Childhood

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  • This is not my beautiful house

    We go back to old homes to reinhabit past selves. We don't own them anymore, but they belong to us nonetheless.
    By Carol Lynn Mithers May 14, 2002

  • New last words for my mother

    I meant what I said, but I wish I hadn't said it.
    By Lu Vickers May 10, 2002

  • The existence of dog

    I always disliked dogs. My 1-year-old son lives for their wet eyes and tongue rolls.
    By Elena Sigman March 5, 2002

  • Lynda Barry

    Marlys wisdom for if you are sick.
    January 18, 2002

  • Playing dead

    I enjoyed years and years of violence and killing, but I was totally unprepared for death.
    By Douglas Lang January 14, 2002

  • If I tell her she isn't invited, she'll come anyway

    As my wedding day approaches, I am a hostage to my mother's mental illness. I am petrified of what she may do on the day.
    By Kyanna Sutton November 15, 2001

  • Nostalgia for ghosts

    Shadows in the shape of the dead walked through my bedroom door. They'd then vanish, each dark phantom becoming the next.
    By Greg Bottoms August 22, 2001

  • Put your head on my shoulder

    Most days that summer Julie and I spent looking for ghosts and singing Leif Garrett songs. Then Joanna came along.
    By Lauren Proctor June 20, 2001

  • The water in Cairo in summer

    Sometimes the snakes, the bong hits and cancer are all visible through the lens of one place in one season.
    By Jen Wiest May 16, 2001

  • "Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found" by Jennifer Lauck

    A memoirist who survived a childhood of neglect and catastrophe reinhabits her younger self, with powerful and harrowing results.
    By Brigitte Frase December 14, 2000

  • Priscilla Becker

    The poet and schoolteacher reads about the harsh reality in childhood drawings and offers "a translation from English to English."
    Read by Priscilla Becker December 5, 2000

  • Therapy for Thanksgiving

    While the rest of you make pie, we are chopping and dicing familial neuroses.
    By Marianna Eilenberg November 22, 2000

  • Kiddie fixations

    I am walking through life with the elephant obsessed.
    By Jonathan Kronstadt September 20, 2000

  • The secret life of Dad

    He stood up to John McCain to protect me -- and never told me about it.
    By Amy Silverman June 13, 2000

  • My mother wears army boots

    She kicked butt for me and I want to thank her.
    By Lisa Zeidner May 8, 2000

  • My daddy's gardens

    They were a sign that he would keep his job for a while and we'd have food on the table.
    By Sunny Hemphill March 21, 2000

  • Ode to "Joy"

    The sacred text of the kitchen has a powerful and lasting resonance.
    By Lloyd Fonvielle March 7, 2000

  • Sacred places: England before the fall

    A lifelong traveler reflects on his own piece of heaven.
    By Pico Iyer August 28, 1999

  • Small massacres

    A child in Martinique reaches into the dark corners of imagination with the miraculous force of fire.
    By Patrick Chamoiseau March 9, 1999

  • Childhood

    Anderson Tepper reviews 'Childhood' by Patrick Chamoiseau
    By Anderson Tepper February 23, 1999

  • Are we there yet?

    What had I left in the Florida of my childhood vacations that I wanted my children to find?
    By Ann Hood June 17, 1998

  • Toying with us

    Two books explore how marketers and toy-makers turned our little darlings into crazed, Barney-craving monsters.
    By Albert Mobilio November 18, 1997

  • Of lye soap and frilly pink dresses

    An Apache woman's memoir recalls a brutal year in an Indian orphanage.
    By Sharon Skolnick October 15, 1997

  • It's a girl thing

    Of first bras, near-kisses and why the sixth grade sucks
    By Cynthia Joyce August 11, 1997
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