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had cheering news here in the dog days of summer: American Ghost has been chosen for features in both Elle and Good Housekeeping, and as a Pulpwood Queen main selection. The launch date has been moved up to &#8230; <a href="http://janisowens.com/?p=176">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Haunting of Brother Roy, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 02:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went down this morning to see Pops and investigate his haunting, and to continue to go through Mama&#8217;s inexhaustible stockpile of figurines, doilies, old hymnals, handbags, moisturizers, devotionals, free Medicare bras, and mass market paperbacks. I am thinking about &#8230; <a href="http://janisowens.com/?p=161">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Of Ghosts and Men</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 02:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8216;m taking a break from the old Mourning Loop to brighten the Dog Days of a difficult summer with two very bright pieces of news: Elle Magazine has picked American Ghost to feature in its November issue (which conveniently comes &#8230; <a href="http://janisowens.com/?p=147">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sprig of Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went down to help pops clean out Mama&#8217;s vast caverns of crochet thread and crochet needles; sewing boxes, sewing drawers and enough paper back books to open a small library. On a shelf of favor was the My Brother &#8230; <a href="http://janisowens.com/?p=135">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Promise The Grief Won&#8217;t Go On Forever</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 02:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I understand that I am getting perilously close to turning this into a Grief Blog, but before I progress to the giving-away-all-mama&#8217;s-yarn stage of Southern Mourning, I have to relate yet another moment of grace, which came at the hands &#8230; <a href="http://janisowens.com/?p=123">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>She Wore Purple</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 22:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to think I could write something profound right now, but the profound just isn&#8217;t in me. Mama died this morning, after a fairly taxing passage from this life to the next. She loved music and the piano &#8230; <a href="http://janisowens.com/?p=115">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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