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		<title>Bringing Grandma back</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.  Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.&#8221;  ~Jane Howard It&#8217;s not always easy to be a family. For starters, our troubled job market makes it nearly impossible for relatives to live in the same community &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Janus</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And now, let us welcome the New Year/ Full of things that have never been.&#8221; &#8212; Rainer Maria Rilke It&#8217;s perfect &#8212; how the month of January is named for Janus, the Roman god of gates and entrances, beginnings and endings.  With his two heads facing opposite directions, Janus inspires us to look backward and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking the holidays</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/11/rethinking-the-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cooking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic arts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[holiday traditions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Laurie Colwin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tradition is a guide, not a jailer &#8212; W. Somerset Maugham Over dinner with my husband&#8217;s brother and his wife last year, my husband and I broached the delicate subject of &#8230; The Holidays. I appreciated the chance to have this discussion with my in-laws. Celebrating the winter holidays, after all, is an emotionally loaded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding our way home</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/05/finding-our-way-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 13:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brewster Building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic arts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frank Lloyd Wright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home and family life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[house and garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle age]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.&#8221; &#8212; Maya Angelou Home. It&#8217;s my favorite word in the English language. As much as I love to travel, after a long trip there&#8217;s nothing that warms my heart more than the sight of the path leading to our front [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letting them go</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 13:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empty nest blues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.&#8221; &#8212; Ralph Waldo Emerson Several of my friends and neighbors will be watching their children walking the stage to receive high school diplomas this month. And of course, everyone&#8217;s talking about the May-June whirlwind of award banquets, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Losing my connection?</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/11/losing-my-connection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Cell phones are the latest invention in rudeness.&#8221; &#8212; D.H. Mondfleur I didn&#8217;t realize the darned thing was missing until my husband caught me off guard. âWhere&#8217;s your cell phone?â he asked. âGee, I dunno,â I said, faking genuine concern. I couldn&#8217;t even recall the last time I&#8217;d used it, and frankly, I didn&#8217;t care. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An autumn memory</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/09/an-autumn-memory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you do not plant in the spring, you will not reap in autumn.&#8221; &#8212; Irish proverb It was one of those luminous Indian summer afternoons &#8212; clear cobalt skies and pure yellow light shimmering through the maples on our front lawn. This was autumn&#8217;s last hurrah, and even the neighborhood kids sensed the day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real women need a break</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/08/real-women-real-vacations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My favorite comedy routine is the one in which Steve Martin blanks out in the middle of a monologue, then beams a vacant smile and informs his audience that he&#8217;s momentarily &#8220;visiting the Bahamas.&#8221; Martin redefined the ultimate dream vacation &#8212; which seems to be the only type of vacation most women can schedule these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trust no one?</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/08/trust-no-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The young man ringing the doorbell looked clean-cut and harmless.Â  Opening the door, I assumed he was one of my son&#8217;s friends and greeted him with a smile. But the kid turned out to be a con artist posing as a needy college student. âI&#8217;m selling magazine subscriptions to help pay for school tuition,â he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This old couch</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/08/this-old-couch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, our big-ugly sectional sofa went out with the trash last week. It was so huge that Doug had to break it into several parts in order to haul it up from the basement and pile it on the curb. Its saggy black leather cushions were marked with cat scratches, and it didn&#8217;t owe us [...]]]></description>
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