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		<title>Mother’s Day Special: Nothing to Say</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 12:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Catawba tree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daisy fleabane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dovehouse Ministries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Passionist Nuns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silent retreat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Joseph’s Monastery]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I spent last weekend at St. Joseph’s Monastery in Kentucky taking part in a silent guided retreat: no phones, no books, no words. The nuns...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bill, Hillary, and The Rest of Our Lives</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Lien peony photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peonies in bloom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rizzo Center Chapel Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The First Gentleman]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The First Gentleman, by Bill Clinton and James Patterson, imagines a woman we recognize in the White House. She’s tough and savvy, with a sharp...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Just Another Day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[dianthus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Foam flower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hairy buttercup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Oliver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mourning doves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[When Death Comes]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; I’ve been watching a mourning dove on her nest. I discovered the nest while removing some dead branches from the magnolia. Rogelio and his...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Was She Married to a Stranger?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Belle Burden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Three people mentioned Belle Burden’s Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage to me in the last few weeks. That seemed like the universe whispering. I read...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Art of Living in an Impermanent World</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ann Tashi Slater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flurys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flurys tea room]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[To Philsophize is To Learn How to Die]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traveling Through Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ann Tashi Slater has written an unusual and effective hybrid of memoir and self-help called Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Correspondent</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Olive Kitteridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Lasso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Correspondent]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sybil Van Antwerp &#8211; our heroine &#8211; is the kind of neighbor you might like, or might not. She’s smart, retired, divorced, and keeps to...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Director</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Kehlmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I thought I had possibly read enough novels about World War II. I stand corrected. One of my book clubs selected The Director, by Daniel...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thoughts on Happiness</title>
		<link>https://www.bacononthebookshelf.com/2026/02/07/thoughts-on-happiness/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 01:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Nashville Authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Field Guide to Happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Board game Careers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happiness like a butterfly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linda Leaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Married to Bhutan]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond our grasp; but which, if we sit down quietly, may alight upon us.” —Nathaniel...]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>Exciting News!</title>
		<link>https://www.bacononthebookshelf.com/2026/01/31/exciting-news/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Nashville Authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Field Guide to Happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bhutan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frigidbitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linda Leaming]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Given the state of affairs in Nashville  &#8211; a heady brew (or frozen mix?) of fatigue, frustration, and relief, for some &#8211; it seems the...]]></description>
		
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