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	<title>Nora Nagatani</title>
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	<description>Helping Seniors Live Happily Ever After</description>
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		<title>Coping with Bereavement through Writing</title>
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Here, retired pediatrician and former caregiver Urmilla Khana shares what writing means to her. Urmilla took to writing after being the primary caregiver to her husband Kris, who had Parkinson’s Disease for fourteen years and died from a massive heart attack in 2003, when they were taking a cruise. At first, her writing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://noranagatani.com/?p=1835</link>
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		<title>Yoga: A Cure for Insomnia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In previous posts, I&#8217;ve talked about insomnia and have recommended cherries and walking to solve sleep problems. I was recently at a meeting where someone mentioned yoga as a panacea to sleep problems. So I visited Gus, who owns and teaches at Cosmos Yoga and Healing in Alexandria, Virginia.
Cosmos Yoga and Healing is especially designed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://noranagatani.com/?p=1796</link>
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		<title>Downsize Before You Need to Get Rid of Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing how easy it is to accumulate stuff – clothes, toys, electronics, kitchen gadgets, books, garden pots, children&#8217;s artwork, articles you&#8217;ve cut out of magazines, and papers of all kinds.
Do you remember the very first time you moved as an adult? I was just out of college and moved to Washington DC taking everything [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://noranagatani.com/?p=1777</link>
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		<title>Exercise is a 4 letter word</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the time of year when you’ll see and hear a lot in the media about exercise. There are lots of reasons why it’s good for you:

lose weight
improved strength and flexibility
stronger bones
better sleep
help prevent diseases
more energy
alleviate pain

These are all valid reasons, but what if you don’t like the word exercise? What if it sounds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://noranagatani.com/?p=1763</link>
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		<title>Discovering &#8220;Enough&#8221; in 2010 and Beyond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we launch not only a new year but a new decade in 2010, it is clear many things are changing in our world. Fear of loss and deprivation as a result of the economic crisis, healthcare issues, government and corporate corruption, climate change, global epidemics and more could prevent us from living a happy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://noranagatani.com/?p=1752</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year from noranagatani.com!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can you believe another year has flown by? Happy New Year! Here at noranagatani.com it was an incredible year of awesome experiences. I hope it was full of wonderful memories for you as well. For my husband and me, it was always the anticipation of seeing and being with our now 16-month old granddaughter. She [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://noranagatani.com/?p=1732</link>
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		<title>How to Evaluate a Writing Class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taking a writing class is one way to develop your writing skills and move forward on your writing project. But how do you know if the class is worth your time? Today, in the sixth and last post of this series, guest blogger Joanne Lozar Glenn addresses that question: &#8220;How to Evaluate a Writing Class.&#8221;
Writing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://noranagatani.com/?p=1720</link>
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		<title>Focus: One Key to Writing Text that Readers Want to Read</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To hold your audience’s attention, keep your writing focused, writes guest blogger Joanne Lozar Glenn in today’s post.
Focus: One Key to Writing Text that Readers Want to Read 
Think of the last fuzzy photograph you took. Did you keep it? Or did you throw it away? I&#8217;m betting you threw it away, probably because the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://noranagatani.com/?p=1698</link>
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		<title>Will it Sell? How to Determine if Your Book is Marketable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you dream of writing a book? Do you wonder &#8212; will it sell? Go for it—it’s a great feeling of accomplishment. Then when you’re ready, check out these tips on how to determine if your book is marketable, so you can decide whether and/or how to pursue publication, writes guest blogger (and published author) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://noranagatani.com/?p=1679</link>
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		<title>How to Keep a Writer&#8217;s Notebook</title>
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Use a writer’s notebook and you’ll never run out of things to write about, notes guest blogger Joanne Lozar Glenn in today’s post.
So you’ve decided to write your life story, and now you’re sitting in front of a blank page or computer screen. How do you get started? Lots of writers keep notebooks. No, not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://noranagatani.com/?p=1651</link>
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