I’m glad my dog is dying
Death is not complicated; it's simple. But explaining the reality of it to a child, gently, is the hardest thing
Saturday, Apr 8, 2017 11:30 PM EDTLife Animals, Death, dying
Death is not complicated; it's simple. But explaining the reality of it to a child, gently, is the hardest thing
Saturday, Apr 8, 2017 11:30 PM EDTI don’t have much perversion going, nor do I covet much, or binge. But envy and Schadenfreude? That's another story
Sunday, Apr 2, 2017 11:30 PM EDT"I just think that Trump is going to get our people, meaning yours and mine, back to work,” a white man said to me
Sunday, Apr 2, 2017 5:00 PM EDTI didn't watch "Nurse Jackie" because of my husband's addiction. I didn't even connect them at first
Saturday, Apr 1, 2017 11:30 PM EDT“You don’t seem patriotic at all," my student said to me after class. "What’s up with that?”
Thursday, Mar 30, 2017 11:00 PM EDTIn my summer of minding other people’s children, I carefully studied their lives, which were nothing like my own
Saturday, Mar 25, 2017 11:30 PM EDTSo I'm on stage in Florida with Chris Kyle's wife Taya, wondering how I can connect with this very white audience
Saturday, Mar 25, 2017 6:00 PM EDTWilliamson, author of the Salon essay "Dying, with a lifetime of literature," passed away at home last Saturday
Friday, Mar 24, 2017 10:59 PM EDTLike people and presidents, mice do the worst stuff in secret. Those who remember 1981 know what's happening today
Saturday, Mar 18, 2017 11:30 PM EDTI grew up never going to the beach, until I learned the power of being a tall girl in a small swimsuit
Saturday, Mar 18, 2017 7:30 PM EDTI betrayed her; it was the worst thing I have ever done to someone I loved. She still helped me handle the snake
Sunday, Mar 12, 2017 11:30 PM EDTI stayed quiet about my HIV+ status for 30 years, but no longer. It's time to fight again, like we did in the '80s
Sunday, Mar 12, 2017 12:30 AM EDTMy decades-long odyssey started with a clipping from an old Ladies' Home Journal. From there, I was hooked
Sunday, Mar 5, 2017 8:30 PM EDTI hated using the women’s room, and not just because I was a boy
Sunday, Mar 5, 2017 12:30 AM EDTWhen the surgeon gave me the bad news, I fell into a pit of despair. Basketball was life to me — what now?
Saturday, Mar 4, 2017 11:30 PM EDTThe movie is fiction, but the experience of being the only black person in an all-white space is true to life VIDEO
Tuesday, Feb 28, 2017 11:59 PM EDTWhat does it mean to be "recovered" from an eating disorder? And why does NEDA focus so intently on that language?
Sunday, Feb 26, 2017 10:30 PM EDTHave you ever dreamed of going to the Academy Awards? What about if I put a tray of smoked salmon in your hand?
Sunday, Feb 26, 2017 12:30 AM EDTFree enterprise is alive and well on the streets of Cuba. Just look for Pedro, my ambitious and energetic guide
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