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Disinfecting cleaning groceries (Getty Images/Os Tartarouchos)

Lockdown helped me learn to love cooking

D. Watkins
An elevated railway in the Bronx, New York City, circa 1970. (Erika Stone/Getty Images)

What the South Bronx taught me

Beverly Gologorsky - TomDispatch.com
The author's mother holding a bar of Saboun Nabulsi. (Photo courtesy of the author)

Searching for home in a bar of soap

Natalie Jabbar
Drag Queens Kelly K, left, and Scalene OnixXx read story book on the last Drag Queen story hour at Canyon Crest Town Centre location of Cellar Door Bookstore on Saturday, April 29, 2023 in Riverside, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Drag queens don't traumatize my kids

Katryn Bury
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Clear Plastic Cup Pattern (Getty Images/MirageC)

Frozen cup: Summer for just a quarter

D. Watkins
Maggie's meal at a Chicago bar (Photo courtesy of Maggie Hennesy)

The spontaneous joy of eating at the bar

Maggie Hennessy
Views of waterway surrounded by reeds, from Norfolk Coast path National Trail near Burnham Overy Staithe, East Anglia, England, UK. (Getty Images/Andrew Michael/Universal Images Group)

In praise of flat places

Noreen Masud
A woman cooking at night in the kitchen (Getty Images/Photographer, Basak Gurbuz Derman)

The joy of (very late night) cooking

Ashlie D. Stevens
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Anti-fascists and members of Stand Up To Racism demonstrate against the Patriotic Alternative protest at the Tate Britain, Drag Queen Story Hour UK events at the gallery. (Matthew Chattle/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

It's the Satanic Panic all over again

Gigi Griffis
D Watkin and his daughter (Photo illustration by Salon/Photos courtesy of D Watkins/Getty Images)

The memories my father has forgotten

D. Watkins
The author and his daughter (Photo courtesy of author)

Fatherhood, fear and our family gifts

Kuang Lee
A Wrinkle in Time (Disney)

Grief is a distant planet: Sci-fi & dad

Meaghan Mulholland
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Transgender Flag Graduation Cap (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

My trans daughter's 18 States of America

Carolyn Hays
Woman holding vegetables (Getty Images/We Are)

Reclaiming rice cakes and finding joy

Ashlie D. Stevens
BTS performs during the Times Square New Year's Eve 2020 Celebration on December 31, 2019 in New York City. (Manny Carabel/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

The impact BTS had on my mental health

Lily Doton
Jim Berg (author) in front of the Supreme Court on the weekend of the March, 1987 (Photo courtesy of the author)

Geraldo outed me on national television

Jim Berg
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Bama Rush (Photo courtesy of Max)

Bama Rush & my desperate need to belong

Kristine Lloyd
Al Pacino attends a conversation with Al Pacino at The 92nd Street Y, New York on April 19, 2023 in New York City. (Dominik Bindl/Getty Images)

Pacino has me feeling like a young dad

D. Watkins
WW2 army portrait of Merrill Stern (Photo illustration by Salon/Photos courtesy of the Rozsa Family/Getty Images)

My WW2 veteran uncle's last words to me

Matthew Rozsa
Man alone at a train station at night (Getty Images)

We need more discussion of depression

David DeWitt
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Donna Summer performs in concert in Santa Rosa on August 17, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Steve Jennings/WireImage/Getty Images)

The Donna Summer song of my silent grief

Martha Greenwald
Woman drives her car down a desert road, looking off into the distance (Getty Images/AscentXmedia)

Becoming a mother at 50

Amy Speace
Woman bathing in a hot spring (Getty Images/Jesus Sierra)

Naked with strangers, finally unafraid

Avni Shah
The author with her husband Kyle and their son Benjamin. (Photo courtesy of the author)

The power of radical forgiveness

Lindsey Rogers-Seitz
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