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	<title>Cindy La Ferle's Home Office &#187; midlife</title>
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		<title>New ground</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/05/new-beginnings-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 14:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning.&#8221; &#8212; John O&#8217;Donohue
It started off as a horrific week. My Web site was attacked by a malicious virus, requiring several days of tedious repairs (and I&#8217;m still not finished with the archives yet).  Later that same day, my dermatologist removed five pre-cancerous patches from my skin. It got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drama queen on Facebook</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/09/drama-queen-on-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.&#8221; &#8212; Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Somebody once said that high school is &#8220;the mouse race that prepares you for the rat race,&#8221; and I suppose there&#8217;s a glimmer of truth in that. Like a pair of cruel shoes, my high school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>River of reinvention</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/07/river-of-reinvention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;No one really knows how you must change. Not even you. Not until you start.&#8221; &#8212; David Viscott, Risking
Working on our new/old house in St. Joseph last week, I spent a lot of time thinking about change, restoration, and reinvention. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957 &#8212; just a few years after I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dressing my age</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/04/dressing-my-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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&#8220;Reinterpreting what the younger generation is wearing leaves the margin for error wide open &#8212; and that may be the reason we are reluctant to change.&#8221; &#8212; Sherrie Mathieson, Steal This Style
Even if you&#8217;re not a card-carrying AARP member yet, you might be starting to think about &#8220;age-appropriate dressing.&#8221; But what does that really mean? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring break for Moms</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/03/pilgrimage-to-captiva/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach &#8212; waiting for a gift from the sea. &#8212; Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Four miles long and Â½ mile wide, the narrow island of Captiva is where Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote the beloved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we lie about age</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/02/why-we-lie-about-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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How old would you be if you didn&#8217;t know how old you were? &#8212; Satchel Paige
Whether we use Nice &#8216;n Easy to hide our graying temples or refuse to show our drivers&#8217; licenses, most of us secretly hope to appear younger than we are. But why is it so hard for smart women to age [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black hole relationships</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/02/black-hole-relationships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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&#8220;It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.&#8221; &#8212; Oscar Wilde 
When my son was a child, I often volunteered to help at his small parochial school. I supervised Valentine&#8217;s Day parties, traced Halloween pumpkins, carpooled for field trips, and baked countless cookies for fundraisers. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valentine to France</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/02/valentine-to-france/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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&#8220;The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.&#8221; &#8212; James Taylor, American songwriter
Traveling in provincial France and Paris for our 25th anniversary, my husband and I had a rare chance to observe a lifestyle noticeably different from our own.Â  The best souvenirs we brought back home weren&#8217;t the trinkets we&#8217;d collected from museum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting unstuck</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/01/getting-unstuck-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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The key question isn&#8217;t &#8220;What fosters creativity?&#8221; But it is, why in God&#8217;s name isn&#8217;t everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be not why do people create &#8212; but why do people not create or innovate? &#8212; Abraham Maslow
Lately I&#8217;ve been feeling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old friends</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/11/old-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you imagine us years from today, sharing a park bench quietly?&#8221; &#8212; lyrics by Paul Simon, &#8220;Old Friends&#8221;
As busy as we are these days, it&#8217;s hard enough to find the time we need to nurture our most important family relationships. Keeping up with close friends can be twice as challenging. This month, my regular [...]]]></description>
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