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		<title>Somebody to lean on</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy La Ferle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was almost midnight. My husband and I had just returned home after spending eight grueling hours in the emergency room with my elderly mother, who had fractured her back earlier that day. Staggering like zombies into the kitchen, we were surprised to discover that our dear neighbor, Matilda, left a warm kettle of homemade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permission to putter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“There&#8217;s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” &#8212; Bill Watterson Last Friday, I had oral surgery to remove part of an infected bone in my lower jaw, under my tongue. The ordeal wasn&#8217;t quite as grisly as I&#8217;d anticipated &#8212; but I felt out of sorts for a few days while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we need to unplug</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 16:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends call to chastise each other for being slow to return text messages or e-mail &#8212; as though the ability to communicate in half a dozen new-fangled ways makes constant attention to every one of them morally imperative.&#8221; &#8212; Martha Beck I didn’t realize the damned thing was missing until my husband caught me off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When our sons marry &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 13:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy La Ferle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.&#8221; &#8212; Ayelet Waldman Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal ran a feature stating the obvious: &#8220;Mothers worry more when sons marry than when daughters marry,&#8221; according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisdom for graduates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 12:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always pass along good advice. It is the only thing to do with it, since it is never of any use to oneself.&#8221; – Oscar Wilde It’s graduation season. The flowering trees are in bloom, everywhere, and suddenly I&#8217;m flooded with sweet memories of my son&#8217;s baccalaureate ceremonies at Shrine High School (2004) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear of missing &#8230;what?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 19:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s hard not to develop this 21st-century form of anxiety when one glance at your smartphone reveals a thousand awesome things your friends &#8212; and enemies &#8212; are doing.&#8221; &#8212; Martha Beck, &#8220;The Grass Ain&#8217;t Greener&#8221; It’s no secret that I’ve carried on a love-hate relationship with social media for years. Using LinkedIn as one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gardening for the spirit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed, I feel such exhilaration and health that I realize I have been defrauding myself in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.&#8221;  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Throughout my life, gardens have provided many spiritual lessons and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housework by the book?</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2013/04/housework-by-the-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy La Ferle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excuse the mess, but we live here.&#8221; &#8212; Roseanne Barr When we moved into our first apartment in 1980, my architect husband and I rarely discussed the delicate issue of housework. Newly married and devoted to our business careers, Doug and I left early for work every weekday morning, tripping over mounds of unfolded laundry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bathing Suit Season.</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2013/04/uh-oh-bathing-suit-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul.&#8221; &#8212; Victoria Moran It&#8217;s barely spring here in southeast Michigan, but magazine editors are positively frantic about Bathing-Suit Season. My god, there&#8217;s not a magazine cover on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The art of reinvention</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy La Ferle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t be afraid to go out on a limb. That&#8217;s where the fruit is.&#8221; &#8212; H. Jackson Browne Feeling like your second chance is long overdue? From time to time, everyone &#8220;burns out&#8221; or gets stuck in a familiar rut. As I learned several years ago, a midlife career crisis can be an opportunity for [...]]]></description>
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