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LEFT ON TENTHA Second Chance at LifeBy Delia Ephron Six years ago, a few weeks before he died from pancreatic cancer, my good and well-loved husband made an observation from [...]

BOOK OF QUESTIONSBy Pablo NerudaIllustrated by Paloma ValdiviaTranslated by Sara Lissa Paulson There's a reason children ask more questions than the rest of us: They haven't been around that long. [...]

WHEN I LEFT MY NATIVE NEW HAMPSHIRE FOR NORTHERN California at the age of 42, I traded in my down jacket and my Sorel boots and embarked on a love [...]

Byline: Joyce Maynard PHOTOGRAPH BY MARY ELLEN MARK Shame the DEVIL For Mia Farrow and for me, the truth has come with consequences What do Woody Allen and J.D. Salinger [...]

IT'S JUST BEFORE NOON ON A TUESDAY IN AUGUST, AND AT ALMOST ANY OTHER PLACE IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, THE SUN WOULD BE SHINING AND MY NEW HUSBAND, [...]

It has been said of me, in the pages of this newspaper, that I am a predator. The author of those words was hardly alone in her assessment. In 1998, [...]

After 25 years as a single woman, being alone felt more natural than being on a date. Until it didn't THE PROPOSAL was sweetly corny--intended as a surprise, but obvious [...]

I'm a lake person. Show me a map and I'll start searching for the blue spots. Show me a dock, overlooking an expanse of blue, and--with suit or without--I have [...]

All my life I've been disciplined about my weight and my figure--too much so at times. As the daughter of a woman who longed to be slim but wasn't, I [...]

The sign caught my eye on a road trip a friend and I took some years ago through British Columbia: Forbidden Plateau. ¶T he name was familiar. For as long [...]

For all the years I was raising my three children--and despite the absence of a big bankroll to fund us--my sons and daughter and I shared some great travel adventures. [...]

We've got some bad news and some good news. First the bad news: It's a dating jungle out there, and the going is particularly rough when you're a divorced 40-something […]

When I leaf through the yellowed pages of my old diary, one name shows up more than any other the year I turned 13: Leslie P. She came to school […]

While she was pregnant with her second child, a friend confided a great fear to me. "I know I'm going to love this baby," she said. "But I can't imagine […]

The personal narratives of a young women from the United States is presented, who received prison terms for first drugs offences following the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. It is estimated that 36% of offenders sentenced under this act have no previous record.

A personal account of a injured knee, that was overlooked for some 12 years and then reinjured, is presented. A examination revealed a serious injury that was treated with a full-leg brace, followed by a long period of physical therapy.

Actor Eric Roberts is often lauded for his excellent performances, but he has not gained as much notice as an actor as his younger sister, Julia Roberts, has. He is also known for his self-destructive actions, which include cocaine abuse and leaving his girlfriend and infant daughter in 1991.

Tennis player Billie Jean King was ranked as the number one women's tennis player during her career, as she won 20 Wimbledon titles in the 1960s and 1970s. She also pursued equality of the sexes, a cause she demonstrated in the tennis match in which she defeated tennis player Bobby Riggs. The event has been turned into a television movie.

A woman author recounts her experience of having a romantic relationship with reclusive author J.D. salinger as an 18-year-old in 1972. The former Yale freshman immediately became famous after a provocative article published in the New York Time Magazine in the same year.

A woman who had been collecting interesting objects at yard sales for 25 years describes her decision to relocate to California. She organized a yard sale of her own, which her neighbors compared to the Jacqueline Onassis auction.

Getting through the divorce process is something that must be done alone, no matter how well-intentioned is the advice and warnings from friends who have been there. The first time in the divorce process, is a time for mistakes. A peace comes finally if acceptance can be realized.

A women concludes when her 13-year-long marriage ends that she and her husband were never able to model for her children a happy, loving relationship, and that their decision to part was probably a good one.

A woman describes how the change in her body was the most traumatic part of her first pregnancy. She gained 50 pounds and did not lose the extra weight for several months. Nevertheless, she could not imagine life without her new baby, and she eventually began to accept her new body.