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Life Stories (page 5)

The Life Stories section features insightful commentary and essays about the human experience from Salon.

Vintage Key On Yellow (Salon/Getty Images/DBenitostock)

Secret abortions for conservative women

Leah Hampton
The author with Alex Trebek on the "Jeopardy!" set. (Salon/Courtesy Jeopardy Productions, Inc.)

Why does "Jeopardy!" still haunt me?

Steve Moulds
A courier delivers a food order to a customer (Salon/Getty Images/Georgijevic)

I got hooked on Uber Eats — as a driver

Margaret Dodge
Rose Petal Floating in water for Scattered Ashes Funeral Ceremony (Salon/Getty Images/WeeranuchL)

Antyesti in Brooklyn, for my father

Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Joe Rogan (Salon/Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images)

How Joe Rogan does what he does

Timothy Denevi
Young woman blurry reflection on the damaged mirror (Salon/Getty images/Rafael Elias)

"My face looked wrong": What BDD is like

Tammy Rabideau
Pope Francis kisses a child as he arrives to celebrate an extraordinary Jubilee Audience for workers and volunteers of mercy, including nuns of the Missionary of Charity, the religious family founded by Mother Teresa in St. Peter's Square. (Salon/Giuseppe Ciccia/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Holy bodies, holy hungers

Rebecca Lauren
Christmas Party (Getty Images/hobo_018)

Atheists aren't waging war on Christmas

David G. McAfee
Pair of zebras staring at camera at Hearst Ranch in San Simeon, CA. (Salon/Getty Images/Don Henderson)

Queer wedding planning at world's end

Taj Zaidi
Exterior view of EJ Korvette department store on 5th Avenue (at East 47th Street), decorated for the holidays with a 5-story tall, Christmas Tree made of lights, New York, New York, December 1969. (Walter Leporati/Getty Images)

Christmas 1968: New York City

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Close-up of a woman's ear (Salon/Getty Images/Karin Dreyer)

I have a hard time hearing men—literally

Lise Ragbir
Newborn Baby In Incubator (Salon/Getty Images/Nenov)

The parasites inside my mother

Emily Neuharth
American actor John Wayne in True Grit (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"True Grit" is a Christmas movie for me

Abby Alten Schwartz
A view after shopkeepers went on a three-day shutter down strike as part of Mahsa Amini protests in Tehran, Iran on December 6, 2022. (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Challenging stereotypes of Iranian men

Roya Khatiblou
Christmas Cookies (Getty Images/cpjanes)

Holidays at home with an eating disorder

Joy Peskin
Calendar displaying December and days marked off for holiday (Getty Images/Richard Drury)

Winter break cheat code for us old dads

D. Watkins
Senior man and assistant in the park (Getty Images/Katarzyna Bialasiewicz)

Emotional labor prematurely aged me

Becca Willow Moss
Evolution of Canned Cranberry Sauce (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The evolution of my Thanksgiving plate

D. Watkins
Rural dinner on the table (Getty Images/Erika Parfenova)

On this farm, there’s no Thanksgiving

Quincy Gray McMichael
Old engraved illustration of view of Indian village, South Dakota (Getty Images/mikroman6)

What Native Americans have taught me

Frederick E. Hoxie
Photographs of the author's father (Photo illustration by Salon/Personal photos courtesy of author/Getty Images)

Thanksgiving, my father's last supper

Leah Blatt Glasser
Selina Mahmood with her father in surgery (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images//Personal photo courtesy of the Author)

The Jane Goodall of neurosurgery

Selina Mahmood
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Wes Moore celebrates before addressing supporters after defeating Republican nominee Dan Cox on November 08, 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Rob Carr/Getty Images)

What scares me about Moore's election

D. Watkins
Flip phone amidst the smart phones (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Don't fear the flip phone

Randyn Charles Bartholomew
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