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		<title>Manifold greatness: Reflecting on 400 years of the King James Bible</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Crawford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have tried, as best I could, to pay tribute to the King James Version of the Bible in this the 400th anniversary year of its publication. That is to say, while I have used it not often enough, I have on those times when I&#8217;ve read the Bible, or taken one to church services. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011: A Christmas Memory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Crawford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t remember how old I was, nor what gifts I received. For a writer, not remembering is a nuisance. And occasionally, a gift. It was Christmas night. The excitement had passed. The gifts had been given. Brothers and sister were scattered to corners to play. The grown-ups, I imagine, were sitting around, telling each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories of Christmas past: A Little Girl&#8217;s Gift</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to share a few pieces from the past this holiday season, and this one isn&#8217;t mine, but from my dad, Byron Crawford. It&#8217;s one of his best pieces of writing, I think, though that&#8217;s a large field to narrow. Thelma Floyd, a teacher from Bagdad Elementary, shared this story with him. She asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Veterans Day: Reflecting on a wonderful life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Crawford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent a couple of hours last night in the home of Jim and Rosemary Miller. Jim died last month of a heart attack. He was 87. I sat in front of the computer this afternoon and did the impossible, tried to condense an 87-year life into 600 words. I wanted to do this story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A quick birthday reflection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Crawford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Katie turned 13 a couple of weeks ago, and Jack hits double-digits today. Not sure how they, or their little brother, for that matter, got to be so big, and smart, and funny. Nor am I sure how I am able to be nostalgic about every age they seem to pass. But that&#8217;s how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A bike and a bridge, echoes of Sherman Minton</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Crawford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before Sherman Minton was a bridge, he was a boy on a bicycle. When Minton was 13 years old, he was known around his neighborhood in southern Indiana as a troublemaker. He hadn&#8217;t had the easiest time of it. His father, who had worked for the railroad, was disabled from a bout of heatstroke. His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clean-up on aisle something: Losing it at the grocery store</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;ve rearranged my grocery store. I know people are losing it over this downgrade of the nation&#8217;s credit rating. But I&#8217;m upset about an upgrade. That&#8217;s what the store manager called it. (And no, before you ask, I did not confront him on why all the changes were made. I&#8217;m far too passive-aggressive for that. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A birthday thank you</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 03:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As someone whose philosophy at this point in life is to handle birthdays a lot like weather and traffic &#8212; that is, to celebrate them &#8220;on the tens,&#8221; and let them slip on by otherwise &#8212; the Facebook birthday phenomenon is a bit overwhelming. If I had a dollar for every person who wished me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In memoriam: Cursive handwriting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Crawford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is dedicated to Timothy Matlack. More on who he is in a minute. I thought about him, and his work, when news arrived a couple of weeks ago that Indiana schools no longer will teach cursive handwriting. The notion doesn&#8217;t seem right, though crafting a practical argument for why presents a challenge. Students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing for free, the &#8216;personal brand,&#8217; and journalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Crawford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent weeks, a couple of writers I admire offered some high-minded advice to student journalists. I want to respond here: Rick Reilly, ESPN.com columnist and ESPN personality, told graduates of the University of Colorado journalism school this: “When you get out there, all I ask is that you: DON’T WRITE FOR FREE! Nobody asks [...]]]></description>
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