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		<title>Plays and Pictures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just two quickies today. First: it&#8217;s production week for the Calumet Players&#8217; Once Upon a Mattress! Come see the show this Friday and Saturday (Sept. 10,11) or next Thursday, Friday, or Saturday (Sept. 16, 17, 18) at the Calumet Theatre. A sneak peek at the king and me (in yet another gigantic pink dress  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://erinkauppila.com/?p=234</link>
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		<title>UP ♥</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick installment on my continuing love letter to the UP.  
My truck blew a radiator hose the other day, causing antifreeze to spray out all over the engine&#8211;which meant no driving. Today, I brought it up to my brother&#8217;s shop, where  one of the mechanics looked at the mess. He found tools, [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, an answer to the question everyone asks: what&#8217;s next?
First: I&#8217;m going to stay in the UP until my lease ends at the end of December*. I am all too aware how precious this time is, when I can be home and run into friends and sit by Lake Superior and make last-minute plans and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://erinkauppila.com/?p=228</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[After roaming relatively unscathed through some of the less-lovely parts of the world, I&#8217;ve come to see myself as independent and reasonably capable&#8211;that is, until a couple of weeks ago, when I bought a 25-year-old truck with a manual transmission, no gas gauge, and no RPM meter. Combine those &#8220;features&#8221; with a crippling lack of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://erinkauppila.com/?p=219</link>
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		<title>Summer lovin&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each time I run into an old friend or acquaintance in the UP&#8211;which is a frequent, always lovely occurrence&#8211;I hear, &#8220;What are you doing now?&#8221; Sometimes, the question is posed with excitement by a person who hopes to hear details of an upcoming adventure in Antarctica or wildest Africa. Sometimes it&#8217;s a tentative, nervous query, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://erinkauppila.com/?p=177</link>
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		<title>Happy Father&#8217;s Day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All of my siblings but one happened to be in town today, so we had a picnic at the beach&#8230;Happy Father&#8217;s Day, Dad!

Okay, so the sign wasn&#8217;t actually that big, and Jake wasn&#8217;t actually there&#8211;note how he&#8217;s wearing a hat and jacket at the beach in June&#8211;I photoshopped both of them in. The sign is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Road trip photos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick update: left NYC, flew to LA, met cousin Jerry north of LA, visited Happy Camp in northern CA (where we lived when I was 5), hung out with some locals, went running in a place called &#8220;Cougar Gulch,&#8221; drove to Oregon along the lovely coast, spent a night in Portland (which I loved), hung [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More NYC ♥</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More photos from lovely NYC, including a quick visit from Steve and some jumping in Central Park.   I&#8217;m now on the west coast, roadtripping from LA to Portland to Seattle to Montana to Minnesota to Michigan.
http://picasaweb.google.com/eekauppi/NYC2?feat=directlink






NYC2



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NYC3



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		<link>http://erinkauppila.com/?p=160</link>
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		<title>I ♥ NY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in New York, once again plotting to move here. It&#8217;s hard not to love a city that has something going on 24 hours a day, plus a fantastic host of loonies and characters (my favorite: the grown man dressed as a fairy, complete with wings and fake flowers, clomping along ungracefully in the subway). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://erinkauppila.com/?p=158</link>
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		<title>South Beach Bum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When last I left you, I was dreading the week and a half to come. Now, I&#8217;m writing from South Beach in Miami, a few days older and a million times happier. Amazing what a location change can do for the spirit.  
Endless delays in the Cali airport allowed plenty of time to research [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://erinkauppila.com/?p=153</link>
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