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	<description>Verity Snaith, Freelance Writer</description>
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		<title>Greetings from the stars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So this week I&#8217;m working on creating a 2012 calendar for Kenya Aid. A little something we can sell over Christmas to help us raise the money we need to buy the community an ambulance. And it&#8217;s also a nice reminder to our donors to donate each month! Anyway, while I was trying to decide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textbent.com/2011/10/12/greetings-from-the-stars/</link>
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		<title>Pinterest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;ve been getting my graphic on, in between tending to a very beautiful squealing baby boy and making sense of this new life as a mother I&#8217;ve been thrown into, I&#8217;ve been discovering lots of beautiful things. But you know, it&#8217;s so hard to keep track of all this stuff. You wander around the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textbent.com/2011/10/10/pinterest/</link>
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		<title>How to work with a graphic designer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a copywriter who dabbles in a bit of online marketing I&#8217;ve often had requests from clients to work with graphic designers and web developers on their behalf when launching a new website. Why? Sometimes, the client is simply too busy and doesn&#8217;t want the extra pressure of managing an extra team. At other times [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textbent.com/2011/03/22/how-to-work-with-a-graphic-designer/</link>
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		<title>Dear John&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Swept up in a romance that’s enough to make you believe in love at first sight, John and Savannah battle distance, war and more than one broken promise but the question remains – can love conquer all? It’s the spring of 2001. John (Channing Tatum) a handsome Army Special Forces enlistee is on two weeks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textbent.com/2011/03/11/dear-john/</link>
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		<title>A natural beauty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From an accident that left her temporarily paralysed, to a trip across the Australian outback that inspired her to follow her artistic passions, Anastasia of Anastasia Beads is full of surprises. Born in 1968 in Wismar, a small port town off the Baltic Sea Coast in former East Germany, Anastasia grew up surrounded by elegant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textbent.com/2011/03/11/a-natural-beauty/</link>
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		<title>New beginnings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been remarkably quiet here at Text Bent, hasn&#8217;t it. No, I haven&#8217;t been eaten by the deadline monster. Not yet. What I have been busy with is a new job&#8230; which is now an old job. I&#8217;ve also been busy with the occasional freelance gig. And getting married. And then getting pregnant. And after all that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textbent.com/2011/03/07/new-beginnings/</link>
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		<title>The Return of the Kings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’re looking for some beachy tunes this summer, you’re in luck. Kings of Leon are heading back to their roots in their fifth album, Come Around Sundown. There’s no denying that 2009 was the year of the Kings. The Nashville family quartet dominated festival bills and charts around the world with their fourth album [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textbent.com/2011/02/11/the-return-of-the-kings/</link>
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		<title>SEO and other three letter words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few of days ago I wrote a short post about choosing keywords. Now, the question is: what do you do with those keywords once you&#8217;ve chosen them? To recap, keywords are the words that identify your site to users. So, when you go to Google and type in &#8216;Big Bird&#8217; what you probably want to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textbent.com/2010/05/31/seo-and-other-three-letter-words/</link>
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		<title>The great keyword search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve noticed people getting very fired up about keywords over the past few years. Terms like &#8216;Google rank&#8217;, &#8216;optimisation&#8217; and &#8216;meta tags&#8217; are being bandied about, often accompanied by a look of vague confusion as business owners wonder if this stuff really matters. Of course web developers will assure you your Google rank matters. And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textbent.com/2010/05/27/the-great-keyword-search/</link>
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		<title>A Mother Divided</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leonie discusses life as a new mum and the changes women face as they make the transition from work to full time parent. There&#8217;s a snuffle in the background that quickly turns into a squall. “I&#8217;m so sorry, can I call you back? She never usually wakes twice, it&#8217;s just that she has a cold” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textbent.com/2010/02/23/a-mother-divided/</link>
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		<title>City of Ancients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tucked away in the cleft of a mountain in the middle of the Syrian countryside lies a tiny Christian village. Admittedly, it’s an odd place to have a Christian village. But in the country that holds claim to the longest continually inhabited city (Damascus or Aleppo, depending on whose side you take) it's no surprise that this little village is also the last place on earth where the language of Christ is still spoken.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textbent.com/2010/02/16/city-of-ancients/</link>
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		<title>On getting old</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I realised something this weekend. Somewhere between the hundredth gray hair I had to pluck out and the intense feeling of disapproval I now feel towards teenagers I realised I am now, officially, old.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textbent.com/2010/01/25/on-getting-old/</link>
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		<title>10 Ways to Improve Your Blog in 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often people ask how to best market their website or blog to get instant traffic. Well folks, there isn&#8217;t a way. Unfortunately for most of us there&#8217;s no &#8216;instant&#8217; in the on-line vocabulary, unless you&#8217;re talking about how your computer &#8216;instantly&#8217; crashed, or your server went down &#8216;just for an instant but long enough to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textbent.com/2010/01/07/10-ways-to-improve-your-blog-in-2010/</link>
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		<title>Still a Secret &#8211; Bay of Fires, Tasmania</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tasmania’s Bay of Fires; named the world’s “hottest” travel destination for 2009.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textbent.com/2010/01/06/still-a-secret-bay-of-fires-tasmania/</link>
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		<title>Frank On Holiday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I'll admit it. I do have imaginary friends. This is probably a consequence of spending hours alone every day, and also the product of an over-active imagination. Anyway, Frank is one such character that began to trouble me a few weeks ago and I haven't been able to get a decent word out until I finished his story. I'll let Frank tell you the rest.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textbent.com/2009/05/28/frank-on-holiday/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;If you want communication&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Communiwhat? One of the hardest things to do in a relationship is to say what you mean. I often find myself at the end of a conversation trying to remember what I meant to say and wondering how I managed to say a whole lot of things I didn't. So what's the secret behind good communication? No idea. But I'd put money on Roosevelt's claim that it has something to do with being sincere, brief and seated. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textbent.com/2009/04/18/if-you-want-communication-then-thats-what-you-get/</link>
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		<title>Glamorous is the life of a doctors wife</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don't know where the whole 'glamorous is the life of a doctors wife' idea came from but clearly it wasn't from the spouse of a medical professional. Between running my own life, my own business, and the bits of The Boy's life that he's simply to busy to take care of himself I don't exactly have time for glamour. I don't even have time for The Boy. That's if I get to see him when he's not completely wrecked after seven 14 hour shifts taking care of everyone else. Glamorous? No. But I wouldn't swap it for the world.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textbent.com/2009/04/16/glamorous-is-the-life-of-a-doctors-wife/</link>
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		<title>Turning Japanese at Kobe Jones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When dining with The Boy I’m always a little worried about turning Japanese on him. I’ll admit, it’s a passion. Nothing beats the beauty of a perfectly presented plate of delectable sashimi that melts in your mouth, or a mere forkful of sizzling beef that is somehow supposed to satisfy a full blown man. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textbent.com/2009/04/15/the-priest-faints/</link>
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		<title>Journey to Shikunga</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A descriptive short story based on my first overseas adventure, volunteering in Kenya. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textbent.com/2009/04/14/journey-to-shikunga/</link>
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		<title>Between wake and sleep</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve decided I like betweens. The ‘almost’ parts of life, where you’re right on the brink of possibility and chance. Like that moment when you’re drifting somewhere between wake and sleep &#8211; you know you’re awake, but in some entirely different reality where angels touch your soul and make your mind soar. Or the almost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.textbent.com/2009/04/07/between-wake-and-sleep/</link>
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