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March 19, 2008 02:12 PM EDT --
Burners Without Borders is a volunteer group that grew out of the annual Burning Man festival, which is held the week before Labor Day in the Black Rock desert of Nevada. In 2005, . . .
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March 14, 2008 12:37 PM EDT --
We've had our lovely house up for sale since May of last year, when my partner Casey was downsized from the job that brought us here to Texas. The contract job I was working ended in August . . .
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October 19, 2007 12:22 PM EDT --
I was stunned to learn this morning of the death of Lucky Dube, a South African reggae star, who was shot to death while dropping off his children at school. It is thought that the shooting was . . .
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August 20, 2007 03:33 PM EDT --
On Friday, I finished up my training and let the kids go home early, but not before taking a few photographs of them to take back to the office. Marcello picked me up at 1:00 and I found to my dismay . . .
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August 20, 2007 11:37 AM EDT --
After work yesterday I was driven back to my hotel and I spent about 15 minutes feeling tired and lonely and sorry for myself and thinking I'd just order room service and curl up with a book and the . . .
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August 16, 2007 07:57 PM EDT --
Recently during a business trip to Buenos Aires, I had the opportunity to visit La Recoleta Cemetery. This is an above-ground cemetery located in about two square blocks of an exclusive neighborhood, . . .
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August 10, 2007 05:02 PM EDT --
On my first day of work in Buenos Aires , Marcello picks me up at 8:15am. I think he drives his personal car – it’s a Toyota . I see mostly Japanese cars here, some Renaults and . . .
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August 10, 2007 12:13 PM EDT --
I slept for a long time after the terrible flight. I woke up about 7:30AM and thought to myself that I'd only slept for 10 hours, so I went back to sleep. The next thing I knew, the maid . . .
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August 10, 2007 11:55 AM EDT --
Recently my company sent me on a business trip to Buenos Aires to train new help desk personnel on four applications used by my department. I would be working only Monday through Friday, so . . .
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July 09, 2007 12:56 PM EDT --
I've been a city kid for most of my life, so when I moved to Texas a year and a half ago, to a house in a very nice suburb that backs up to a nature preserve, I was a bit amazed at the amount . . .
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June 27, 2007 05:05 PM EDT --
Every good traveler has a list of places (in their head, if not written down) where, if all the planets were aligned, they'd drop everything . . .
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June 27, 2007 11:47 AM EDT --
I still consider myself new to Texas - I've been here just under 18 months now. Last year at this time I was enjoying the heat, floating around the pool with a boat drink in hand. This . . .
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June 26, 2007 11:01 AM EDT --
I live in a well-to-do suburb of Dallas. The houses here average 3400 square feet, and to someone brought up in a middle class neighborhood in the midwest, these houses are what I would have called . . .
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June 11, 2007 11:53 AM EDT --
I've been a cat lover all my life. Since I've been an adult, I've never been without a cat, and often have two or more. Currently, I have two cats - brothers from the same litter . . .
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May 31, 2007 11:14 AM EDT --
It seems that I've gotten headaches all of my life, and for a lot of different reasons. Sometimes it's sinuses, sometimes stress, sometimes allergies or pressure, and even a few migraines . . .
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May 30, 2007 10:08 AM EDT --
I got through immigration and customs in Hong Kong without much trouble, then got in line to buy an Octopus card – good for two rides on the Airport Express and unlimited rides on other public transportation . . .
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May 29, 2007 10:18 AM EDT --
The following is part one of a travelogue I wrote while on a trip to Hong Kong and Bali in the fall of 2003. While I traveled to and explored Hong Kong on my own, in Bali I met up with a friend who . . .
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May 25, 2007 03:01 PM EDT --
Thirty years ago today, the original Star Wars movie opened, and special effects would never be the same again. The film went on to win six Acadeny Awards and be named number 15 on the AFI "100 . . .
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May 17, 2007 11:23 AM EDT --
I was browsing a bookstore website this morning when I came across a book written by a guy I had gone to high school with! He had become an ER doctor, then a university professor, and I found that . . .
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May 11, 2007 01:42 PM EDT --
Next in the series -
I am 51 years old, married and divorced, learned to be single again in my 40's, and am currently in a long term (3 1/2 years) committed relationship with a man 13 years younger . . .
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