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	<title>Cindy La Ferle's Home Office</title>
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		<title>Parenting advice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metro Parent magazine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom.  The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.&#8221;  ~Sloan Wilson
Note: This essay was published earlier this year (&#8220;A New Season of Parenting&#8221;) in Metro Parent magazine. It was written especially for friends whose children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Begin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seat yourself next to your joy.&#8221; &#8212; Rumi
We all have to start somewhere. Truth is, the beginning is often the hardest part of any worthy project, whether we&#8217;re talking about writing books, designing clothes, breaking a habit, or plotting a garden. Before we can meet a deadline or plant the first seed, we have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Into white</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["Into White"]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[decorating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home decor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home remodeling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[remodeling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shelter magazines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tables of paper wood, windows of light/ And everything emptying into White.&#8221; &#8212; Cat Stevens, &#8220;Into White&#8221;
The thing I love best about redecorating is that it inspires us to look at our old rooms in new ways. A &#8220;re-do&#8221; doesn&#8217;t necessarily require that we buy more furniture or knick-knacks &#8212; though paint, hardware, and elbow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now I Become Myself</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/03/now-i-become-myself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poems to inspire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["journal of A Solitude"]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elder wisdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finding your voice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspirational poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[May Sarton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry appreciation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the writing life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been dissolved and shaken / Worn other people&#8217;s faces&#8221;  &#8212; May Sarton
My early introduction to May Sarton&#8217;s work was through her diary, Journal of a Solitude.  I was new to personal writing at the time, and I admired how Sarton gracefully shared her private and public worlds &#8212; her beloved garden; domestic life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winging it</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/02/winging-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baby Boomer issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caring for elderly parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[early stage dementia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elder care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospital recovery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Overton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.&#8221;  ~Max Lerner
When the walls around my little world seem to be caving in, my first impulse is to isolate myself while I put the bricks back in place. Luckily, I have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mending things</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/02/mending-things/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2010/02/mending-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs and shorts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taking time off]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
It&#8217;s not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.&#8221;  ~Ashleigh Brilliant
My mother is in the hospital now, and there&#8217;s a lot going on in my 3-D world. I&#8217;m a tad overwhelmed at the thought of everything to be healed, repaired, or resolved, so I&#8217;m taking a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Against Hesitation</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/02/against-hesitation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2010/02/against-hesitation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just for writers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Make music of what you can.&#8221; &#8212; Charles Rafferty
I always knew I wanted to be a writer. When I was a kid, I perched in the gnarly apple tree in my backyard and scribbled my own adventures in a ruled notebook. In college I majored in English and journalism, but it took years before I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victoria magazine</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/02/perseverance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2010/02/perseverance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs and shorts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just for writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freelance writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garden writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.&#8221; &#8212; Walter Elliott
Speaking at a writers&#8217; conference last year, a magazine editor fielded questions from an eager audience. Inevitably, a new freelance writer asked, &#8220;What does it take to break into national magazines now?&#8221;  The editor&#8217;s answer: &#8220;Good old-fashioned perseverance.&#8221;
It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shifting creative gears</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/02/shifting-creative-gears/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2010/02/shifting-creative-gears/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns and essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just for writers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[creative blocks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fetish necklace]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[personal essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SARK]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enjoy a tiny adventurous moment close to home. It changes your perspective, reminding you that the world is deep and rich and full of color and miracles.&#8221; &#8211;SARK
A lot of us are stumbling over creative blocks lately.  Those who live in the wintry Midwest and Northeast blame it on lack of sunshine. Or cabin fever. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unending Love</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/02/unending-love/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2010/02/unending-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Audrey Hepburn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gregory Peck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love poems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry appreciation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rabindranath Tagore]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Valentine's Day poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs&#8221; &#8212; Rabindranath Tagore
Valentine&#8217;s Day is coming, and I&#8217;ll be the first to admit it can be a guilt-inducing Hallmark holiday. As hard as I try to avoid playing the sentimental fool, lately I&#8217;ve been jumping at any chance to celebrate the people I cherish. [...]]]></description>
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