http://dir.salon.com/topics/sallie_tisdale/?source=rss&aim=sallie_tisdale en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PDT By Sallie Tisdale Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/04/04/tv_hospitals/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/04/04/tv_hospitals/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/11/29/rafael/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/11/29/rafael/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/12/08/japanese_trains/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/12/08/japanese_trains/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/bag/2000/06/12/tisdale/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/bag/2000/06/12/tisdale/index.html?source=rss The author of "The Best Thing I Ever Tasted" picks five novels about kick-ass secret-agent women. By Sallie Tisdale Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/travel/food/feature/2000/05/18/meat/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/travel/food/feature/2000/05/18/meat/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/letters/1999/12/14/jim_carrey/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/letters/1999/12/14/jim_carrey/index.html?source=rss 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? By Sallie Tisdale Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tisd/1999/07/01/last_column/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tisd/1999/07/01/last_column/index.html?source=rss Of course, mothers think -- and every once in a while they even complain. By Sallie Tisdale Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tisd/1999/06/17/graduation/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tisd/1999/06/17/graduation/index.html?source=rss My daughter's eighth-grade graduation is a ritual like none I've ever experienced. By Sallie Tisdale Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tisd/1999/06/03/boy_crazy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tisd/1999/06/03/boy_crazy/index.html?source=rss The grace and restlessness of teenage boys makes my heart flutter. By Sallie Tisdale Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tisd/1999/05/20/softball/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tisd/1999/05/20/softball/index.html?source=rss A dutiful soccer mom secretly obsesses over softball. Letters to the Editor Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/letters/1999/05/12/bush/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/letters/1999/05/12/bush/index.html?source=rss Horowitz threw Bush only softballs; firing back at gun ban proposal. By Sallie Tisdale Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tisd/1999/05/06/elimination/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tisd/1999/05/06/elimination/index.html?source=rss Get a backbone, America: Ban all handguns. Letters to the Editor Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/letters/1999/04/29/etzioni/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/letters/1999/04/29/etzioni/index.html?source=rss Amitai Etzioni defends privacy book; Bradley hasn't got a chance. By Sallie Tisdale Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tisd/1999/04/22/hello/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tisd/1999/04/22/hello/index.html?source=rss Americans are stuck in a vacuum of privacy and personal space. By Sallie Tisdale Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tisd/1999/04/08/children/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tisd/1999/04/08/children/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/01/30/feature949507345/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/01/30/feature949507345/index.html?source=rss 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 Joan Walsh Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1998/12/22/feature/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1998/12/22/feature/index.html?source=rss 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 Kate Moses Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1998/09/03/feature/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1998/09/03/feature/index.html?source=rss Alas, summer isn't endless after all. And there's a whiff of peanut butter at its conclusion.