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		<title>Spring 2025 Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 01:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The big news at start of 2025 is about The Coconut Latitudes’ “sibling” book Una Niñez Entre Palmeras (the Spanish language version published in 2023 by Books&#38;Smith.) I’m delighted to report that it recently became a Silver Medal Winner at the 2024 International Latino Book Awards in Los Angeles, CA, and will soon be available [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Una Ninez Entre Palmeras</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2023 19:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m pleased to announce that my memoir The Coconut Latitudes has been published in Spanish by Books&#38;Smith, and is now available to order from the publisher (www.booksandsmith.com ) or via Amazon. (https://amzn.to/3qw4uEL) or through your favorite bookstore.&#160; Interview: I was interviewed in June 2023 by Edgar Smith, publisher of Books&#38;Smith, in the Spanish magazine Trasdemar, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Upcoming live presentations in the Dominican Republic.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rita Gardner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2023 18:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m honored to have been invited to do several presentations in person in the Dominican Republic. Dates: August 31, 11:00a-12:00n: International Book Fair (Feria Internacional del Libro) in Santo Domingo. Location: Plaza de la Cultura Juan Pablo Duarte, Santo Domingo. September 1: Cuesta Bookstore (Cuesta Libros), in Santo Domingo. For time and details, link to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Upcoming Reading at Book Passage – please join me!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2022 19:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When:&#160; Saturday, September 10, at 11:00a.m. Location: &#160;Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA 94925 (415)927-0960 I’m delighted to be part of a panel for Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis: Women Writers Respond. This new anthology is a compilation of essays, poetry, and art by women writers in response to cataclysmic events [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fall News 2020 &#8211;  Voices and Chaos</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2020 21:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Fall 2020 – where it seems both imperative and often impossible to find our voices amid this catastrophic time. But voices do matter – and I am grateful that on this 6th anniversary of the publication of my memoir, I recently spoke my story into a new kind of life: The Coconut Latitudes [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Spring news 2018</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rita Gardner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2018 20:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Spring has been a season of change as I take some time to explore my other artistic roots. While it’s easy for authors to feel guilty about not having a major writing project going, sometimes change is good. So, at the end of January, I flew to Mexico to take a plein air art workshop.&#160;&#160;http://www.artworkshopvacations.com [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Spring News 2017</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rita Gardner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2017 20:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[2017 began with a tsunami of events, some potentially cataclysmic and others more in sync with seasonal cycles. Someone forgot to turn off the faucets of ill-will that have been spewing forth in our nation, and Mother Nature forgot to shut off water spigots here at home. As rainstorms shudder against my windows and alternate [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fall/Winter News 2016</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rita Gardner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2016 20:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fall is upon us, that bittersweet season where the earth takes a breather, goes fallow, and directs us to look inwards. It invites us to express gratitude for all we have been given. This year I am especially thankful for an unexpected family connection and visit – a gift I’ll cherish forever. On the literary [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Images from Spain &#8211; Spring 2016</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rita Gardner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2016 21:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Earlier this spring, I participated in a writing workshop/adventure in Spain, hosted by Wanderland Writers. In Barcelona, I fell under the spell of Antoni Gaudi&#8217;s hallucinogenic architecture. In Seville, I accidentally became part of a religious procession where drumbeats, incantations, and incense punctured the night sky. I surrendered to the ministrations of an expert masseuse in a hammam, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Solstice and new beginnings</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rita Gardner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2015 01:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Solstice. A perfect metaphor for our dual selves, darkness and light. Celebrated since ancient times, it’s the occasion when the sun appears to stand still just for a moment before an inevitable seasonal change begins. In the Southern Hemisphere, it is the longest day – a time to fling oneself outside, to inhabit the long [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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