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		<title>Journalism: Sade covers Ebony magazine</title>
		<link>http://adriennewrites.net/2010/03/01/journalism-sade-covers-ebony-magazine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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There she goes. Sade breaks her silence with Ebony magazine. Yours truly wrote the piece.
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		<title>City Stories: Welcome back to high school&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://adriennewrites.net/2010/02/28/city-stories-welcome-back-to-high-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The high school was no bigger than my grammar school. In fact, it looked like the little school I attended from kindergarten to sixth grade. But instead of holding tiny kids, it hosted big ones. It had a metal detector at the front door and inside held hundreds of kids and some very casually dressed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adriennewrites.net&blog=9247782&post=411&subd=adriennethewriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>City Stories: Not a big fan of small hotels/motels&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://adriennewrites.net/2010/02/23/city-stories-afraid-to-sleep-in-the-hotel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps I&#8217;ve been watching too much Cold Case or CSI, but I the only female who isn&#8217;t too keen on staying in a hotel or motel by myself?
I recently took a trip to Iowa, and I had to stay in a Sheraton in a small town. I drove myself down there and it was about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adriennewrites.net&blog=9247782&post=407&subd=adriennethewriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>City Stories: Walking the Chicago Auto Show barefoot</title>
		<link>http://adriennewrites.net/2010/02/20/city-stories-walking-the-chicago-auto-show-barefoot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adriennethewriter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fisker. BMW. Audi. Toyota.
 Thanks to a good friend, I was able to attend the charity night event of the Auto Show and see all of these beautiful cars up close and personal. We got dolled up in our finest heels and dresses, put on suitable makeup and walked the floor. It&#8217;s always fun to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adriennewrites.net&blog=9247782&post=400&subd=adriennethewriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>City Stories: Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day! I&#8217;m selling my wedding dress!</title>
		<link>http://adriennewrites.net/2010/02/14/city-stories-trying-to-sell-the-wedding-dress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of Valentine&#8217;s Day, I thought it would be appropriate to sell my wedding dress. Of course, this is NOT the dress I wore to my own wedding. Instead, it&#8217;s the dress that I snatched from Al Roker&#8217;s able hands when I was a contestant on The Today Show Wedding in 2008.
[This is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adriennewrites.net&blog=9247782&post=390&subd=adriennethewriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>City Stories: &#8220;No sir officer, I am not gay. And even if I was, I don&#8217;t need you to pray out the devil from me.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://adriennewrites.net/2010/01/27/city-stories-no-sir-officer-i-am-not-gay-and-even-if-i-was-i-dont-need-you-to-pray-out-the-devil-from-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adriennethewriter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was 10 p.m. on a Saturday night.
A female friend and I were heading home from the Robin Thicke concert at The Vic in Chicago. She had stomach cramps, so she needed to stop at Walgreens. So we stopped.
I decided to get some Zyrtec, strawberry ice cream and a black and mild. My friend, who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adriennewrites.net&blog=9247782&post=386&subd=adriennethewriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>City Stories: Sister, can you spare a $20? Because a dollar aint enough&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://adriennewrites.net/2010/01/25/city-stories-sister-can-you-spare-a-20-because-a-dollar-aint-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://adriennewrites.net/2010/01/25/city-stories-sister-can-you-spare-a-20-because-a-dollar-aint-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adriennethewriter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am trying to support the businesses in my neighborhood. I go to my farmer&#8217;s market in the spring, summer and fall. I get gas around the corner. I try mightily to visit the local Jewel-Osco rather than the swankier Whole Foods that is downtown. I also try to get certain products from Sav-A-Lot. It&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adriennewrites.net&blog=9247782&post=379&subd=adriennethewriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Journalism: Don&#8217;t check your voicemail? Is that really a good idea?</title>
		<link>http://adriennewrites.net/2010/01/21/journalism-dont-check-your-voicemail-is-that-really-a-good-idea/</link>
		<comments>http://adriennewrites.net/2010/01/21/journalism-dont-check-your-voicemail-is-that-really-a-good-idea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adriennethewriter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I checked my voicemail this morning. There were 40 new messages.
I checked my email. There were 123 unread messages.
It took me about an hour and a half to go through everything, respond to everyone and file away what needed filing. 
I&#8217;ve read the work of some career coaches who suggest that those of us experiencing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adriennewrites.net&blog=9247782&post=377&subd=adriennethewriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life: America&#8217;s best minds (?) miss the mark on Haiti</title>
		<link>http://adriennewrites.net/2010/01/18/life-americas-best-minds-miss-the-mark-on-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adriennethewriter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on the Medill School of Journalism (Northwestern University) alumni listserve. There, hundreds if not thousands of NU alumni usually discuss job opportunities, tenets of journalism, journalism best practices and the top news of the day. The past week the listserve has been inundated with news of Haiti. Some people are all for donating and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adriennewrites.net&blog=9247782&post=372&subd=adriennethewriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life: Pissed about a Break In</title>
		<link>http://adriennewrites.net/2010/01/16/life-pissed-about-a-break-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adriennethewriter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone broke into my car earlier this week. They unscrewed my whole dashboard and tried to pull out the heater controls and the stereo. Tried is the key word here. They only got away with my CDs and my face plate. But in so doing, they destroyed my dash, killed my radio and murdered my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adriennewrites.net&blog=9247782&post=370&subd=adriennethewriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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