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Harper and I like to dance to this song. This is one of the coolest renditions you’ll ever hear. I think I’ll go order the Playing for Change CD now.

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Online or in print, WorldHum has some of the best travel writing around. Of course, I am little biased. They highlight my piece Adventure Dad as one of their eight favorite family travel stories.

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Here’s a sneak peak of a promo video that JD Schuyler of Cantalopue TV is producing:

It’s nice when people with skills support your work. I can’t wait to see the finished product.

Today I’m at Rule29 for a photo/video shoot. It should be fun, but I just learned that there might be makeup involved. I grew a big zit for the occasion. I hope it smiles.

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Tomorrow I’m doing a signing on the campus of IUPUI in Indianapolis at the University Barnes & Noble. It’s from 11-1.

Be there.

Where clothes.

Know where they were made.

Here’s a campus map if you need one.

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Just the other day I wrote about how travel makes the news more relevant: “If I have gained anything from my travels it’s not a well-traveled savviness, envied by others, but an increased caring.”

That being the case, when I read this story in the NY Times by on Chinese boys being bought, stolen, and sold, I couldn’t help but think of Dewan and Zhu Chun’s son Li Xin.

The crazy thing about this story is a man who bought a son didn’t think there was anything wrong with paying money for another hum

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After seeing Spirit of Soccer operate first hand in Cambodia, I’ve become a big fan of their work. Here’s their latest video:

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Starbucks is going Fair Trade in the UK, so is Cadbury. Their U.S. counterparts aren’t. What’s up with that?

This piece in CS Monitor by Eric Marx pretty much sums it up:

…more than 70 percent of the British populace recognize the fair-trade mark, whereas consumer recognition in the United States is only 28 percent, according to recent surveys.

And as I pointed out here, environmentalism and organics tend to trump fair-trade. The article confirms that:

TransFair USA, the nonprofit that licenses p

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Rocker Dave Grohl names his daughter Harper Willow.

Soon rockstars will be dressing like us!

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Today my feet are nice and cozy in a pair of Merrell slippers. Like 90% of shoes, they were Made in China.

This is going to be a brief Where Am I Wearing Wednesday because today I want to talk about feet more than shoes.

The Shoe:

Merrell’s corporate code of conduct – I couldn’t find one on their site. Contact them and join me in asking them what’s up with that:

The environment and labor practices both factor into my shopping decisions. I scanned your website for your corporate code of conduct

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My essay about my brother coming down with Malaria after our excursion into the Honduran jungle is airing on the World Vision Report this week. He’s fine now. I’m just glad that I could get a story out of his suffering.

One of the folks at WVR contacted me looking for a funny piece – I believe they said quirky – about malaria and wanted to know if I had anything. “Boy, do I,” I told her.

It’s not easy to do Malaria quirky, but it is easy to have fun at my brother’s expense.

The story is par

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