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The high-tech empty nest
Dear Wendy, Thanks for the post yesterday about Dad. As always, I think of him a lot at this time of year—and I wonder what he’d think about us writing a blog together, or keeping in touch by text...
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Time for the Mother-of-the-Bride diet!
Dear Karen, As you know, I’m about to be Mother of the Bride in just under 2 weeks’ time. There’s not much more preparation to be done, and now our family is just settling in to wait for time to tick...
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Combatting the November blues
Dear Wendy, Hey, do you guys get the whole “spring forward/fall back” thing in England? (Or is that “spring back/fall on your head”? I can never remember.) We moved the clocks forward an hour Saturday...
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I don’t know much about art, but…
Dear Karen, This week, we were invited by a friend to her very first art exhibit. We were thrilled to attend and very interested to see what she would have on offer. Roz Evans Flagg is a lovely woman,...
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Post-parenting life: A night (or three) at the theatre
Dear Wendy, I don’t know if you remember this, but way back when I was still contemplating (okay, dreading) the imminent empty nest around here, I mentioned that one of my plans for this fall would be...
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Why I won’t be shopping on Black Friday. Or Cyber Monday.
Dear Wendy, Okay, here we are on the much-vaunted “Black Friday”—the kick-off of the post-U.S.-Thanksgiving consumer binge, which I understand involves such time-honoured activities as “camping out at...
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In our “tragic irony” department…
Some of our readers have pointed out that today’s post on After the Kids Leave contained this ad. Apparently it’s not showing up consistently, but if you do happen to notice it, please know that we had...
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Weight loss in our 50s and onward, Part 1
Dear Wendy, It seems perhaps a bit cruel to write about this with the holiday season almost upon us (or, in the case of our neighbours to the south, already under way), but I’ve been thinking for a...
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Boomer Pants on Fire
Dear Karen, It’s confession time at After The Kids Leave HQ. Ever since July, when we started writing about our fascinating lives, I have been cast in the role of Intelligent, Sexy Younger Sister who...
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Weight loss in our 50s and onwards: Part 4
People gotta move This post is part of an ongoing series on After the Kids Leave. We’re not health professionals, and these posts cannot be construed as medical advice; they represent our personal...
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Hello, good-bye: Return to the empty nest
Dear Wendy, Well, here we go again…after a month of Parenting in Situ, this week we start the transition back to Parenting in Absentia. By which I mean that Rachel, who’s been with us since early...
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Confessions of a vacuum killer
Dear Karen, Before I tell you what’s on my mind, let’s clarify something: I’m usually the calm sister, right? I mean, sure, if someone (Dad) comes up behind me while I’m exiting a very scary, dark...
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A boomer pays a visit to a palace
Dear Karen, Yesterday, I went to visit Kensington Palace in, of all places, Kensington Gardens. I know, what a shock. I’ve walked by it many times in the past 9 months but have never taken the time...
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Knitters rule!
Dear Wendy, One of the unsung joys of life in the empty nest is time. Time to putter, time to exercise, time to sit around and drink coffee and kibbitz with Mitchell…and time to spend with friends....
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Awesome Advice Central: Tips for teens and flashers
The case of the friend-stealing mama Dear Awesome Advice Central, I have a problem, and it’s my mother. I’m 18 years old, and pretty popular at school. Or at least I was, until my mother started...
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Awesome Advice Central: Taking care of business
This week’s edition of Awesome Advice Central is dedicated to the memory of one of the most awesome advice-givers of them all—Dear Abby, who died January 16, 2013. She was an inspiration to us all; we...
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Awesome Advice Central tells it like it is
It’s not easy being green Dear Awesome Advice Central, I’m very green. Not in colour, but in attitude. Therefore I bicycle everywhere, recycle my yogurt pots, and use a non-flush sand toilet. I feel...
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Rock Royalty and the Boomer Fangirl
Dear Wendy, Last week, a mysterious package arrived with our mail. I wasn’t expecting anything, and neither was Mitchell. We hadn’t ordered anything recently, and we didn’t recognize the return...
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My closet teaches Facebook a thing or two
Dear Karen, Nearing my one-year anniversary in a new city, I realise that some of my very strong friendships have become innocent and unintended victims of our move. When I lived in Hong Kong, I would...
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Weight loss after 50: You gotta have heart
Dear Wendy, Hey, if I were to ask you, “What’s the leading killer of women?” what would you answer? I bet you’d guess that it’s some form of cancer, right? After all, cancer gets a huge amount of (very...
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