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Life Stories

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

Life Stories Article

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

"The Sopranos" helped save my sweet mom

Barbara Neal Varma

The "groupie," the ghostwriter and me

Sarah Tomlinson

Patty Hearst's kidnappers and Jan. 6

Rachael Hanel

My (unexpectedly) feminist pilgrimage

Ginny Bartolone

Gaza, Israel and the end of my life

David Theo Goldberg

Secrets of a serial addict

Susan Shapiro

10 most popular life stories of 2023

Navigating the new sober boom

What to America is John Brown?

Ailish Hopper

My mother, the debutante Communist

Andrew O'Hehir

I can't savor every moment as a parent

Kristine Langley Mahler

What '80s kids also remember

Paul Crenshaw

Grieving together, and also apart

Ariella Cook-Shonkoff

7 chef-approved squash recipes

David Watsky - Institute of Culinary Education

How to survive your heartbreak years

Will AI be the death of the writer?

Randall Horton

Auctioning Freddie Mercury's belongings

Lori Tucker-Sullivan

How I kicked my assimilation habit

Jamie Jo Hoang

My parents died. It's a whole second job

Becky Robison

Damn right, I come from Alabama

Randall Horton

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