For decades, I carried around the guilt of my betrayal. But when Russ and I met again, I realized I had it wrong

He has two moms, I have a suspicious boyfriend and there are years between us. But I can't say no.

Coming out to my family was only the beginning of the process of dismantling the closet I had spent years building

I was home on break from college the first time my dad told me, "There were times when I wasn’t fully rational”

Before I had children, I said to myself: "Better boys than girls. Boys are easy." But raising three young sons is wilder than I could ever have imagined.

A coach's kids flee sports for the wussy arts.

This dad's hubris caught up with him at the bottom of the big kids' slide.

Just like our father, my brother joined the Marines. Little does he know he has a screw-up for a role model

A new Salon series: I tracked down the kid who made my life hell and did the unthinkable -- had a conversation

As a kid, I pretended TV's richest singing Mormons were going to save me from my crazy, dirt-poor existence

After sex, I talked about incest

They thought the baby would fix things, but he didn't, so the dad split. Does that mean he's no good?

I refuse to pull out the video camera every time my 3-year-old shimmies into his pink evening gown.

How we finally learned to make my mother's creamed spinach — on Zoom

Life is a firework, a burst of light in the sky. When you die, it's like the rocket is falling. But for a ghost, like the girl Hanlon killed, death is a bad photograph, transfixing you.