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 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • When did you stop abandoning your child? and other FAQs from the road

    Why is it no one ever asks John Updike where hiskid is while he's on book tour?
    By Susie Bright October 2, 1999
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