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HappiNest provides a road map to help parents navigate new paths, evolving relationships and existential challenges when their kids leave home. This book distills the latest research and presents vignettes from interviews with more than 300 experts, including psychologists, sociologists, seasoned empty nesters, and fledglings.
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Judy Holland has been a journalist for more than 30 years, having spent 13 years in the Washington Bureau of Hearst Newspapers, where she was national editor, preparing stories for 600 newspapers over The New York Times wire. She also served as Capitol Hill Correspondent and was elected president of the Washington Press Club Foundation, a nonprofit celebrating female pioneers in journalism and providing scholarships for women and minorities. She has been a Capitol Hill commentator for C-Span and CNN and won the Hearst Eagle Award for excellence in journalism. Judy's stories have appeared in dozens of publications, including the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Tampa Tribune, and Washingtonian magazine. Her work includes hundreds of stories about teens, including a piece for Washingtonian about the pressures that teenagers face. She also was founder and editor-in-chief of Parentinsider.com, an online magazine for parents of teens, for which she wrote stories, edited columns, and co-produced videos. In addition, Judy is a photographer who has built a wide network around Washington, D.C., taking tens of thousands of photos of high school sports and other events. She currently shoots lacrosse games for Yale University. She is a cum laude graduate of Middlebury College, where she studied political science and American literature and was elected to the Mortar Board National Honor Society. She holds a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and is fluent in Italian and German. She is a former competitive figure skater and now an avid student of ballet barre. She lives in Washington, D.C., and is married to orthopedic spine surgeon John Starr. They have three children: Lindsay, a singer-songwriter who studied music at Wesleyan University and just released her first single "Poison," in Nashville; Maddie, a senior at Lafayette College studying sociology; and Jack, lacrosse goalie at Yale University studying film and psychology.
