Life Stories (page 16)

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

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Fired from the New York Times over Trump

Carlos Cunha

40th Birthday Cake

I never planned on seeing 40

Mariska Hargitay; Olivia Benson

Olivia Benson isn't coming to see me

JoAnne Silver Jones

Guantanamo Naval Base

Inside the Guatánamo prisoner name leak

Peter Jan Honigsberg

How We Fight For Our Lives; Saeed Jones

Saeed Jones on fighting for our lives

Writing; Dark Themes; Parenthood

On mothers and monsters

Amber Cowie

Gender Nonconforming

How gender ideals limit us from birth

Rakim

The world according to Rakim

Josh Seftel; Mac McKinney

"My whole life is guilt"

Nicole Karlis

Prison wedding

My wedding day, inside a prison

Keeonna Harris

Samarra; Iraq; Soldiers

In Iraq, right after the 2003 invasion

Frank Gregory Ford, Eleanor Cooney

Adam Rippon

How losing made Adam Rippon a winner

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Children Playing

Raising a Black girl in white America

Father and children

Why having a kid means moving away

Female Rage

On transfeminine anger

Samantha Riedel

Makeup Kit

Feeling naked and exposed on Yom Kippur

Lisa Tognola

baby shoes

My biggest and best fear: Fatherhood

Paper Dragin

A gift from an innocent man on death row

Rene Denfeld

Waitress

"That waitress who thinks she can write"

Mesha Maren

Timothy J. Hillegonds

Men explain toxic masculinity to me

Timothy J. Hillegonds

Pat Conroy

How Pat Conroy and I became best friends

Bernie Schein

If I Don't Make It, I Love You

Long aftermath of a mass shooting

Karein Goertz

Harvard University

Back to school, with a baby

Elizabeth Ames

Happy Frog

"You want a rich lady mouth"

Mary Elizabeth Williams

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