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		<title>Leigh Spence, &#8220;Just a Thought&#8221; &#8212; Aging… gracefully?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October I will turn fifty. There, I said it. My philosophy on aging is to start telling people that is how old I am before it happens, to ease the transition. Today, I was thinking about aging in general. I think it was the mammogram appointment that got me going. I am always slightly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leigh Spence, &#8220;Just a Thought&#8221; &#8212; The beauty of a small goal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 21, we launched 580 Kewpies into the world. Ambitious, creative, fun-loving people ready to tackle whatever lies ahead. About 120 of those students were “mine,” advisees that have been with me since their sophomore year. To varying degrees, I knew them. Some I knew through changing their schedules or helping with their college [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leigh Spence, &#8220;Just a Thought&#8221; &#8212; Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe&#8217;s house</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 00:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over spring break, Sean and I went to New Mexico for a few days. One of the main attractions of the trip was to visit the home and studio of Georgia O’Keeffe in Abiquiu, about 50 miles outside of Santa Fe. I love Georgia O’Keeffe. She is my all-time favorite artist. Her use of color [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leigh Spence, &#8220;Just a Thought&#8221; &#8212; The prudence of silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I am thinking about the prudence of silence. Sometimes not saying something is the most profound choice. After several near-disasters when dashing off an email in haste, frustration or anger, I believe I may finally have learned to write it, save it, and w-a-i-t. In my younger years, I would have written it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leigh Spence, &#8220;Just a Thought&#8221; &#8212; Top 10 Reasons I Love the True/False Film Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel like a mini vacation is headed my way this weekend with the True/False Film Festival. Here are ten reasons why: 10. True/False makes me feel cosmopolitan…like I’m hanging with the cool kids. 9.     True/False helps me think about Columbia in a different way. I love living here, but seeing people visit Columbia for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leigh Spence, &#8220;Just a Thought&#8221; &#8212; The poverty line</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today when I drove to work I passed the Central Missouri Community Action (CMCA) offices on Providence Road near Hickman. It was 6:55 a.m. and there was a line of at least 10 people waiting for the offices to open. It made me think. Last week, as a professional development opportunity, the entire faculty of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leigh Spence, &#8220;Just a Thought&#8221; &#8212; My &#8220;first real job&#8221; story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was telling a student my “first real job out of college” story. I graduated from Auburn University in 1984 and moved to Memphis, Tennessee. I landed a job as an assistant features editor for The Germantown News, a suburban weekly newspaper, and I was thrilled. The publisher of the paper, Gail, was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leigh Spence, &#8220;Just a Thought&#8221; &#8212; Tucson, Young People, and Mental Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent shootings in Tucson have me thinking about mental health among our young people. It seems that as more information comes out about Jared Loughner, it was obvious that there were ongoing emotional concerns. Of course, the natural question that we may never know the answer to is, “What was done about it?” The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leigh Spence, &#8220;Just a Thought&#8221; &#8212; My mom on her birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mom’s 78th birthday has just passed. Some of you who read my Voices column or my blog may know some of her story. But with the passing of her day (or as she referred to it fairly recently, “The month of Roberta”), I thought it would be fun to tell a few anecdotes about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leigh Spence, &#8220;Just a Thought&#8221; &#8212; Christmas with Mom, random observations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From &#8220;The Old Gray Mare… A Daughter&#8217;s Blog.&#8221; &#8212; My mom has vascular dementia. Her favorite phrase is, aptly, &#8220;The old gray mare, she ain&#8217;t what she used to be.&#8221; So true. This lovely, snowy Christmas morning, I went to pick up my mom for gift opening and lunch. I had visited her the day [...]]]></description>
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