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	<title>Cindy La Ferle's Home Office &#187; midlife issues</title>
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		<title>Getting Help</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/09/getting-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it.  Whether he&#8217;s got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.&#8221;  ~Rona Barrett The past several weeks have been even more challenging than usual. I&#8217;m noticing yet another decline in my mother&#8217;s dementia and health. It&#8217;s time to [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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>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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		<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>Photographic memory</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/01/photographic-memory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[high school graduation portraits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photography takes an instant of our time, altering life by holding it still.&#8221; &#8212; Dorothea Lange If you graduated from high school in the 1960s or &#8217;70s, you probably have a sepia-toned, hand-tinted graduation portrait of yourself stashed away in a family album. When I was growing up, my mother worked as a commercial artist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s newsletter</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/01/new-years-newsletter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.&#8221;  ~Oprah Winfrey Though I&#8217;m not big on New Year&#8217;s resolutions, I&#8217;ve always loved how January nudges us toward self-improvement and encourages fresh starts. The month, after all, is named for the two-faced Roman god, Janus, who&#8217;s always depicted looking backward and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driving past comfort</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/08/driving-out-of-my-comfort-zone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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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>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>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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		<title>Barbarian Mom</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/10/barbarian-mom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children are a great comfort in old age, and they help you reach it much faster, too.&#8221; &#8212; Lionel M. Kaufman Take it from a seasoned parent. There comes a time in every mother&#8217;s life when she realizes parts of her wardrobe shouldn&#8217;t be flaunted in front of teenage boys. And I&#8217;m not talking about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I did on my summer vacation</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/08/what-i-did-on-my-summer-vacation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2009/08/what-i-did-on-my-summer-vacation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. &#8212; Ashleigh Brilliant Summer arrived with its boxing gloves on. Or, as John Lennon pointed out, &#8220;Life is what happens when you&#8217;re busy making other plans.&#8221; Which is why I haven&#8217;t been filling this space with new material lately. By mid-June, it was obvious that my father-in-law&#8217;s dementia [...]]]></description>
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