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<title>Smell the Coffee: Not a good source of material</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- My childhood was the bane of a wannabe writer.  It was normal.  My parents didnt smoke or drink. We ate breakfast <em>and</em> dinner together. Went on walks in the woods. Played board games and card games regularly. Camped in a ...]]></description>
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Im not taking this pause very well</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I dont want it.  Doesnt matter. Now you cant have it.  <em>Wait!</em>  But you said you didnt want it anyway, so why does it matter.  Because it needs to stay <em>my</em> choice forever.  ***  So I have these arguments with mysel...]]></description>
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Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:00:00 -0500
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<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Not long ago, I was sitting on the picnic table at the dog park when a man in a lab coat came over and sat on the other end of the bench. He was clearly upset about something, so I asked if he wanted to talk.  &quot;I did somethi...]]></description>
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Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:00:00 -0500
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<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I write this while under the influence of influenza. On New Years Eve, while others were imbibing, my alcohol came via Nyquil. What says &quot;This new year will be better than last!&quot; louder than spending the start of it fla...]]></description>
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Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:00:00 -0500
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<title>Smell the Coffee: What if next year were your last.</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A co-worker suggested that with the Mayan calendar predicting the worlds end in 2012, I should do a column about what people would do if they actually believed this was the last year of their life.  &quot;Personally,&quot; said t...]]></description>
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Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:00:00 -0500
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Acts of paying it forward rekindle hope</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Even the most cynical Scrooge would find it hard to hold on to his humbug after hearing about how anonymous donors began visiting Kmart stores to pay off the layaway accounts of complete strangers.  The &quot;layaway angels,&quot...]]></description>
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Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:00:00 -0500
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Being disgrunted</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I wanted him from the instant we met. Yes, he was younger, and yes, he belonged to another -- a friend of mine, no less -- but Aimee had barely left his sight before he was nuzzling my neck. And I was calculating how I could make...]]></description>
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Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:00:00 -0500
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<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A bird turned the tables on our family over Thanksgiving weekend. But it wasnt a turkey. It was a crow.  A thieving, smart-aleck crow. Clever enough to wait until we were distracted -- dining on its chubby, fine-tasting cousin --...]]></description>
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Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Sharing a secret for shopping for teens</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Last year, while struggling for Christmas gift ideas, I discovered a helpful little shortcut toward pleasing that most difficult of all to shop for -- the teen. Thanks to this shortcut, I was able to select gifts teenagers would actual...]]></description>
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Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Overheard on Thanksgiving</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- &quot;Whats with the bird.&quot;  &quot;He looks fine to me.&quot;  &quot;Whys he standing on one leg.&quot;  &quot;Parakeets just do that sometimes.&quot;  &quot;Looks like he doesnt have a choice. His other legs on the floor.&q...]]></description>
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Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:00:00 -0500
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Lost and found</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- &quot;Its not an annoying habit,&quot; my husband insisted. &quot;You should try to see it more as a charming tradition. Maybe an endearing little eccentricity.&quot;  &quot;Searching for the remote two or three times every night...]]></description>
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Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:00:00 -0500
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Lifting your spirits</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It was late last Halloween when, through the curtains, I saw a group coming down our front walk. We dont get many trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood, so I reward those who make it to our house with full-size candy bars. In spi...]]></description>
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Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Going against the grain</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- For much of my life, when those around me were craving chocolate, I was craving bread. Meals seemed incomplete unless bread was involved. My love for loaves became so out of control I once considered hypnosis as a means to break ...]]></description>
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Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- This seems an appropriate time of year to admit that I have a thing for zombies. The affinity is still sort of new. It started when my husband and I began watching &quot;The Walking Dead,&quot; an AMC show about life in the U.S. ...]]></description>
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Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Our people make our state</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It was just a televised view from a blimp during the WVU-LSU game a few weeks back, but there was something about it that stuck with me. The sea of Mountaineer gold. Id never seen so much of the same color in a stadium before.  D...]]></description>
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Sat, 08 Oct 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>The impotance of being proofread</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- My husband is an editor, for which Im so grateful.   Hes prevented me from shaving myself publicly many times.   I mean, shaming myself.   And theres another editor or two who looks over my stuff before it appears in the paper,...]]></description>
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Sat, 01 Oct 2011 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Varmints -- in more than the belfry</title>
<description><![CDATA[One of my co-workers was recently sitting on the couch one evening, watching TV with her boyfriend, when a quick flash of movement shot across the ceiling. Their initial reaction was something like, &quot;Oh no. A poor little birds gotten trapped in the ho...]]></description>
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Sat, 24 Sep 2011 21:00:48 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: A change of heart</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- My husband, Geoff, and I recently participated in a focus group assembled to gather opinions about organ donation while also reviewing a proposed advertising campaign on the same subject.  As the groups leader set up his display ...]]></description>
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Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Cant make your own decisions.</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Im a lover of travel who seldom gets to be on the road. I dream about travel and write about road trips and study maps to find potential destinations within a few hours of home, but lately, no amount of desire can deter our house...]]></description>
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Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Computer potato no longer</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- If this column has both upper- and lower-case letters when youre reading it, the credit for that goes to my editor.  It wasnt that I was having a keyboard malfunction. It was that my arms hurt so bad I couldnt muster the strength...]]></description>
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Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Cool, calm, then collapsing</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- You can learn a lot about yourself during an earthquake.  I learned I move much faster than most of my co-workers.  My instinct to flee is apparently well-honed, as no alarm was required for me to evacuate the building. It was pr...]]></description>
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Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: How do you fight insanity.</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The recent mob violence by young people in London, along with the sudden surge in &quot;flash mob&quot; attacks in the U.S., has left me feeling unsettled. Its not so much that I fear it happening here, but that something so sens...]]></description>
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Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Keeping stiff upper eyebrows</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The news release wasnt for the standard back-to-school product.  &quot;Our childrens days of climbing trees, long bike rides, and trips to the local pool are coming to an end. We find ourselves ... counting down the days to the f...]]></description>
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Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Gone missing</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The excuse felt every bit as feeble as claiming the dog ate my homework, which -- in my world -- wouldnt be too far-fetched.  I was working out of town last week, which is something Id never had the opportunity to do. I loved mos...]]></description>
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Sat, 06 Aug 2011 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Karin Fullers Smell the Coffee column will return.</title>
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Sat, 30 Jul 2011 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Defining the teen years</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- While doing one of those vague online searches -- trying to find just the right word for something I had in my head, but couldnt define -- I landed on a definition (at humorbin.com) that I found so funny I simply had to share it. Consi...]]></description>
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Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: A midsummer nights reality</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Summer sounds like flip-flops.  Tastes like watermelon.  Smells like Coppertone.  Summer is shaking sand from your towel and being sticky and licking fast around the cone before it drips.  Its blowing bubbles, and dandelions, and...]]></description>
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Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Its black and white and laid all over</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I have no psychic abilities whatsoever, but feel I can safely predict with great accuracy that somewhere out there, someone has had to fight a cat off their paper in order to read this.  I suspect I know why.  I think the secret ...]]></description>
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Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Having a bad hare day</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Dog ownership provides many opportunities for meeting people. There are those you meet while out walking the dog, those you meet at the vet, at the groomers, at PetSmart. At the bank.  And dogs -- especially <em>our</em> dogs -- ...]]></description>
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Sat, 02 Jul 2011 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: A taste for Appalachia</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Some tastes Ive had to work to acquire.  A taste for coffee was one. Although my nose would feel seduced by the smell of brewing coffee, it wasnt until I began adding much cream and sweetener that I developed a taste.  National P...]]></description>
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Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Imprisoned for a principle</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- My husband was not yet a year old when his dad went to prison.  Geoff and his father are close. He looks up to his pop. Admires him openly.  One of the things he most admires was his dads willingness to go to prison for something...]]></description>
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Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: School year goes up in flames</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- From the time I said yes to my daughters question on Friday evening to right about dark on Monday night, I mustve questioned my sanity a few dozen times.  Shes a sly one, that girl of mine. Timed things just right.  She knew Id j...]]></description>
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Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Do you have the write stuff.</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- When someone admits to me that they like to write, they often do so in this secretive, almost embarrassed way, like theyre ashamed or anticipating ridicule.  It seems like eons ago, but I was once the same way. I was a closet wri...]]></description>
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Sat, 04 Jun 2011 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Fake and bake</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- While cleaning my inbox, I found an old email from one of my favorite people ever, telling about her brother and his colorful (now ex) wife.  &quot;True story,&quot; she wrote. &quot;You know youre a redneck when your wife is sta...]]></description>
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Sat, 28 May 2011 23:45:00 -0400
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<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It was reminiscent of a scene from &quot;The Godfather.&quot; Except instead of Italian, think Polish. And our Don Corleone was female.  And if any of us had made a move to kiss her ring, shed likely have suggested an alternative...]]></description>
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Sat, 21 May 2011 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Smell the Coffee: Its like having a permanent mullet</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Geoff and I had been married barely a week when he realized his platinum wedding band was missing. Wed known it didnt fit as tight as it should, but thought it was snug enough -- and heavy enough -- that hed notice if it slipped ...]]></description>
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Sat, 14 May 2011 23:45:00 -0400
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<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- If a woman said she received a lawn mower as a gift and it made her cry, most people would assume the tears were because she felt it was impersonal or she loathed practical gifts.  The thing is, this particular woman (me) happens...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[  CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Ive found some cool things on Craigslist before, but this latest has had me laughing for hours. And it didnt cost me a cent.  Since weve been in the market for a used lawn mower, I went online to Craigslist and clicked on the heading...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[  CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Some apologies are in order.  The house next door to us is for sale.  While ours looks like were content providers for Better Junkyards &amp; Gardens.  The article about us would be titled, &quot;Effects of having survived another wi...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[  CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- &quot;What did you say.&quot; my husband asks.  &quot;Just talking to the dog,&quot; I say, since talking to the dog -- or one of our other animals -- is less crazy than talking to myself.  The thing is, I dont just talk to myself. I...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[  CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- <em>Reader advisory: The following may not be suitable for reading while dining. Discretion is advised.</em>  Dinner with friends. Five women, one man. On his way to our dinner, the lone man stopped by a shop that specializes in orga...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[  CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- &quot;Company coming.&quot; asked Celeste, lifting her feet from the coffee table long enough for me to dust underneath.  &quot;What makes you think that.&quot; I asked.  She pointed to my can of furniture polish.  &quot;Bet thats ol...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[  CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It was late evening on Feb. 15 when Felisha Coyner and her 13-year-old daughter, Morgan, stopped by the Kentucky Fried Chicken in Teays Valley and saw what appeared to be a homeless man standing at the counter.  He was middle-aged an...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[  CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A few Sundays back, I wrote about a friends Facebook &quot;question of the day&quot; that asked people to share experiences that made them &quot;fall in love with the human race.&quot; The stories shared made me feel so much better a...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Im a speed reader wanna-be - someone who accumulates reading material at most every turn, yet seldom finds time to get through a fraction of whats been collected. Im handicapped by a love of words that prompts me to dawdle. Theres ...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[  CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I like it when people use Facebook for more than reconnecting with classmates and spying on exes.  I have a friend, Candace Jordan, of Morgantown, who uses Facebook to find homes for animals, organize social and citizen action events...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[  CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I like to believe that the picture a few inches above these words doesnt look a thing like me.  People often tell me it doesnt. Sometimes theyll even ask why I dont have something more flattering. Truth be told, Ive figured out its a...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[  CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Our decision to cancel cable television wasnt so much a moneysaving move as it was a miscalculation -- a parental underestimation that, once threatened, had to be followed through.  Basically, it started with our naive attempt to ext...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[  CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- &quot;Please tell me youre not wearing pajamas to work,&quot; my husband said as I lifted my coat from its hook by the door.  I was only stepping out to warm up the car, but that suddenly seemed too dull an explanation. I improvised....]]></description>
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