Sharon's Blog

A crescendo of nostalgia poured down after my favorite band announced they'd be celebrating the tenth anniversary of their first album...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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.”...

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...

You have to admit, when human beings try to communicate with one another, and the words they share actually resonate, it's pretty...

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...

I was in the maelstrom of mid-life – the tsunami of kids, commitments, work, worry, aging parents – when The New York Times Magazine...

I'm currently prepping for my big birthday on May 30th. Although I do indeed plan to celebrate, activities do not include party...

I never wanted to offer my children bromides (Follow your bliss.) or platitudes (Everything happens for a reason.) to make them simply...

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....

When an otherwise level-headed young woman asked me if I wanted to entertain hundreds – ultimately, thousands – of people by giving a...

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...