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	<title>Heather Ivester</title>
	<link>http://heatherivester.com</link>
	<description>Encouragement for writing parents and for anyone who loves inspiring books for kids</description>
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		<title>Soccer Mom</title>
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Right now, all over the country &#8212; all over the world, I guess &#8212; parents are watching kids kick black and white soccer balls up and down grassy fields. I&#8217;ve been doing this off and on for the past ten years.
Today I was thinking how much the &#8220;soccer mom&#8221; thing has changed since I first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heatherivester.com/2010/09/08/soccer-mom/</link>
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		<title>Author Interview: Robyn Hood Black</title>
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I&#8217;m excited to welcome a brave and talented guest today whose writing has led her to read with the wolves! Robyn Hood Black is the author of two children&#8217;s books, Wolves (Dalmatian/Intervisual Books) and Sir Mike (Scholastic/Children&#8217;s Press). She&#8217;s had poetry published in Welcome Home and Hopscotch for Girls, and she also has poems slated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heatherivester.com/2010/08/31/author-interview-robyn-hood-black/</link>
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		<title>Movie Review: Eat Pray Love</title>
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We went and saw Eat Pray Love last weekend. I just had to see it, even though I haven&#8217;t read the book yet. (I&#8217;ve got it on hold at the library, so it should be coming soon.) I was so curious about this story &#8212; a woman&#8217;s year-long spiritual memoir, as she travels through Italy, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heatherivester.com/2010/08/27/movie-review-eat-pray-love/</link>
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		<title>Holding on to Hope for Chile&#8217;s Miracle Miners</title>
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My children have been praying every day for the 33 miners who&#8217;ve been trapped inside a gold and copper mine in Chile since August 5. I can&#8217;t get this story out of my mind. We pray for them together every afternoon and every night, and their classmates are all praying for them every morning at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heatherivester.com/2010/08/25/holding-on-to-hope-for-chiles-miracle-miners/</link>
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		<title>Entering the Hutchmoot Fellowship</title>
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It&#8217;s taken me a while to write this post, as I&#8217;ve tried to process everything I learned and experienced at Hutchmoot a couple of weeks ago in Nashville. If you&#8217;re not familiar with The Rabbit Room, you&#8217;re probably wondering what in the world I&#8217;m talking about.
The Rabbit Room is a group blog founded by musician/writer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heatherivester.com/2010/08/20/entering-the-hutchmoot-fellowship/</link>
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		<title>Greg Mortenson&#8217;s Three Cups of Tea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the summer, while browsing through my Auburn University alumni magazine, I was surprised to learn that all 4,000 incoming freshmen are being encouraged to read a book together: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.



Wow. That&#8217;s a major book club, don&#8217;t you think?
It&#8217;s part of the Common Book program that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heatherivester.com/2010/08/17/greg-mortensons-three-cups-of-tea/</link>
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		<title>Overseas Teaching Jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written about this before, but I thought I&#8217;d periodically update you on overseas teaching jobs. It&#8217;s a topic I feel passionate about, and I&#8217;m praying there&#8217;s a young 20-something woman out there who might discover my post and find a calling in teaching overseas. It&#8217;s one of the best things I ever did for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heatherivester.com/2010/08/16/overseas-teaching-jobs/</link>
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		<title>A Prayer for You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found this post that I wrote nearly five years ago, and I felt like the &#8220;Prayer for One&#8217;s Calling&#8221; still applies today. May God bless you with a wonderful weekend.
Prayer for One’s Calling
Almighty God, our heavenly Father,
Who declares Your glory and shows forth Your handiwork
in the heavens and in the earth;
Deliver us, we beseech [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heatherivester.com/2010/08/13/a-prayer-for-you/</link>
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		<title>Transitions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, today is the last day of summer for me &#8230; and the end of an era.
After 14 years of being a stay-home mom and having babies, toddlers, and preschoolers all around, this chapter of my life is closing. My youngest daughter starts kindergarten tomorrow, which is a full-day program in our state.
Last year, she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heatherivester.com/2010/08/12/transitions/</link>
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		<title>Guest Post: How to Play Golf With Your Spouse, by Peggy Nelson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note:
I&#8217;m delighted to offer you an excerpt from author Peggy Nelson&#8217;s new book, Life with Lord Byron: Laughter, Romance and Lessons Learned From Golf’s Greatest Gentleman.  Peggy is the widow of Byron Nelson, a champion golfer who still holds the world record for winning 18 PGA tournaments in 1945, including 11 in a row!
If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heatherivester.com/2010/08/09/guest-post-how-to-play-golf-with-your-spouse-by-peggy-nelson/</link>
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