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	<title>Cindy La Ferle's Home Office &#187; home and family</title>
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		<title>Photo memories of Mom</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2012/01/photos-of-mom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget.   ~John Berger Sometimes I have to rely on the lens of memory to see her as the true beauty she once was. Waiting for the occupational therapist to arrive, my widowed mother is slumped in a chair in her new assisted living apartment. Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My fern garden</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/05/my-fern-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 13:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Country Gardens magazine]]></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>Bringing Grandma back</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/02/bringing-grandma-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[caring for parents with dementia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eldercare]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[midlife issues]]></category>
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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>Thanksgiving</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/11/thanksgiving-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[" Thanksgiving traditions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Fanfare for Another Homecoming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college holiday breaks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michigan Women's Forum]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gratitude is the heart&#8217;s memory.&#8221;  ~Jean Baptiste Massieu My son Nate drove from Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with us, so I&#8217;m closing the door to my home office this week. Meanwhile, I&#8217;m sharing links to two essays with a Thanksgiving homecoming spin. The first is from the archives of my Michigan Women&#8217;s Forum column, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Variations on a weekend</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/10/vacation-notes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell It felt good to get back to our Wright house in St. Joseph this weekend. Work and family obligations got in the way of our good intentions this [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comfort foods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cooking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cooking for comfort]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[inspirational essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niki's restaurant in Royal Oak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pea soup recipe. slow cooker soup recipe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal essays]]></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>Summer Home</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/08/summer-home/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2010/08/summer-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven.&#8221; &#8212; Ralph Waldo Emerson Riding my bike on a beautiful day last week, I noticed very few kids playing outside. Made me a little sad. The following piece from my memoir, Writing Home, chronicles a late-summer memory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fine-feathered Easter</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/04/fine-feathered-easter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2010/04/fine-feathered-easter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Easter essay]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.laferle.com/?p=9645</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have to at least consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.&#8221; &#8212; Douglas Adams Americans do strange things to celebrate religious holidays. Consider Easter. There&#8217;s nothing particularly pious about hiding neon pink and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Janus</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/01/notes-from-janus/</link>
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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>Keeping the flame</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/12/keeping-the-flame/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2009/12/keeping-the-flame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aging parents]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[holiday traditions]]></category>
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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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