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Update: As if this story wasn't sick enough already.  The boy was on the Today Show with his family and started puking all over the place at 5:50.  I'm not sure this story could be summed up any better than puking on national television.  I hope he got some on the cameras.  Meredith ignored the whole thing too.

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I'm back on the World Vision Report this week with my piece about rescuing a bird in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

I'm especially excited about this  piece because it's set to sounds I recorded with my mini-disc player I purchased before my 2007 trip.  I'm pretty much a beginner when it comes to recording audio, but the folks at the World Vision Report have been awesome and offered great advice.

The only other piece that features audio captured while traveling was my interview with Bibi Russell in...

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Rain Tees in their own words:

Rain Tees are a 100% organic luxury line of apparel for women and children designed by youth living in endangered rain forests across Central and South America.

Andira donated school supplies to the children and asked them to illustrate what they see happening in their world every day. Each Rain Tee features their thoughts illustrations and names.

For every Rain tee sold, a child involved in Kids Saving the Rain Forest, Costa Rica will receive a tree they can plant...

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Really, what do expect from a Chinese/Mongolian Grill located in Frankfurt, Indiana, where the high school's mascot is a wiener dog? Love the honesty.

At an Irish bar in Chicago. At least the lobster's have a chance.  It's hard enough winning stuffed animals, which are neither slimy nor alive, with a crane.

If you work at a colon & rectal clinic, I'm guessing that you here your fair share of shameless wisecracks (wiseCRACKS, get it) each day.  But when you label your parking spots like this...

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I often think about incompetence.

Tonight for instance, I thought about it a lot. I had plenty of time to do so because I was driving around Muncie for a 1.5 hours with two pecks of apples looking for a church with "Grace" in its name.

I cussed all the way to the west side of Muncie, and then back to the east side, and then to the south side for good measure.

The first church I walked into with my two pecks of apples, I was close to where I should've been – only two blocks away. One of the...

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Watch Oprah today.

Why?

This is why…

Click here to view the embedded video.

I watched that video last night with my 9-month-old girl on my lap and nearly started crying.  I'm such a sap.

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My latest contribution to the World Vision Report aired this weekend.  It's about my experience with the workers who made my flip-flops.  Here's the official description:

Many people from rural China have migrated to cities in the country's coastal provinces, in search of steady jobs. Travel writer Kelsey Timmerman met one such couple in the city of Guangzhou. Three years ago, they left their son with his grandparents, and haven't seen him since.

Give it a listen

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…and this is a great idea.

(via the site of Jim Falkiner of Manchester College)

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Earn college credit!

Tonight I'm speaking at Manchester College and students who attend can earn Values, Ideas, and Arts Credit (VIA).   Here's what the college's calendar says:

Thursday, September 24 7 p.m.
Kelsey Timmerman on Where Am I Wearing?

What's it like to go undercover as an underwear buyer in Bangladesh? Kelsey Timmerman can tell you. In 2007, he took out a second mortgage on his house so he could travel across the globe to meet the people who make...

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As someone who has had to answer the question, "So what brings you to Bangladesh?" by holding up a pair of Jingle These Christmas boxers and saying, "My underwear were made here," some might think I could vie for the title of The World's Craziest Traveler.

But there's a whole level of crazy that can't be matched by underwear quests funded by second mortgages.

I was working at an adventure outfitter in North Carolina, when I encountered the craziest traveler I've ever met.

"I need a sleeping...

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