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My Father’s Final Chapter Wasn’t What He Planned—and Created a Family Rift That Won’t Heal
How can I find peace with it?
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Penny Wrenn
The Strange Aftermath of a '90s Mass Shooting Is Still Teaching Me Lessons Today
It’s nearly midnight on December 7, 1993. I’m lying in bed in my Long Island apartment. I can’t sleep, but at least I’m alive. That’s not the case for…
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Melissa Rayworth
Can Writing Be My BFF?
One Sunday this past September, I went to the Met to see an exhibition by the painter Cecily Brown. She’s British, she’s 52, she’s a fellow Gen Xer. She…
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Carlene Bauer
Like a Virgin: My Attempt at Christmas Pageant Stardom
The annual Christmas pageant was Holy Ghost Elementary’s crown jewel, but it was not your typical pageant. A parade of the major players of the Bible…
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Ebele Onyema

November 2023

Going Soft: Why Life in the Slow Lane is Delicious
Wherein our author trades her mid-century modern aesthetic for something way more comfy.
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Abbe Aronson
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My Abuela's Unwavering Faith Carried Me from Drugs to a Degree
At just shy of 21, I moved to New York City with a stack of well-worn books, a need for independence and a fantasy of becoming a writer. It was 1995 and…
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Carla Zanoni
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How I Went from Cancer Survivor to Running 300 Marathons
By Julia Khvasechko Picture it: A crisp, early November day in 1999. I’m sitting in a wheelchair at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a very…
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When My 4-Year-Old Punched Another Kid, I Became That Mom
So. My kid punched a kid. Let’s just start there. It happened at preschool, on an unassuming, every-day kind of a day. But at pick-up, the teacher slid…
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Ericka Kreutz

October 2023

Chandler Bing Forever: Reflecting on Matthew Perry and the Vulnerability of Midlife
Matthew Perry, dead at 54. Nothing about it feels natural, celebrities aging yet still “one of our own.” Chandler Bing, joke clincher, scripted yet…
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Penny Wrenn
9 Lessons I Learned from My 9 Favorite 90s Shows
Oh, 1996: The time in which my eighth year of life on this Earth came to an end and my ninth began. I had begun to take school seriously…
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Faith Cummings
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Welcome to the Colonoscopy Club or How Not to Sh*t Your Pants on the Subway
“Have you scheduled your colonoscopy yet?” I-Hsing texted me. No, I thought. I don’t want to. Leave me alone. “Not yet,” I wrote. “I will. I promise.” A…
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Ruth Gallogly
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How a Home Depot Skeleton Became My Middle Finger to Suburbia
Days after graduating from college, I moved from my suburban New Jersey hometown to a cramped walk-up in Manhattan’s East Village, where I shared a…
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Caroline McCarthy
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