Salon Mothers Who Think

  • I was conned by JT Leroy

    I talked to him on the phone for hours. I even listened to his therapy sessions on tape. And after one particularly weird conversation about his upcoming sex-change operation, I decided he was a fake. So why did I still get sucked in?
    By Ayelet Waldman January 11, 2006

  • Dividing the man from his mother

    Once, I chafed at any hour my husband spent with his mother, somehow viewing it as time stolen from me. Now I realize it's not a competition.
    By Ayelet Waldman January 9, 2006

  • The carpet guy

    He made me angrier than I'd been in years. He lied to my face and cheated me. But my rage took me into a dark place.
    By Anne Lamott December 5, 2005

  • Homework hell

    Today's 7-year-olds must do interviews, look through thousands of words, and answer 60 math questions in four minutes. This homework mania doesn't teach kids anything except that life is full of pain.
    By Ayelet Waldman October 22, 2005

  • Letters

    Symbols of misogyny or simple sex toys? Readers respond to Meghan Laslocky's article about Real Dolls.
    October 13, 2005

  • Pink is the new black

    Does "shopping for the cure" cheapen the reality of breast cancer?
    By Ayelet Waldman October 10, 2005

  • Letters

    To school or not to school: Readers sound off on the subject of unschooling.
    October 5, 2005

  • Letters

    "Kate Moss has always been, and probably always will be, thin. Like it or not, some girls just are." Readers react to the rise and fall of Kate Moss.
    September 28, 2005

  • Letters

    "Race is only part of the sad, complicated story of inequality in America." Readers respond to Jonathan Kozol's indictment of the American public school system.
    September 27, 2005

  • My kids would make a better president than him!

    Like so many other people's children, mine gave up their savings to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. But Bush says we can rebuild the Gulf without making any sacrifices.
    By Ayelet Waldman September 26, 2005

  • Letters

    Readers react to Ayelet Waldman's column criticizing the indoctrination of Gaza's youngest settlers.
    September 6, 2005

  • Suffer the children

    I was disgusted last week as I watched some of the Gaza settlers using their children as pawns. Then I realized that I fill my kids' heads with dogma too.
    By Ayelet Waldman August 29, 2005

  • Letters

    Readers question the wisdom of Cary Tennis' advice to a pagan woman whose child is going to Catholic school.
    August 26, 2005

  • The body beat goes on

    Short, tall, skinny, fat, young, old, buxom and flat: A second round of Salon readers share their own body-inspired odes.
    August 23, 2005

  • "We sing the body electric..."

    We challenged, you rose to the task. Whether first-time scribes or seasoned pros from the Academy of American Poets, Salon readers have been hard at work writing body-inspired verses of their own.
    August 19, 2005

  • Letters

    Readers respond to Ayelet Waldman's critique of busybody parents.
    August 18, 2005

  • Mind your own kids

    Sanctimonious parents, who preach "breast is best" and tell you that sleep training is cruel and unusual punishment, should keep their ideology to themselves.
    By Ayelet Waldman August 15, 2005

  • Letters

    "Jesus, I think, would have preferred that we keep our money changing and our worshiping separate." Readers respond to Lynn Harris' article about the Christian business boom.
    August 8, 2005

  • Letters

    Was he a rapist or not? Readers weigh in on Cary Tennis' advice to a woman with a sexually coercive boyfriend.
    August 5, 2005

  • Letters

    "To all the men out there, I say: You Want Me to Want You. To Ms. Dickerson, I say: If you want to be desirable, check the hurt and the drama at the door." Readers respond to Debra Dickerson's essay on the missing black women of "Wedding Crashers."
    August 2, 2005

  • Letters

    Readers respond to Rebecca Traister's article about nannies and the families who employ them. Plus: A former nanny shares her own story.
    July 27, 2005

  • Letters

    "Perhaps today's smart women should stop contemplating the lexicon and start figuring out the fight." Readers sound off on Rebecca Traister's article about "feminism."
    July 12, 2005

  • Letters

    "Instead of bemoaning her stomach, Hahn should be asking why she feels the need to starve herself into a pair of jeans." Readers react to Kate Hahn's essay about battling her belly. Plus: An Ayelet Waldman fan tells readers to "lighten up."
    June 28, 2005

  • Letters

    "I think we need to return to some good old-fashioned boundary drawing." Readers agree with Lynn Harris -- people are rude!
    June 23, 2005

  • Letters

    "True feminists can change their own damn light bulbs." Readers respond to Ayelet Waldman's column about the division of domestic labor.
    June 22, 2005
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