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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...
...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, and if he's not your best friend, it's going to take an adjustment...
Either way, parents shouldn't get too used to the echoing hallways, since the recession often means an empty nest won't stay empty for long. And when adult children come home to roost, says Cheryl Pickford, 54, who recently completed an empty-nest workshop in Adrian, Mich., "it's a totally different ball game." Boundaries rule. "If you're not good at saying no," says Caine, "gear...
Your parents founded the Piven Theatre Workshop. What is the Piven technique? -Brandon Nadig, Chicago Well, there isn't a specific technique per se. The goal is to be totally present as an actor. You do scene study or improv games. I've been doing that since I was 8 years old, and the result is whatever in God's name I'm doing...
Dunham is aloft now - in star territory. He has a tour bus with a built-in workshop (for the puppets), a new house with a 200-lb. (90 kg) model F-14 Tomcat in the atrium, a couple of homebuilt helicopters, a writing team and even tabloidesque buzz about his marriage. (He and his wife Paige are divorcing, he confirms...