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My Apartment Building Burned Down -- How Renter's Insurance Saved Me
I've been nagged by my mom a thousand times about things I "never expected to happen to me": the ...
Baby Diaries -- Why I Am Not Embarassed to Breast-Feed in Public
The only thing worse than my Catholic guilt? My mother's guilt. And I've had my fair share of it ...
How I Finally Got Over My Mother's Death
About a year ago, rifling through an old desk in my childhood home, I came across my mother's ...
Dear NY Times, Here's Why I Haven't 'Grown Up.' Love, a 20-Something
Yesterday I received the same message via email, text, tweet and wall post no fewer than a dozen ...
I Went Platinum -- The Good, the Bad ... and the Breakage
Maybe you think the pursuit of perfect hair is a complete waste of time. Or maybe you're the type ...
How a Month on an Ayurvedic Diet Changed My Life
Ayurvedic medicine is the science of life that has been practiced in southern Asia for over 5,000 ...
The Baby Diaries -- Week Three of What It's Like to Have a Newborn
Pop quiz: Why does the baby Jesus look so content in all the various artistic depictions of the ...
I Tried Whale Sperm Conditioner (and It Was NOT a WHALE FAIL)
If there's one thing I've learned about whale semen, it's that if you Tweet about it, you get ... ...
The Baby Diaries -- a Day in the Life of a New Mom
Four years ago, when my first niece, Lauren, was born, I asked my sister-in-law a million questions ...
'I Bad-mouthed My Mother-in-Law on a Blog -- Then She Found Out'
I called it "Got MIL?" and in hindsight, posting it was not my most prudent move. It was an essay ...
How Guys Treat You Differently When You're a Female Sportswriter
As a general rule, I feel bad anytime I make a guy choke on his drink. Doubly bad if he inhales the ...
Why I Want to Give Birth in a Pool
I know I'm not the only person who's ever been terrified of childbirth. As with many topics I ...
He's in AA, I'm a Lovable Drunk -- Is Our Relationship Doomed?
OK, I know -- bragging about how much you drank in college puts you one degree lower on the ...
Why I Refuse to Get a Smart Phone
Note: I refer to the entire category of iPhones / Blackberrys / whatever is popular at this given ...
'The End of Men'? -- I May Have Married the Last Manly One
There's been a kerfuffle in the news lately about the end of men: Hanna Rosin just wrote a cover ...
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