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		<title>What&#8217;s so great about being in your 40&#8242;s</title>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riverboxx.com&amp;blog=11857585&amp;post=1749&amp;subd=christymiles&amp;ref=&amp;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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 22:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christymiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s say you are a writer and that, at some point, you have told your friends or family that you wanted to or were writing a book. Chances are pretty good that someone at some point has asked you how said book is going, if you are still writing, are you published, or another variation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riverboxx.com&amp;blog=11857585&amp;post=1701&amp;subd=christymiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Mother&#8217;s Day when Mom&#8217;s not there</title>
		<link>http://riverboxx.com/2011/05/06/celebrating-mothers-day-when-moms-not-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 18:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christymiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know what moms are supposed to be: patient, kind and loving. They are supposed to know how to sing lullabies and kiss boo-boo&#8217;s. They are supposed to cook and clean and decorate cupcakes like it&#8217;s nobody&#8217;s business. They are supposed to work hard at home and at work and be good friends, good daughters, good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riverboxx.com&amp;blog=11857585&amp;post=1677&amp;subd=christymiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What your email signature says about you</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christymiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a writer, I notice little things. As a marketer, I notice little things, too. One of the biggest little things I am actually paid to notice is your email signature&#8211;the way you sign your emails as well as the block of information that may or may not be included after it. People like me are sometimes referred to, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riverboxx.com&amp;blog=11857585&amp;post=1657&amp;subd=christymiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to stop hating someone who is more successful than you?</title>
		<link>http://riverboxx.com/2011/04/04/how-to-stop-hating-someone-who-is-more-successful-than-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 04:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christymiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So last weekend I&#8217;m at the bookstore&#8211;remember those? so quaint! so old-fashioned!&#8211;checking out the Best American Essays and short story collections when I see it: a black soft cover book with cool illustrations in embossed ink on the cover. The kind you just don&#8217;t see anymore on books (or maybe you do only it doesn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riverboxx.com&amp;blog=11857585&amp;post=1638&amp;subd=christymiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When you trust your words to an editor</title>
		<link>http://riverboxx.com/2011/03/01/when-you-trust-your-words-to-an-editor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christymiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight as I sat editing an article for a senior VP in another country, I thought&#8211;what a leap of faith. I had met this executive briefly once, many months ago. She was now trusting her words and ideas to me, a complete stranger other than the testimonials she&#8217;d heard from others about my work. We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riverboxx.com&amp;blog=11857585&amp;post=1627&amp;subd=christymiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What the new JCPenney logo should do&#8211;but can&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://riverboxx.com/2011/02/24/see-what-the-new-jc-penney-logo-should-do-but-cant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christymiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When JCPenney announced that they were changing their logo, my first question was what it looked like. My second question was who designed it. I was disappointed to learn that the company had a contest for the logo redesign. Yep, they got it for free: To choose a new logo design, jcpenney sought submissions that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riverboxx.com&amp;blog=11857585&amp;post=1609&amp;subd=christymiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The greatest Valentine&#8217;s Day gift: make fun of someone you love today</title>
		<link>http://riverboxx.com/2011/02/14/the-greatest-valentines-day-gift-make-fun-of-someone-you-love-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christymiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So my husband and I were having a&#8230;discussion the other day about my apparent need to tease him. Now, I don&#8217;t go out of my way to mock him. I don&#8217;t get sarcastically mean or tear him down in front of other people, nothing like that. But I do like to point out his&#8230;idiosyncracies. For [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riverboxx.com&amp;blog=11857585&amp;post=1605&amp;subd=christymiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to avoid being the next Groupon/Tibet disaster</title>
		<link>http://riverboxx.com/2011/02/12/how-to-avoid-being-the-next-groupontibet-disaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christymiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know Groupon blew it with their Superbowl ad. (If you missed it, here&#8217;s a good recap of the brouhaha by University of Colorado journalism instructor Sandra Fish.) Now the CEO has finally admitted it too&#8211;better late than never. Rather than cover the blow-by-blow error of Groupon&#8217;s&#8211;and their ad agency&#8217;s&#8211;ways, let&#8217;s talk about how you can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riverboxx.com&amp;blog=11857585&amp;post=1590&amp;subd=christymiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing Campaign Creative: Are you guilty of these 5 subjective sins?</title>
		<link>http://riverboxx.com/2011/01/20/marketing-campaigns-are-you-guilty-of-these-5-subjective-sins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone&#8217;s got an opinion, but when it comes to creative work, those subjective opinions, biases and perceptions can get in the way of great creative work and hamper the whole process. Here are 5 subjective &#8220;sins&#8221; that come up most often: 1. Anti-Feet. One client I worked with hated feet. As a b2b company in the analytics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riverboxx.com&amp;blog=11857585&amp;post=1499&amp;subd=christymiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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