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Columns: Doing it Differently
2015
February 2015 Practical Love
2014
December 2014 Don’t Mention It
October 2014 Empty Nest, Day One
July 2014 T-shirt Time Machine
May 2014 Common Ground
March 2014 What’s Turning in the World
January 2014 After All This Time
2013
October 2013 Handling the Rejection
August 2013 The Pause Button
June 2013 The Price of Cool
February 2013 Too Many Children
2012
December 2012 After Sandy
October 2012 The House on Sunnyside Street
August 2012 Gossip’s Girl
June 2012 Forever Young
April 2012 Every Mother’s Son
February 2012 My Double Life
2011
December 2011 More Thursdays
October 2011 At Home with a Teen
August 2011 Unfinished Overseas
May 2011 Staying a City Mouse
January 2011 The Chapter on Being Fourteen
January 2011 What Lies Beneath
2010
December 2010 You’re My Mom. I Love You. But That Doesn’t Mean I Want to Hang Out With You.
November 2010 Guardian Angels of the Staircase
October 2010 But, in Things. . .
September 2010 The Bootlegged Path to San Marco
August 2010 My Easy Child
July 2010 Dinner for Three
June 2010 Love Always From Ruth
May 2010 It Takes a Village
April 2010 Mothering the Muse
March 2010 Legacy
February 2010 A Raw Ordeal
January 2010 Photographs and Memories
January 2010 Same Difference
2009
December 2009 We Are Family
November 2009 Meeting Hate Face to Face
October 2009 Kitchen Table Judaism
September 2009 Something Old/Something New
August 2009 Guy Night
July 2009 Imperfect Terms
June 2009 Live at Maxwell’s
May 2009 Rooting for the Home Team
April 2009 The Sacred Nylabone of Now
March 2009 Hail to the Chief
February 2009 Our Houseful
February 2009 Game Face
January 2009 Happiness, Apparently, Is a Warm Gun
2008
December 2008 Puppy Love
November 2008 Getting to Yes
September 2008 Another Mama for Obama
August 2008 Hello Muddah
June 2008 Sweet Child of Mine
May 2008 Reading on My Mother’s Behalf
April 2008 Frida and Me
March 2008 Life, Death, and Middle School
February 2008 Life in Parentheses
January 2008 The Many Faces of Help
2007
December 2007 Still Life with Shoes
November 2007 That Other Kind of Waking
October 2007 Better a Diamond
September 2007 Vistas
July 2007 Difficult Terrain
June 2007 The Part That Stays
May 2007 Down the Basement Steps
April 2007 The Formula For Letting Go
March 2007 The Stepfather Question
February 2007 Phasing Out the Honeymoon Phase
January 2007 Noticeable
2006
December 2006 The Imagined Child
November 2006 Hair Envy
September 2006 Facing the City
July 2006 Raising the Ruling Class
May 2006 Good Sports
April 2006 Coming Home
February 2006 Beautiful Things
2005
December 2005 Doing it Differently
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