http://dir.salon.com/topics/ayelet_waldman/?source=rss&aim=ayelet_waldman en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT By Rebecca Traister Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/05/06/bad_parents/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/05/06/bad_parents/index.html?source=rss Screw Gymboree and breast-feeding! New confessional memoirs by Ayelet Waldman and Michael Lewis join an ever-growing genre lashing out at our expectations for today's mommies and daddies. By Sarah Goldstein Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2007/05/04/chabon/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2007/05/04/chabon/index.html?source=rss Michael Chabon talks about Jewish identity, Chassids as hobbits, his love of Barack Obama and the joys of writing a Yiddish-Alaskan detective novel. By Sarah Goldstein Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/03/02/pregnancy_shackles/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/03/02/pregnancy_shackles/index.html?source=rss Prisons often force female inmates to remain shackled while in labor. By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2006/01/24/waldman/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2006/01/24/waldman/index.html?source=rss In an excerpt from Ayelet Waldman's new novel, sparks fly between heroine Emilia Greenleaf and her older, married lover. By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2006/01/11/jt_leroy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2006/01/11/jt_leroy/index.html?source=rss I talked to him on the phone for hours. I even listened to his therapy sessions on tape. And after one particularly weird conversation about his upcoming sex-change operation, I decided he was a fake. So why did I still get sucked in? By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2006/01/09/mother_in_law/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2006/01/09/mother_in_law/index.html?source=rss Once, I chafed at any hour my husband spent with his mother, somehow viewing it as time stolen from me. Now I realize it's not a competition. By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/12/12/fat/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/12/12/fat/index.html?source=rss Thanksgiving yams, Chanukah latkes, Christmas cookies ... for me, they all add up to a holiday-size serving of self-hatred. By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/11/14/juvie/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/11/14/juvie/index.html?source=rss Why is it so hard for politicians to understand that kids in juvenile detention need treatment not punishment? By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/10/22/homework/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/10/22/homework/index.html?source=rss Today's 7-year-olds must do interviews, look through thousands of words, and answer 60 math questions in four minutes. This homework mania doesn't teach kids anything except that life is full of pain. By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/10/10/breast_cancer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/10/10/breast_cancer/index.html?source=rss Does "shopping for the cure" cheapen the reality of breast cancer? By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/09/26/katrina/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/09/26/katrina/index.html?source=rss Like so many other people's children, mine gave up their savings to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. But Bush says we can rebuild the Gulf without making any sacrifices. By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/09/12/sick_system/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/09/12/sick_system/index.html?source=rss My mother is 65 and has always had health insurance. But since President Bush announced his plans to overhaul Medicare, she's worried she may never be able to retire. By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/08/29/gaza/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/08/29/gaza/index.html?source=rss I was disgusted last week as I watched some of the Gaza settlers using their children as pawns. Then I realized that I fill my kids' heads with dogma too. By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/08/15/judgment/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/08/15/judgment/index.html?source=rss Sanctimonious parents, who preach "breast is best" and tell you that sleep training is cruel and unusual punishment, should keep their ideology to themselves. By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/06/20/labor/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/06/20/labor/index.html?source=rss I still want my husband to change the light bulbs and fix the leaky faucets. Maybe I'm not as much of a feminist as I think I am. By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/06/06/dodgeball/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/06/06/dodgeball/index.html?source=rss Dodgeball nearly ruined my life 25 years ago, so when my kids came home raving about it, I flipped. But then I realized: Their childhood is theirs, not mine. By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/05/23/prison/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/05/23/prison/index.html?source=rss Why keeping U.S. women prisoners in shackles during labor and delivery is the real crime against society. By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/05/09/pregnancy_meds/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/05/09/pregnancy_meds/index.html?source=rss After a lifetime of dealing with depression, I finally started taking medication -- a few weeks before I got pregnant. The drugs changed my life. But did they change my baby's, too? By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/04/25/limon/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/04/25/limon/index.html?source=rss Eighteen-year-old Matthew Limon is serving 17 years for having consensual oral sex with another boy. His case reveals our society's bigotry -- and our inability to think straight about teenage sexuality. By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/04/11/baby_lust/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/04/11/baby_lust/index.html?source=rss I have four children. Four is plenty. So why can't I stop thinking about having a fifth? By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/03/28/gay_marriage/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/03/28/gay_marriage/index.html?source=rss My 7-year-old son's best friend is a lesbian and he says he wants to be gay. I hope he is. By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/03/14/blog/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/03/14/blog/index.html?source=rss When I started blogging, I discovered a compulsive need to open the tattered edges of my emotional raincoat and expose the nasty parts beneath. But at what cost to my kids? By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/02/09/fetus/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/02/09/fetus/index.html?source=rss My second-trimester baby had a genetic abnormality, and I decided to terminate my pregnancy. I know exactly what I did, I wept for the fetus I killed -- and I have no regrets. By Ayelet Waldman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/11/02/protection/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/11/02/protection/index.html?source=rss I don't care what the Colorado D.A.'s office tells you, I was sweet as pie! Part 2 of an Election Protection volunteer's story.