empty nesters
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How to Talk to Your Grown Kids
- January 16, 2017
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: parenting
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It’s a fact of life as a parent that while you’re raising your children, you do an enormous amount of talking to them. When they’re babies, it’s considered a mistake to not talk to them as much as you can, as often as you can, as clearly as you can. I remember narrating every little thing
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Being Quietly Married in the Empty Nest
- May 13, 2014
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: empty nest, marriage
One of the most challenging things, when your kids leave home, is being comfortable with the quiet of an empty nest. Despite a fundamentally good marriage, there are hours…days…sometimes longer when my husband and I don’t have much to say to each other. It’s not that he’s not interesting – and it’s certainly not that I’m
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“What Not to Wear”- the Husband Edition
- August 26, 2013
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: empty nest
Being empty-nesters, there’s often a lot of free time on the weekends. Sometimes my husband and I get a little lazy about doing anything that involves more than walking the dog, reading the paper or changing the channel, but every so often one of us will feel inspired to want to do something a little
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New Year’s Eve at Midlife
- August 1, 2012
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: marriage
New Year’s Eve, 2012. We went out to dinner with a group of 6 couples, and we had a wonderful time. We went to a pretty happening place, which we don’t really do much anymore. Not that we don’t enjoy a nice evening out, but this place was, well, young (or young-ish). I guess what I
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Living with History
- January 10, 2012
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: family
Our lives are defined by our history. By the time we reach midlife, we can tell our story in a few sentences, summing up the most important things for a new acquaintance pretty quickly- mother, wife, writer, reader, friend. If only our lives were really that simple. History can haunt us, make us long for the