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This we know: first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage. But what happens when baby grows up and moves out? The answer, increasingly, is parents cough up cash to attend an empty-nest workshop...
...leagues!) that parents feel they hardly know each other - and, sometimes, themselves. "One of the most common things we hear is, 'We're sitting at the breakfast table, just the two of us, and we don't know what to talk about,' " says David Arp, who led an empty-nest training session with his wife last month at the annual Smart Marriages conference in Orlando, Fla. Carmen Hough, 55, who this spring completed a 12-week workshop in Jonesboro, Ga., puts it more bluntly: "You only have 18 years with your children. Then it's you and your husband...
Forging a fresh identity can be particularly rough for stay-at-home moms, says Natalie Caine of Los Angeles-based Empty Nest Support Services, which offers private phone sessions and seminars that rely on art therapy and journaling. "This is a grieving process for some parents," says Caine, who in October will counsel empty nesters at a spa retreat in California. "They can't just 'get over it.' " (One of her suggestions for moms in mourning: throw a party and ask the guests to bring a card on which they've written what their empty-nester pal would be "fabulous...
...Rock and roll collectors with a passion for memorabilia can turn the hobby into a nest egg," says Leila Dunbar, a former director of collectibles at Sotheby's Auction house, who now heads up her own appraisal firm...
...SWAT teams have monitored Hells Angels' charity motorcycle rides in case trouble breaks out, and teams of police met the bikers in Minnesota as they traveled to Sturgis this summer in a show of force. As officer Steve Ovick told a local newspaper, "You don't poke a hornets' nest with a stick, but you sure do like to know where the hornets' nest is at." (See the top 10 music-festival moments...