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.
  • 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?
  • 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."
  • Spy girls

    The author of "The Best Thing I Ever Tasted" picks five novels about kick-ass secret-agent women.
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • Optimistic complaints

    Of course, mothers think -- and every once in a while they even complain.
  • Kiss for luck

    My daughter's eighth-grade graduation is a ritual like none I've ever experienced.
  • Boy crazy

    The grace and restlessness of teenage boys makes my heart flutter.
  • The rules of the game

    A dutiful soccer mom secretly obsesses over softball.
  • Letters to the Editor

    Horowitz threw Bush only softballs; firing back at gun ban proposal.
  • Zero tolerance for slaughter

    Get a backbone, America: Ban all handguns.
  • Letters to the Editor

    Amitai Etzioni defends privacy book; Bradley hasn't got a chance.
  • Foreigner in a familiar land

    Americans are stuck in a vacuum of privacy and personal space.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Back to the future

    Alas, summer isn't endless after all. And there's a whiff of peanut butter at its conclusion.

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