Life Stories

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

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No "Iron Claw" nostalgia for my son

Chris Koslowski

Welsh Countryside

Don't "fall in love" with a destination

Pamela Petro

Multi-tasking mum

Common ground in mothering and writing

The author's mother (right) with a friend

My very own Mary Tyler Mom

Photo of author at 3 weeks old held by their mother

I understand my mother's tough love now

Randall Horton

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

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