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		<title>More Facebook!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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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>Why I quit Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Ancestor art</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My artwork]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["The Importance of Ancestors" by Cindy La Ferle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[38th Michigan Annual Art Exhibition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anton Art Center]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[creative support]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[support for artists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vintage photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn&#8217;t say any other way &#8212; things I had no words for.&#8221;  ~Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe One of the many things I appreciate about my artist-architect husband is that he&#8217;s always encouraging me to push my own artwork to the next level. Given that our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Mom</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2012/01/moving-mom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[blogging about family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caregivers and coping mechanisms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caring for parents with dementia]]></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>The book of 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year&#8217;s Day.  ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce I&#8217;m always cheered by the thought of a new year and another chance to start over. Blank pages used to scare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legalese</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/12/legalese/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[William Zinsser]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon. Remember the four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.&#8221; &#8212; William Zinsser Good lord. We&#8217;re getting ready to move my mother from a nursing center into an assisted living residence. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do what you love</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a DIY world, but you can&#8217;t do it alone. Build your team as wisely as you would choose typefaces or words for lyrics. Embrace your place on earth as creative. Give thanks you were given this gift to share. Turn a deaf ear to those who say the path of art is hard. Doing [...]]]></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>
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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>DIY Christmas cards</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.&#8221;  ~Norman Vincent Peale Give me any holiday, and I&#8217;ll make a greeting card for it. No matter how crazy-busy life gets, I like to think of card-making as instant art therapy. It&#8217;s a terrific way to unwind after a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shameless annual pitch</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/11/shameless-annual-pitch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Writing Home by Cindy La Ferle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.  ~Robert Brault At a holiday book signing last week, I met another author who enjoys all aspects of publishing a book &#8212; except for self-promotion. We chatted about the hard realities of keeping our books on store shelves and Amazon.com; about how [...]]]></description>
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