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    • 9 Ratings
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    I Had to Quit Society to Go Crazy (Temporarily)

    JULY 27, 2011 2:12PM

    By dunniteowl


    Topics: emotion, travel, college, school, poor, indigent, bums, homeless, work, love, crazy, society, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 0 Ratings
    • 396 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Health Food and Right Hooks

    JULY 27, 2011 7:11AM

    By Jonathan Thornton


    Topics: college dorms, new age women, college women, autobiography, fiction, healthy diets, eating healthy, boxing, how to throw a right hook, pensacola news, heating and cooling bills, how to conserve energy, concerned environmentalists, apartments, tallahassee, neighborly, coffee, breakfast, travel, food/drink, fiction, economy, comedy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1607 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    The Carp King, Itchy Toilet Paper, and Really Good Beer

    JULY 27, 2011 7:10AM

    By Frank Michels


    Topics: true story, czechoslovakia, musicians, travel, country music, nashville, sam and annie tate, perley curtis, touring, prague, pilzen, velvet revolution, southern bohemia, mark ortmann, prazdroi beer

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 1601 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    Flying Babies

    JULY 25, 2011 7:59PM

    By Nancy Davis Kho


    Topics: travel, parenthood

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 542 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    My Return To the Suitcase

    JULY 21, 2011 7:01AM

    By Nick Weber


    Topics: royal lichtenstein circus, senior tourism, circus trailers, travel

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 1691 Views
    • 21 Comments
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    The Felons on the Bus Go Blah Blah Blah

    JULY 19, 2011 9:43AM

    By Sarah Khan


    Topics: comedy, travel, greyhound, bus, boston, prison

    • Editor's Pick
    • 58 Ratings
    • 1768 Views
    • 73 Comments
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    a C00ling summer HeatWaVe

    JULY 18, 2011 12:05AM

    By Algis Kemezys


    Topics: poetry, val david, val morin, morin heights, quebec, blueberries, natural, fruit.blue berry, lac raymond, animals, design, environment, family, health, music, photography, travel, ducks, flowers, summer

    • Editor's Pick
    • 22 Ratings
    • 2296 Views
    • 30 Comments
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    Pure Michigandering

    JULY 15, 2011 8:22AM

    By Vivian Henoch


    Topics: detroit, pure michigan, cherries, michigan left turns, fast drivers, detroit institute of arts, rivera court, john kings books, zingerman's, detroit eastern market, heidelberg project, photography, travel, tyree guyton, creative detroit, concept cars, ford country, detroit ruins, ribs

    • Editor's Pick
    • 1 Ratings
    • 285 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    It Is Always Show Time

    JULY 6, 2011 6:48PM

    By Claudia Sternbach


    Topics: adventure, unique, characters, home, transit, upper west side, help, scene, travel, observation, reading, contemplative, solitary, white noise, walk, stroll, sidewalks, city, heat, ny, new york

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 998 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    How Much More Can Flying Possibly Suck?

    JULY 6, 2011 7:33AM

    By Frank Michels


    Topics: airlines, airport security, flying, travel

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 13072 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    The London "Rock and Roll" Summers: 48 Lancaster Gate

    JULY 3, 2011 11:51AM

    By Keka


    Topics: travel, musicians, 60s music, 60s london, 70s london, the 70s, the 60s, english slang, british apartment rentals, vacation homes, british vacations, rock groups, groupies, english bands, england, british rock, rock music, music, the who, beatles, british invasion, london

    • Editor's Pick
    • 16 Ratings
    • 1764 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    The Culture Shock of Coming Home

    JUNE 30, 2011 6:02PM

    By loveinmexico


    Topics: home, living abroad, travel, mexico, reverse culture shock, the moment i felt most american

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 1846 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    "Nixon's Waterloo"...MY AMERICAN SCANDAL! (OC)

    JUNE 29, 2011 6:58PM

    By Marilyn Sands


    Topics: comedy, belief/religion, family, news, travel, television, politics, richard nixon, watergate, resignation, pardon, american scandal, w. germany, newspaper, london, england, sarah palin, open salon, confessionals, humor, 1974, open call, the moment i felt most american, headlines, president nixon resigns, gossip

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 1156 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    S. F. Gay Pride Mellows Out

    JUNE 27, 2011 4:13PM

    By General KoS


    Topics: gay pride 2011, pride, lesbian, family, families, children, san francisco, gay/lesbian, travel, open+call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 1384 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    What I Learned from My Cup of Coffee

    JUNE 22, 2011 8:33PM

    By Jody DiPerna


    Topics: eugene, portland, coffee, oregon, foodie, food/drink, travel, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 21 Ratings
    • 1204 Views
    • 21 Comments
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    Aromatherapy

    JUNE 20, 2011 6:42PM

    By Jaime Franchi


    Topics: travel, open+call, family, food/drink

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 3385 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    The Shoe With No Lace - Reflection from Auschwitz

    JUNE 15, 2011 2:08PM

    By beckalim


    Topics: reflection, children, family, parenting, personal essay, open call, my tiny hypocrisy, travel, holocaust, auschwitz

    • Editor's Pick
    • 21 Ratings
    • 2250 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    Off the Leash: Road Stories With My Dog

    JUNE 15, 2011 1:07AM

    By Jean Ellen Whatley


    Topics: writing, separated families, restoring your soul, finding yourself, travel, road trips, dogs

    • Editor's Pick
    • 38 Ratings
    • 4795 Views
    • 49 Comments
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    Time—Around and Around

    JUNE 11, 2011 1:11PM

    By bbd


    Topics: thanks for stopping by, part i of ii, around and around, time time time, talking about time, photography, photos, pueblo de cochiti, cochiti, kasha-katuwe, tent rocks national monument, tent rocks, santa fe, mark kozelek, time travel, travel, time

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 1483 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    $200 to Get from Mexico

    JUNE 6, 2011 12:01PM

    By Beth Dugan


    Topics: travel, friends, death

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