Daughters

I believe in UFOs. Am I crazy? I believe in UFOs. Am I crazy?

My daughter saw one and I looked into it, and I found there's something to it!
By Cary Tennis Oct 10, 2008

  • My daughter's father might be the other guy

    I never gave it a second thought until somebody said she looked Czech
    By Cary Tennis September 1, 2009

  • Grown women: I want mommy!

    Are women in their 20s and 30s increasingly dependent on mommy dearest?
    By Tracy Clark-Flory June 29, 2007

  • Cheney barks at the Wolf

    Journalist asks a question the U.S. No. 2 doesn't like.
    By David Puner January 25, 2007

  • September song

    Back-to-school day came again, and with it an urgent question: Why does it take the memory of a Hello Kitty lunchbox to make you realize that life is not a drill?
    By Gary Kamiya October 10, 2006

  • My 16-year-old is out of control

    She hid her boyfriend in her bedroom closet until we went to bed
    By Cary Tennis June 18, 2009

  • Should I move back to Wisconsin because my mother has cancer?

    I moved to Colorado but could move back if I had to.
    By Cary Tennis February 6, 2008

  • Is that laptop eating your daughter's brain?

    Girls are tossing their Barbie dolls aside, in favor of dressing up virtual dolls.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory June 6, 2007

  • Daddy's little virgin

    Father-daughter purity balls: Eeuw.
    By Lynn Harris May 3, 2006

  • How do I reverse my mother's curse?

    For generations the women in my family have been attacking their daughters. Now it's my turn.
    By Cary Tennis May 1, 2006

  • A brief history of the (over)involved father

    Do you have to go to every Little League game to be a good dad? An excerpt from "The Bastard on the Couch."
    By Anthony Giardina April 29, 2004

  • Meeting my daughter

    In my fantasies, I'd embrace the Romanian toddler I was about to adopt and we would gaze lovingly into each other's eyes. But I didn't love her when we met. In fact, I didn't even like her.
    By Laura Stevens April 7, 2004

  • My daughter's reality show

    I was cool, I watched "Sex and the City" with my 14-year-old daughter. But then she asked, "Can Ben sleep over?"
    By Stephanie Lehmann July 25, 2003

  • When a man loves a daughter

    She lives in a teeny apartment in a scary part of town. What's a dad to do?
    By Stephen J. Lyons February 7, 2003

  • Educational television

    If I watch "Sex and the City" with my teenage daughter we end up discussing important subjects like vibrators, blow jobs -- and the female point of view.
    By Stephanie Lehmann July 19, 2002

  • "Hang in there, sweetie. I'll be home in 18 years"

    As a father behind bars, my role is to listen to my daughter's life.
    By Stephen Reid July 18, 2002

  • I've never liked you

    For a brief decade, I was the most popular member of the family. Then my daughter turned 14.
    By Carolyn Magner Mason April 16, 2002

  • An ode to the erection

    I sing, for my daughter, of shanks and shafts and the endearing contrast between the mind's affairs and the body's undiscriminating inclinations.
    By Adrian Blevins July 4, 2001

  • Mentor in masturbation

    My daughter discovered the art of self-pleasure when she was 2. I was a late bloomer.
    By Morgan King May 23, 2001

  • My spawn arrives!

    In the third installment of his lesbian sperm donor saga, Hank Pellissier describes the arrivals of his two babies -- born 21 days apart.
    By Hank Pellissier May 3, 2000

  • Crossing over

    In her new novel, Jayne Anne Phillips, the princess of literary darkness, plumbs the emotional netherlands of motherhood.
    By Beth Kephart April 28, 2000

  • My heart aches for what I can't have

    My daughter's boyfriend is the man of my dreams.
    By Clea MacAllister April 4, 2000

  • The story of your grandmothers

    It is the stuff of tragedy and myths and fairy tales.
    By Susan Straight March 22, 2000

  • Babes in Willy Loman-land

    Why does my kid have to sell stuff door-to-door for her school?
    By Bob Whitby February 29, 2000

  • "Anywhere But Here"

    Mom looks like a cheap hooker; anguished daughter broods. Must be a chick flick.
    By Mary Elizabeth Williams November 12, 1999
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