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		<title>Collecting beach stones</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/08/guide-to-collecting-beach-stones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is the sum of all your choices.&#8221;  ~Albert Camus I’m a little envious of friends and neighbors who have summer cottages in northern Michigan, where I’m always considered a tourist (or “fudgie”) no matter how often I visit. Regardless, the opportunity to collect a few beach stones for my garden in suburban Detroit remains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring break fantasies</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/03/spring-break-fantasy-islands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh My favorite comedy routine is the one in which Steve Martin blanks out in the middle of a monologue, then beams a vacant smile and informs his audience that he&#8217;s momentarily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girl groups</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/02/why-we-need-girl-groups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[First Congregational Church of Royal Oak]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[how to form a circle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.” – Dame Rebecca West Nothing tops the power of a girl group. Whether you’re swamped with a crisis at work, unruly kids, or too much estrogen, you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School supplies</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/09/school-supplies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[art studios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art supplies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[coping with change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Midlife is a time to listen deeply to your heart, a period of transition and reappraisal.&#8221; &#8212; Carl Jung I have a hunch that fall is arriving early. Maybe it’s the angle of sunlight on the last of the black-eyed Susans in my perennial garden. Or maybe it was the sound of berries and acorns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking the holidays</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/11/rethinking-the-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cooking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Laurie Colwin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tradition is a guide, not a jailer &#8212; W. Somerset Maugham Over dinner with my husband&#8217;s brother and his wife last year, my husband and I broached the delicate subject of &#8230; The Holidays. I appreciated the chance to have this discussion with my in-laws. Celebrating the winter holidays, after all, is an emotionally loaded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skeletons in my closet</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/03/skeletons-in-my-closet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cheryl Richardson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.&#8221; &#8212; Havelock Ellis It&#8217;s time for some serious spring cleaning. The costumes and uniforms of my past are taking up way too much space in my closet and in my psyche. But since I&#8217;m a born collector, I struggle when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting the wrinkle wars</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/03/fighting-the-wrinkle-wars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aging and the media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes.&#8221; &#8212; Sophia Loren Cosmetic ads continually remind us that we can&#8217;t look fabulous unless we look years younger. So what does it mean to &#8220;age gracefully&#8221; today? Must we color our hair, undergo plastic surgery, and spend a fortune on anti-aging products to [...]]]></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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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An eye on the prize</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/02/an-eye-on-the-prize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two things people want more than sex and money &#8212; recognition and praise. &#8211;Mary Kay Ash Everyone&#8217;s talking about the Oscars this week &#8212; the clothes, the stars, &#8220;the winners.&#8221; And over at Whole Latte Life, Joanne DeMaio recently asked what it means to be rewarded, honored, or crowned in some way for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Puttering</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/02/puttering/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2009/02/puttering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The imagination needs moodling &#8212; long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling, and puttering.&#8221; &#8212; Brenda Ueland Right now, the landscape outside my office window looks more like the moon than southeast Michigan. Even when the sun shines, my seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is always at its worst in February. Meanwhile, several of my friends are heading [...]]]></description>
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