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Still convinced that the time you forgot to hold your breath while pumping gas will cause irreparable damage to your unborn child?
By Anne S. Lewis
June 24, 1998
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Charming and vicious, brilliant and stupid, my father was not an easy person to be around -- even during our final visit.
By Gina Hyams
June 19, 1998
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Daniel
Mendelsohn looks at how Hollywood movies depict friendships between gay men
and straight women
By Daniel Mendelsohn
May 11, 1998
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Mid-air diaper changes and occasional airsickness aside, flying with my toddler at the controls brings back the thrill I felt when my dad taught me to fly.
By Phaedra Hise
April 27, 1998
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How is it that children have such a highly attuned sense of picking the worst possible moments to remind you of the true nature of parenthood?
January 19, 1998
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By Sharon Olds
December 23, 1997
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If I call my stepmother Mom, maybe we can erase the past and pretend my father married the right woman in the first place.
By Sandi Kahn Shelton
November 5, 1997
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'Grimm's Grimmest' restores the original Grimm fairy tales in all their bloody detail. Illustrated by Tracy Arah Dockray, introduction and translation by Maria Tatar.
Introduction by Camille Peri
October 31, 1997
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It's more honest about your family's finances than you are
Introduction by Camille Peri
October 28, 1997
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Columnist Cintra Wilson on how her parents left her a legacy whose worth cannot be measured in vulgar coin: a terminally ludicrous relation to money.
By Cintra Wilson
October 27, 1997
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An Apache woman's memoir recalls a brutal year in an Indian orphanage.
By Sharon Skolnick
October 15, 1997
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Louisiana's new covenant marriage law may discourage divorce -- but at what price?
By Dawn MacKeen
August 19, 1997
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By Bernard Lefkowitz
August 13, 1997
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A recent court ruling in California reignies the debate over whether prgnant minors are capable of making a decision about abortion.
By Dawn MacKeen
August 12, 1997
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Vaginal pears and iron maidens are child's play compared to the dreaded job of a family Web site copy editor.
By Matt Marinovich
August 4, 1997
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The virtues of a cup of tea.
By Dawn MacKeen
July 29, 1997
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In this third excerpt from her journal, Aggie Max wonders how much middle-class guilt can be appeased by one sandwich.
By Aggie Max
July 22, 1997
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A cautionary tale regarding the importance of getting time away from
one's children
By Kate Moses
July 15, 1997
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In this second excerpt from her journal, Aggie Max describes life at the dead end of the system.
By Aggie Max
July 14, 1997
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... and unshaved legs, pierced eyebrows and bleached teeth.
By Inda Schaenen
July 9, 1997
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A welfare mother's tragicomic tale of life in the system.
By Aggie Max
July 8, 1997
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Aggie Max, author of "The Last Resort: Scenes from a Transient Hotel," says it's not just the lack of money that makes escape nearly impossible it's the culture of poverty.
By Suzette Lalime
July 8, 1997
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Famous actresses by day, at night they sought the "high" that only cleaning can bring
By Isabella Rossellini
July 5, 1997
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Gillian Slovo reflects on her relationship with her mother, Ruth First, one of South Africa's most prominent white anti-apartheid leaders.
By Gillian Slovo
June 30, 1997
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An interview with Stephanie Coontz, author of "The Way We Never Were" and "The Way We Really Are".
By Lori Leibovich
May 20, 1997