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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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		<category><![CDATA[Alicia Eler]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Privacy is dead, and social media hold the smoking gun.&#8221; &#8212; Pete Cashmore The Facebook debates are heating up this week, thanks, in part, to the announcement that Mark Zuckerberg filed an IPO for the world&#8217;s largest social network. Some are peeved by Zuck&#8217;s greed; others are justifiably worried about some thorny new privacy issues. [...]]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[My artwork]]></category>
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		<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>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2012/01/photos-of-mom/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[social media and blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Facebook Blog]]></category>
		<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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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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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>Ancestor art</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2012/01/ancestor-art/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2012/01/ancestor-art/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[arts and crafts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative support]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family heritage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[having creative friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mixed-media assemblage]]></category>
		<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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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Moving Mom</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2012/01/moving-mom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2012/01/moving-mom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<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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		<category><![CDATA[Eldercare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elderly parents]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[midlife challenges]]></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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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>The book of 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2012/01/the-book-of-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My artwork]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art saves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative New Year resolutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2011/12/legalese/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bad writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boring legal documents]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[On Writing Well]]></category>
		<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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