The world could use some applause
I get the biggest kick out of clapping for someone – applauding what they've done while softly chanting, “You're good, you're really...
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Sharon Emery
- Apr 29
- 2 min
Eating our good intentions
While mulling everything my doctor wants me to do – exercise, eat right, get enough vitamins/ minerals, etc. – I decided to make a deal...
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Sharon Emery
- Feb 27
- 2 min
Our own truths
As soon as I read it, I knew Joan Didion's searing insight from her book “The White Album” was the perfect epigraph for mine: “We tell...
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Sharon Emery
- Feb 10
- 2 min
Resisting the comfort of the known
One of the things that terrified me as I struggled to write my memoir was the realization that I had to give over my storytelling powers...
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Sharon Emery
- Jan 27
- 2 min
The camera doesn't lie
I must admit, I don't like most photos of myself. I'll spare you the specifics, but let me just say that I really work at it, and I'm...
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Sharon Emery
- Jan 12
- 2 min
Remembering who you are
When I was 15, I holed up with my best friend Suzie, from across the street, to dream about what it would be like when we were finally...
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Sharon Emery
- Dec 28, 2022
- 2 min
What should stay and what should go
Among New Year's resolutions, are there any more popular than getting rid of excess pounds and getting rid of excess stuff? No,...
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Sharon Emery
- Nov 30, 2022
- 2 min
Letting Go
It's big, badly faded, and purple. But I love it. And I have loved it – for nearly 23 years. Not only that, it has a curved frame,...
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Sharon Emery
- Nov 5, 2022
- 2 min
The power we hold
Skin may be the largest organ of the human body, but really, aside from wanting it to look youthful until the day we die, we don't much...
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Sharon Emery
- Oct 21, 2022
- 2 min
Why don't they call THAT disability??
Having a disability gives you a valuable perspective on the world. It can make you more empathetic, more accepting, more all-around...
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Sharon Emery
- Oct 6, 2022
- 2 min
Memory + Music = Magic
A crescendo of nostalgia poured down after my favorite band announced they'd be celebrating the tenth anniversary of their first album...
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Sharon Emery
- Sep 22, 2022
- 2 min
Navigating transitions
The march into fall has more power to signal a transition than any other change in the seasons. The cooler nights of late August and...
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Sharon Emery
- Sep 7, 2022
- 2 min
Celebrating being mortal
My Mortality Club met recently after a three-year hiatus. The break in what was supposed to be our annual gathering was created by the...
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Sharon Emery
- Aug 18, 2022
- 1 min
The importance of every star in the family firmament
Ask me what was most amazing about son Ben’s recent Lord Huron show before a sold-out crowd (including multitudes of family and friends)...
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Sharon Emery
- Aug 3, 2022
- 2 min
Why home feels so good
Maybe you've been part of a similar conversation: “When are you coming home?” “Ma, I am home. I live in (fill in the blank, but let's say...
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Sharon Emery
- Jul 19, 2022
- 2 min
Radically trusting yourself
Whoa! What's that about? and How do I get me some? were a couple of my reactions when I first read about “radically trusting yourself.”...
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Sharon Emery
- Jul 7, 2022
- 2 min
Defying the gravitational pull of doubt
The thing about tightrope walking is that you can't do it until you believe you can. And, of course, you don't believe you can until...
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Sharon Emery
- Jun 23, 2022
- 2 min
Your own infinite message begins with one sentence
You have to admit, when human beings try to communicate with one another, and the words they share actually resonate, it's pretty...
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Sharon Emery
- Jun 9, 2022
- 3 min
The magic of making it through
Granted, I was overwrought from the beginning. Our son – whose voice is his job, and who had just lost his voice the night before – was...
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Sharon Emery
- May 26, 2022
- 2 min
The gift of birthdays
I was in the maelstrom of mid-life – the tsunami of kids, commitments, work, worry, aging parents – when The New York Times Magazine...
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