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		<title>Memoir under attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.” &#8212; Saul Bellow Is it time to stop the flow of memoirs? On Sunday, in &#8220;The Problem with Memoirs,&#8221; New York Times reviewer Neil Genzlinger made what he called &#8220;a possibly futile effort to restore some standards to this absurdly bloated genre.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October Memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 13:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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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>Shifting creative gears</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enjoy a tiny adventurous moment close to home. It changes your perspective, reminding you that the world is deep and rich and full of color and miracles.&#8221; &#8211;SARK A lot of us are stumbling over creative blocks lately. Those who live in the wintry Midwest and Northeast blame it on lack of sunshine. Or cabin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In praise of scars</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the time you become Real, most of your hair has been loved off. Your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.&#8221; &#8211;Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit &#160; Earlier this week, my friend Alice posted this empowering Caitlin Crosby video on her Facebook wall and I was moved to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Nicholas Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart.&#8221; &#8212; Henry W. Longfellow More than 24 years ago, my ob-gyn predicted I&#8217;d have a Christmas baby, give or take a few days. The doctor wasn&#8217;t too far off the mark, really, since Nate was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer writing retreats</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/05/summer-writing-retreats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 00:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The creative space is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you&#8217;ll discover will be wonderful. What you&#8217;ll discover is yourself. &#8212; Alan Alda The &#8220;Summer at the Center&#8221; catalog just rolled off the press, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring writing workshop</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/03/spring-writing-workshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Planning to write is not writing&#8230;.Writing is writing.&#8221; &#8212; E. L. Doctorow Ready to start writing this spring? Limited space is available in my April workshop, First Person Singular. Whether your goal is to write for pleasure or publication, this three-week personal essay class will help you conquer your fear of self-expression and flex your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/11/learning-from-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By learning you will teach. By teaching you will learn.&#8221; &#8212; Latin proverb Last week I started leading one of my favorite personal essay series, aptly titled &#8220;Writing Your Heart Out.&#8221;Â  I should admit upfront that I don&#8217;t believe anyone can &#8220;teach&#8221; another person how to write &#8212; but I do think we can help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome, new friends!</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/06/welcome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been hearing from a lot of readers who are new to my work. If you stumbled on something I wrote elsewhere and liked it enough to stop by, I&#8217;m happy you did! I&#8217;m a card-carrying homebody and freelance writer who&#8217;s always on the lookout for the sacred in the suburban. I&#8217;ve traveled extensively [...]]]></description>
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