Life Stories

The Life Stories section features insightful commentary and essays about the human experience from Salon.

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My mom's dead. We're closer than ever

Kelly McClure

The parasites inside my mother

Emily Neuharth

How I started writing for TV

D. Watkins

My Park Slope Food Coop conspiracy blues

Stephanie Golden

Holy bodies, holy hungers

Rebecca Lauren

The group chat as a sacred Black space

Michelle Tyrene Johnson

I was a hoarder until I became a parent

Jillian Pretzel

Growing up in a Don't Say Gay landscape

Elizabeth Morton

Don't fear the gatekeeper, or become one

D. Watkins

Tarot helped me take my mother's advice

Meryl Phair

How I knew Jan. 6 violence was coming

Tiffanie Drayton

Tammy Faye & my prayer warrior childhood

Stacey Danevicz

Queer wedding planning at world's end

Tauheed Zaman

How to write about murder for teens

Mariko Tamaki

My reading from hell

D. Watkins

We moved to paradise and found a war

Alison Clement

Lawyers and Secondary Traumatic Stress

Dan Canon

A Zoom of one's own

Susan Shapiro

I can't stop hoarding N95 masks

Rachel Kramer Bussel

My mom finally made her choice

Mary Elizabeth Williams

My grandfather's Nazi complicity

Mary Louise Wells

The sobering truth about quitting my job

Jackie Lieske

Best of 2021: Sex in trees

Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood

Looking for Uncle Allan: A queer odyssey

Michael H. Hodges

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