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	<title>Cindy La Ferle's Home Office &#187; empty nest</title>
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		<title>School supplies for Mom</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist. The beginner&#8217;s humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.&#8221; &#8212; Julia Cameron Remember the late-summer thrill of buying notebooks, Magic Markers, and bright yellow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refeathering our nest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are we halfway through August already? Since &#8220;back to school&#8221; is the topic of the week (and I&#8217;m still on sabbatical), I&#8217;m sharing a piece I wrote for MetroParent not long after my son flew off to college&#8230;. Field notes on an empty nest Last week I found a bird’s nest on the brick walk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Motherhood and letting go</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/05/motherhood-and-letting-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 12:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our goal is to work ourselves out of the job we spend a lifetime perfecting.&#8221; &#8212; Ann Pleshette Murphy Coinciding with graduation season, Mother&#8217;s Day always tugs on my heartstrings. Not only do we celebrate the women who gave us life, or raised us, but we also pause to consider what it means to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fragile Season</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/04/fragile-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 03:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faith is taking the first step even when you don&#8217;t see the staircase.&#8221; &#8212; Martin Luther King, Jr. This essay was first published in the online magazine, Literary Mama, and is included in the print anthology, Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined (copyright 2006; Seal Press). I wrote it in 2005 during the Lenten [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School supplies</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/09/school-supplies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Midlife is a time to listen deeply to your heart, a period of transition and reappraisal.&#8221; &#8212; Carl Jung I have a hunch that fall is arriving early. Maybe it’s the angle of sunlight on the last of the black-eyed Susans in my perennial garden. Or maybe it was the sound of berries and acorns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zen garden</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/06/zen-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All my hurts my garden spade can heal.&#8221; &#8212; Ralph Waldo Emerson Titled &#8220;The Art of Midlife Gardening,&#8221; this essay was published in Victoria magazine in the March/April issue this year. With the editor&#8217;s permission, I&#8217;m sharing the piece with you while I&#8217;m off this week&#8230; Last spring, members of our local Master Gardener Society [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survival tips for grads</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/05/survival-tips-for-grads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 11:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.&#8221; ~Paul Freund A blog pal recently asked if any of her regular readers had a few pithy words of advice for new graduates. I was reminded of an earlier column [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All my children</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 12:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you have raised kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.&#8221; &#8212; Robert Brault Today&#8217;s essay first appeared on Mother&#8217;s Day 2004 in my Sunday column in The Daily Tribune of Royal Oak. At the time, my son and his longtime friends, a.k.a. &#8220;The Crew,&#8221; were preparing to graduate from high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting advice</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/03/parenting-advice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now on the stands</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/01/now-on-the-stands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my son was growing up, I wrote pieces for parenting magazines, including Detroit&#8217;s own MetroParent. Now that I&#8217;m an empty nester, I&#8217;ve naturally moved on to other topics. But I was honored last year when the managing editor of MetroParent invited me to submit an essay on preparing for a new season of parenthood [...]]]></description>
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