https://booksbywomen.org/how-writing-helps-me-with-the-empty-nest-by-kaira-rouda/ Sun, 21 Aug 2016 17:07:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://booksbywomen.org/how-writing-helps-me-with-the-empty-nest-by-kaira-rouda/#comment-47856 Sun, 21 Aug 2016 17:07:41 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15637#comment-47856 Interesting message. But you do realize that the “goodbye year” for parents doesn’t have the same meaning for kids? And leaning on them to explain leads to the garbled (and cute) Charlie Brown adult – talk.
“I’m outta here!” “How far away is too far?” Community college … no way!” “I’ll take a year to decide what comes next.” Irony! Mary Latela

]]> https://booksbywomen.org/how-writing-helps-me-with-the-empty-nest-by-kaira-rouda/#comment-47803 Mon, 01 Aug 2016 09:18:19 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15637#comment-47803 […] to express the emotions swirling around inside of me and to capture them, fictively, for all time. Now, in my too-quiet empty nest, I’m thankful to be on this path as a novelist. I published my first novel in 2011 after a long career in business, marketing and journalism, and […]

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