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	<title>Cindy La Ferle&#039;s Home Office</title>
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		<title>Quindlen&#8217;s new book</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA["Life in the Thirties"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Quindlen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”&#8211; Anna Quindlen I was in awe of Anna Quindlen&#8217;s writing when I started reading her syndicated New York Times column, &#8220;Life in the Thirties.&#8221; Her highly personal yet carefully crafted reflections on being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A garden indoors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family update]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[May weather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mother's Day flowers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Flowers really do intoxicate me.&#8221; &#8212; Vita Sackville West Seasoned Michigan gardeners agree that mid-May is fickle &#8212; always a bit of a teaser. My neighbors and I are itching to get to the local nurseries to shop for annuals, but we know from past experience that it&#8217;s best to wait another week or so, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New chapter for Mom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empty nest syndrome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I'll Miss You Too]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[launch to college]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laura Kastner and Jennifer Wyatt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margo Woodacre Bane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[midlife issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mother's Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motherhood essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Launching Years]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Research is confirming what many mothers have been discovering—that &#8220;empty nest&#8221; syndrome isn&#8217;t so empty after all.&#8221; &#8212; Naomi Barr It&#8217;s going to be a roller coaster season for a friend whose youngest child graduates from high school this month, then heads off to college in August. Working through her conflicting emotions, my friend gets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why manners matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 12:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell phone abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common courtesy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David McCullough]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[essays on civility]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[road rage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SAY PLEASE SAY THANK YOU: The Respect We Owe One Another]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the importance of manners]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I think it&#8217;s repellent to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word &#8211; politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.&#8221; &#8211;Fran Lebowitz Drivers run us off the road and shout obscenities. Children throw tantrums in nice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walking for the future</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2012/05/walking-for-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 17:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Walk for the Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boys and Girls Club of South Oakland County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frienship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memorial Park Royal Oak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the people who keep me sane are willing to wear crazy hats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us don&#8217;t need a psychiatrist as much as a friend to be silly with.&#8221; &#8212; Robert Brault The Mad Hatters showed up in style for the 2012 &#8220;Walk for the Future&#8221; to benefit the Boys and Girls Club of South Oakland County. Doug and I are grateful to the wonderful friends who sported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joie de vivre</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aix-en-Provence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[simple pleasures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.&#8221; &#8212; James Taylor, American songwriter Here in the United States of Self-Improvement, daily life can feel like a major project. Watching TV or flipping through magazines, we&#8217;re bombarded with ads reminding us that we&#8217;re not quite up to standard. We&#8217;re too fat or too wrinkled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The family columnist</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2012/04/family-columnist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2012/04/family-columnist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[column writing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[home and family issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Forum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mommy blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motherhood]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Christian Science Monitor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing about children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing and motherhood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.&#8221;  ~Stacia Tauscher Relying on our kids to provide column fodder is hardly new. Today there are countless &#8220;mommy blogs&#8221; and family sites online. But it was fun to reminisce about my own column-writing days in a new Home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emma</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2012/04/19580/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2012/04/19580/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.&#8221;  ~Jean Burde We lost a dear friend today. Sixteen years ago, when Nate was a boy, the two of us drove to the Royal Oak Animal Shelter after school. We were &#8220;just looking&#8221; and had no intention of adopting another cat. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midlife lessons</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2012/04/midlife-lessons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Muriel Spark quote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[staying optimistic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wisdom from growing older]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.&#8221; &#8212; Muriel Spark Now in assisted living, my mother is battling vascular dementia and heart disease. Watching her decline, I often struggle to find the proverbial wisdom that comes with growing old. Does anyone really look forward to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mommy Wars&#8230;again?</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2012/04/mommy-wars-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2012/04/mommy-wars-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ann Romney]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hilary Rosen remark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mommy Wars]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[motherhood and politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAHMs vs WAHMS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stay at home mothers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[When will we stop bickering and start paying more attention to our kids?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[working from home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[working mothers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The phrase &#8216;working mother&#8217; is redundant.&#8221; &#8212; Jane Sellman So, who imagined that we&#8217;d be fighting the &#8220;mommy wars&#8221; &#8230; again &#8230; after all these years? I&#8217;ve been working this month on a brand-new preface for the ebook edition of Writing Home, which my editor will finish converting within the next couple of weeks. In [...]]]></description>
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