Never show them your back
I hid those moles, because they were hideous. But the worst part of your body can look different to someone else
Saturday, Nov 24, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 16Life Personal essays, Moles
Sarah Hepola
Life Personal essays, Moles
Wigs are my superhero costume
As my life spun out of control, they were a force field against my own fear. But maybe it's time to stop hiding
Friday, Oct 12, 2012 11:30 PM UTC 22Life wigs, Alcohol, Body Wars, costumes
REO Speedwagon will save us
I spent years mocking earnest soft-rock power ballads. Now, those songs are the greatest escape I can find VIDEO
Wednesday, Aug 8, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 36Life Music, Life stories
Every woman should travel alone
At 27, I took a road trip across the country by myself. It was foolish and lonely and the best thing I've ever done
Tuesday, Jul 24, 2012 12:00 AM UTC 84Life Life stories, Travel, Feminism
My relapse years
After months of trying to quit, I knew I'd be a drunk for life. Then I discovered how useful failing can be
Thursday, Jun 14, 2012 12:00 AM UTC 69Life Life stories, addiction
Hit on the head
For five years, I was haunted by a violent crime and a broken relationship. Then came a twist I never expected
Friday, May 18, 2012 11:00 PM UTC 31Life Life stories, Coupling
Nobody ever calls me anymore
I feel like the last person who still likes talking on the phone. Why did we give it up, and should we reconsider?
Friday, May 4, 2012 11:30 PM UTC 61Life Internet Culture, Smart Phones
I always dated Tom Waits
The men I fell in love with were reckless and troubled, funny and sad. Then again, so was I VIDEO
Saturday, Apr 14, 2012 12:00 AM UTC 50Life Coupling, Editor's Picks
Surprised to see me
The biggest shock of losing weight is the (sometimes weird) reaction by my old friends
Sunday, Mar 25, 2012 1:00 PM UTC 90Life Body Wars, Life stories
My fake online boyfriend
Todd said he was an entrepreneur who played soccer in Europe. When I decided he was lying, the real deception began
Tuesday, Mar 20, 2012 12:00 AM UTC 106Life Internet Culture, Coupling
Whitney Houston’s lessons in love
As a girl, the late diva's songs taught me about love. As an adult, she showed me about loss and pain VIDEO
Monday, Feb 13, 2012 4:13 PM UTC 24Entertainment Whitney Houston, Editor's Picks
My iPhone foreclosure
As the world clamors for the latest upgrade, I finally resolve to surrender mine. If only it were that simple
Friday, Oct 14, 2011 5:25 PM UTC 46Life iPhone, Consumerism, Life stories
When my cat finally took to the leash
Salon readers urged me to give it another try. And after a world of changes, I did
Friday, Aug 19, 2011 1:01 AM UTC 101Life Noble Beasts, Life stories
When I finally stopped going to bars
A year after I quit drinking, I avoid my old haunts. But now that I'm not a lush anymore -- what, exactly, do I do?
Friday, Jul 22, 2011 12:30 AM UTC 67Life Life stories, Alcoholism
“The Killing’s” real killer
We talk to Joel Kinnaman, whose dirty-sexy Detective Holder is one of the suspenseful show's greatest pleasures
Sunday, May 22, 2011 6:01 PM UTC 14Entertainment The Killing, Television
My humiliating email disaster
I fell for an Internet ploy and embarrassed myself to 900 people. But then, something amazing happened
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 12:30 AM UTC 76Life Mortifying Disclosures
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Monday, Apr 18, 2011 10:54 PM UTCAll Salon Life stories, Inside Salon
A childhood of mud pies, TV and an awesome divorce
Heather Havrilesky talks about her memoir of growing up sensitive and strange in the suburbs of the '70s and '80s
Sunday, Jan 30, 2011 12:01 AM UTC 51Life Divorce, Memoirs, Our Picks, Books
Loughner a “textbook” case paranoid schizophrenic
A respected psychiatrist explains why talk of political rhetoric is a "red herring," and where responsibility lies
Wednesday, Jan 12, 2011 1:01 AM UTC 175Life Jared Loughner
A violent song’s latest, ugly encore
Loughner's favorite video features "Bodies," the metal score for violence in Afghanistan, Iraq, Gitmo and much more
Monday, Jan 10, 2011 5:36 PM UTC 34Life Jared Loughner
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Sarah Hepola is the personal essays editor at Salon. Previously she was a contributing editor at Nerve, where she also ran the Scanner blog on sex and culture. She was the film and technology editor at the Austin Chronicle and the music editor at the Dallas Observer. She was, ever
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