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Kurt Cobain of Nirvana during the taping of MTV Unplugged at Sony Studios in New York City, 11/18/93. (Frank Micelotta/Getty Images)

Kurt Cobain, Gen Z and me

Gabriella Ferrigine
Woman with a pink dress and turquoise heels (Getty Images/YuriF)

"You don't look like an artist"

Jenny Irish
Red Apples Pattern (Getty Images/MirageC)

An apple a day might not be enough

D. Watkins
Everest Base Camp 5364 m, written on a big rock on Khumbu glacier, Mt. Everest behind covered by monsoon clouds. (Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images)

My hardest medical job wasn't on Everest

Mimi Zieman
Empty pews and stained glass windows in church (Getty Images/ Monashee Frantz)

Why Easter brings me back to church

Gabriella Ferrigine
Jermaine Dupri in "Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told" (Hulu)

I thought I partied at Freaknik

D. Watkins
Kale on a plate (Getty Images/Kilito Chan)

We almost died for these greens

D. Watkins
Dinner from Half Shell (Photo courtesy of Maggie Hennessy)

The art and allure of awful food photos

Maggie Hennessy
Miles, the author's cat, makes himself at home in a hotel room. (Photo courtesy of author)

My cat is my favorite traveling partner

Kyoko Mori
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
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
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
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
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