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		<title>New Web Address for Grits and Purls</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We here at Grits and Purls have become a little more savvy with our web site URL. The new Grits and Purls site now exists at http://gritsandpurls.wordpress.com That site has all of our existing content and it is where you will find new and exciting things to read from Grits and Purls writers. Tagged: Grits [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michelearduengo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6570711&amp;post=1497&amp;subd=michelearduengo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Math of My Life and My Laundry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isobel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mathematics is the language of the universe, the foundation on which all things are built. If I had appreciated that in school, I might have paid more attention and worked harder to understand it. Lately I have been realizing that mathematical principles can apply even to the most mundane activities of everyday life. Proportionality is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michelearduengo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6570711&amp;post=1502&amp;subd=michelearduengo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Writer&#8217;s Toolbox</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[grammar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I attended a really great workshop led by Amy Lou Jenkins at UW-Madison’s Write by the Lake Retreat. One of the things we talked about was our “writer’s toolbox”, and Amy had us spend sometime writing down some of the things a person might find in our toolboxes. Mine, as did most of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michelearduengo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6570711&amp;post=1491&amp;subd=michelearduengo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Knitting Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October of last year, I sat down with two pointy sticks, a ball of yarn and experienced the terms knit and purl for the first time in my life. By Christmas I had managed to knit two hats for Christmas gifts, and now I’m hooked. Our house now contains a respectable knitting stash that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michelearduengo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6570711&amp;post=1480&amp;subd=michelearduengo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Knits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isobel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Knitting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fair-isle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knitting is an enigma. It is simple, but can be complicated; it can involve no mental effort, or take intense concentration; it can be a soothing, but can also drive you to distraction. It can fill you with a sense of accomplishment, and also convince you of your complete uselessness; it can make you proud, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michelearduengo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6570711&amp;post=1459&amp;subd=michelearduengo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Independence Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[discovery center]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I sat in Schilberg Park watching the fireworks display on this fourth of July, I was wondering what it meant. Why do we create these displays of light and noise every year at the celebration of U.S. Independence Day? This year, when we planned our holiday, the weather was a major consideration. The prediction [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michelearduengo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6570711&amp;post=1449&amp;subd=michelearduengo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Boys</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isobel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a houseful of boys&#8211;even the cat is a boy. When I shop for my clothes 3 people sit outside on a bench waiting for me. I have nothing I did not buy in a hurry. I would not swap my boys with anyone. For them I will endure a blue-denim world devoid of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michelearduengo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6570711&amp;post=1418&amp;subd=michelearduengo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ode to an Acura Integra</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In some ways it felt like we were losing a member of the family. We even had a photo shoot. I handed my husband the cashier’s check, and he headed off to the dealer. It would be the last time I would ever see that sporty Acura backing out of the garage. I waved goodbye, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michelearduengo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6570711&amp;post=1410&amp;subd=michelearduengo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Holidays in Sheep Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isobel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long ago on the Isle of Lewis, it was traditional for the women to take the cattle to pasture on the moor during the summer months. They would live in rough huts or “sheilings” equipped with bare furnishings and would spend the summer away from home. Even although lifestyles changed and they did not keep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michelearduengo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6570711&amp;post=1383&amp;subd=michelearduengo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fried Egg Sandwiches</title>
		<link>http://michelearduengo.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/fried-egg-sandwiches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the delight of a mother-daughter day last week. I had a vacation day, only part of which was devoted to a session at Write by the Lake at UW-Madison. So, I took my daughter with me, planning to spend time at the Henry Vilas Zoo and then my company’s family picnic. As we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michelearduengo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6570711&amp;post=1374&amp;subd=michelearduengo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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