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		<title>SOUP BY CHEF STAN</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having spent seven months in Kansas and Oklahoma inn keeping, cooking and writing I knew in my heart that it was time to come back to Los Angeles, if for no other reason, to celebrate my birthday with friends and family. And then in an unusual twist of life, even by my standard, an old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE YEAR GONE BY</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had gone back to my hometown to work hard and try to find myself again, which turned out to be more of a beginning than end. On a whim I opened a place for people to eat, and realized that it was I, I still needed to meet. “Look how happy you make people,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I woke up that morning, a few months ago, I’m not sure what the day or date was then—the importance of days or dates are no longer. I don’t know why it came as such a surprise to so many people, in reality the European Union had failed when it bailed out its first member, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRON GATE AND THE OPERA STARS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reasons I put my life on hold in Los Angeles and moved to Winfield Kansas are many, but the one of which I write about now, is perhaps the most interesting, at least to myself. What would the world be like if society dedicated itself not to the purely personal accumulation of wealth, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRON GATE ALL HALLOWS EVE</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2011/10/iron-gate-all-hallows-eve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I sat and pondered All Hallows Eve, a dark cloud descended on my soul, mournful sorrow its only goal. And then the ghost of my porch stood silently and stared, urging me to ponder further if I dared. So I searched the deepest reaches of my mind, waiting for this skeleton jackal to opine. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RICHARDSON AUDITORIUM BETTER THAN EVER</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m pleased to say that the Richardson Auditorium / Richardson Performing Arts Center, Southwestern College and the town of Winfield, Kansas have decided to NOT participate in the decline of America. Saturday night, the great auditorium, which resides in the great building on the hill, overlooking the entire Walnut Valley, reopened. Having undergone an almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LIFE THE POEM</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2011/09/life-the-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life began simple enough, a family, friends and just enough stuff. We’d spend summers at the beach, swim in the ocean, and building a sandcastle was a powerful notion.  I usually walked on the beach as the sunset in the sky, the wind of change bringing a tear to my eye. At night I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GIRL DOWN BY THE MILL</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2011/08/the-girl-down-by-the-mill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short story by Award Winning author Stan Lerner:  I was a person of means and considerable talent, when I left the city of my birth. To some this may sound like the words of a man lacking for humility, but suffice it to say that my many character flaws are more humbling to my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ON THE PORCH</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago I sat on a porch and rocked, writing a poem about being Grand Again, words of a man that called a hotel on Mackinac Island a friend, but more than this a beginning and end. Last night I sat on the porch of Iron Gate and rocked, visited by a friend, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE IRON GATE INN</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2011/08/the-iron-gate-inn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who travel know this truth: there a few spots on earth that one comes across during his or her journey, that are their own—a vortex, if you will, to a better mindset, an inner peace, a higher existence. And then there are spots that encompass all of the aforementioned, but are not just unique [...]]]></description>
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