How do YOU Manage the Quiet in Your Empty Nest?

In the past month my home was sucked dry of everyone in it – except me. In a three-day, monumental, life-altering convergence of departures, my sixteen year old daughter, Talia, went off to a semester school program in Vermont and my husband, Kent, and eighteen year old son, Leo, drove off in our 1999 Subaru wagon on a cross-country drive to California, where Leo was starting college.

 

Kent is staying in California for the semester to take a sabbatical from his job as a university professor...