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		<title>Not Your Average Nerd: Bible Girl Prequel Book Launch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 22:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Bible Girl—is the prequel to The Golden Sky which was a bestseller on Amazon.com in the books &#8220;about loss&#8221; category. Elisa is a teenager who isn&#8217;t your regular nerd. She carries a duct-taped Bible, wears bright-orange polyester pants, and dyes her hair with red Kool-Aid. When Elisa realizes she’s surrounded by hypocrites that her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increase the Savory in Your Summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer is around the corner (or if you&#8217;re in a climate like Doha, has already arrived). The warmer months mean more time outdoors in the evening, and what&#8217;s a hang out without food? Enter for chances to win the ultimate picnic from a host of bloggers including Graphonic and Measuring Flower and me who are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: Realize Stability is Not News</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 22:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After three years of writing, revising and editing, this week, I&#8217;m launching my essay collection about life in the Middle East, From Dunes to Dior. I started it after moving here, and listening to person after person in the U.S. ask me where, what, why, about my decision to move here. Mostly I think it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Those Who Plan Ahead&#8230; A Little Somethin&#8217; for Dads</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 21:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Mother&#8217;s Day is over, the OCD among us (or the Daddy appreciators) are looking ahead to Father&#8217;s Day. Not to worry, VoiceBoks (an awesome network for parents who are also bloggers) along with  Good Steward Savers, Terri&#8217;s Little Haven, Cute-Ecakes, Giveaway Promote, and Linkie&#8217;s Contest Linkies have thrown together the daddy of Father&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Dunes to Dior</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 05:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mohana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Lessons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; July 2012 will mark seven years that I have lived in Qatar. Seven consecutive years is my record with only three other cities in the world. Doha joins a short list which includes Gainesville, Florida and Raleigh, North Carolina. My formative years in American suburbia had erased most traces of my parents’ sub-continental pronunciation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: PalFest Takes Writers into Gaza City</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 06:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I&#8217;m traveling with PalFest, the festival of literature that goes into Palestine to bring authors to readers who are restricted in their movements. In its fifth year, authors, and bloggers have gone into Gaza to hold workshops, fora, and other interactive activities. Stay tuned for more. &#160; Related articles A Light in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Light in the Darkness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 12:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I&#8217;ve joined the Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest) in Gaza, known also as Gaza City, one of the most populated cities in Palestine. I came along the trip after helping to organize creative writing workshops which are a small part of the larger activities that comprise the festival activities. Festivals are important because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: The Fattest, the Richest&#8230; Which is the Real Doha?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 10:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mohana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qatar&#8217;s international profile has increased on a steep ascent in the last few years. Those of us who call Doha home grow immune to the stereotypes about the Middle East (we&#8217;re all in tents, hiding from suicide bombers, eating camels too old to ride, the women cowering against the back corner). Called everything from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Am I a Mommy or Can I Still Be Me?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mohana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of being a writer means self promotion. And from many people you&#8217;ll hear how much time marketing takes away from what we really love to do: create, ruminate, develop the worlds, ideas, and themes that connect our experiences with those of readers. Normally I&#8217;m in the I-hate-promotion-asking-people-to-vote-for-me camp. I even wrote a blog post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside the Writer&#8217;s Studio with John Jaramillo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mohana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; We have a real treat today in the writer&#8217;s studio to hear from author and creative writing instructor, John Paul Jaramillo. John Paul grew up in Southern Colorado but now lives, writes and teaches in Springfield, Illinois. He earned his MFA in creative writing (fiction) from Oregon State University and, currently, holds the position [...]]]></description>
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