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<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082801716.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082801716.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ IN FITTED BLUEJEANS and high-heeled sandals, Angelica Gonzalez doesn't look like your typical building contractor. But the mother of three from a small town near Guadalajara, Mexico, confounds expectations every day as owner of Evanston Drywall Specialties, the company she started with her husband, Daniel, in 2003. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Vanessa M. Gezari]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Evanston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Angelica Gonzalez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chantilly (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[The World Bank Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guadalajara]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeff Donohoe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Springfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Community Business Partnership]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donohoe Construction Co.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Verizon Communications Inc.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081502355.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081502355.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ JOHN HO AND YVONNE LE had one contracting business, two hair and nail salons, and three kids. Then the couple decided to add 5,000 flesh-eating fish to the mix, and things got really crazy. As owners of apparently the first U.S. nail salon to offer fish-assisted pedicures, they've appeared in newspapers and on CNN, "The View" and the "Today" show, and customers are swarming. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodbridge (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Ho]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yvonne Le]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ivy Tominack]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Louis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081401424.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081401424.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WHEN DEBBIE MINTZ BRODSKY was 10, she wrote a film script about a family of porcupines, one of many scripts she penned and in some cases produced, with her older brother acting as cameraman. Her love for film led to a career producing documentaries and public television, but she missed the intimacy of home movies. Who saw that and how did it make them feel?, she found herself wondering after a project aired. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Vanessa M. Gezari]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debbie Mintz Brodsky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adolf Hitler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nikki Pikus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cerebellum Corp.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[MHz Networks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sprint.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[The History Channel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/05/AR2008080502173.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/05/AR2008080502173.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ VIKRAM KHANNA has made a career for himself preaching what he practices: maintaining a healthy lifestyle.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975314030" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975314030" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vikram Khanna]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ellicott City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry Brinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Pearson]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nicolaus Copernicus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Owings Mills]]></category><category><![CDATA[Teri Deutsch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac Holdings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Galileo Health Partners]]></category><category><![CDATA[Johns Hopkins University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072902650.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072902650.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ PAUL MALC was 8 years old the first time he slid a coin across the counter at a candy store in Jersey City for a stack of sports cards and a stick of bubble gum wrapped in opaque wax paper. He didn't like the gum, but he loved the cards, and in the coming decades he would buy and trade thousands more -- once even painting a co-worker's kitchen in exchange for a full set of 1969 Topps baseball cards -- until he'd amassed more than 100,000, some dating to 1911. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Vanessa M. Gezari]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Babe Ruth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carol Raskin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mickey Mantle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Neil J. Scherer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ebbets Field]]></category><category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac Holdings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mantua Elementary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sotheby's Holdings Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wrigley Field]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Topps Co. Inc.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072202017.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072202017.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ KIRK MARTIN was the son of a military man, and when he had his own son, he approached the child the same way his father had approached him: loudly. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kirk Martin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashburn (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Billie-Jean Bensen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Herbert Hoover]]></category><category><![CDATA[No Nonsense Pantyhose]]></category><category><![CDATA[Towson University]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502121.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502121.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ At sunset, Ellen Kardell gazes out over ponds, trees and the pasture where her sheep and goats graze, savoring what she calls "the particular quiet of a country evening." On Pocket Meadow Farm, her two-acre homestead outside the tiny spa town of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., the crush of Beltway traffic seems as distant as Mars. So does the graphic design job Ellen left behind when she moved here nearly two years ago to raise her own animals and sell their wool, along with other rare, local and hand-dyed fibers and knitting tools. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Vanessa M. Gezari]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Berkeley Springs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ellen Kardell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colonial Williamsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kensington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leicester]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[GEICO]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pratt Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070801932.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070801932.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Don Chernoff is a born tinkerer from New Jersey who worked for chip manufacturer Intel and later for his own small company, making hardware and software for electron microscopes. When he was traveling for his microscope business, Don came up with the inspiration that freed him to pursue what he now considers his true calling: being an inventor.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975316425" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975316425" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Men's Wearhouse Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Snyder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Intel Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vienna]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070101828.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070101828.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Linda Ciccolella Marchman was employed as an assistant principal in Florida, she never dreamed that her job title would someday be "butterfly farmer." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlottesville]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vicki Clark]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Styrofoam]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401161.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401161.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For many college graduates, moving back in with Mom and Dad means swallowing some pride to save money and get started. For Micha Weinblatt, it provided a springboard to success. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Shaver]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Urban Outfitters Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antione Kelly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jon Mervis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Duke University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Honda Accord]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nordstrom Inc.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061902744.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061902744.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:35:53 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As a Fairfax County police officer, Jesse Bowman had witnessed the deadly results of unsafe motorcycle riding --  crashes caused by riders who had applied the brakes incorrectly or lost control on a curve. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Shaver]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103218.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103218.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A SMALL GROUP OF CO-WORKERS sits on a circle of chairs in a darkened room. Eyes closed, they listen to their meditation instructor's soothing voice as she helps them settle in for the session. "Obviously, our bodies are already here," Klia Bassing says, "but our minds still take awhile to catch up."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975318018" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975318018" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[The World Bank Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Takoma Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[AmeriCorps]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kaiser Permanente]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Academy of Sciences]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peace Corps]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060302834.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060302834.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ PERHAPS IT'S THE FOAM SIX-FOOT-LONG LIZARD atop his purple Isuzu Trooper. Or maybe it's the 92 snakes, lizards, tortoises and spiders that once shared his Germantown home. Either way, it quickly becomes clear that Brian Kristal has a way with exotic creatures. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Shaver]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meadowside Nature Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germantown]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Kristal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carroll County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Damascus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Isuzu Trooper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Margaret Olsen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Westminster]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boy Scouts of America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Girl Scouts of the United States of America]]></category><category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Museum of Natural History]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/27/AR2008052702538.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/27/AR2008052702538.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WHEN SOME WASHINGTONIANS get their tummies tucked or their faces lifted, they call Ken and Afi Lartey's company for the full after-treatment. For $3,000 per 24 hours, a nurse will drive plastic surgery patients to and from the hospital, see them through recovery and pick up prescriptions or groceries. For an additional fee, one of the Larteys' other companies will drop off the dry cleaning and find a nanny to watch the children. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Shaver]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donna Boone]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashburn (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[BMW AG]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ghana]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001480.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001480.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WHEN DAVID REEB OF COLUMBIA encounters a problem, he tries to figure out if there's profit in fixing it. Take those ubiquitous folding sports chairs, the ones that don't come with any shelter from the sun or rain. To address that shortcoming, Dave and his business partner, Paul Robinette, created the Renetto Canopy Chair. It was their breakthrough. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302270.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302270.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MARY BETH LOPRESTI AND HER SISTER preserve memories for other families, and in doing so, have strengthened their own.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975319952" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975319952" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Beth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sterling (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Beth Lopresti]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theresa Hambleton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlottesville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Margaret Conner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Aviation Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Small Business Development Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/08/AR2008050802520.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/08/AR2008050802520.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Tell lawyers they must undergo ethics training, and you will likely hear groans about an often mind-numbing, if important, subject. But if the lawyers attend one of Jack Marshall's seminars, they might end up listening to a mini-rock concert or watching a twist on the "Twilight Zone" series. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Shaver]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[ProEthics Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Marshall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don McLean]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University Law Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Beatles]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR2008042901697.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR2008042901697.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BIOLOGIST SHANNON THOMAS found working in a lab with cells a little lonely. "It isn't like they talk to you or anything," she says. "You get plenty of time to daydream." And, though she was good at her biotech job, what Shannon daydreamed about was doing something else. Perhaps not surprisingly for someone who grew up on a Culpeper dairy farm, owns a horse and loves dogs, she wound up focusing on animals -- and being inspired by one. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hanna Banana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaithersburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042302929.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042302929.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ AFTER THEIR CHILDREN JOINED the weekend birthday party circuit, Erica Peale and Meredith Kole lamented the high cost of buying numerous birthday cards that got torn off packages or went to toddlers who couldn't read. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Shaver]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Card Stix Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carolyn Wasylczuk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Erica Peale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meredith Kole]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Syracuse University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/16/AR2008041602654.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/16/AR2008041602654.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BEN WILSON of Silver Spring spends his evenings and weekends turning broomstick handles into colorfully painted fishing lures. Striped bass and tuna find the surface lures intriguing; a growing number of fishing enthusiasts feel the same way.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975321697" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975321697" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Wilson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[George H.W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lexington (Massachusetts)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pete Dahlberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cape Cod]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ciena Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dickinson College]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Army ROTC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040802053.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040802053.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TWO YEARS INTO THEIR MARRIAGE, Art Major's wife gave him an ultimatum: Your stinky hockey gear goes, she told him, or I go. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Shaver]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[GearClean Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Winchester]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robbie Souders]]></category><category><![CDATA[Upstate New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102201.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102201.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ FOR JEFF KORNS OF POTOMAC, a face-saving way of dealing with an unfinished car restoration has blossomed into a second avocation. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Volkswagen AG]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chevrolet Suburban]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mirror Hanging LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[Youth Services International]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colette Thibodeau]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeff Korns]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Jewell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Olney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/25/AR2008032501900.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/25/AR2008032501900.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For many airline passengers, flipping through magazines simply passes the time. For Lyric Turner, it led to a new career. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Shaver]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lance Horsley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southwest Airlines Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bread for the World]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031802464.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031802464.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Mike Jenkins lost the job he loved two weeks shy of his 20-year-service mark. From 1984 to 2004, he was a political cartoonist for the former Journal newspaper chain, addressing local issues around the Beltway. It was the kind of position he had coveted since he was a doodler growing up in Richmond, where he met famed political cartoonist Jeff MacNelly. MacNelly "was just an amazingly great artist and a great idea person," Mike says. "I decided then I wanted to do something like that. He was living a perfect life."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975327249" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975327249" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marie Cheek]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Jenkins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paramount's Kings Dominion]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philip Anschutz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[College of William & Mary]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Public Radio Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/12/AR2008031202905.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/12/AR2008031202905.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ At nine months pregnant, Cinnamon Bowser's former college roommate craved pretty feet. But, with two young children in tow, getting to the salon for some pedicure pampering was nearly impossible. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Shaver]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karen Hamilton]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hyatt Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cinnamon Bowser]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crystal City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Springfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Business Center of Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Negro College Fund]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/04/AR2008030402502.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/04/AR2008030402502.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sylver Logan Sharp was already making it as a recording artist when she started crafting earrings and necklaces. In fact, it is her singing that has allowed her line of costume jewelry to take off, by exposing her creations to major artists such as Elton John. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elton John]]></category><category><![CDATA[Swarovski Crystal]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charleston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donna Summer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roberta Flack]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sylver Logan Sharp]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yolanda Adams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Duke Ellington School of the Arts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/27/AR2008022700204.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/27/AR2008022700204.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ After the remains of Hurricane Fran struck in 1996, two Frederick County parents were caught unaware when schools let out early and their children were dropped off at neighborhood bus stops without their knowing. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Shaver]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[NotiSys LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germantown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frederick County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[TheCampusWire.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[Craig Croson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ian Warshak]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Antonio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Todd McCreight]]></category><category><![CDATA[Waynesboro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bullis School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hurricane Fran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/20/AR2008022001956.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/20/AR2008022001956.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Tami Mensh has so many interests that she had a hard time settling on a college major. "I couldn't ever decide what I wanted to do because I liked too many different things," she says. But with ShopUnitee.com, her new line of "inspirational activewear," Tami has found a way to unify her enthusiasm for clothing, yoga, business -- and words.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975328583" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975328583" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Harper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaithersburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Josh Groban]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marlee Matlin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samantha Haft-Simon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tina Fey]]></category><category><![CDATA[30 Rock]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021302835.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021302835.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For all you busy parents tired of preparing your children's school lunches, Monica Tomasso has a pitch: Let her do it for you. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Shaver]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kids]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marie-Elaine Carroll]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exxon Mobil Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[Monica Tomasso]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Springfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/05/AR2008020502685.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/05/AR2008020502685.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A couple of years ago, automotive painter James Howard of Manassas had had enough of waiting for cars to come to him. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodbridge (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scion Motor Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Howard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William of Wales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rosalind Russell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eden Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/29/AR2008012904013.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/29/AR2008012904013.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Pauline Lewis wanted to help women in developing countries. Traveling through Southeast Asia as a marketing research consultant, she'd also seen how locally made goods often sold for 10 times more in U.S. stores. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Shaver]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Operating Pauline]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Helm]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hong Kong]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hanoi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ho Chi Minh City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pauline Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southeast Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Springfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Business Center of Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/22/AR2008012202543.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/22/AR2008012202543.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Kenfe Bellay and Yalemzwed "Mimi" Desta opened Sidamo Coffee and Tea in late 2006, they were hoping to create more than a coffeehouse. They wanted, in the Ethiopian coffee tradition, to generate a sense of community.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975331456" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975331456" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ethiopia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alan Kimber]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eugene S. Kahn]]></category><category><![CDATA[General Mills Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sudan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/16/AR2008011603133.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/16/AR2008011603133.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Renee D'Souza was diagnosed with celiac disease three years ago, she suddenly needed gluten-free alternatives to her favorite breads and desserts. There weren't many, she says. Those she could find tasted awful. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Shaver]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andy Craig]]></category><category><![CDATA[Whole Foods Market Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Olney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Renee D'Souza]]></category><category><![CDATA[Celiac Disease Foundation]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/08/AR2008010803469.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/08/AR2008010803469.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sonic Promos owner Seth Weiner started as a single guy working out of his business partner's apartment, which was equipped with one computer. Now he and his wife, Julianne, work out of a storefront in Gaithersburg with six employees and an intern, and there are plenty of computers to go around. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rubik's Cube]]></category><category><![CDATA[Monument Realty]]></category><category><![CDATA[College Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaithersburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Springer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marc Ronick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seth Weiner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shirlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tasha Stancill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Upstate New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ithaca College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122802233.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122802233.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:19:56 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/19/AR2007121901522.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/19/AR2007121901522.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Marcie Lovett was not a normal teenager. If she was nervous before a big test, for example, she'd organize the linen closest. "My mother used to yell at me," Marcie recalls. "I really think everyone thought it was pathological. Nobody ever said, What a great idea." Organizing, Marcie says, "just wasn't a thing then. It wasn't a profession."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975332753" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975332753" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/12/AR2007121201991.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/12/AR2007121201991.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Chris Whelan and Casey Baum hit it off on a Herndon playground in fourth grade. Now, two decades later, they've made the playground their career. Whelan, Baum and a college friend of Baum's named Chris Horich are the co-owners of Overtime Athletics, which provides after-school sports programs for elementary students in Fairfax County and elsewhere. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Casey Baum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Whelan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Horich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Overtime Athletics]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catie Fratter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mayya Saab]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Westchester]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfield County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Herndon High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lynchburg College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/04/AR2007120401557.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/04/AR2007120401557.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Adecade or so ago, Valerie Theberge "didn't think it was possible for me to do what I'm doing now." But in the same manner that the 38-year-old mosaic-maker pieces together her projects -- with careful planning and determination -- she has fashioned a way to support herself through her artwork. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Academy of Sciences]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hong Kong]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mount Rainier]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adams Morgan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Angela Fox]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tibet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Valerie Theberge]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nepal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patricia M. Sitar Center for the Arts]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco Art Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Taiwan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/27/AR2007112702305.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/27/AR2007112702305.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Kim Murray's dream to go "virtual" has become a reality, but it hardly happened overnight. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stacy Brice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kim Murray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Potomac Hospital]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/20/AR2007112001782.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/20/AR2007112001782.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ John Smith had already made the big leap of leaving "a very good job" as vice president and treasurer of Nextel, so why not make another? he thought. His children were young, he wanted to own his own business, and he had savings and investments. Taking into account his interest in antique furniture and design, and his desire to create something tangible, he decided to open a furniture company. "At the end of the day, sometimes it can be satisfying to end up with a table," he says.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975333778" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975333778" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sprint Nextel Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Willem Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Great Falls]]></category><category><![CDATA[High Point (North Carolina)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jackie Hirschhaut]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[South America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Design Center]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/14/AR2007111401448.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/14/AR2007111401448.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ First, acupuncture changed Rockville resident Lisa Marie Price's life. Now, she's helping to change acupuncture. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tai Sophia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarksburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaithersburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tai Sophia Institute for the Healing Arts]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/06/AR2007110602461.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/06/AR2007110602461.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ David Gilchrist gained a lot from the Navy: maturity, leadership skills, contracting expertise, a breathing problem. All have come into play in his new career as co-owner of a technology sales and services company in Herndon. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang ]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Four Points Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Persian Gulf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Warrenton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Entrepreneur Media Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[InterSystems Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centreville]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Gilchrist]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ron Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rusty Palmer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/31/AR2007103102519.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/31/AR2007103102519.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Barbara Regan knows kids. She raised three of her own -- "all doing well and happily married," she says -- and has nine grandchildren, ages 3 to 18. She has an associate's degree in early childhood education and worked as a nursery school teacher for 10 years, and on and off as a nanny. At a customer service job in her native New York, Barbara, 64, was the colleague people would turn to for advice about handling children. "I would tell them [what to do], and they would come back and say, 'You know, that worked,' " she says. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Erica Kasraie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fredericksburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seattle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Parent Coaching Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR2007102301559.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR2007102301559.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When he was young, Bobby Standridge liked to build Star Wars models from scratch and draft spaceships, but he put that "kid stuff" aside to attend college -- majoring in business -- and try a number of corporate jobs. Ultimately, however, Bobby decided his life worked better when he had room to be creative. He became a bartender at Nick's, a nightclub in Alexandria, which allowed him to "free his mind" to dabble in artistic endeavors again. He joined a band as a drummer. He designed a drum set that was featured in Modern Drummer magazine.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975334994" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975334994" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Neil Peart]]></category><category><![CDATA[ESPN Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bobby Standridge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Springfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[NASCAR]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/16/AR2007101601511.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/16/AR2007101601511.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Kassie Rempel has always hated paying a lot for clothes. Shoes, however, are another matter. The 34-year-old Mount Pleasant resident, a native of North Carolina, spent $275 for her first pair of designer shoes shortly after graduating from college and "immediately recognized how much better I felt: They felt better on my feet; they held up better." There was another reason Kassie, who then worked in accounting, appreciated upscale footwear: "You can't get too creative with your wardrobe, but you can express your personality with a pair of shoes." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[FedEx Kinko's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Betty Fier-Handsman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bettye Muller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kassie Rempel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mount Pleasant]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/10/AR2007101001584.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/10/AR2007101001584.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As a journalism major at the University of Maryland , Kathy Jentz always wanted to write for magazines. Her first job was writing for the magazine of the Association for Women in Communications in Washington, which led to a succession of jobs at other trade associations. But it wasn't until she started her own publication almost three years ago that Kathy, 39, finally found the satisfaction she had hoped for in a magazine career. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Webb Pressler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBC Universal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathy Jentz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magazine Publishers Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/02/AR2007100201373.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/02/AR2007100201373.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Ashburn resident Suzan Meredith was drawn to interior decorating. She had been sewing since she was a child growing up in Michigan and Utah, had an affinity for fabric and an eye for design, and had helped plenty of friends decorate their homes. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashburn (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Utah]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Mangum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laura Merrell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lauri Ward]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suzan Meredith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Potomac Falls High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/25/AR2007092501969.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/25/AR2007092501969.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ What will you be doing in 10 years?<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975336150" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975336150" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Webb Pressler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[PETCO Animal Supplies Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Smoochespooches.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joel Rambo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Margaret Webb Pressler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toni Florence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/19/AR2007091901877.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/19/AR2007091901877.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Jan Seale and Bob Brandenburger thought they were headed together into a rosy retirement. But after an unwelcome detour, they've wound up happily enmeshed in a new line of business. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/11/AR2007091101719.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/11/AR2007091101719.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Ian Landy and Kim AuBuchon made a bundle starting and selling a telephone technology company in the late 1990s, then went their separate ways. Ian began investing in other ventures. Kim, a mother of two teenagers, decided to try the soccer mom routine. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Webb Pressler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR2007090401784.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR2007090401784.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The adage that the Chinese character for crisis means "danger plus opportunity" may not be true. (Some scholars argue that the character's meaning is more like "a dangerous, critical moment.") But the crisis concept worked for Rockville resident Mary Moslander, who saw the opportunity for a business after a dangerous slide in her health. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/29/AR2007082902021.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/29/AR2007082902021.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Emmanuel Caudron was adrift for 15 years after graduating from Arlington's Washington and Lee High School. He worked a series of odd jobs, such as cleaning pools and waiting tables. He almost became a chef, too, like his father Henri Caudron, a well-known Washington restaurateur in the 1980s.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975340909" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975340909" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Webb Pressler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082101710.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082101710.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Patrick Sanchez started experimenting with fiction as a way of taking a break from health insurance proposal writing, he never imagined it would lead to a career writing chick-lit. "It wasn't my plan," he says, "but it worked out." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/15/AR2007081501368.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/15/AR2007081501368.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In 1998, Drew Greenblatt made some money selling a small home security business he had owned, and he wanted to invest in a company that made a real product. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Webb Pressler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/08/AR2007080802039.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/08/AR2007080802039.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ About to enroll in law school at American University in 1986, Mary Naylor saw an article about a California woman who had started a concierge service for office buildings and had, Mary says, "a lightning bolt moment." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Webb Pressler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/03/AR2007080301402.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/03/AR2007080301402.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:33:14 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A former makeup artist builds a business beautifying garage doors.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975343502" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975343502" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/24/AR2007072401800.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/24/AR2007072401800.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In a colorful classroom in a Tenleytown church, five 2- and 3-year-olds are clustered around teacher Raúl Echevarría, who is wearing a straw hat and pointing to some plastic fruits and vegetables. What color is an apple? he asks. "Red!" the children say. Pretty typical preschool fare -- except these English-speaking kids are listening to and responding in Spanish. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/18/AR2007071802777.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/18/AR2007071802777.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For years, John Swartz wasn't sure what he wanted. Devoted to good design, he had trained at one of the nation's best art schools, Cranbrook in Michigan. He spent his early professional life, at first in New York, then in the District, building an admirable -- though not especially profitable -- career as a woodworker making custom furniture for an elite clientele. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Webb Pressler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071001615.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071001615.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Silver Cycles owner Linda Mack has a great commute: She bikes to work. "That was part of my master plan," she says. After almost a decade of juggling single motherhood and an audio engineering job at National Public Radio that had constantly changing hours, Linda is relishing the compactness and consistency of her new life, where her store, her house and her children's school are near one another in Silver Spring. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/05/AR2007070501272.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/05/AR2007070501272.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It has been more than 20 years, but Carla Nees remembers vividly just how hard she and her husband sweated while building their very successful national chain of home fitness equipment stores.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975344613" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975344613" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Webb Pressler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/26/AR2007062601421.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/26/AR2007062601421.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Eleven exercise club clients are gasping and grunting their way through a military-style training program at VIDA Fitness in Verizon Center. At the front of the room stands 28-year-old Antoine Robinson: bald, tattooed and muscular, and sounding very much like the Army drill sergeant he used to be. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/19/AR2007061901719.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/19/AR2007061901719.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For a while, it seemed as though Mark and Rachel Stephens couldn't sink much further as the software company Mark managed started failing. The British couple had to move from their luxurious loft in San Francisco to an apartment in Rockville, near the company headquarters, and faced an uncertain future -- right when Rachel was pregnant with their first child. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Webb Pressler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/13/AR2007061301431.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/13/AR2007061301431.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Between them, Silver Spring residents and longtime friends Gretchen Cook-Anderson and Angela Patterson have two full-time jobs, five children younger than 7, and a sixth demanding, rapidly growing offspring: their fledgling beverage business. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/05/AR2007060501703.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/05/AR2007060501703.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Lisa Anthony's professional life changed after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975346973" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975346973" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Webb Pressler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/29/AR2007052902252.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/29/AR2007052902252.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The 25 people sitting in an Adams Morgan coffeehouse on a recent Saturday afternoon had come to hear Paul Gonzalez give a one-hour lecture called "How to Leave." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Webb Pressler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR2007052301297.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR2007052301297.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ There are many people who wish they could make music for a living but instead toil away in garage bands or play side gigs on weekends. That makes the founders of the D.C.-based indie band Thievery Corporation feel especially fortunate. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Webb Pressler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051501724.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051501724.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Meredith Jacobs thought she had found the perfect niche for herself as a "professional volunteer." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/09/AR2007050901771.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/09/AR2007050901771.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Bruce and Kate Santhuff might be the only couple in the country who would be happy to see one of their careers wind up in the toilet -- a "shower toilet," that is.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975349596" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975349596" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050301215.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050301215.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On a noisy block of the District's redeveloping Georgia Avenue, tucked between a furniture shop and a Salvadoran restaurant, is a sweet-smelling oasis of calm that represents the devotion of a mother, the ambitions of a daughter and the hopes of a neighborhood. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/17/AR2007041701479.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/17/AR2007041701479.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Next time you attend a banquet, watch the bartender. Does she pour drinks with just one hand? Does she look down at the bar to find the gin? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401723.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401723.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Kailyn Cage was the kind of kid who loved candy (still does) and always had some with her. "Everyone called me Candy Girl," she says. So it made sense to the financially savvy Kailyn to bring a book bag full of treats to sell to fellow students at Kettering Middle School in Prince George's County. Kailyn had no idea that operating a business at school wasn't allowed, she says. "I was just running all over the place selling candy. Even my teachers bought candy." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/21/AR2007032101492.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/21/AR2007032101492.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Amy Nichols introduces her 10-year-old Boston terrier, Griffin, the inspiration for her chain of canine day-care centers, then admits the irony: Griffin isn't allowed to mingle with the other dogs.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975352715" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975352715" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/14/AR2007031400191.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/14/AR2007031400191.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Simon Lee was growing up on a small farm in South Korea, his mother repeatedly told him: "If you plant the seed and tend the land, you will get a crop. If you don't plant the seed and don't tend the land, you get nothing." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Webb Pressler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030601564.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030601564.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Keith Donohue had always dreamed of being a writer and even gave it a shot in his 20s, but life intervened -- marriage and kids, work and graduate school -- until suddenly he was older than 40 and still hadn't published a book. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022200899.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022200899.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Sam Lock met his wife, Chris, in Cleveland, he was a roadie with long dreadlocks and torn jeans who would earn the nickname "Ragtag" from his future in-laws. A British native touring the United States with an indie group called the Swans, Sam says he fell in love with the country: "How big it was, how easy everything seemed. If people wanted something, they just got it. It just seems like the land of plenty." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making Himself Heard ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/13/AR2007021301113.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/13/AR2007021301113.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WHEN THE FEVER FINALLY PASSED and Godwin Irokaba woke up, his mother was crying, and a look of worry was working in the lines of his father's face. His brothers and sisters were gathered around his hospital bed. Their lips moved, but they made no sounds. Between the first flush of a spiking temperature and this moment, Irokaba's life had been irrevocably changed in a span of days.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975356545" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/print/washpostmagazine;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352975356545" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Haner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[Himself]]></category><category><![CDATA[Heard]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/07/AR2007020701351.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/07/AR2007020701351.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Frances Crespo came up the hard way, and she couldn't have done it, she says, without a lot of support -- from family, friends and mentors. So perhaps it's only appropriate that the Navy officer and onetime single teenage mother now bolsters other women with her two bra-fitting boutiques. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/23/AR2007012301371.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/23/AR2007012301371.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Jim Vagonis wants his new company, Hassle Free Home Services, to build "relationships for life." That's why he offered to bury the hamster. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chang]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Making Up for Lost Time ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/31/AR2006103101069.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/31/AR2006103101069.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On a sunny Wednesday toward the end of summer, Aldrena Thirkill, a compact woman with a quiet but friendly air, was sitting in a booth at the Shoney's on the main road running into Farmville, Va., eating lunch with her sister and her granddaughter when all at once the past materialized beside her, holding a plate of food. It took the form of a girl -- well, a grown woman now -- Aldrena had known long ago, who, spotting Aldrena from the buffet table, had come over to say hello. The two had grown up in the countryside around Prospect, a community about 10 miles outside of town, on the other side of Farmville from where they were sitting now. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Liza Mundy]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lost]]></category><category><![CDATA[Time]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
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