DEAR ANNIE: I’ve read plenty about empty-nest depression and how to cope with it, and I managed that stage just fine. I enjoyed my grandchildren and watched them grow into teenagers. But now I’m ...
Gracie Muehlberger wrote letters to her future self and stored them in a multicolored trinket box on her dresser. Her notes, penned when she was 13 and signed “Gracie from the past,” bubbled with ...
I became an empty nester this fall when my younger kid went to college. As a single parent, it hit me hard; I have more time to myself than my married, empty-nest friends. I've realized that as my ...
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