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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a little, just a little, late getting the Christmas/New Years letter out this year. But, hey, that&#8217;s better than the previous year when we ended up forgoing the whole thing altogether. I was going to do a boring &#8220;here&#8217;s what we&#8217;re up to&#8221; to get it over with but a friend with higher expectations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1885175&amp;post=3269&amp;subd=saramason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Screw your shoes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday was our MUDD running club’s Frosty 50K/50M. Because of the aforementioned achilles and knee problems, and that I haven’t been training for it, I didn’t sign up. But, I still wanted to go and be an encouragement and support to my friends who were crazy enough to spend 8 hours or so running the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1885175&amp;post=3252&amp;subd=saramason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the beginning &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://saramason.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/in-the-beginning-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you explain the concept of evolution to a child? In attempting to do so last night when she was reading a scientific book about brown bears, even my daughter could hear how ridiculous it sounded. Try it. Uh, okay. &#8220;The author believes the mommy brown bear had a baby. Then that baby became [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1885175&amp;post=3264&amp;subd=saramason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From grin-and-bear-it to grin-and-enjoy-it</title>
		<link>http://saramason.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/from-grin-and-bear-it-to-grin-and-enjoy-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tendinitis. Why is it tendInitis, anyway? And not tendOnitis? We are talking about tendons here right? I don’t know. Anyway, what I do know is that tendinitis in my achilles (and why do I refuse to capitalize that? Again, I don’t know.) has been the bane of my running experience for the past several months. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1885175&amp;post=3245&amp;subd=saramason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intelligent design</title>
		<link>http://saramason.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/natural-intelligence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[God&#8217;s creation is one of the best R&#38;D labs we know. Using technology to emulate nature has resulted in revolutionary innovations that make our lives easier, healthier, and more sustainable: from phones, whose loudspeakers were inspired by human eardrums, to entirely new approaches of creating color inspired by the color-shifting properties of a butterfly’s wings. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1885175&amp;post=3099&amp;subd=saramason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Portion</title>
		<link>http://saramason.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/my-portion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been asking God to speak to me LOUD and CLEAR. I so desperately want to hear His voice in the chaos of life. I&#8217;m being more intentional about taking quiet time, literally being quiet, to make myself available to what He wants to say. But sometimes it just doesn&#8217;t go the way I want. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1885175&amp;post=3227&amp;subd=saramason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My first ultra</title>
		<link>http://saramason.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/my-first-50k/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No medal. No t-shirt. 1 day. 7 hours. 32.4 miles. 3033 calories. &#8230; And thousands of smiles! Somewhere along the line, I got the idea (mostly from my friend Brandi who makes ultra running look easy) that I should run an ultra. The New Leaf Ultra Runs&#8216; Deer Grove 32.4 mile wide track fun run [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1885175&amp;post=3177&amp;subd=saramason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Runner review: Amphipod handheld</title>
		<link>http://saramason.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/runner-review-amphipod-handheld/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually like to carry anything with me when I run. I head out the door. No water, no food, no id, no phone, no music. While I love the freedom of that, sometimes it&#8217;s not the smartest choice. Especially with weekly runs topping 10 miles. It&#8217;s best to have *at least* some water [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1885175&amp;post=3153&amp;subd=saramason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mom-Me makeover</title>
		<link>http://saramason.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/mom-me-makeover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you can see, the Mom-Me blog has a new look! This is the result of hours of agonizing over colors and design, evaluating what pages and features are used or missing by my loyal readers and &#8230; Okay, yeah, not really. That&#8217;s not true at all. I actually logged into my dashboard yesterday and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1885175&amp;post=2993&amp;subd=saramason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Run recovery: ice bath</title>
		<link>http://saramason.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/run-recovery-ice-bath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>saramason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had my first ice bath today. It&#8217;s less than 40 degrees outside and trying to snow. Something just doesn&#8217;t seem right about that. Not to mention, it wasn&#8217;t even a long run this morning. I was at Veteran Acres for 5.6 today with a couple MUDD runners and only joined them for an hour. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1885175&amp;post=2989&amp;subd=saramason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Make a joyful noise</title>
		<link>http://saramason.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/make-a-joyful-noise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>saramason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t sing. I know it. My mom knows it. My husband definitely knows it. Even the poor folks who sit in the seats in front of me at church know it. I had never taken voice lessons or sang in choir. I don&#8217;t know how to sing A from C, and I don&#8217;t particularly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1885175&amp;post=2918&amp;subd=saramason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stopping on the Sabbath</title>
		<link>http://saramason.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/stopping-on-the-sabbath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week, our church and small groups were studying the importance of honoring the Sabbath and what that might look like. One of the characteristics proposed by author Peter Scazzero is &#8220;stopping.&#8221; In Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, he writes: &#8221; &#8216;To stop&#8217; is built into the literal meaning of the Hebrew word Sabbath. Yet, most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1885175&amp;post=2980&amp;subd=saramason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s number 2?</title>
		<link>http://saramason.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/whos-number-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>saramason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[10k]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m feeling like a winner! I had been anticipating the Moraine Hills 10K at the State Park on October 22 ever since I was unable to sign up for it last year. It&#8217;s a nice, hilly run in a beautiful park (with limited parking) so it fills up quickly. Of course, I signed up early [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1885175&amp;post=2963&amp;subd=saramason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Running like crazy</title>
		<link>http://saramason.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/running-like-crazy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally read the last page of the &#8220;controversial&#8221; book Born to Run by Christopher McDougal. It was a fun, interesting read (albeit a bit ADHD) and incredibly eye-opening at the same time. I feel a bit like I am the last to know about minimalist or barefoot running (I did *notice* the FiveFingers shoes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1885175&amp;post=2866&amp;subd=saramason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://saramason.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/cooking-up-a-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was feeling sluggish and reclusive. So, I locked myself in the house, figuratively of course, and buried myself in a project that I had been procrastinating. The idea for the Barton Family Cookbook was born around Christmas 2007. I spent time on and off for the next two years putting it together. But I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1885175&amp;post=2638&amp;subd=saramason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Birthday party: Star Wars</title>
		<link>http://saramason.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/birthday-party-star-wars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Star Wars! Quite possibly the most fun I have had planning a party! I don&#8217;t know who the party was more for: my 5-year-old son whose birthday we were celebrating and his friends, or the parents we invited to join us. We were ecstatic when Charlie picked the beloved trilogy (we only recognize the the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1885175&amp;post=2861&amp;subd=saramason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How-to: Death Star Pinata</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We couldn&#8217;t have been more excited that my son picked a Star Wars theme for his 5th birthday party! It was a huge hit and the adults had just as much, if not more, fun as the kids! I found a lot of great ideas online. I feel bad for parents before me who had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1885175&amp;post=2864&amp;subd=saramason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All gwown up, part II</title>
		<link>http://saramason.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/all-gwown-up-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know ya&#8217;ll are dying to know what I did with my time today. No kids! Time to myself! Can it really be? I decided I would go for a run (sorry to disappoint some of you). At least until the fall schedule picks up, I won&#8217;t have to get up early to go running [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1885175&amp;post=2831&amp;subd=saramason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My son started Kindergarten today. He waved enthusiastically from the bus window, while I snapped his picture. Didn’t get the picture I wanted though (*boo-hoo!*), he was in the shade. But I can still see his huge grin as the bus drove away. My baby. In school. The house is too quiet. Weird how I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1885175&amp;post=2822&amp;subd=saramason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, coated with chocolate chips! It&#8217;s a chocolate lover&#8217;s dream. :) That&#8217;d be me. Of course, my son requested carrot cake so this doesn&#8217;t even come close to his dream. Sometimes that&#8217;s how life is. Charlie was so excited for his park play date, I don&#8217;t think he really cared. Anyway, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saramason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1885175&amp;post=2793&amp;subd=saramason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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