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Sharon Emery
Jan 252 min read
Making it would be golden
It's early, and I know a lot can happen in the next four months, but I'm putting this out there just to challenge myself in a public way:...
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Sharon Emery
Dec 19, 20242 min read
Believe in things worth believing in
It's no secret or surprise that we are in the darkest days of the year. These long nights are the way of the universe, more regular than...
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Sharon Emery
Nov 7, 20242 min read
Message to my journalist daughter, after a demoralizing campaign
Young Caitlin, leaning into her future career My husband and I wax nostalgic when we say that we came up during the golden age of...
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Sharon Emery
Oct 8, 20242 min read
Surviving hurricanes. And life.
When I think of hurricanes, which I've done a lot since Helene and now Milton, I think of Steve Gleason . Steve is the former National...
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Sharon Emery
Aug 29, 20242 min read
I'm Speaking, You're Listening. Got it?
I got this meme from an intern working with me back when I was vice president of a PR firm. She handed it to me with a knowing smile,...
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Sharon Emery
Jul 25, 20242 min read
Do children owe parents anything?
It wasn't the story headline, or even the gripping opening sentences that grabbed me. It was the photo cutline: Vari Vati's son, Tama...
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Sharon Emery
Jun 19, 20242 min read
Travel – More than just being there
I am planning a trip to the Pacific northwest with a person who has an aversion to travel. No, I'm not a masochist. I'm married....
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Sharon Emery
May 24, 20242 min read
The Powerful Persistence of Music
Maybe for you, like me, music is the catalyst for a whole raft of memories: My inner freedom-fighter rising up to the sound of the “Les...
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Sharon Emery
Apr 26, 20242 min read
Do we make parenting too hard?
Amid my irrepressible joy over the recent birth of my third grandson, I immediately started worrying. Not about him; about his parents....
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Sharon Emery
Mar 26, 20242 min read
Our stories are gifts
I've spent the past two years talking about my story, as part of the tour for my memoir, “It's Hard Being You.” “We tell ourselves...
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Sharon Emery
Feb 26, 20242 min read
Grandpa's a rock star!
That headline is the description I put on this photo way back in 2013, when my husband and I were just tiptoeing into the tremendous...
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Sharon Emery
Jan 27, 20242 min read
Cousinpalooza
If you're of a certain age, you may remember visits with your cousins where all kinds of mischief ensued. This was mainly due to the...
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Sharon Emery
Jan 12, 20242 min read
Collecting – a lot more than just getting
I've been waiting to send this blog, hoping to save you “collectors of things” from yourselves. You know who you are, and we know what...
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Sharon Emery
Dec 12, 20232 min read
When greetings grab hold
Tis the season for appreciating just how valuable – and vital – greetings are. We reflexively offer up “season's greetings” to people we...
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Sharon Emery
Nov 26, 20232 min read
We need to bolster those bundles of joy
I was only a few weeks into luxuriating in the news that my third grandson would be arriving early next year – I know, I'm rich! – when a...
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Sharon Emery
Oct 25, 20232 min read
Heeding Ms. Frizzle
I think I gave my kids some pretty good advice as they were growing up. But the best advice I ever heard directed at them actually came...
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Sharon Emery
Oct 10, 20232 min read
The Band Room moves on
I have been deep into culling my belongings and finding new homes for them. And fall seems to accelerate this endeavor. Last year it was...
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Sharon Emery
Sep 27, 20232 min read
The warriors at our libraries
True confession: I've been hanging out with people I don't regularly associate with, at least not in these numbers. I thought I knew a...
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Sharon Emery
Aug 31, 20232 min read
Now I'm with myself
Sha'Carri Richardson, 23, became the fastest woman in the world on Aug. 21, 2023, when she ran 100 meters in 10.65 seconds. To really...
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Sharon Emery
Aug 18, 20232 min read
Your mission: Belong to a place
Believe it or not, belongingness is a word. Moreover, it's a thing right now. Alienation – the antithesis of belonging – is blamed for...
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