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Sharon Emery
- Jul 25
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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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Sharon Emery
- Aug 1, 2023
- 2 min
Watching for the light
I can't tell you how many summers I've spent rereading Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse.
Let's just say many.
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Sharon Emery
- Jul 19, 2023
- 2 min
My famous washing machine
This is not your typical appliance resurrection: I don't use the words “desperate” and “beloved” casually when I say we are currently...
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Sharon Emery
- Jul 5, 2023
- 2 min
Who wants to act their age?
Maybe you've had this experience: You wake up groggy one morning, and while trying to maneuver a piece of bread into the toaster, you...
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Sharon Emery
- Jun 10, 2023
- 2 min
The magic of being there
Have you noticed? We're absolutely captivated by being in proximity to something we love. Even if we can barely see it, being in its...
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