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		<title>A daughter&#8217;s tribute!</title>
		<link>http://babesonbaystreet.com/2012/05/04/a-daughters-tribute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 11:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I received the email below from a friend. I thought I would share it with you and I hope you enjoy it! &#160; Please take a look at an article my friend Cheryl&#8217;s daughter wrote in honour of her Mom for Mother&#8217;s Day.  She&#8217;s just finished her undergrad at NYU and she&#8217;s making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to My Daughter</title>
		<link>http://babesonbaystreet.com/2012/04/25/letter-to-my-daughter-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m a wife, mother, family member, friend, writer and career woman. I am blessed to have a daughter and son and son-in-law. When Janet Graham and I first met, we conceived the idea of writing a series of letters to my daughter that would distill some of the lessons I’ve learned juggling career and family. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An inspiration to us all!!</title>
		<link>http://babesonbaystreet.com/2012/04/11/an-inspiration-to-us-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several articles and announcements in the press recently have inspired me and I thought I would share them with you, just in case you had missed them or hadn&#8217;t found the time to read them. &#160; The first was published in the ROB magazine on March 29. It tells the story of the wonderful Jane [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vimy Ridge and the Vimy Memorial</title>
		<link>http://babesonbaystreet.com/2012/04/09/vimy-ridge-and-the-vimy-memorial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 95th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, &#8220;the triumphant First World War battle in which Canada suffered 10,600 casualties, nearly 3,600 of them fatal.&#8221;  In an article in today&#8217;s Globe Jane Urquhart, author of The Stone Carvers, &#8220;recalls the neglect &#8212; historic and physical &#8212; that Vimy and its spectacular monument [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to My Daughter</title>
		<link>http://babesonbaystreet.com/2012/03/23/letter-to-my-daughter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m a wife, mother, family member, friend, writer and career woman. I am blessed to have a daughter and son and son-in-law. When Janet Graham and I first met, we conceived the idea of writing a series of letters to my daughter that would distill some of the lessons I’ve learned juggling career and family. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pattie Dunn &#8211; An Obituary</title>
		<link>http://babesonbaystreet.com/2011/12/15/pattie-dunn-an-obituary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pattie Dunn died on December 4, at her home in California. I did not know her. However, when she died her death was covered in many papers and I found her obituary fascinating reading. It tells the story of a woman who had many of the qualities we all aspire to have, achieved much in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Absolute Delight</title>
		<link>http://babesonbaystreet.com/2011/11/21/absolute-delight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday morning, I picked up the weekend edition of the Globe and was absolutely delighted to see the face of a woman occupying all of the space above the fold and these words: &#8220;Alberta wants back in Praising Ontario. Reaching out to Quebec. Charming Americans. Criticizing Harper (a bit). Is this how an Alberta [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Law of Attraction Quotation</title>
		<link>http://babesonbaystreet.com/2011/11/14/daily-law-of-attraction-quotation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have subscribed to the Daily Law of Attraction Quotation at www.abraham-hicks.com. The quotation below really resonated with me. Perhaps, it was a message I needed to hear. Regardless, I thought I would share it with you and share the site with you. It is more woo-woo than most of the things I share with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Connections: How to Build and Manage Relationships</title>
		<link>http://babesonbaystreet.com/2011/09/21/making-connections-how-to-build-and-manage-relationships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the distinct pleasure of speaking to a group of young women at a lunch sponsored by Women in Capital Markets yesterday. The subject was Making Connections: How to Build and Manage Relationships.  In preparation for the occasion, I reviewed the Babes stories I have told here and came up with a list of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Learned On My Summer Vacation. Part 3</title>
		<link>http://babesonbaystreet.com/2011/07/21/what-i-learned-on-my-summer-vacation-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer I am spending almost two full months at our cottage in Muskoka and for most of the month of July it will be my beloved and I on our own. This is a first for me and for us. I thought I would post weekly about what I am learning from this new [...]]]></description>
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