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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Sharon Emery
- May 18, 2022
- 2 min
Making tracks toward my birthday
I'm currently prepping for my big birthday on May 30th. Although I do indeed plan to celebrate, activities do not include party...
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Sharon Emery
- May 6, 2022
- 2 min
Mother's Day is for the mighty
I never wanted to offer my children bromides (Follow your bliss.) or platitudes (Everything happens for a reason.) to make them simply...
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Sharon Emery
- Apr 11, 2022
- 2 min
Digging for the “so what” of your life
Writing a memoir comes down to providing a reckoning of your life. And as such, when you reach a certain age, you realize it's high time....
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Sharon Emery
- Mar 28, 2022
- 1 min
TED made me talk ... and people listened
When an otherwise level-headed young woman asked me if I wanted to entertain hundreds – ultimately, thousands – of people by giving a...
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Sharon Emery
- Mar 9, 2022
- 2 min
Forging a new path…when you really don't want to.
I was a journalist for most of my career, so I was very comfortable continuing to do that ad infinitum for the usual reasons: I loved the...
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