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		<title>Duncan &amp; Paulette: Canvassing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paige Turner</dc:creator>
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		<title>Something New: Awkward Black Girl Made Her Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8216;Something New&#8217; + Natural Hair = Hilarious Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paige Turner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of spunk to be a black woman who gets up on YouTube to talk about her hair journey. Some of us introverts would sooner DIE! But only a real man, who happens to be white and married to a black woman, can get up there to crack jokes about his &#8220;bald [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blacklikemom.com&amp;blog=2689292&amp;post=1165&amp;subd=lattecafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paige Turner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most adults can maintain the Santa Claus mystique for young kids, and deftly, too. A couple years ago my cousin Melinda and her husband Jeff curbed their son Walter&#8217;s naughtiness by making him write a letter of apology to Santa Claus. Parents have staged phone calls from the North Pole workshop and jingled sleigh bells [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blacklikemom.com&amp;blog=2689292&amp;post=2376&amp;subd=lattecafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Black Friday Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paige Turner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Foundation for Credit Counseling Services doesn&#8217;t want to see Americans pile on more debt than they can or should reasonably handle during the holidays. So they distributed a list of tips to take buyer&#8217;s remorse out of the high holiday shopping season. If nothing else, I think black moms, and moms everywhere, ought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blacklikemom.com&amp;blog=2689292&amp;post=2364&amp;subd=lattecafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Duncan &amp; Paulette: Market Meltdown</title>
		<link>http://blacklikemom.com/2011/11/20/duncan-paulette-market-meltdown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paige Turner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Losing a fiancé and a good friend qualifies as a crappy way to end an evening, and that sums up the fallout for Paulette following Ralph and Duncan’s disastrous run-in at their friend’s wedding. Paulette tries to handle everything like a trooper, while her mother and father launch a salvage operation. Duncan finds out that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blacklikemom.com&amp;blog=2689292&amp;post=2057&amp;subd=lattecafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rowing Along</title>
		<link>http://blacklikemom.com/2011/10/31/rowing-along/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paige Turner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hubby enrolled Baby in swim lessons recently, an activity that will build her confidence and competence in the water. Who knew that this development would also build my confidence and competence about braiding her hair in protective styles? Here are a few shots of the several cute and functional styles I did for her. Baby&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blacklikemom.com&amp;blog=2689292&amp;post=2316&amp;subd=lattecafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let It Snow!</title>
		<link>http://blacklikemom.com/2011/10/31/let-it-snow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paige Turner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I officially love snowstorms. Especially ones that halt anything but essential activity within hundreds of miles of its core. Saturday’s wet and out-of-season storm rescued me from attending a neighbor’s Halloween costume party. It’s an annual event, and although it didn’t fill me with any overly introspective apprehensions, the thought of going was a nuisance. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blacklikemom.com&amp;blog=2689292&amp;post=2312&amp;subd=lattecafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Puerto-Rican, Chinese Baby</title>
		<link>http://blacklikemom.com/2011/10/13/the-puerto-rican-chinese-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paige Turner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps I live in a bubble, readers. The type of sanitized, hermetically sealed environment where no one bats an eye at my mixed-race family. As a matter of fact, women usually coo at my curly-haired, rosy-cheeked daughter, with her impish smile and cherubic build, still a little rounded out by baby chub. Even grown men [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blacklikemom.com&amp;blog=2689292&amp;post=2209&amp;subd=lattecafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://blacklikemom.com/2011/10/02/our-first-business-trip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paige Turner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always seen myself as a working mother. Always. Not once in all my childhood did I ever imagine becoming one of those women lucky enough to leave the hassles and demands of a job behind, so I could focus on the hassles and demands of raising kids and running a household. For me, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blacklikemom.com&amp;blog=2689292&amp;post=2276&amp;subd=lattecafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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