Guilt

Wasting disease Wasting disease
I ate nothing but cottage cheese and rice cakes. I was a set of bones hunkered over a tiny saucer. What was I feeling? What was I trying, so desperately, not to feel?
Suicide at 16 Suicide at 16
One mother contemplates the grief -- and guilt -- of another.
Banish the boogeymom! Banish the boogeymom!
Why, when a woman chooses both to work and to mother, does she incite the sort of rage reserved for wayward clerics and defilers of sacred things?
The hired men
When it comes to "the help," I need a guilt exorcism.
Power play
What kind of kid would break up with his mother? Mine, apparently.
Fear with a shot of vanity
Marketers capitalize on the insecurity and ignorance of new parents.
Post non-traumatic stress syndrome?
A "technotherapist" begins a Y2K recovery group, for those suffering the loss of millennial doom.
Death in Ghana
A simple succession of events in an African village leads to a tragedy -- and a traveler's haunting sense of hopelessness.
Paper-clothed strangers
Holding a stranger's hand during an abortion is an unforgetable experience.
More pricks than kicks
There are a thousand fake-orgasm stories in the naked city -- and most of them are told by women

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