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		<title>Home for the Holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link to article: Carmela and her two daughters will enjoy an amazing present this Christmas: A big box wrapped in pale yellow paint, trimmed in white with a bow on top of composite shingle roofing. But like most pretty packages that we wait in lines for, work hard to afford and desire the most, Carmela [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesleyseacrist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1407138&amp;post=141&amp;subd=lesleyseacrist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing Families for Homeownership- Homebuyer Readiness Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link to article: When families are disqualified from the homeowner selection process, it is a setback but not the end of their dream of owning a Habitat home. Since Habitat introduced the Homebuyer Readiness Program (HRP) earlier this year, more than 300 families have attended three new workshops that address the biggest problem areas causing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesleyseacrist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1407138&amp;post=138&amp;subd=lesleyseacrist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Habitat Family&#8217;s First Thanksgiving in New Redwood City Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link to article: Arcenio and his wife Bertha used to prepare two Thanksgiving turkeys in the small kitchen of their cramped one bedroom apartment, load them into the car alongside their four children and drive to his niece&#8217;s house to celebrate the holiday, leaving behind the mouth-watering aromas that filled the kitchen after hours of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesleyseacrist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1407138&amp;post=127&amp;subd=lesleyseacrist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Special Gift For Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most special gift this Christmas for Marjorie will not be what is brightly wrapped in boxes and bows underneath the tree, but the tree itself. When Marjorie moved to the United States from Honduras 16 years ago, she was always unable to fit a real pine tree into her small apartments. However, this year [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesleyseacrist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1407138&amp;post=135&amp;subd=lesleyseacrist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Discussing Gender with S. Bear Bergman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link to article: In Butch Is a Noun, S. Bear Bergman whittles down the often convoluted issues of gender identity through personal observations about gendered cultural norms like which bathroom and what clothing one chooses, and argues against the gender binary from the positive perspective of love and acceptance. What were you trying to convey [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesleyseacrist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1407138&amp;post=125&amp;subd=lesleyseacrist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transgender Day of Remembrance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This isn’t a movie. A two hour feature where lipstick is applied, stereotypes glimmer in cheap sequins, and the violent death scene is cut away just before the first blow. No, transgender violence can’t be described in a feature film. No one sees the whole story on television either. What they see instead is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesleyseacrist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1407138&amp;post=114&amp;subd=lesleyseacrist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Disneyland Disaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lesley Seacrist Every day at Disneyland there is always that one jackass kid or adult who wants to fake a disability to skip to the front of the line. Well, for one day I decided to be that jackass to see if the urban myth of faking an impairment and wheeling around would let [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesleyseacrist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1407138&amp;post=113&amp;subd=lesleyseacrist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clair Huxtable Taught Me How to Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Gaming, The Old Fashioned Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had just lost our cable. Not for any other reason than it was too expensive and we were saving pennies. So, my boyfriend and I were looking for new options to how to spend an evening. I, a fan of good ol’ times like Monopoly and Life, thought to meander in a Dr. Comics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesleyseacrist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1407138&amp;post=100&amp;subd=lesleyseacrist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love Excel Spread Sheet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a sure fire way to get some brownie points with your spouse or partner. Just fill in the boxes with positive numbers, even though, you might not agree with those numbers and then send it to her or him via email and watch the love happen. I mean, you will be able to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesleyseacrist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1407138&amp;post=98&amp;subd=lesleyseacrist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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