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		<title>San Francisco Part I: Beer &amp; Bay Boys</title>
		<link>http://crystalluxmore.com/2011/07/15/san-francisco-part-i-beer-bay-boys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crystal Luxmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was commenting on the sheer number of gays and lesbians in the fair city of San Fran, and my new (gay) friend Richard agreed, &#8220;Here, it&#8217;s like throw a rock, hit a homo,&#8221; he laughed. As our car rounded &#8230; <a href="http://crystalluxmore.com/2011/07/15/san-francisco-part-i-beer-bay-boys/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crystalluxmore.com&amp;blog=749167&amp;post=1043&amp;subd=thriftygirl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Ontario Museum Sleepover — a scary experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crystal Luxmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking my 4-year-old nephew to the Royal Ontario Museum&#8217;s dinosaur-themed sleepover seemed like the perfect plan to win me the Favourite Auntie Award.  Not so, it turns out, if your nephew has an unnatural fear of just about every animal &#8230; <a href="http://crystalluxmore.com/2011/04/18/royal-ontario-museum-sleepover-%e2%80%94-a-scary-experience/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crystalluxmore.com&amp;blog=749167&amp;post=1010&amp;subd=thriftygirl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why anyone under 40 should never move to Vancouver</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crystal Luxmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Danica moved out West to go to university &#8212; and never came back. Ever since she&#8217;s been bugging me to go out there. And finally, because of a work trip, I did! My only question once she&#8217;d toured &#8230; <a href="http://crystalluxmore.com/2010/10/25/vancouver-in-the-fall/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crystalluxmore.com&amp;blog=749167&amp;post=958&amp;subd=thriftygirl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wawatay News &#8211; Celebrating beaver&#8217;s history at Mattagami</title>
		<link>http://crystalluxmore.com/2010/03/25/wataway-news-celebrating-beavers-history-at-mattagami/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crystal Luxmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wawatay News published out of Thunder Bay is one of the biggest Aboriginal weekly newspapers in the country &#8212; and this week, they published my story on trapping beaver with Leonard and Larry Naveau for Mattagami First Nation&#8217;s annual Beaver &#8230; <a href="http://crystalluxmore.com/2010/03/25/wataway-news-celebrating-beavers-history-at-mattagami/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crystalluxmore.com&amp;blog=749167&amp;post=857&amp;subd=thriftygirl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Turkey&#8217;s Southeastern villages are (Ilisu) damned</title>
		<link>http://crystalluxmore.com/2010/02/19/why-turkeys-southeastern-villages-are-ilisu-damned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Find out why harnessing water is so dam important to the Turks in my article for the New Internationalist. See more photos from my journey to Turkey&#8217;s largest dam, the Ataturk, and the villages along the Tigris River slated for &#8230; <a href="http://crystalluxmore.com/2010/02/19/why-turkeys-southeastern-villages-are-ilisu-damned/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crystalluxmore.com&amp;blog=749167&amp;post=842&amp;subd=thriftygirl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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