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Nas | Illmatic (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Nas and the mixtape that changed my life

D. Watkins
Woman holding her smartphone while enjoying a cup of coffee with cake in a coffee shop. (Getty Images/d3sign)

I'm unplugging my diet

Ashlie D. Stevens
Author's mother and actors Michael Imperioli, Jmaes Gandolfini, Tony Siroco & Steve Van Zandt from HBO cable TV series The Sopranos. (Photo illustration by Salon/Photo courtesy of Barbara Neal Varma/Getty Images)

"The Sopranos" helped save my sweet mom

Barbara Neal Varma
Backstage pass with guitar (Getty Images/courtneyk)

The "groupie," the ghostwriter and me

Sarah Tomlinson
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singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell performs on stage during the 66th Annual Grammy Awards at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on February 4, 2024 (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

Joni's lessons from both sides, now

Amy Rogers
Author hiking the Camino de Santiago (Photo provided by Ginny Bartolone)

My (unexpectedly) feminist pilgrimage

Ginny Bartolone
Vegetables and fruit in reusable bag at a farmers market (Getty Images/ArtMarie)

The small joys of grocery therapy

Ashlie D. Stevens
Oprah Winfrey attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Warner Bros.' "The Color Purple" at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on December 06, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images for Warner Bros)

Losing the shame of wanting to be thin

Kristine Lloyd
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A view from En-Neccar Hospital in Rafah, Gaza on December 27, 2023. (Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Gaza, Israel and the end of my life

David Theo Goldberg
Broken Cigarette (Getty Images/Javier Zayas Photography)

Secrets of a serial addict

Susan Shapiro
D's Mai Tai Mocktail (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

Navigating the new sober boom

D. Watkins
Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis, Alton Brown, and Ina Garten (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

My 30 years of Food Network Christmases

Ashlie D. Stevens
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Capture of John Brown in the engine house, Harpers Ferry, Virginia, USA, 1859 (c1880). Brown (1800-1859) believed that armed insurrection was the only way to end slavery in the United States. (The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

What to America is John Brown?

Ailish Hopper
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter posing for a portrait in her back yard to promote her new autobiographical book, "First Lady From Plains", on April 3, 1984 at the Carter home in Plains, GA. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Rosalynn Carter's unknown victory

Ronald H. Davidson
My Mother Was A Communist (Photo illustration by Salon/Photos courtesy of author/Getty Images/Clever Pictures)

My mother, the debutante Communist

Andrew O'Hehir
Mariah Carey performs onstage during her "All I Want For Christmas Is You" tour at Madison Square Garden on December 15, 2019 in New York City. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for MC)

'Tis the season for Mariah love & hate

Jason Prokowiew
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Family fun outdoors in the autumn by throwing fallen leaves up in the air. (Getty Images/MarianVejcik)

I can't savor every moment as a parent

Kristine Langley Mahler
(Photo courtesy of D Watkins)

How I got my Halloween groove back

D. Watkins
The hands of a young woman conjure over a transparent sphere surrounded by tarot cards, gems and other decor (Getty Images/Olena Ruban)

All the witchy things I do during fall

Nardos Haile
Bill Burr in "Old Dads" (Netflix)

I should’ve had kids in high school

D. Watkins
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Vivienne Culinary Books (Photo courtesy of Carter Hiyama)

How to trade screens for stovetops

Maggie Hennessy
Missing child concept with an empty playground swing and the shadow of a little girl on the park ground (Getty Images/wildpixel)

What '80s kids also remember

Paul Crenshaw
Members of the Jewish diaspora of Edmonton gather during a candlelight vigil and community-wide Havdalah ceremony to mark the one-week anniversary of the Hamas terror attack in Israel, on October 9, 2023, in Westridge Field, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Grieving together, and also apart

Ariella Cook-Shonkoff
Jack O' Lantern, carved with a cross (Getty Images/Elizabeth W. Kearley)

Halloween as an ex-Evangelical

Nardos Haile
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