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		<title>Blog Migration Notice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larisa Naples</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello all, Due to some difficulties I have been having with wordpress.com&#8217;s flaky dashboard interface, I have decided to migrate this blog to a new host, and reconfigure the web-site&#8217;s offerings (now that I will have more flexibility in managing the back end). This will be my final post on this site. The new site [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larisanaples.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4597017&amp;post=297&amp;subd=larisanaples&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking TCK Kidlit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 02:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larisa Naples</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[third culture kids]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I would like request your help, dear reader, in compiling a list of books – middle-grades and young-adult fiction, in particular – in which the protagonist (or at least a very major character) is explicitly written as a third culture kid (TCK). A &#8220;third culture kid&#8221; is a person who has spent a significant part [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larisanaples.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4597017&amp;post=240&amp;subd=larisanaples&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CCKGroup: Disaffected Mormon Underground</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larisa Naples</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research Tidbits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cross culture kids]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just stumbled upon this wonderful post about the similarities between Third Culture Kids (TCKs) and the &#8220;Disaffected Mormon Underground&#8221; &#8212; people raised in the Mormon church, and who remain culturally Mormon, but not religiously so.  It raises all sorts of wonderful questions and opportunities for me.  I just love stumbling upon new and interesting groups [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larisanaples.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4597017&amp;post=234&amp;subd=larisanaples&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TCKBooks: Third Culture Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larisa Naples</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global nomads]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading the updated version of Ruth E. Van Reken &#38; David C. Pollock&#8217;s, &#8220;Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds.&#8221;  Well worth the purchase price to own this new version. Like the original, it reviews the basic research on TCKs — people who spent a significant part of their developmental years living [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larisanaples.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4597017&amp;post=220&amp;subd=larisanaples&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Joys of Ecosystem Restoration</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larisa Naples</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Building a CA Wildlife Sanctuary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ecosystem restoration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband and I are ecosystem restorationists, or as he likes to say, native plant zealots. But we didn&#8217;t start out that way.  Once upon a time, we were normal people.  Really.  We bought a little house, with a neglected yard, and a beautiful view.  All we wanted was to replace the weeds with grass, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larisanaples.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4597017&amp;post=171&amp;subd=larisanaples&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nightlights in the Rainforest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larisa Naples</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research Tidbits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was at the California Academy of Sciences a couple of weeks ago, chatting up a friendly entomologist about bullet ants and bioluminescent click beetles, when he hinted at the existence of yet another completely unlikely rainforest inhabitant.  It was mentioned as a humorous suggestion to solve my protagonists&#8217; current problem of how to navigate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larisanaples.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4597017&amp;post=154&amp;subd=larisanaples&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God&#8217;s Vomit</title>
		<link>http://larisanaples.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/gods-vomit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larisa Naples</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Memories from a Traveling Childhood]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is all sorts of humor to be found in the translation and mistranslation of languages.  As the winter holidays roll around, I am reminded of a particular bit of translation humor that tickled me silly, as an English-speaking global nomad, growing up in Northern Tehran. The Persian word for snow &#8212; as seen in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larisanaples.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4597017&amp;post=130&amp;subd=larisanaples&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Red-Faced Defenders</title>
		<link>http://larisanaples.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/red-faced-defenders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larisa Naples</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under siege, creatures of all kinds &#8212; humans and otherwise &#8212; will use all manner of deadly weapons to defend their homes from the enemy.  In the castles and keeps of old, cannon, arrows, and boiling oil were rained down from on high.  In the Amazonian Rainforest, they have a weapon far worse than that.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larisanaples.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4597017&amp;post=115&amp;subd=larisanaples&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TCKBooks: Camel Rider</title>
		<link>http://larisanaples.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/tckbook-camel-rider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larisa Naples</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a rare treat for me to stumble upon a book &#8212; any book &#8212; which speaks to the real wonders and troubles of children coming of age as global nomads, or third culture kids (TCKs).  Prue Mason&#8217;s &#8220;Camel Rider&#8221; is one of those treats.  The story is about a biz kid living in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larisanaples.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4597017&amp;post=107&amp;subd=larisanaples&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sky Ponds</title>
		<link>http://larisanaples.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/sky-ponds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larisa Naples</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Living in the clouds&#8221; took on a whole new meaning for me when I discovered that there were entire, canopy-bound ecosystems to be found in the Amazonian rainforest, centered around plants like this one: (Photo by David J. Ringer) As epiphytic bromeliads, these plants &#8212; varying greatly in size &#8212; live entirely in the canopy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larisanaples.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4597017&amp;post=66&amp;subd=larisanaples&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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