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		<title>Reinvention</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/06/reinvention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Henri Bergson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.&#8221; &#8212; Henri Bergson It&#8217;s so much easier to stay rooted in the same place, whether it&#8217;s a desk chair or an old neighborhood. Or even a toxic relationship. Once we nestle into our proverbial comfort zone, [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[empty nest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fragile Season]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeless shelters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspirational essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lenten season]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[midlife women's issues]]></category>
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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>Starting over</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/01/starting-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just for writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspirational essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Year's resolutions in Royal Oak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Town columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Oak Patch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writer's block]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginning is easy, continuing is hard. &#8212; Japanese proverb If working writers learn nothing else, we must learn to make friends with the blank page. As one of my writing teachers advised, every time we lift a pen or start typing on a keyboard, we have an opportunity to hit the editorial bull’s-eye or touch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unexpected sparks</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/10/unexpected-sparks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autumn essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autumn in Michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[childhood memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franklin Village Cider Mill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[happiness and contentment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home and family essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspirational essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[living in the moment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spending time with kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing Home excerpt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our brightest blazes of happiness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.&#8221; &#8212; Samuel Johnson 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’s last hurrah, and even the neighborhood kids sensed the day was ripe for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October Memories</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/10/october-memories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 13:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autumn rituals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[inspirational essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[raking leaves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shorts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing Home]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[October is a symphony of permanence and change.&#8221; &#8212; Bonaro W. Overstreet The following short essay began as a journal entry after my father died. I recently rediscovered the notebook in which I&#8217;d written it longhand. First published in the October 1998 edition of Mary Engelbreit&#8217;s Home Companion, it&#8217;s also included in my book, Writing [...]]]></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[family meals]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[soup making]]></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>Remembering 9/11</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/09/remembering-911/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 01:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[09/11 8:48 AM: Documenting America's Greatest Tragedy: Eyewitness Stories and Thoughts from Ground Zero in the Attack on America]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece is included in 09/11 8:48 AM: Documenting America&#8217;s Greatest Tragedy, an anthology of raw, immediate accounts published across the nation after the tragedy of 9/11, edited by Ethan Casey with the New York University School of Journalism. ___________________ The Long Way Home By Cindy La Ferle September 20, 2001, Royal Oak, Michigan A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driving past comfort</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/08/driving-out-of-my-comfort-zone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2010/08/driving-out-of-my-comfort-zone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[background extra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cindy's Sunday Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comfort zone escapes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Detroit writers and journalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empty nest freedoms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[filmmaking in Michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grand Rapids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspirational essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Les Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan films]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[personal growth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward or scared or uncomfortable when you try something new.&#8221; &#8212; Brian Tracy Working as a film extra since last fall, I&#8217;ve rarely had to drive beyond metro Detroit for a booking. Which is a good thing, since my [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just for writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anne Scott]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Serving Fire]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[writing career]]></category>
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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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just for writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dementia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eldercare]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Janus]]></category>
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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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