As a temporarly solution I decided I could forego having the content of the blog items displayed. I was able to use an XML/XSLT module with the following XSLT file. In this case I restrict the # of blog entires that appear to 5. The title of my module is "Latest from Charlie's Blog".
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" />
<xsl:template match="rss/channel">
<html>
<head>
<title><xsl:value-of select="title" /></title>
<style media="all" lang="en" type="text/css">
.ArticleTitle
{
font-size: 8pt;
font-weight: bold;
padding-left: 5px;
}
.ArticleHeader
{
font-size: 7pt;
padding-left: 5px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="item" />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="item">
<xsl:if test="5 >= position()">
<div class="ArticleEntry">
<div class="ArticleTitle">
<a href ="{link}"><xsl:value-of select="title" /></a>
</div>
<div class="ArticleHeader">
<xsl:value-of select="pubDate" />
</div>
</div>
<br />
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>