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pen4hire on January 4th, 2010

GOOOOD Morning To All the Winners of Passports With Purpose raffle prizes.
Of course we know that the really big winners are all those lucky kids  in Preah Vihear in Cambodia who will get a new school.  But there are other winners, too. Everyone who donated through the raffle or otherwise, can feel really good about [...]

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pen4hire on December 7th, 2009

Passports With Purpose reaches first goal, builds school in Cambodia. Now reaching for 2nd goal–adding to the school.

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pen4hire on November 30th, 2009

Destination: Cambodia
Books: You Buy ‘em!

Because the Khmer Rouge routinely slaughtered anyone in Cambodia who was educated, the country needs to restore literacy to its nation, but how can that happen when children are wandering the dusty roads instead of going to school? It is heart breaking. But you can help.
Passports With Purpose: Build a School [...]

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pen4hire on October 29th, 2009

Destination: New Orleans
Venue: The Haunted Mortuary, aka Mansion Mystére
I promised I would tell you the spookiest place I had ever visited and here it is.
When I was in New Orleans earlier this year, I visited the 1872 Mystére Mansion, “at the very dead end of Canal Street“, that has been certified haunted by 7 [...]

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pen4hire on August 31st, 2009

Four years ago we had a personal family crisis that took us to the far northwest of our country. But while we were there dealing with our own problems, we had one ear on the radio and television, watching the path of a hurricane called Katrina, as she made her way into the Gulf of [...]

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pen4hire on May 27th, 2009

Destination: New Orleans, LA, United States
Book: Nine Lives, Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum
Just in case you think this book has something to do with how a tourist survives a Sazerac hangover, forget it. The latest addition to my traveler’s library tells about the lives of real people who survived Hurricane [...]

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pen4hire on May 26th, 2009

Destination: New Orleans
Authors: Galore
Did you know that the United States organization Friends of Libraries U. S. A., designates Literary Landmarks? So when you travel in the U. S., you can check their site, visit the haunts of writers past and present, and in a few cases, stay at the same hotels. Checking state by state [...]

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pen4hire on May 20th, 2009

Destination: New Orleans
Book: New Orleans Sketches by William Faulkner
As I indicated in an earlier post, William Faulkner did not spend a great deal of time in New Orleans. He was a young  writer switching from poetry to fiction writing when he took an apartment in what is now Faulkner House Books. He wrote short [...]

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pen4hire on May 19th, 2009

Destination: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Book: Galatoire’s: Biography of a Bistro(2004) by Marda Burton and Kenneth Holditch
New Orleans’ visitors intent on finding a good meal, have only one problem.  How do you choose among all those excellent restaurants? And book lovers and cooks face a similar problem if they want to learn about Cajun or [...]

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