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	<title>Robin Sparks</title>
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	<description>An American woman’s global search for a new country.</description>
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		<title>A Village</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ ...at 3am I was woken by the sounds of chopping.  I'd heard that Balinese men rise early to begin preparation of lawar before Galungan,  but 3am? Yes, apparently so. One of Bali's biggest holidays begins tomorrow, in celebration of ancestral spirits who come this time of year to visit. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robinsparks.com/blog/out-of-the-jungle-into-the-village/</link>
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		<title>Spirit of Place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Join us October 1-6, 2010 for Write and Sell That Book Now! An amazing adventure in Bali where you will learn how to get your book out of your head and out into the world! <a href="http://www.oneworldretreats.com/ubud_bali_yoga_retreat_robin_joanna.php">http://www.oneworldretreats.com/ubud_bali_yoga_retreat_robin_joanna.php</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Famous Authors Who Self-published</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I recently posted on Facebook that it is easier today than ever before to become a published author, a friend disagreed. She wrote, &#8220;It might be more possible to get something out there more easily nowadays. The problem is getting people to know about it, getting a store to carry it (chains won&#8217;t), or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Write and Sell That Book!&#8221; workshop in Ubud, Bali Oct.1-6, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So ready to write your book and get it out into the world? Join us in Ubud, Bali the week before the Annual Ubud Writers Festival for all the tools you'll need to get your book written, published and in the hands of as many readers as possible, fast, and actually earn money doing it.

Snag one of the 20 spots available asap and we'll see you in Bali in October!

http://www.oneworldretreats.com/ubud_bali_yoga_retreat_robin_Joanna.php]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robinsparks.com/blog/join-me-in-ubud-bali-october-1-6-2010/</link>
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		<title>Love this story!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A vacationing American businessman standing on the pier of a quaint coastal fishing village in southern Mexico watched as a small boat with just one young Mexican fisherman pulled into the dock. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. Enjoying the warmth of the early afternoon sun, the American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish.]]></description>
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		<title>My &#8220;Stop Doing&#8221; New Year&#8217;s Resolutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>“...Suppose you woke up tomorrow,”</em> Collins says,<em> “and received two phone calls. The first phone call tells you that you have inherited $20 million, no strings attached.  The second tells you that you have an incurable and terminal disease, and you have no more than 10 years to live. What would you do differently, and, in particular, what would you stop doing? </em>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robinsparks.com/blog/my-stop-doing-new-years-resolutions/</link>
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		<title>A Path Runs Through It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The snake (which btw looked just like a long leaf on a palm frond,) dropped the frog and raised his head to look at me, so I jumped back to wait until he had slithered away into the tall grass.

Just another day in Paradise.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robinsparks.com/blog/1180/</link>
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		<title>Food of the Goddesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the best things about living in Bali is the food. Food that is unprocessed, healthy, whole, organic, delicious, and cheap. Indeed, as I sit here typing, a few feet away on a palm tree hang at least a dozen coconuts, ripe for the picking ($1 if I ask Made to cut one down for me and hatchet it open in my kitchen), and to my left there are a bunch of Alice in Wonderland sized papayas dripping from a tree. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robinsparks.com/blog/food-of-the-goddesses/</link>
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		<title>From Bali to the Grand Bazaar &#8211; Thoughts on Patience and Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[True it is not the regular Stuff of Americans I collect -  i.e the car and house in the suburbs and all that goes with it, but the ethnic Stuff, mostly textiles and handmade items that reminds me of the heart and soul of the places in which I have lived and loved. I not only buy Stuff I want to have with me, but as gifts for others. What I can’t take stuff into my luggage, I ship. Or I convince family and friends to store the Stuff I leave behind. Is it possible to be a Bedouin and be addicted to Stuff?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robinsparks.com/blog/from-bali-to-the-grand-bazaar-of-istanbul-thoughts-on-patience-and-stuff/</link>
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		<title>Bali Lite &#8211; In the News Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA["In Kalimantan Brothels Take Over Orangutans' Habitat". How could I <em>not</em> read The Bali Times today with a headline like that?
More headlines from The Bali Times, May 22-28, 2009:...Egg-Laden Motorbike in Scrambled Calamity </strong> "Eminent chicken-egg wholesaler Ketut Tutek lost all 2,836 ovums aboard his motorcycle...
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		<link>http://www.robinsparks.com/blog/the-bali-times-in-kalimantan-brothels-take-over-orangutans-habitat/</link>
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