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		<title>Missing Mom on Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 04:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mother&#8217;s Day is a great thing if you are a mom or if you have a mom. But if your mom is not in your life for any reason, Mother&#8217;s Day can be&#8230;tough. As Mother&#8217;s Day approaches, I think of my adoptive mother, who raised me until she died from pancreatic cancer when I was [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riverboxx.com&#038;blog=11857585&#038;post=1913&#038;subd=christymiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Be more creative. Yes, you!</title>
		<link>http://riverboxx.com/2012/12/06/be-more-creative-yes-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christymiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being in a creative profession, I live, eat, sleep, breathe and dream creativity. It&#8217;s my job to be a master of my craft. I&#8217;ve spent 20+ years working on this &#8211; and every day I learn something new. That&#8217;s what I love about this journey that I&#8217;ve chosen to pursue. Along the way, I&#8217;ve had [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riverboxx.com&#038;blog=11857585&#038;post=1895&#038;subd=christymiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Do you see that guy? He&#039;s diving off of a platform about 120&#039; up in the air into the ocean at Rick&#039;s Cafe in Jamaica. Creative? Stupid? Brave? You be the judge.</media:title>
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		<title>Simplify your words. Simplify your life.</title>
		<link>http://riverboxx.com/2012/11/28/simplify-your-words-simplify-your-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 05:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christymiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever feel like life has just gotten way too complicated? Between juggling 98 work projects, 5 conference calls daily, piano lessons, soccer practices and games, carpool, birthday parties, lunches and dinners for a family of four 7 days a week, dog groomings/shots/weird emergencies (MOM! The dog ate the nail clippers!! Again!!), kid emergencies [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riverboxx.com&#038;blog=11857585&#038;post=1842&#038;subd=christymiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What to do when the holiday blues strike</title>
		<link>http://riverboxx.com/2012/11/20/what-to-do-when-the-holiday-blues-strike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 02:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christymiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am normally a happy, energetic, bubbly person. But every year before Thanksgiving, I am struck by the &#8216;holiday blues.&#8217; It usually passes quickly, but it comes on so suddenly and unexpectedly that I am often taken aback &#8211; even though it happens every year. There is so much pressure to &#8216;enjoy&#8217; the holidays that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riverboxx.com&#038;blog=11857585&#038;post=1832&#038;subd=christymiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>feeling lost? think back to when you were 9</title>
		<link>http://riverboxx.com/2012/09/05/feeling-lost-think-back-to-when-you-were-9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 06:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christymiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was nine years old, I thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up. After exploring options like veterinarian, teacher and librarian, I finally settled on one thought: I want to write things that make people think. Flash forward&#8230;a lot of years. I am now helping really smart people build compelling [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riverboxx.com&#038;blog=11857585&#038;post=1826&#038;subd=christymiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the power of doing nothing</title>
		<link>http://riverboxx.com/2012/08/22/the-power-of-doing-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 02:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christymiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a creative professional, I&#8217;m constantly faced with new challenges and decisions: what&#8217;s the best way to tell this brand story? What will resonate most with the audience? What will make them laugh, cry, comment on Facebook or order the product I am helping to market? What&#8217;s the best way to get all the different [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riverboxx.com&#038;blog=11857585&#038;post=1814&#038;subd=christymiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is technology driving us apart &#8211; or closer together?</title>
		<link>http://riverboxx.com/2012/05/10/is-technology-driving-us-apart-or-closer-together/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 03:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christymiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended The Art of Marketing conference in Chicago featuring Seth Godin and the question was posed to the audience: how many of you feel like technology is isolating us as a society? I did not raise my hand. I looked around and was shocked to see the majority of hands up. Now, I&#8217;ve [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riverboxx.com&#038;blog=11857585&#038;post=1802&#038;subd=christymiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why are girls so mean?!</title>
		<link>http://riverboxx.com/2012/04/19/why-are-girls-so-mean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christymiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I comforted my 1o-year-old daughter &#8211; again &#8211; about her break-up with her best friend. It wasn&#8217;t her idea. So while she is struggling to understand why her best friend no longer wants to be her best friend, her former best friend has moved on and is doing just fine with her new best [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riverboxx.com&#038;blog=11857585&#038;post=1787&#038;subd=christymiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s so great about being in your 40&#8242;s</title>
		<link>http://riverboxx.com/2011/12/01/whats-so-great-about-being-in-your-40s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christymiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking with a good friend (are there any other kind?) the other day, and we were discussing work and the various challenges we were facing. And he said, &#8220;You&#8217;re in your 40&#8242;s, you&#8217;re supposed to be challenged.&#8221; I laughed, but later, that comment stuck with me. Most of the articles I read about being [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riverboxx.com&#038;blog=11857585&#038;post=1749&#038;subd=christymiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>7 comebacks for why you are not writing or finishing your book that just might trigger you to start writing again</title>
		<link>http://riverboxx.com/2011/05/23/7-comebacks-for-why-you-are-not-writing-or-finishing-your-book-that-might-just-trigger-you-to-start-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 22:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christymiles</dc:creator>
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