“Everlasting Matrimony:
Pearls Of Wisdom
From Couples
Married 50 Years Or More”
(ISBN 9780165139975)
Dr. Laura (Schlesinger), of the famed Dr. Laura Radio Show, chose Everlasting Matrimony: Pearls Of Wisdom From Couples Married 50 Years Or More, as her 2006 Valentine’s Day book selection, heralding the book as “Terrific…Amazing…I think this says it all.….This is a beautiful, touching, informative book. People who’ve been married over 50 years…obviously they know how to do it.”
Sally Jessy Raphaël called Everlasting Matrimony, “The perfect gift for someone who is getting married, or for an anniversary, or the best gift for someone who is married 50 years or more…They’re never going to get another gift like this…It’s a work of art.”
Actress and radio host Leeza Gibbons spotlighted Everlasting Matrimony on her radio show Leeza Live!, stating “Five decades when some people can’t even get to five dates…I love this book. It’s beautiful. It’s the book version of ‘When Harry Met Sally.’ If you’re starting out in a marriage, if you’re celebrating your marriage, if you have people in your life that want to celebrate their commitment to each other…It’s a beautiful book.”
Sheryl's "Relationship Education in the Workplace" business/corporate workshops have been featured on ABC World News Tonight and in The Wall Street Journal.
AUTHOR: Having interviewed 75 couples married 50-plus years across the country, Sheryl P. Kurland is the “voice” of the “voices of experience” – the real-life relationship experts. Over 4,000 years of marriage insight and advice are com compilated in the coffee-table book Everlasting Matrimony: Pearls Of Wisdom From Couples Married 50 Years Or More. Not only is Ms. Kurland the only author to have interviewed such a sizable collective of couples married more than
5 decades, she furthered her distinction by interviewing husbands and wives separately. The couples represent a "sprinkling of America," from all different faiths, ethnicities and backgrounds. Contrary to the colossal number of today’s traditional self-help books, each espousing an analyst’s “how-to” brand to the perfect relationship, Everlasting Matrimony fills an abyss by providing experience over analysis...the expertise of ordinary folks who’ve walked-the-walk and talked-the-talk.
Everlasting Matrimony has been cited extensively by an array of media -- radio, TV, magazines and newspapers -- throughout the U.S. (for a complete list, click on MEDIA on the blue horizontal bar).
RELATIONSHIP TRAINER FOR BUSINESSES/ CORPORATIONS: Research shows that Corporate America is losing $6 billion annually due to bad marriages, bad relationships and divorce. While senior management may say "We're not going to get involved in the personal lives of our employees," in fact, they already are. A method of prevention is offering "relationship education" programs on the job. Sheryl's presentation "Relationships: Roles, Rumors and Real-Life" has been featured on ABC World News Tonight and in The Wall Street Journal, and, as a Relationship Trainer, she addresses employees and employers in a variety of formats -- Lunch & Learn Workshops, Corporate Retreats, Breakfast and After-Hours Seminars, etc. Sheryl has also been interviewed by MSNMoney.com.
SYNDICATED NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST: Sheryl writes "Back-Talk!," a newspaper relationship column with a unique twist: couples married 50-plus years answer reader-submitted questions on relationships and marriage, with the husband and wife providing separate responses; in other words, there are two responses/perspectives for each question. Back-Talk! is syndicated by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. The column name - Back-Talk! - is a play on words. Readers benefit from the "time-tested" experience of long-married couples looking retrospectively over decades of lessons learned. The title injects a bit of wit, a slap-on-the-wrist per se, because talking back to our elders is bad manners. Yet, in Back-Talk!, the reverse is prized! "If I only knew back then what I know now" is a longing we all have at times, and Back-Talk! readers benefit by gaining "future" wisdom "today."
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Sheryl P. Kurland
SPEAKER: Since “developing strong, healthy relationships” is a topic with widespread appeal, Ms. Kurland has been invited to address a diversity of audiences – corporations/businesses, young adults, community organizations, professional associations with memberships of both men and women, religious organizations, senior citizens and even the deaf. Presentations are user-friendly and customized to audience interests and ages. The tone, however, of all programs is engaging, educational and entertaining.
(For more information, click on SPEAKING on the blue horizontal bar/tab above.)
DESIGNER: Ms. Kurland created a line of Everlasting Matrimony stationery notecards with quotations of couples – marriage tips – from couples in her book along with their nostalgic black-and-white photographs. The notecards provide time-tested advice for the time-constrained! (To view the designer notecards, click on NOTECARDS on the blue horizontal bar.)
BUSINESS WRITER: As a professional business freelance writer, Ms. Kurland’s clients have included major corporations such as Black & Decker, DavCo Restaurants (the Mid-Atlantic’s Wendy’s Restaurants), T. Rowe Price, Legg Mason, Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Maryland Port Administration, Sinai Hospital, University of Maryland Medical Center, RDV Sportsplex, Ryland Corporation (Ryland Homes), and AEGON, USA. For these companies and others, and in combination with her extensive marketing and public relations expertise, Ms. Kurland has composed annual reports, newsletters, brochures, press kits, trade show displays, direct-mail pieces, advertisements, speeches, and sales presentations. Additionally, her works have been published in numerous magazines and newspapers, both bylined and as a ghostwriter for clients.
PERSONAL: Unlike many authors in the “relationship” genre who are either divorced, have had multiple failed marriages, or have never been married, Ms. Kurland is happily married and resides with her first and only husband of 17 years in Longwood, Florida. They have one daughter. Ms. Kurland is a graduate of the University of Georgia.
WHAT’S NEXT?: Sheryl is currently developing Belch, Fart, Diss – How The ?!*!!? Did I Marry This?, a lessons-learned “handbook” based on the research in Everlasting Matrimony, and another book, 101 Marriage Traditions.
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