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	<title>Cindy La Ferle's Home Office &#187; culture</title>
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		<title>Mattel&#8217;s Barbie turns 50</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/03/barbie-and-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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&#8220;It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.&#8221; &#8212; D.W. Winnicott
Mattel&#8217;s Barbie turns 50 this month, and her devoted fans are throwing birthday parties right and left. Even her biggest critics are giving the iconic doll extra points for longevity. Barbie was a huge part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black hole relationships</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/02/black-hole-relationships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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&#8220;It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.&#8221; &#8212; Oscar Wilde 
When my son was a child, I often volunteered to help at his small parochial school. I supervised Valentine&#8217;s Day parties, traced Halloween pumpkins, carpooled for field trips, and baked countless cookies for fundraisers. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valentine to France</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/02/valentine-to-france/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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&#8220;The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.&#8221; &#8212; James Taylor, American songwriter
Traveling in provincial France and Paris for our 25th anniversary, my husband and I had a rare chance to observe a lifestyle noticeably different from our own.Â  The best souvenirs we brought back home weren&#8217;t the trinkets we&#8217;d collected from museum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ode to &#8220;Joy&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/02/ode-to-joy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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&#8220;The shifts of fortune will test the reliability of friends.&#8221; &#8212; Marcus Tullius Cicerco
By the time we reach midlife, most of us have splattered several dozen pages of recipes during our attempts to find the One True Cookbook. Mine is the Joy of Cooking, a household staple as dependable as milk and bread. In an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Puttering</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/02/puttering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;The imagination needs moodling &#8212; long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling, and puttering.&#8221; &#8212; Brenda Ueland
Right now, the landscape outside my office window looks more like the moon than southeast Michigan. Even when the sun shines, my seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is always at its worst in February. Meanwhile, several of my friends are heading to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dreaming in Detroit</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/01/detroit-dreams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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&#8220;Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.&#8221; &#8212; E.B. White
Mothers and sons are as different as mineral water and motor oil, and there are times when the distance between us seems impossible to navigate. The road to a smooth relationship often depends on the vehicle.
Just as the automobile is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;R&#8221; word</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/01/the-r-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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&#8220;I take rejection as someone blowing in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.&#8221; &#8212; Sylvester Stallone
This week I&#8217;m filling out entry forms and taking photos of my work for an art competition. I&#8217;m new at submitting my artwork to gallery competitions &#8212; and nervous about subjecting myself to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to get clear</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/01/how-to-get-clear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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&#8220;More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.&#8221; &#8212; Francois Gautier
The answers to our most difficult career questions are rarely &#8220;clear as glass.&#8221;Â  Sometimes we need to pull back and get quiet in order to gain fresh perspective. Curious? Read more in my January 2009 Michigan Women&#8217;s Forum column. &#8211; CL
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		<title>The year in rear view</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/12/the-year-in-rear-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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&#8220;Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each year find you a better person.&#8221; &#8212; Benjamin Franklin
I stopped making New Year&#8217;s resolutions a long time ago. They rarely stick &#8212; and only serve to throw me into a vicious cycle of guilt, remorse, and self-contempt for the better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday peace</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/12/holiday-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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&#8220;If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as work.&#8221; &#8212; William Shakespeare.
I love the small breathing space between Christmas Day and New Year&#8217;s Eve. As much as I enjoy shopping and cooking for family and dear friends, I also appreciate the chance to steal some quiet time to reflect [...]]]></description>
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