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	<title>Cindy La Ferle's Home Office &#187; Columns &amp; essays</title>
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		<title>More Facebook!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alicia Eler]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Facebook IPO]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stephanie Pappas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Why I quit Facebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook&#8217;s initial public offering of stock is likely to make a lot of developers and designers of the site very wealthy. But for many users, frequent Facebooking may not be so beneficial.&#8221; &#8212; Stephanie Pappas The Facebook debates are heating up this week, thanks, in part, to the announcement that Mark Zuckerberg filed an IPO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scars and self-image</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BlogHer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health and beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hip replacement surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surgical scars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women and body image]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.&#8221; &#8212; Carly Simon Growing up with fashion magazines that promote the impossibly perfect, some women find it hard to accept &#8220;flaws&#8221; on our own faces and bodies. My newest post on BlogHer chronicles how I learned to live with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crafting a mystery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My artwork]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ancestors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art using found objects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arts and crafts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family heritage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mixed media construction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vintage photographs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.&#8221; &#8211;Phyllis George Who was she? It&#8217;s likely I&#8217;ll never know. I found her photograph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo memories of Mom</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2012/01/photos-of-mom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assisted living for elders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caregivers and coping mechanisms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caring for elders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caring for parents with dementia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dementia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic arts essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home and family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mothers and daughters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting our parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vascular dementia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vintage photograpy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget.   ~John Berger Sometimes I have to rely on the lens of memory to see her as the true beauty she once was. Waiting for the occupational therapist to arrive, my widowed mother is slumped in a chair in her new assisted living apartment. Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I quit Facebook</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2012/01/facebook-party-pooper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bloggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BlogHer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deactivating Facebook account]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook and privacy issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[French mystique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer L. Scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lessons from Madame Chic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quitting Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheryl Sandberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media addiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Why I quit Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women and blogging]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’m a Facebook friend of Bob Dylan, which probably means I have a deeply meaningful relationship with his publicist.” &#8212; Daniel A. Farber* UPDATE: The following essay was syndicated by BlogHer last week.  So far, the post has earned over 22,000 &#8220;reads&#8221; on the BlogHer site. Click here to read the comments. Maybe I hit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updating my address book</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2012/01/17958/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2012/01/17958/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[address books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[changes in relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[day planners and organizers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[midlife topics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sue Patton Thoel quotes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women at midlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing Home essays]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have too little time to waste it in relationships that are not equal and mutually rewarding. Exchanging energy nourishes our souls.&#8221;  — Sue Patton Theole in The Woman&#8217;s Book of Spirit In addition to getting my mother adjusted to assisted living &#8212; still a challenge &#8212; I&#8217;m devoting the month of January to organizing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Mom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[blogging about family]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[family blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home and family topics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[midlife challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[midlife sandwich]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” &#8212; Maya Angelou Yesterday, while labeling my mother&#8217;s clothing and underwear, I had a surreal moment in which I felt as if I were moving another kid to college. In reality, we&#8217;re getting ready to transfer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stealing Christmas?</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/12/stealing-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christmas blues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas origins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas traditions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Crumm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Seuss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Festival of Saturnalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pagan Christmas customs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Read the Spirit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Grinch Who Stole Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Why Christmas bugs me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winter Solstice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And they&#8217;ll feast, feast, feast, feast. They&#8217;ll eat their Who-Pudding and rare Who-Roast Beast. But that&#8217;s something I just cannot stand in the least. &#8212; Dr. Seuss, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas Earlier this week, there was a wee bit of dissent among Facebook friends when I replaced my profile photo with an image of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A colonoscopy column?</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/12/christmas-colonoscopy-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biopsies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[holiday horror stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Oak Patch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waiting for biopsy results]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Beaumont Hospital]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.&#8221; &#8212; Paulo Coehlo The very idea of a colonoscopy &#8212; any time of the year &#8212; was more sobering than finding my first AARP card in the mailbox after I turned 50. Which is partly why I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The waiting season</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/12/the-waiting-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advent essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advent season]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patience and waiting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Heart of Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing Home]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Take time, slow down, be still, be awake to the Divine Mystery that looks so common and so ordinary, yet is wondrously present.&#8221; &#8211;Edward Hays A longer version of this essay was published in The Heart of Christmas, a Guideposts anthology. It&#8217;s also included in my book, Writing Home. &#8212; CL The Waiting Season December [...]]]></description>
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