PARENTING
Charting the puzzles and peeves of kid-herding — from Huggies to homework, Pilates to pinatas.
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Raising a First-Person Shooter
April 7, 2018
‘Fortnite’ Video Game Blowing Holes in My Anti-Gun Policy The hypocrisy of my life is corroding my insides, and confession is… -
Theater Kids Save the World
April 7, 2018
Drama Class Prepares Students to Lead a Revolution Everyone who’s been to high school knows it: Jocks top the student hierarchy.… -
Rooting Against Your Kids
March 10, 2018
Yes, Sometimes We Do Want Them to Fail There’s tough-love parenting, and then there’s just “tough luck, kid!” Wisconsin GOPSenate candidate Kevin… -
High Sobriety
October 22, 2017
Memories of a Drunk Dad, Gone Dry When I was a little girl, my dad was more fun than anyone I knew.… -
Exes Co-Parenting in Peace?
October 22, 2017
Starshine Surveys the Pros and Cons of Sharing Kids I like to think of myself as fairly magnanimous. Generous of spirit.…
SKIRTING THE ISSUES
Sex, politics, fashion and everything else a gen-X everygal loves to dish about.
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Speaking with the Enemy?
March 10, 2018
Chatting Up Christian Gun Owners 'The Benham Bros.' Much has been sermonized about the incivility of modern American discourse: We’re… -
This Is Not Your Parents’ Sex
March 10, 2018
Women Share Stories About Sex After 50 Nobody wants to think about their parents having sex. Or their parents’ friends. Or,… -
#Me … NotSoMuch?
March 10, 2018
Confessions of a Last-Wave Feminist Ladies, I gotta come clean. From the first time I saw it on a social media… -
Will I Marry You? Why Knot
January 21, 2018
Reverend Starshine Reporting for Duty Only two men have ever seriously asked me to marry them, and I said yes to… -
Safe Table Talk for the Holiday Season
January 21, 2018
Conversing Peacefully with Your Family at Thanksgiving It’s been quite a year, folks. Hell, it’s been quite a week. In the…
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