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Just when we started feeling sorry for ourselves again, in came this month's Drama Queen submissions...
By Mothers Who Think
July 30, 1997
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The virtues of a cup of tea.
By Dawn MacKeen
July 29, 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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After deliberations as agonizing as the ordeals
described by the entrants, our gentle readers have chosen the
winner of the Salon Drama Queen for a Day contest.
By Mothers Who Think
July 11, 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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We asked readers to
share their rottenest-day-as-a-parent stories with us, and now, after
much e-mail outpouring of woe and calamity, we want to share
their stories with you.
July 2, 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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Police say an Ohio woman left her children in squalor while she surfed the Net.
June 24, 1997
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An intimate conversation with a woman on the front lines of America's most emotionally charged debate.
By Camille Peri
June 23, 1997
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Nobody tells you that the hardest thing about having a new baby is kicking the old baby out of the nest of your heart.
By Kate Moses
June 18, 1997
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By Camille Peri
June 16, 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
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Are men to blame for the disappearance of home life?
By Kate Moses
May 3, 1997
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How much do you really want to know about your mom's sex life, anyway?
By Courtney Weaver
March 26, 1997
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Sally Eckhoff reviews Anne Roiphe's
book "Fruitful: On Motherhood and Feminism".
By Sally Eckhoff
October 11, 1996
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Childbirth: A Barbarian Absurdity That Must Be Eliminated
By Cintra Wilson
March 9, 1996
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Dwight Garner reviews Jamaica Kincaid's book "The Autobiography of My Mother".
By Dwight Garner
January 13, 1996