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	<title>Stefanella&#039;s Drive Thru</title>
	<link>http://stefanella.wordpress.com</link>
	<description>Israel, U.S., conflict, war, peace, humor, travel, romance, fashion, fun</description>
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		<title>Missing in Action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s another Ruth-themed blog entry day.  Ruth, for the uninitiated, is the in-her-eighties-woman at the Tel Aviv dog park I frequent who I&#8217;ve been fascinated with lately.
Ruth has spunk, attitude and sass to spare and I&#8217;d wager she&#8217;s the type who stocks vodka in the freezer for guests.  And if the guests don&#8217;t drink vodka?  She&#8217;d probably press a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stefanella.wordpress.com&blog=2481856&post=1027&subd=stefanella&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://stefanella.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/missing-in-action/</link>
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		<title>Lisa Meets Prince Albert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week my friend Lisa posted this as her Facebook status:
In deference to 5 high school years spent in Mr. Hayden&#8217;s basic and advanced French classes, I was able to decipher that:  1) Lisa was being invited to a journalism awards ceremony  2) The ceremony would take place in Monaco, and 3) Bleedin&#8217; Prince [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stefanella.wordpress.com&blog=2481856&post=1013&subd=stefanella&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://stefanella.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/lisa-meets-prince-albert/</link>
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		<title>GI Jane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have posted here a few times about Ruth from the dog park.
She&#8217;s someone I love running into because at 80-something, Ruth makes up in pep for what she has lost in mobility.  Bright red lipstick, carrot-colored choppy hair, manicured nails and a cane for support, she&#8217;s got that naughty glint in her eye that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stefanella.wordpress.com&blog=2481856&post=996&subd=stefanella&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://stefanella.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/gi-jane/</link>
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		<title>Desert Trek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For someone who doesn&#8217;t like walking, I have done a fair amount of it.
I just got back from a 2-day camping trip to Israel&#8217;s Negev Desert where most of my time was spent scaling the rim and insides of Mitzpeh Ramon. An active volcano millions of years ago, the 25-mile long crater is a study [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stefanella.wordpress.com&blog=2481856&post=974&subd=stefanella&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://stefanella.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/desert-trek/</link>
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		<title>Conning the Cops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted here several times about &#8220;Dog Park Ruth&#8220;, the orange-haired, highly spirited octegenarian I have befriended at the popular dog run near my home.  This is the same Ruth who had a near death experience and chooses, for the sake of her relationship, to maintain a dwelling separate from her boyfriend of 50 years. 
Ruth always has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stefanella.wordpress.com&blog=2481856&post=966&subd=stefanella&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://stefanella.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/conning-the-cops/</link>
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		<title>Israeli Oscars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I slipped into a little black dress and a pair of heels and made my way to Haifa for Israel&#8217;s version of the Oscars: The Ophir Awards.
Attending Israel&#8217;s upscale events is always an interesting venture.  Because, compared to the U.S., they&#8217;re pretty scaled down and lacking pretense.  Dress codes don&#8217;t rule [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stefanella.wordpress.com&blog=2481856&post=954&subd=stefanella&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://stefanella.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/israeli-oscars/</link>
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		<title>Living In Sin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently blogged about a woman I frequently see at the dog park who had a near death experience.   In my post, I described her as an older woman who sports a baseball cap over her kicky orange hair.
Today I saw her at the park again and she was sans baseball cap.  But her short, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stefanella.wordpress.com&blog=2481856&post=947&subd=stefanella&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://stefanella.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/living-in-sin/</link>
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		<title>Clinical Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s this older woman who goes to the  same Tel Aviv park I take my dog Butch to for exercise every day. She &#38; I tend to show up about the same time in the evenings and we usually sit next to each other.    
I don&#8217;t know her name but she has kicky, short orange hair [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stefanella.wordpress.com&blog=2481856&post=937&subd=stefanella&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://stefanella.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/clinical-death/</link>
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		<title>Going to Bed Hungry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon while my son &#38; I were riding our bikes home from a celebratory ice cream shop outing to mark his 1st day of second grade, we came across a prodigious public statement/art installation in Central Tel Aviv that begged contemplation.
The entirety of Rabin Square, Tel Aviv&#8217;s largest inner city public space, had been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stefanella.wordpress.com&blog=2481856&post=929&subd=stefanella&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://stefanella.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/going-to-bed-hungry/</link>
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		<title>Heroin (NOT) Chic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a recent visit to San Francisco, I was breakfasting with a group of people at a semi-dive-diner place in the Upper Haight when my brother motioned toward the booth opposite us.
&#8220;It&#8217;s going to take them a while to get through the meal,&#8221; he commented with a grin.
I looked over at the couple he had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stefanella.wordpress.com&blog=2481856&post=925&subd=stefanella&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://stefanella.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/heroin-not-chic/</link>
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