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Staying Alive Inside While Feeling Dead to the World
A too-much tipping point is closer than you think and anyone can end up on it.
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Late '90s look behind the Walgreens counter on Chicago's North Shore
Walgreens was emblematic of major problems in the larger work culture and a professional ethos of staying compliant, agreeable, and always businesslike.
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My late '90s choice: Have a baby now or wait? Whose body is it anyway?
The nineties offered a new version of treating women’s bodies like machines. And your career depended on your ability to conform.
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Snow Globe Memories of Malls, Hairbands and a Scarlet 'S'
When pain is frozen in time, old memories feel fresh, raw and impossible to rebury. Stories need to come out. And pain deserves a proper burial.
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My parents' cost-of-living struggle in the '70s. Why is help still so hard to get?
Hearing my parents' voices in letters from 50 years ago has got me thinking about the impossible choices too many families face. Did the '70s really…
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When a parent treats you like crap, why is it so hard to let go?
Sorting through the past: I always knew my brother's life was harder than mine. But I never knew just how hard until after he died.
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The Childhood Music That Shapes Who We Are
A too-late thank you to my piano teacher, Kimberly Schmidt. Through starts and stops, he taught me to find flow, reject the label, and just keep going.
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The strangeness of being in the middle of your mom and her mother-in-law
My grandma Marie banished my mom from existence after my parents divorced. But I remember when they were both on the same side: my dad's side.
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Back to the Barbie 80s and 90s through the hypnotic spiral of nostalgia
From My First Barbie to pukey pink to not wanting to be fatter than the guy: I never wanted to see Barbie again. And now Gen Z's got me rethinking.
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When Your Dad's a Jerk, Is it OK to Accept His Love?
My dad was an abrasive, unaware, selfish jerk. But that was only one side. Did his loving side count too?
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I can tell him anything, and he'll still like me
30 years ago, my GenX heart fell for a guy who told me I could say anything, so I asked him to marry me
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Say What? Crazy-ass Things People Told Me Years Ago I’m Just Processing Now
Stories on 90s shame culture and what I’m wondering about now
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