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	<title>Cindy La Ferle's Home Office &#187; Columns &amp; essays</title>
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		<title>Lipstick lust</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/09/lipstick-lust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carl Jung]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chanel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clinique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judy Garland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lipstick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Read My Lips: A Cultural History of Lipstick]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This essay ran last spring in Strut magazine. With all the talk about &#8220;lipstick&#8221; lately, it&#8217;s a good time to give it another spin&#8230;. There&#8217;s got to be something seriously wrong with a 50-something woman who keeps 36 tubes of lipstick in her bathroom drawer. That woman would be me. I&#8217;m a beauty product junkie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some things I&#8217;ve outgrown</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/05/some-things-ive-outgrown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 14:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this spring, I had lunch with Laurie, one of my closest friends since junior high school. Laurie and I also brought our moms, who are now in their late seventies and hadn&#8217;t seen each other in a long time. As we gathered around our table at a local hangout, it occurred to me that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How not to look old?</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/05/women-of-an-uncertain-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My 50-something girlfriends and I have been rehashing the weary topic of aging gracefully versus aging desperately. Even in the women&#8217;s magazines geared to our demographic, &#8220;mature&#8221; fashion models appear to be surgically altered or Botoxed, then dressed to look 35. The message? Aging is shameful. To be avoided at all costs. She who looks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old dog, new yoga tricks</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/04/old-dog-new-yoga-tricks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle-aged women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[midlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yoga mat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yoga pratice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the urging of three very limber middle-aged friends, I finally enrolled in a beginner&#8217;s yoga class at the local YMCA. Everyone who practices yoga seems to believe that the ability to twist oneself into a human pretzel is good for the mind, body, and spirit &#8212; and that it keeps you from shrinking in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tilda&#8217;s tulips are blooming</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/04/tulips-are-blooming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grief and loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recovering from loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Benson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sue Monk Kidd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tulip bulbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[When the Heart Waits]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Gardens are about waiting and about hope as much as they are about anything.&#8221; &#8212; Robert Benson, Digging In Last fall, I posted a short essay about the tulip bulbs Doug and I planted around our patio on an unseasonably warm November afternoon. The bulbs had been given to us by Tilda, a dear friend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A letter to a friend turning 50*</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/04/a-letter-to-a-friend-turning-50/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[50th birthday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baby boomer women]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[women and aging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear D.: Your 50th is coming up this month. Rather than send you a bunch of black balloons and one of those dumb cards with a joke about adult diapers, I&#8217;m writing you a letter with some advice. I offer it with a full heart and the seasoned experience of someone who&#8217;s all of three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket mirrors and personal essays</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/02/pocket-mirrors-and-personal-essays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just for writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[essay writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literary essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[short essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing craft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing for magazines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For years I&#8217;ve collected inspirational quotes on writing and the creative life. Browsing through one of my daybooks recently, I ran across a beautiful paragraph I&#8217;d recopied from bohemian poet and writer Peter Altenberg: âI never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world. I dreamed only of being a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dreams and journals</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/01/dreams-and-journals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just for writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honest writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journaling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[midlife memoir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-expression]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.laferle.com/?p=95</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I will write myself into well-being.&#8221; &#8212; Nancy Mairs I swear, the folks who write the Daily Om are looking in my windows and rummaging through the secret corners of my mind. They&#8217;re spying on my life. Each day&#8217;s essay speaks to an issue I&#8217;m wrestling with, or a project I&#8217;m working on. Here&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never (or rarely) give away what you can sell &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/01/never-give-away-what-you-can-sell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2008/01/never-give-away-what-you-can-sell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just for writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freelance writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freelance writing fees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pay rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[working from home]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Self-respect is a matter of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.&#8221; &#8211; Joan Didion &#8220;Is it unprofessional to write for free?&#8220; is a question often asked in my writing workshops. And it&#8217;s tough one. Those of us who work from home &#8212; writers, accountants, and marketers included &#8212; often find it hard to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grieving in a season of cheer</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2007/12/grief-loss-this-book-will-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2007/12/grief-loss-this-book-will-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Allison Gilbert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Always Too Soon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death of parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grief and loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiday grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parent loss]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No matter how old you are, losing a parent is a thorny rite of passage. My own father died suddenly when he was 65. I was 38 and my mother was alive, but I still felt unmoored and abandoned &#8212; as if I&#8217;d been exiled to a strange frontier without a map. In some ways, [...]]]></description>
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