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		<title>Bug-a-licious</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, I was fortunate to get an email with those three little words that make my heart leap with joy and anticipation: &#8220;Food Festival Invitation.&#8221; Woo hoo! I quickly skimmed over the list of local restaurants scheduled to participate in the cooking competition, but the words &#8220;free public sampling of dishes&#8221; were all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frog on Boots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These days in Laos, everybody&#8217;s trying to get out of the rain. This frog spent an afternoon on the cool surface of my boot recently. He was the exact color of the mud outside our gate, so at first I thought he was just a big mud blob. Lucky for him, I decided to not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Flood Freakiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we wrapped up our first week back at school, I was feeling neglectful of The Guide Hog but too busy to do anything blog-worthy. And then Mother Nature handed me a story. Rain pounded Vientiane overnight, but that&#8217;s nothing new in this wet season. As we headed out the door for school this morning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bathroom Zen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when you spend an extended period of time on the toilet because stress over the new school year in this far-away place has made your bladder seize up, &#8230; &#8230; you stare at the plastic boxes that hold your year&#8217;s supply of toothpaste, Citrucel, hair dye, and other toiletries, &#8230; &#8230; and you realize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Sun, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you&#8217;re just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.&#8221; - Ken Kesey I&#8217;ve written about my Seasonal Affective Disorder here before. It&#8217;s common knowledge that I worship the sun. I don&#8217;t mean that in the cliché overused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Life and Death of My Amazon Kindle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we first moved abroad in 2001, I prepared for my new expat life with a book-buying frenzy. I raided used book stores and garage sales, and I discovered the U.S. Postal Service&#8217;s M Bags, a cost-efficient way of sending hundreds of books to our new home in Istanbul. (I don&#8217;t know if M Bags [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bomb Pops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hanging out on the porch with my sister and Nico, I heard the distant tinkling tune of the neighborhood ice-cream truck. &#8220;Do you know what that is?&#8221; I asked my nephew. &#8220;It&#8217;s a ice-cweam man,&#8221; Nico said. Then Katy told me the poor kid had NEVER bought a treat from the ice-cream man! We had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prolonging Summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After six wonderful weeks in our beautiful little house, we spent the last two days traveling back to Laos. Although we return to work on Wednesday, I have decided to remain in a state of denial. So I&#8217;ll just post a few more pics from our summer break. On one of our last days at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dentsadventure.com/?p=1445</link>
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		<title>Road Trip!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My dad has been talking about this logging museum since we got back to the States, so Sunday we loaded up the car and headed north to Hartwick Pines State Park in Grayling, MI. The Visitor Center features an excellent display about the forest, local wildlife, logging and life in the logging camps of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dentsadventure.com/?p=1437</link>
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		<title>Cluster &#8230; Map</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to make a confession, and it won&#8217;t be the first time I&#8217;ve admitted this: I&#8217;m a ClustrMap whore. I get great pleasure from that little map with all those lovely red dots that represent places where people are checking out my blog. Last time I counted, I had visitors from 71 countries. I [...]]]></description>
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