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	<title>Carolyn Erickson</title>
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	<description>Choose Your Words Wisely</description>
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		<title>CommonCents 3.0 Not Your Grandmother&#8217;s Envelope Budget System</title>
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I worked with clients at enDevelopment to write this press release about the launch of CommonCents 3.0, personal budgeting software based on the envelope system. It was released today.
They used PRWeb to distribute the release and it seemed to work well. The package they chose allowed them to add this overview video of the budgeting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.carolynRerickson.com/2010/04/06/commoncents-3-0-not-your-grandmothers-envelope-budgeting-system/</link>
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		<title>Who that? Well it ain&#8217;t yer grammar.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For me, advice on proper grammar and usage is one of those mote and beam issues. Experience has given me a sharp eye for spotting errors in others&#8217; writing, but I don&#8217;t always see them in my own. Typos slip through my keyboard often enough that I&#8217;m cautious not to get uppity.
So take this as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.carolynRerickson.com/2010/04/05/who-that-well-it-aint-yer-grammar/</link>
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		<title>My most recent article for Women&#8217;s Focus</title>
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It&#8217;s an &#8220;awareness&#8221; month. Can you guess from the title which one?
No Buts About It
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		<link>http://blog.carolynRerickson.com/2010/03/09/my-most-recent-article-for-womens-focus/</link>
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		<title>Mom Science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As my daughter nears those pre-teen years, I&#8217;ve found myself reminiscing. This is an article I wrote back during the toddler years:
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		<link>http://blog.carolynRerickson.com/2010/03/08/mom-science/</link>
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		<title>Cliches: Love &#8216;em or leave &#8216;em? Do both.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again: I love cliches.
But before you run off to report me (tattle-tale), or to cram your copy with them because &#8220;Carolyn said it was okay,&#8221; let me clarify:
I love cliches with the kind of affection people bestow upon puppies and kittens. And while puppies and kittens can be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.carolynRerickson.com/2009/09/29/cliches-love-em-or-leave-em-do-both/</link>
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		<title>A WAHM by any other name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scott Stratten of Un-Marketing begins his guest post video at Jessica Knows by saying there are two types of people you don&#8217;t want to *p* off: religious groups and WAHMs (work-at-home-moms).
Then he does it. Actually, he leaves religious groups alone. His message to WAHMs is simple: it&#8217;s bad business to market yourself as a WAHM unless your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.carolynRerickson.com/2009/03/02/a-wahm-by-any-other-name/</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I woke up this morning to a quiet house and the sound of just a few birds chirping busily outside. I was happy, rested, and peaceful and then I remembered why: it&#8217;s a whole new year!
The year 2009 is as exciting as a blank page. What will you write on it?
I have some ideas for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.carolynRerickson.com/2009/01/01/happy-new-year/</link>
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		<title>Ode to freelancing joy.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Author Bill Dyszel wrote this little ditty, and sings it to the tune of &#8220;Ode to Joy.&#8221;
Although he calls it the Freelance National Anthem, I think this speaks to freelancers around the world, nation non-exclusive.

For the record, I work in my pajamas.  
 
Alternate link: Freelancers National Anthem, by Bill Dyszel
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		<link>http://blog.carolynRerickson.com/2008/12/23/ode-to-freelancing-joy/</link>
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		<title>Purely for the sake of art</title>
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I made the shortbread cookies again. This time, I didn&#8217;t have the distractions of the post-school/supper-making frenzy, and they turned out perfectly. (Although I still blame my oven for that last attempt.) I also did not slather them with chocolate, since they clearly are meant to be enjoyed in all their buttery simplicity:

Here&#8217;s my attempt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.carolynRerickson.com/2008/12/19/purely-for-the-sake-of-art/</link>
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		<title>I made the shortbread cookies.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mine weren&#8217;t as light-colored as Charmian&#8217;s (probably left them in too long), but YUM anyway.

Of course, I had to slather them with chocolate.

And someone tried to sneak one. (This photograph was her idea. I think she has a natural talent for multimedia communication somewhere there in her extensive skillset.)

But I can hardly blame her! They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.carolynRerickson.com/2008/12/17/i-made-the-shortbread-cookies/</link>
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