Cary Tennis - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/cary_tennis/?source=rss&aim=cary_tennis en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT If I die, I want my friends to raise my children By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/16/guardianship/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/16/guardianship/index.html?source=rss My parents are too old and my siblings are too mired in difficulties. But I'm hesitant to bring up the idea with friends. The atheist and the creationist: Can't they just get along? By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/15/creationism/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/15/creationism/index.html?source=rss My friend is considering teaching "young earth" creationism in his school, and I think I'm going to vomit. My fiancé suddenly joined the Marines By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/14/joining_the_marines/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/14/joining_the_marines/index.html?source=rss He's a little crazy. Should I wait around for six years? My boyfriend has an abysmal environmental conscience By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/13/ungreen_boyfriend/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/13/ungreen_boyfriend/index.html?source=rss He says we'll all be dead in 100 years so who cares if he pollutes the air! I'm a bisexual Christian husband and father By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/12/christian_bisexual_husband/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/12/christian_bisexual_husband/index.html?source=rss How can I live a good life, now that I've come out to my wife? What if I succumb to temptation? I hit my sister in the head with my purse when I drink By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/09/monster/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/09/monster/index.html?source=rss I feel trapped in wifehood and motherhood and sisterhood; I lash out; I become a monster. I don't want to go to my college friend's wedding By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/08/wedding_friends/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/08/wedding_friends/index.html?source=rss Can't we just send a gift? It's seven hours away and we really dread going. My husband doesn't want to have sex with me By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/07/depressed_husband/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/07/depressed_husband/index.html?source=rss He's being treated for depression, and it's making me crazy. Our friend got drunk and went to a hotel room with a bunch of Marines By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/06/sex_with_marine/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/06/sex_with_marine/index.html?source=rss We think she's out of control, and we think she should tell her boyfriend. I'm really a self-actualized being, but my family is all messed up By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/05/self_actualized/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/05/self_actualized/index.html?source=rss My wife drinks too much and my kid has emotional problems -- shouldn't I be in more despair about this? I'm completely irresponsible and I live at home mooching off my parents By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/02/living_at_home/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/02/living_at_home/index.html?source=rss They bought me a truck and do everything for me, but it's killing me and I think I have to leave. I want more commitment from my married girlfriend By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/01/married_woman/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/01/married_woman/index.html?source=rss We have a good time, and she texts me every day, but she won't say "I love you." My husband of 12 years suddenly says he never loved me By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/30/husband_wants_divorce/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/30/husband_wants_divorce/index.html?source=rss We've got five children, one only 2 weeks old -- and now he says he wants a divorce. I like him but he's weird about money By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/29/money_differences/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/29/money_differences/index.html?source=rss I'm reasonably thrifty but I have my pleasures. He on the other hand is an absolute miser! Writing is in my blood, but how do I know if I'm any good? By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/28/talent/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/28/talent/index.html?source=rss What if I have no talent? How can I find out? Who can tell me? I should have gone to my aunt's funeral By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/25/missed_the_funeral/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/25/missed_the_funeral/index.html?source=rss I could have gone, I should have gone, but I thought about the money and my other plans! My husband constantly upstages me By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/24/upstager/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/24/upstager/index.html?source=rss He takes credit for my ideas, he insinuates himself into my work life, he appropriates my friends: What's going on? I'm perpetuating the cycle of emotional abuse By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/23/anger/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/23/anger/index.html?source=rss I was a victim of rage and violence and now I can't control my temper. Desperately unhappy in the top Ivy League school By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/22/ivy_league/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/22/ivy_league/index.html?source=rss I want to work in New York publishing, and I know this is the route, but I'm miserable and depressed. The bosses used to monitor us on video from home By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/21/bad_jobs_suck/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/21/bad_jobs_suck/index.html?source=rss I hate my job and hated my last job and feel like a failure. But is it my fault? We want a kid but don't think it's right to have one By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/18/have_a_kid/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/18/have_a_kid/index.html?source=rss How can you bring a kid into the world when you can't know in advance if the kid wants to exist? I'm a stage manager with an unmanageable partner By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/17/folk_festival/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/17/folk_festival/index.html?source=rss We're working together but she's so flaky it feels like she's working against me. I quit being a musician because I couldn't play without drinking By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/16/drinking_musician/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/16/drinking_musician/index.html?source=rss Now my life is all screwed up and nothing works. I think my dad's too old to vote By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/15/dad_voting/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/15/dad_voting/index.html?source=rss He says he's not really following politics, but is planning to vote anyway. How can I get a writing job? By Cary Tennis Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/10/writing_job/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/10/writing_job/index.html?source=rss I'm a good writer. Everybody says so. So how come other people get hired?