Seed sales are way up, and raising your own food is all the rage. It's a good time to be an urban farmer
By Amy Benfer Jul 4, 2009
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The nation urges a middle-aged Christian man to follow his heart. Is this romance -- or shrewd political strategy?
By Amy Benfer
July 2, 2009
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Author Kate Christensen talks about acting on desire, clueless shrinks and illicit romps in Mexico
By Amy Benfer
June 18, 2009
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Beliefnet's Steve Waldman suggests the difference between abortion and adoption is a cheap cash payment
By Amy Benfer
June 29, 2009
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The compulsively readable e-mails of Mark Sanford -- Christian martyr, reckless romantic
By Amy Benfer
June 25, 2009
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The parenting memoir stretches back much further than you think
By Amy Benfer
June 23, 2009
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Sandra Tsing Loh on divorcing in middle age
By Amy Benfer
June 18, 2009
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College loans shouldn't create a class of the "educated poor"
By Amy Benfer
June 16, 2009
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Susan Orlean wonders if women writers spend too much time on "home and kid stuff."
By Amy Benfer
June 11, 2009
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Finally, we're paying attention to the working women who actually need to work.
By Amy Benfer
June 10, 2009
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A social history of the frat boy
By Amy Benfer
June 4, 2009
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A new wave of writing supplants the petty anxieties of a tiny group of very privileged families. Finally.
By Amy Benfer
June 2, 2009
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Anatomy of a bogus trend piece on today's wayward youth.
By Amy Benfer
May 28, 2009
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The party girl of memoir, Elizabeth Wurtzel, grows older but not much wiser.
By Amy Benfer
May 27, 2009
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Trying to find the best cure for dudes with the middle-aged blues.
By Amy Benfer
May 21, 2009
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The strange case of Elizabeth Adeney prompts the question: How old is too old to have a child?
By Amy Benfer
May 19, 2009
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Mean people suck, but why are mean girls accused of betraying the feminist cause?
By Amy Benfer
May 11, 2009
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Mr. Mom sighted in Mexico by Village Voice reporter.
By Amy Benfer
May 11, 2009
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The teen mother has been parading around her infant as a cautionary tale. But is raising a kid as a young parent always an illegitimate choice?
By Amy Benfer
May 7, 2009
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A Newsweek writer argues that putting your eggs on ice might just be as revolutionary as the birth control pill
By Amy Benfer
May 5, 2009
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One writer says the word is becoming way too common as a casual slang term.
By Amy Benfer
April 30, 2009
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Do male gastro-sexuals have a macho take on the kitchen?
By Amy Benfer
April 28, 2009
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Once again, the NY Times discovers a strange new species of man who cares for his own children. Oh, the aberration!
By Amy Benfer
April 23, 2009
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The Atlantic's Caitlin Flanagan suggests the actor's troubled family would have been better off if they just screamed at each other under the same roof.
By Amy Benfer
April 21, 2009
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Is Todd Palin the new model for American masculinity? And if so, what does that mean?
By Amy Benfer
April 21, 2009
How does your city garden grow?
Go to her already, Mark Sanford!
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