Life Stories (page 2)

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

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Sylvia Plath

Reading Plath and my friend's Instagram

Lilly Dancyger

Capitol Riot

Jan. 6 kept pulling my family apart

Craig Sicknick

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Taylor Swift, grief therapist?

Molly Saint-James

Woman with a pink dress and turquoise heels

"You don't look like an artist"

Jenny Irish

Miles, the author's cat

My cat is my favorite traveling partner

Nas; Illmatic

Nas and the mixtape that changed my life

Barbara Varma's Mother and The Sopranos

"The Sopranos" helped save my sweet mom

Barbara Neal Varma

Backstage pass with guitar

The "groupie," the ghostwriter and me

Sarah Tomlinson

Patty Hearst Trump Supporters Capitol Riot

Patty Hearst's kidnappers and Jan. 6

Rachael Hanel

Ginny Bartolone hiking the Camino de Santiago

My (unexpectedly) feminist pilgrimage

Ginny Bartolone

En-Neccar Hospital in Rafah, Gaza

Gaza, Israel and the end of my life

David Theo Goldberg

Broken Cigarette

Secrets of a serial addict

Susan Shapiro

Woman bathing in a hot spring

10 most popular life stories of 2023

Mai Tai Mocktail

Navigating the new sober boom

Capture of John Brown in the engine house

What to America is John Brown?

Ailish Hopper

My Mother Was A Communist

My mother, the debutante Communist

Andrew O'Hehir

Family fun outdoors in the autumn by throwing fallen leaves up in the air.

I can't savor every moment as a parent

Kristine Langley Mahler

Missing Child Concept Swing Shadow

What '80s kids also remember

Paul Crenshaw

Edmonton Jewish candlelight vigil and community-wide Havdalah ceremony

Grieving together, and also apart

Ariella Cook-Shonkoff

Conchiglie pasta with pumpkin stuffing

7 chef-approved squash recipes

David Watsky - Institute of Culinary Education

Young women having a party in an apartment

How to survive your heartbreak years

Chatbot writing, concept

Will AI be the death of the writer?

Randall Horton

Freddie Mercury's crown and accompanying cloak

Auctioning Freddie Mercury's belongings

Lori Tucker-Sullivan

Photos of Jamie Jo Hoang as a child

How I kicked my assimilation habit

Jamie Jo Hoang

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