PARENTING
Charting the puzzles and peeves of kid-herding — from Huggies to homework, Pilates to pinatas.
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Secrets of a Very Catholic Daughter
June 2, 2018
‘Hiding Out’ Author Talks Drugs, Deception, and Double Lives I thought my dad saddled me with some psychological baggage. He used to… -
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.…
SKIRTING THE ISSUES
Sex, politics, fashion and everything else a gen-X everygal loves to dish about.
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Beer Meets Brains at Quiz Night
October 19, 2018
“Baby Got Back” blares. The Guinness tap flows. And 50-some bar patrons flex their gray matter to deduce the unit… -
Giddy for ‘Your Loss’
October 15, 2018
Hometown Girl Kit Steinkellner Creates, Writes New Facebook Watch Series You wake up in the middle of the night to pounding… -
Congresswoman Reflects on Struggles in New Book
October 15, 2018
Lois Capps Reveals Work Was Never as Easy as She Made It Look During the two decades she represented California’s Central… -
The Day the Journalists Vanished
August 26, 2018
No One Fretted Much Over the War on the Press. Big Mistake. It began that morning with an eerie silence: the… -
Camping Sucks; There, I Said It
August 26, 2018
Done Apologizing for Detesting the Great Outdoors I’m sitting 5,400 feet high in the Sierra Nevada mountains at the edge of…
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