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		<title>Back to basics</title>
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It might look as though I&#8217;m regressing.  48 hours ago, I picked up Danica McKellar&#8217;s book for 11-13 year old girls, &#8220;Math Doesn&#8217;t Suck,&#8221; and have compulsively gone through 10 chapters and two mechanical pencils.
I&#8217;ll admit it: at the end of the last post, when I said I was ready to put the puzzles down, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roolily.wordpress.com&blog=1521195&post=2106&subd=roolily&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://roolily.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/back-to-basics/</link>
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		<title>There&#8217;s always a solution</title>
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The last time I was addicted to Sudoku was during a period of unemployment in 2005. I would spend between 2-3 (or 5) hours each day working away at those things. I&#8217;d go to Kinkos to enlarge and copy off multiple pages of the same grid. That way I could solve in layers. Eventually, my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roolily.wordpress.com&blog=1521195&post=2094&subd=roolily&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://roolily.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/theres-always-a-solution/</link>
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		<title>A Good Birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[39+364

40

40+1

Stay tuned for the details.
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		<link>http://roolily.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/a-good-birthday/</link>
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		<title>What does it mean?</title>
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Replacing the belt on a vacuum cleaner was probably not on my &#8220;list of things to do before I turn 40&#8243;, but I can now add it to my list of experiences. It feels good breaking open a machine and getting your hands dirty putting it back together again.  Puzzle solved &#8211; belt replaced; check. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roolily.wordpress.com&blog=1521195&post=2068&subd=roolily&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://roolily.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/what-does-it-mean/</link>
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		<title>Spinning backwards</title>
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It&#8217;s not just happiness is it? Happiness happens every once in a while, or actually quite frequently, if you let it. No. It&#8217;s not just happiness, it&#8217;s a sense of well being. A sense of peace and health. The best we can do is chase after it , tap it on the shoulder, ask it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roolily.wordpress.com&blog=1521195&post=2037&subd=roolily&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://roolily.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/spinning-backwards/</link>
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		<title>Something&#8217;s happening here</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My grandmother died of ovarian cancer when she was in her early sixties. That&#8217;s probably the reason why I never miss an annual physical.
Until this year.   
I was up on the table a few months ago, trying to feign comfort in my Cinderella&#8217;s-castle-blue paper gown when I learned that my new health insurance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roolily.wordpress.com&blog=1521195&post=2019&subd=roolily&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://roolily.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/somethings-happening-here/</link>
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		<title>Willard Wigan</title>
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First Family
I had NPR on this morning at the perfect moment to learn about Willard Wigan.  Now that I can actually see what they were talking about, I&#8217;m amazed.  
Willard Wigan micro sculptor

It&#8217;s so beautiful to hear that the whole thing started because the young 5 year old Willard had immeasurable compassion for ants.
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		<link>http://roolily.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/2007/</link>
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		<title>Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you, nose.
Thank you, oxygen.
Thank you, lungs. 
Thank you, stomach. 
Thank you, brain. 
Thank you, digestive tract. 
Thank you, plumbing, inventors of plumbing, and living plumbers.
Thank you, running water, sanitized and here.
Thank you, neck and eyes.
Thank you, fingers and skin. 
Thank you, computer and feet. 
Thank you, tongue and coffee. 
Thank you, ears. 
Thank you, errors and repairs, sickness and healing.
Thank you, airplanes and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roolily.wordpress.com&blog=1521195&post=2004&subd=roolily&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://roolily.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/now/</link>
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		<title>Walking Last Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Whatever you focus your thoughts on expands” &#8211; Wayne Dyer
Out for just a mile last night&#8211;doing some really deliberate self-care&#8211;and look what I was lucky enough to notice:

Oh, if you could see the gratitude parade of words I just typed &#38; deleted, it was a namaste-shalom-love-fest. Never fear, I had the good sense to edit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roolily.wordpress.com&blog=1521195&post=1995&subd=roolily&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://roolily.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/walking-last-night/</link>
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		<title>Blogging from the Veranda</title>
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Equipped with the new-to-me WordPress iPhone app, I&#8217;m standing just west of our apartment&#8217;s open door. At my feet, Lily sits practicing her morning meditation. She&#8217;s at the edge (&#8220;The Veranda&#8221;) of her universe. Someday, sweet cat, we&#8217;ll have a real porch for you. One with sunlight.
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		<link>http://roolily.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/blogging-from-the-veranda/</link>
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