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    Midwest Musings: Life in Small Town America

    APRIL 1, 2012 10:54AM

    By Nancy Wurtzel


    Topics: small towns, midlife, minnesota, los angeles, moving home, aging parents, midwest, rural, big city, family, comedy

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    Occupy Small Town Iowa

    FEBRUARY 15, 2012 1:17AM

    By David Satterlee


    Topics: workman, victorian iowa, street, school fundraisers, rural, retirement, real estate, premise, phone, occupy, name, local bank, lawn, iowa, fiber cable, fiber, drink coffee, dayton, corn, coffee in the morning, children of the corn, business, bank, acreage

    • 3 Ratings
    • 331 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    If Hallmark had written King Lear

    FEBRUARY 6, 2012 6:17PM

    By Pensive Person


    Topics: farming, rural, young, old, elderly, age, independence, grandmother, hallmark, king lear, memory, farm, history, past, family

    • 25 Ratings
    • 736 Views
    • 36 Comments
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    The View From My (Rural) Window

    JANUARY 12, 2012 12:17PM

    By dunniteowl


    Topics: tractor, animals, nature, photography, photo essay, horses, birds, cats, dogs, eagle, hawk, woodpecker, tractor, trees, sunset, sunrise, fog, rain, view, rural, country, countryside, landscape, farm, grove, ranch, the view from my window, open call

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    • 7 Ratings
    • 2258 Views
    • 21 Comments
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    Long Dead Grocer Offers Job

    DECEMBER 3, 2011 3:26PM

    By Katie McCaskey


    Topics: my brilliant second career, local food, staunton, virginia, downtown, open call, buy local, 99%, independent business, rural, small town, small cities, entrepreneurship

    • 1 Ratings
    • 201 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Money to Burn (the Politics of Wealth) in Texas

    SEPTEMBER 9, 2011 10:45PM

    By dunniteowl


    Topics: governor perry, rick perry, david dewhurst, republican, democrat, poor, rural, rich, wealthy, houston, bastrop, austin, texas, wildfires, priority, politics, wealth, rich, homeless, evacuation, slow response, disaster

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    • 5 Ratings
    • 848 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Strawbale work bee

    SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 9:09AM

    By Land Poor


    Topics: farm, community, rural, alternative construction, strawbale

    • 8 Ratings
    • 806 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    The wrong Rights (or there is no such thing as a gay right)

    MAY 11, 2011 4:47PM

    By Aengus Carroll


    Topics: human rights, rights, disability, un, age, lesbian, transgender, gay, hospital, corrective rape, law, torture, aids, medical profession, health, pigeons, ireland, catholic, denial, rural, bob marley, divide and rule

    • 3 Ratings
    • 482 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Miss Gulch Lost in the Shuffle

    MAY 9, 2011 6:25AM

    By Leonde Delmare


    Topics: evil christians, rural, alabama tornado, bin laden, obama, osama, mass media, delusion, bias, hate, help, shot in head, death and destruction, fema, miss gulch, ugly witch, ugly white women, bible thumpers, south, sound bites, kodak moments, rural america

    • 2 Ratings
    • 315 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Toad Hall: Part 9 Confessions on a Rural Throne

    JANUARY 27, 2011 5:47PM

    By Ira White


    Topics: environment, belief/religion, alternative living, rural, hippie, travel

    • 1 Ratings
    • 294 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Toad Hall Part 8: What Do Ya Do Wid A Drunken Sailor?

    JANUARY 24, 2011 5:21PM

    By Ira White


    Topics: toad hall, hippie, hitchhike, rural, alternative living, belief/religion, environment, family

    • 2 Ratings
    • 356 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Toad Hall Part 4: The Characters

    JANUARY 10, 2011 9:19PM

    By Ira White


    Topics: family, alternative living, commune, rural, woods, cabin, animals, belief/religion, environment, travel

    • 2 Ratings
    • 296 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Toad Hall Part 3: A Wedding on My Doorstep

    JANUARY 5, 2011 9:20PM

    By Ira White


    Topics: environment, animals, belief/religion, rural, alternative, family, travel, wedding

    • 6 Ratings
    • 957 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    The signature of starvation

    AUGUST 31, 2010 12:25PM

    By Pranay Sinha


    Topics: hunger, starvation, malnutrition, immunodeficiency, india, rural, reform needed, kwashiorkar, marasmus, pellagra, beri beri, hypothermia

    • 0 Ratings
    • 346 Views
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    Drawing With Destination

    JUNE 8, 2010 12:53PM

    By Eric Hanson


    Topics: rural, suburbia, cities, architecture, cars, children's books, stories, books, travel, design, metaphor, art

    • 4 Ratings
    • 273 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    I've Got Some Tough News.

    APRIL 1, 2010 1:28PM

    By Reflections of a shallow pond


    Topics: rural, urban, jobs, moving, north dakota, kids

    • 1 Ratings
    • 471 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    I didn't raise a dumb hick.

    MARCH 12, 2010 6:03PM

    By aerie


    Topics: highschool, ap, freshman, college admission, sat, rural, education, university, college

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    • 416 Views
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    Know your omen when you see it

    JANUARY 23, 2010 3:11PM

    By Ramshackle


    Topics: birds, urban, rural

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    • 21 Ratings
    • 905 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    Roadside Texas

    JANUARY 13, 2010 9:21AM

    By Sgt. Mom


    Topics: highway, rural, texas, travel

    • 11 Ratings
    • 672 Views
    • 21 Comments
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    The Voice and Heartbeat of America

    SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 8:32AM

    By PlannerDan


    Topics: liberal, conservative, patriot, american, politics, ideas, media, rural, city

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