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		<title>Cats and more cats!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.&#8221; &#8212; English proverb According to the Feral Cat Coalition, wild (or &#8220;feral&#8221;) cats are the offspring of domestic cats. These feral kitties are the result of negligent pet owners who abandon their pets &#8212; and fail to spay or neuter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons in plaster dust</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/05/lessons-in-plaster-dust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 12:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fellow that owns an old home is always just coming out of a hardware store.  ~Frank McKinney Hubbard My architect-husband, Doug, and I have owned five old houses throughout our 30-year marriage, including a Craftsman-bungalow duplex we&#8217;re renting out near downtown Royal Oak. We&#8217;ve lived in our circa 1926 Tudor for nearly 20 years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wright neighborhood</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/05/oak-park-illinois/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 14:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arthur B. Heurtley House]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.&#8221; &#8212; Frank Lloyd Wright If someone were to ask me what I think heaven looks like, my answer would have to be &#8220;Oak Park, Illinois.&#8221; Its peaceful tree-lined streets, lush gardens, and heirloom lilac stands are the perfect backdrop for dozens of beautifully preserved Victorian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My fern garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 13:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[At Home in the Garden (Guidepost gift books)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Country Gardens magazine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gardening essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grandparent essays]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was then I discovered the secret known to all gardeners: Nature has the power to heal us when words cannot.&#8221; While the nonstop rain is dampening spirits here in southeast Michigan, I have to admit the soggy soil has produced my best fern crop yet. Excerpted from Writing Home, the following essay was first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing with kids?</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/04/working-from-home-with-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance.&#8221;  ~Franklin P. Jones Conducting a home-based business with little ones underfoot is rarely easy, whether you&#8217;re designing jewelry or writing for the local paper. What happens when your child really needs you, but you&#8217;re trying to meet an impossible deadline? How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My inner slob speaks out</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/01/my-inner-slob-speaks-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[getting organized]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Real Simple magazine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[shelter magazines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m at my best in a messy, middle of the road muddle.&#8221; &#8212; Harold Wilson, British politician For years I&#8217;ve had a love-hate relationship with women&#8217;s magazines. Reading them is one of my favorite guilty pleasures &#8212; because it&#8217;s pure fun to monitor trends in fashion and home decor. I&#8217;ve also been published in several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bowls of comfort</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/09/bowls-of-comfort/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[pea soup recipe. slow cooker soup recipe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.&#8221; &#8212; Laurie Colwin As my closest friends will tell you, I&#8217;m your go-to gal if you need a good soup recipe. Come fall, there&#8217;s usually something simmering in my slow cooker or on the stove &#8212; thick-as-a-brick pea soup, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living art</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/01/living-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To improve the golden moments of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of living. &#8212; Samuel Johnson Lately we&#8217;ve had some wonderful conversations here about the arts &#8212; writing and the visual arts, in particular. But in my view, just as essential to &#8220;the great art of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recipe for balance</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/01/recipe-for-balance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.&#8221; &#8212; Robert Fulghum This year I&#8217;m trying to strike a healthy balance between living creatively and being consumed by creative work. All too often, when I&#8217;m immersed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping the flame</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/12/keeping-the-flame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are years that ask questions and years that answer.&#8221; &#8212; Zora Neale Hurston For several years I&#8217;ve kept a small garden statue of a woman by our side entrance. I named her Hestia after the ancient goddess of home and family. In Greek mythology, Hestia&#8217;s role was to keep the flame of the hearth [...]]]></description>
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