Sallie Tisdale

  • The Beautiful Hospital

    In "House," impossibly gorgeous physicians miraculously diagnose rare diseases in every episode. Where I work as a nurse, in the Ordinary Hospital, sometimes there's not even a doctor in the house.
    By Sallie Tisdale April 4, 2007

  • A mother's love

    My adopted son, already the father of three, faces a future of dead-end jobs and near poverty. What do I owe him and my unexpected, fragile grandchildren?
    By Sallie Tisdale November 29, 2006

  • On Japanese trains

    Rail travel highlights the contrast between the private and the communal in the land of the well-mannered mob. An excerpt from the recently released, "Salon.com's Wanderlust: Real-Life Tales of Adventure and Romance."
    By Sallie Tisdale December 8, 2000

  • Spy girls

    The author of "The Best Thing I Ever Tasted" picks five novels about kick-ass secret-agent women.
    By Sallie Tisdale June 12, 2000

  • Meat is gross, but it tastes good

    Desperate to find that my hunger for animal flesh was alien, I overlooked the fact that it was all too human.
    By Sallie Tisdale May 18, 2000

  • Letters to the Editor

    Is Jim Carrey really the best comic since Chaplin? Plus: It's urban playgrounds that produce NBA stars; does Indian school yield high-tech geniuses or drones?
    Letters to the Editor December 14, 1999

  • Optimistic complaints

    Of course, mothers think -- and every once in a while they even complain.
    By Sallie Tisdale July 1, 1999

  • Kiss for luck

    My daughter's eighth-grade graduation is a ritual like none I've ever experienced.
    By Sallie Tisdale June 17, 1999

  • Boy crazy

    The grace and restlessness of teenage boys makes my heart flutter.
    By Sallie Tisdale June 3, 1999

  • The rules of the game

    A dutiful soccer mom secretly obsesses over softball.
    By Sallie Tisdale May 20, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Horowitz threw Bush only softballs; firing back at gun ban proposal.
    Letters to the Editor May 12, 1999

  • Zero tolerance for slaughter

    Get a backbone, America: Ban all handguns.
    By Sallie Tisdale May 6, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Amitai Etzioni defends privacy book; Bradley hasn't got a chance.
    Letters to the Editor April 29, 1999

  • Foreigner in a familiar land

    Americans are stuck in a vacuum of privacy and personal space.
    By Sallie Tisdale April 22, 1999

  • Just passing through

    Divorce and work and age have taken a toll on the friendships in my life, and the children I used to watch grow are not children anymore.
    By Sallie Tisdale April 8, 1999

  • The limits of free speech

    A lifelong advocate of both free speech and women's right to abortions agonizes over a ruling that may protect doctors but shrink free speech.
    By Sallie Tisdale January 30, 1999

  • Forever young

    The appeal of My Twinn dolls is not that they let parents hang on to their kids' childhood. It's that they let kids hang on to their childhood.
    By Joan Walsh December 22, 1998

  • Back to the future

    Alas, summer isn't endless after all. And there's a whiff of peanut butter at its conclusion.
    By Kate Moses September 3, 1998
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