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	<title>Mama Sylvia's Blog</title>
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		<title>Kids gone, pets here &#8211; what&#8217;s wrong with this picture?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When my kids were little, as most kids do, they wanted their own cats. We had a family dog but they wanted their own animals, to be just theirs. We lived on 8 acres in the country, so I wasn&#8217;t opposed to the idea, but I knew too many families where the kids had begged [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.steigerfamily.com/ssblog/2011/02/20/kids-gone-pets-here-whats-wrong-with-this-picture/</link>
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		<title>RSS to Calibre to Kindle 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am totally hooked on getting subscriptions to my Kindle via Calibre  now, and it motivated me to tackle something I&#8217;ve been eyeing for  months: an RSS feed. Since I was able to get Calibre to subscribe to  some periodicals and painlessly (and automagically) email them to my  Kindle, if Calibre [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.steigerfamily.com/ssblog/2011/02/03/rss-to-calibre-to-kindle-3/</link>
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		<title>RSS/periodicals to Calibre to Kindle 3 Instructions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following are the &#8220;RSS/Periodicals to Calibre to Kindle 3&#8243; instructions for dummies we found to work. Thanks so much to &#8220;Tegan&#8221; on the Amazon discussion board for her contribution!
First, download and install Calibre for your operating system. The following instructions assume Calibre for Windows; if you use a different OS, I hope you&#8217;ll be able [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.steigerfamily.com/ssblog/2011/02/03/rssperiodicals-to-calibre-to-kindle-3-instructions/</link>
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		<title>Thoroughly hooked on my new Kindle 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve really wanted a Kindle for months, but I didn&#8217;t *need* one. I am able to read tons of free eBooks from Gutenberg.org on my PDA, an old Toshiba e800 running Vade Mecum. I wanted the Kindle in addition for two reasons: first, so when my DH and I go somewhere together, I could take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.steigerfamily.com/ssblog/2011/02/02/thoroughly-hooked-on-my-new-kindle-3/</link>
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		<title>Building credit in college</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When my homeschooled daughter started college, she started receiving tons of credit-card offers. She&#8217;s always had an unusual ability to learn from other people&#8217;s problems, so she happily announced she was throwing them in the trash. But when I explained that a credit score is, like it or not, a requirement of being a functioning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.steigerfamily.com/ssblog/2010/12/22/building-credit-in-college/</link>
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		<title>Know your rights before having a baby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got involved in a Facebook discussion on home-vs-hospital childbirth that made me want to share my own stories in more detail.
I became pregnant with my first child in 1988 at age 34. I was a registered nurse working in chemotherapy research and very familiar with reading research studies in medical journals. My first OB [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.steigerfamily.com/ssblog/2010/08/25/know-your-rights-before-having-a-baby/</link>
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		<title>Vade Mecum on my Toshiba e800 redux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I definitely like this eBook reader, and I&#8217;ve been able to download many titles from Gutenberg to use with it. But I have a few books that I like to re-read enough to fuss with getting them into a readable eBook format, so I tried that tonight. I&#8217;m not sure how, but I found a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.steigerfamily.com/ssblog/2010/08/13/vade-mecum-on-my-toshiba-e800-redux/</link>
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		<title>Welcome back to Yuppieville</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess we have rejoined the Yuppies.
Last year at this time, we had 4 drivers and 1 car. My daughter was off at college and my son was at basic Army National Guard training. My husband telecommutes, so we were able to manage just fine with one car, and had for a number of years.
Yuppies? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.steigerfamily.com/ssblog/2010/08/11/welcome-back-to-yuppieville/</link>
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		<title>The Revenge of the GPS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, at Wal-Mart&#8217;s Black Friday sale, I picked up a TomTom GPS for about $60. I&#8217;d wanted one for years and I couldn&#8217;t pass up that price. And it has definitely been a help finding places I haven&#8217;t been to before, with an occasional spectacular exception such as the time it took us along [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.steigerfamily.com/ssblog/2010/08/08/the-revenge-of-the-gps/</link>
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		<title>Still trying to read ebooks &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, here I am again, still trying to find an eBook reader that will work on my Toshiba e800 running Windows Mobile 2003 SE. I found a humongous list of eBook readers, broken down by OS but not by  price/free or if they are still supported or even which version of the  OS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.steigerfamily.com/ssblog/2010/07/02/still-trying-to-read-ebooks/</link>
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