Yes, It’s Okay to Break Up with a Good Man
Why are women still told that romantic relationships need to be preserved at all costs?
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Why I Made Up the Role Model of My Dreams
In 2009, I left my children with their father and flew to Mexico City to hunt down the last living Surrealist
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Are You Ever Ready to Be a Mother?
I found having a child isolating—but profoundly connecting as well
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Who Gets to Decide What Being a Canadian Means?
I moved here when I was six. The experience has always left me wondering where anybody belongs
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The Best Car I Ever Had
My 1986 Russian Lada was a piece of junk. But it brought me on a meandering route to adulthood
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How I Remember My Brothers
Growing up, I never knew two of my brothers—but I could picture them
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How I Found My Way After an MS Diagnosis at Twenty-Seven
Socrates and Plato helped me realize that charting the future with a chronic disease means embracing ambiguity
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Send the Barbarian in First
Dungeons and Dragons helped me bond with my kids—and now I teach other dads to play
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I Was a Bank Robber Until I Read Kant
The one thing that criminals and philosophers share is a sense of being an outsider
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Why I Developed a Roll of Film I Found on the Curb
I tracked down the people in the photos. It did not go as planned
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