Her odd, amazing gift to me
What my client left for me sounds bizarre, but it was a priceless reminder that her body was recovering from cancer
Tuesday, Oct 19, 2010 1:01 AM UTC 16Life Life stories, Cancer
Life Life stories, Cancer
Jennifer Foote Sweeney
Life Life stories, Cancer
Who’s afraid of Teresa Heinz?
The wife of presidential hopeful John Kerry is a rare political figure -- refreshingly honest and undeniably smart. So why are her own handlers hell-bent on shutting her up?
Wednesday, May 14, 2003 7:21 PM UTCLife
No children allowed
President Bush wants welfare recipients to marry -- but not have kids.
Thursday, Dec 5, 2002 8:23 PM UTCLife
(Broken) Vows
Darcy Sowecki and Barton Winston Biggs II.
Friday, Jun 21, 2002 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Divorce, Satire
Mr. Green Genes Plant Co., Spring 2002 catalog
"Breeding seed since 1997!"
Friday, May 24, 2002 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Satire
Segregate to educate!
The Bush administration is clearing the way for single-sex schools. Why stop there?
Friday, May 17, 2002 7:16 PM UTCEntertainment Satire
They’ll know we’re Christians by our exotic dancing
A single mother condemned by her church for her job is holier than it is.
Friday, May 17, 2002 7:00 PM UTCLife
An introduction
The Life and People sites offer a week of articles about many-splendored living things, some of them furry, all of them edible.
Monday, Mar 4, 2002 8:12 PM UTCLife Noble Beasts
A cruel choice
A woman decides to have a child knowing that she's about to descend into dementia. That's morally indefensible.
Friday, Mar 1, 2002 8:05 PM UTCLife
All quiet on the homefront
Today's wartime propaganda suggests normalcy and consumption, a far cry from the government's campaign during World War II, which called upon Americans to completely change their way of life.
Tuesday, Dec 11, 2001 8:39 PM UTCLife
Throw the SUVs overboard!
President Bush has been far too timid about asking Americans for wartime sacrifices. He should start by calling on patriots to wean themselves from foreign oil.
Wednesday, Nov 14, 2001 8:14 PM UTCNews George W. Bush
Dear Lance Armstrong
The U.S. Postal Service, loyal sponsor of your cycling exploits, needs you. And this time, it's not about the bike.
Thursday, Oct 25, 2001 11:20 PM UTCLife Cancer
Gentle epitaphs for lives interrupted
The "Portraits of Grief" in the New York Times give us a chance to be loved ones to complete, and wrongfully dead, strangers.
Friday, Oct 12, 2001 7:11 PM UTCLife The New York Times
How Americans feel about their flag
In her book "Flag: An American Story," photographer Lauri Lyons documents our mixed emotions about the Stars and Stripes.
Wednesday, Oct 10, 2001 7:29 PM UTCLife
What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding?
As we struggle to define courage under the threat of terrorism, we can't dismiss the power of nonviolence.
Friday, Sep 28, 2001 7:30 PM UTCLife Terrorism
A call for images
Send us pictures, with words, of the after life.
Thursday, Sep 20, 2001 7:16 PM UTCLife
Use your words
How do we explain the inexplicable to our children?
Friday, Sep 14, 2001 10:49 PM UTCLife
None of your beeswax
Certainly we have better things to do than judge each other's feminist credentials.
Wednesday, Aug 15, 2001 7:30 PM UTCLife Coupling
Something cheesy in the state of Wisconsin
The state Supreme Court gives women a victory over deadbeat dads -- but at the cost of endangering reproductive rights.
Friday, Jul 13, 2001 7:56 PM UTCLife Abortion
Sexual healing
Surgeon General David Satcher issues a clear-eyed report on sex -- and perhaps signs his own political death warrant in the process.
Friday, Jun 29, 2001 7:23 PM UTCLife Sex Education
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Jennifer Foote Sweeney, CMT, formerly a Salon editor, is a massage therapist in northern California, practicing on staff at the Institutes for Health and Healing in San Francisco and Larkspur, and on the campuses of the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley.
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